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Two Billboards Outside Jackson Mississippi

I used to pass by these billboards frequently. Seeing this on Tumblr gave me an aneurysm. Anyway, I feel like the building doesn't get enough appreciation for how fucking ugly yet wonderful it looks.

Fucking Christ.

Is this Balboa?

Wasn't she (sort of) in Scary Movie 2? Thats like the coolest fucking thing in the world to me. She can have any opinion of me she damn well pleases.

She was the voice of the ghost lady!

"Baby Mine"

American vintage postcard, illustrated by Philip Boileau

One of my kids looked like Toby Jones in baby form.

Today I wrote an emotional fan letter to the co-creator of Unsolved Mysteries. I want to write more fan letters, I always tell myself to do it, especially in the age of *toxic fandom* it is a good habit to create.

The original Robert Stack run of Unsolved Mysteries is so fucking good. I loved it as a kid and as an adult I can see how much more there is to love about it than I ever knew. It's so much more humane, and dignified, and cinematic than almost anything like it except for like Errol Morris movies maybe. But when I was a little girl I was so in love with Robert Stack that when I was 8 or 9 I dressed up as him for Halloween and went around in a "TV" my parents made out of a cardboard box. This is what I told Terry Dunn Meurer who co-created Unsolved Mysteries. By the way there is a brief and truly lovely documentary she made about the show, which remains unmatched, up on Tubi (the king of streaming sites):

We recently discovered our Samsung TV has this like, default free streaming service, and one of the channels runs Unsolved Mysteries 24/7. My kids are way into it, but they get scared when it’s missing persons cases. It’s also the Stack episodes and not the repackaged ones with Dennis “Enriched” Farina.

I also concur, that documentary was such a delight to watch!

'Two Devils Setting Light To Tina's Wheelie Bin. She'll Be Livid' 4 colour linocut 30 cms x 20 cms. Art by David Gander

'The Devil Rides Roughshod Over Gavin's Flowerbed On A Giant Cat' Three colour linocut 30 cms x 20 cms

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'The Devil Went Shopping' 3 colour 'jigsaw' linocut. 29 cms x 20 cms.