A minor rockabilly star of the fifties, Hickey was in Gene Laverne's Buffalo photography studio when the above picture was taken, now considered the iconic rock and roll image.  The pose was Gene's idea.  Gene was an exotic dancer and female impersonator who had an idea for what worked on stage-      -as can be seen here.  Hicky's biggest hit, Bluebirds Over The Mountain only charted at number 75, which puzzles me because he is an awesome rocker.    https://youtu.be/F6Scy23Y6YU   Ersel with some guy.    Today he is best remembered as the co-writer of Don't Let The Rain Come Down, a huge hit for the Serendipity Singers.  Actor Ron Thompson based many of his dance moves on Hickey's, who was Thompson's mentor and friend, for his performance in the film American Pop.  Ersel died following surgery to remove his gall bladder, 2004.  Sometimes even great talent ain't enough, but aw hell , he did all right! ...

    Here's a n evening sketch of an ancient Roman (bunny) boxer. Hopefully I'll turn this sketch into a finished piece someday! Roman boxing was so incredibly violent that when Virgil describes a pair of boxing gloves (caesti) in the epic poem the Aeneid, he casually mentions that they are “still mark'd with batter'd brains and mingled gore.” (book V). The Romans sure liked their violence. If you want to browse the other warrior rabbits I've drawn, you can find them here:  www.deviantart.com/joenso/gall… https://www.deviantart.com/joenso   I begged ( the incredible artist ) Joenso for permission to post this awesome Roman rabbit on my blog.  Alors, voilà!

Hurricane Harvey hit us August 25, 2017.  This pic was taken by my brother outside a shopping mall that had been gutted.  Those are bales of clothing in the lot, free for those in need.  The grown man clutching a teddy bear seems to have got his cast off pants from Junior Samples.  But - those are 600 dollar boots he's wearing.  I think this derelict is rooting through charity items looking for really cool t-shirts.  I got several cases of emergency food from the army, and God Almighty did it suck.  That stuff made the old C rations look like the morning after Halloween.  I still have most of the free food, no coffee or tea included, the candy was Skittles, bad news all the way.  The difference between a crescent wrench and the emergency food we got was that you could eat a crescent wrench if you had to.  I'm not complaining, I stored up lots of food and liquor and tobacco before the 'cane hit.  Not for me the way of im...

  If the last song played by the ship's band as the Titanic sank was Nearer My God To Thee, and there are lots of reason to think it was, then it would have been the version by Sir Arthur Sullivan that Wallace Hartley grew up with. https://youtu.be/dStUT7bd0BI 'Gentlemen, I bid you farewell'.

Yep!  Billy, aka Flamma the Red Rabbit, is singing his way out of his humdrum boring useless dead end tedious niggling banal dull pointless waste of a life and into the hearts of his neighbors, again.  Yee.. ..haw! Harvey Eisenberg, Red Rabbit .  May 1949.  Dearfield Publications.

Chuck Melville was on the Rowrbrazzle staff and had his own line of comics.  He died yesterday (Saturday August 20) at 3:45 PM Pacific time of cancer.  He was a great artist and my condolences to his friends and family.  I heard of this from marmelmm's page  - www.deviantart.com/marmelmm/st…   Happy trails, Mr. Melville. en.wikifur.com/wiki/Rowrbrazzl…