Uncle Vinny

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I ask pardon for all my defects. Aiming for “…highly oracular and obscure, citing no authorities and explaining nothing.”

Background image is by Mark Tobey. Icon photo is a ship from the end papers of an old Gulliver's Travels book.

Shoegaze Demon Hunters

Look, I'm just a white American Jesus who loves business, so you might imagine I'm down with so-called "conservatives" and "family values."

But My gospel is a gospel of love (well, love AND money). And specifically today, I feel it is important to say: I love trans people.

They are children of God (or not, you do you) just like any other. And anyone saying otherwise in My name can go fuck themselves.

Why should kids study the classics, I hear you say. Well, in 1983 when albums by seminal Swedish black metal band Bathory started to circulate, kids were too illiterate to understand the font and thought the band's name was BATLORD. Those were dark times, and today's addled youth are worse, incapable of reading analog clocks and cursive handwriting! Please give generously, our gang of talented paleography tutors is standing by.
Today's drawing is based on one by Edmund Dulac from Pushkin's The Golden Cockerel. I can't ever stop praising Pete Beard's amazing YouTube channel where he highlights mostly-forgotten illustrators of the past.
I did one last month, too, my first drawing of any merit for over a year. Based on an old drawing by Beatrix Potter, of course. These great illustrators make things look so easy, and it's not!
I drew a little something again this month, based on an old travel poster by Tom Purvis.
I can’t say they’re wuthering, per se, but I concede that these heights may once have wuthered.
Here’s a catchy pretty little tune for your morning or afternoon or whatever. https://youtu.be/Hn73xd-SCK8
Fridge - Cutup Piano + Xylophone

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My PR team will host a press conference this afternoon and have a full statement prepared; for the moment I can confirm that Faith is my favorite album by The Cure, but only if all of Carnage Visors is included.
In response to your query, I *do* have a few quibbles with the French Revolution. However, it's not without its piquancies.