A woman whose husband is entombed in the vault above Marilyn Monroe's (it was his dying wish), has sold the vault for over $4 and 1/2 million on eBay!
Whoever the winning bidder is, it has to be someone with more money than sense.
Read about it here.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Dwayne Pinkney's BARNABUS
As you know from this post or this post, I like the art of monster portrait painter Dwayne Pinkney.
Dwayne recently finished this lovely painting of Barnabus Collins from TV's Dark Shadows. If you click on it, it will enlarge and you'll see some beautiful detail work.
Why Pinkney isn't working full time as an illustrator and cover artist is beyond me. He certainly is more talented than some professionals doing genre work.
Keep up the great work, Dwayne!
Dwayne recently finished this lovely painting of Barnabus Collins from TV's Dark Shadows. If you click on it, it will enlarge and you'll see some beautiful detail work.
Why Pinkney isn't working full time as an illustrator and cover artist is beyond me. He certainly is more talented than some professionals doing genre work.Keep up the great work, Dwayne!
Blizz Con 4
At the recent Blizz Con 4, fans of Worlds of Warcraft gaming showed up in elaborate costume. One of my favorites was this gorgeous goat girl:
(Insert your own cheap "horny" joke here.)
You can see more impressive costuming at this link.
Wikipedia: Blizz Con
(Insert your own cheap "horny" joke here.)
You can see more impressive costuming at this link.
Wikipedia: Blizz Con
Sunday, August 23, 2009
A good week
This has been a good week. Voodoo Queen and I acquired a new pet, and took a trip to a famous cemetery.
The new pet is a garter snake caught in our back yard; it joins two cats and a deceased, preserved tarantula in a glass picture box. The cats are showing a lot of interest in the new pet, which is kept safely out of their reach.
Here's a pic of the kind of the so-far-unnamed new pet we've got; haven't yet taken a picture of our own just yet.
The cemetery trip was to visit Evans City Cemetery, where several scenes where the original Night of the Living Dead was filmed. A caretaker told us that "at least 5 people--and up to 10-- come every single day of the week" to see the portions of the cemetery that are seen in the film.
Sadly, the old chapel near the entrance, which is on screen in the opening of the movie, is being torn down this weekend or early next week, he said. Photos from our trip will be posted soon.
There was news of a newly discovered species of carnivorous plant being named, and I thought that it would be a cool addition to our home.
Not that we'd feed mice to it, though. Just annoying salesmen and salvation sellers who come unbidden to our door, if we could grow the plant large enough.
(For video and another photo of a pitcher plant eating small rodents, click here. Not for anyone who likes mice.)
The new pet is a garter snake caught in our back yard; it joins two cats and a deceased, preserved tarantula in a glass picture box. The cats are showing a lot of interest in the new pet, which is kept safely out of their reach.
Here's a pic of the kind of the so-far-unnamed new pet we've got; haven't yet taken a picture of our own just yet.
The cemetery trip was to visit Evans City Cemetery, where several scenes where the original Night of the Living Dead was filmed. A caretaker told us that "at least 5 people--and up to 10-- come every single day of the week" to see the portions of the cemetery that are seen in the film.
Sadly, the old chapel near the entrance, which is on screen in the opening of the movie, is being torn down this weekend or early next week, he said. Photos from our trip will be posted soon.
There was news of a newly discovered species of carnivorous plant being named, and I thought that it would be a cool addition to our home.
Not that we'd feed mice to it, though. Just annoying salesmen and salvation sellers who come unbidden to our door, if we could grow the plant large enough.
(For video and another photo of a pitcher plant eating small rodents, click here. Not for anyone who likes mice.)
Thursday, August 20, 2009
A Valentinia for FRANKENSTEINIA
Today, the blog Frankensteinia has hit its two year anniversary. It has been a noteworthy site, and I congratulate blogger Pierre Fournier on keeping up the good work on a regular basis for two years now. It stays interesting and fresh, and for that reason doesn't seem to have been around for years.
The blog's penchant for uncovering new details about, and sharing fresh perspectives on, the central subject--characters created close to two centuries ago--helps keep that subject not just alive, but vital.
Frankensteinia's post for today features a photo that haunted me as a child, when I first saw it in the pages of the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland (#35):
I was surprised to see this particular still being used as the emblem for the blog's anniversary, because it was, for me, particularly right. When I first saw this still in FM, it was part of this captioned photo:
This is a picture of director Frank Capra! The caption in FM says the photo is from "a French magazine" and that it was captioned there as "The shadow of Frankenstein haunts the nights of Frank Capra." Neither magazine explained the link between Shelley's hideous progeny and the popular purveyor of "Capra-corn."
I digress. Anyway, as a child I was haunted by that picture--it seemed to mean that the Universal Frankenstein monster haunted adults as it did my daydreams and nightmares. That validated my love of the Monster to me--and Frankensteinia refreshes and validates that love now in my adulthood.
As poet Gerard Manley Hopkins once wrote, "The child is father to the man."
Congratulations to Pierre and his incredible blog.
The blog's penchant for uncovering new details about, and sharing fresh perspectives on, the central subject--characters created close to two centuries ago--helps keep that subject not just alive, but vital.
Frankensteinia's post for today features a photo that haunted me as a child, when I first saw it in the pages of the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland (#35):
I was surprised to see this particular still being used as the emblem for the blog's anniversary, because it was, for me, particularly right. When I first saw this still in FM, it was part of this captioned photo:
This is a picture of director Frank Capra! The caption in FM says the photo is from "a French magazine" and that it was captioned there as "The shadow of Frankenstein haunts the nights of Frank Capra." Neither magazine explained the link between Shelley's hideous progeny and the popular purveyor of "Capra-corn."I digress. Anyway, as a child I was haunted by that picture--it seemed to mean that the Universal Frankenstein monster haunted adults as it did my daydreams and nightmares. That validated my love of the Monster to me--and Frankensteinia refreshes and validates that love now in my adulthood.
As poet Gerard Manley Hopkins once wrote, "The child is father to the man."
Congratulations to Pierre and his incredible blog.
Flesh-eating plants and my wife
Rest in peace, Venus flytrap in our home!
I'm sorry to say that the Venus flytrap I gave my wife last year is gone. Sadly, I carelessly left the lid off the terrarium it was in and one of our cats ate it!
Jane is not happy about this, natch. I ought to get her one of these to make it up to her.
In other personal plant-related news, we've just discovered that the vine growing in our front yard sprouting purple flowers and bright red berries is deadly nightshade, a fact we both think is kinda cool!
I'm sorry to say that the Venus flytrap I gave my wife last year is gone. Sadly, I carelessly left the lid off the terrarium it was in and one of our cats ate it!
Jane is not happy about this, natch. I ought to get her one of these to make it up to her.
In other personal plant-related news, we've just discovered that the vine growing in our front yard sprouting purple flowers and bright red berries is deadly nightshade, a fact we both think is kinda cool!
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