Simon Barton

i just did a workshop with kids about making comics. emphasized that ANYONE can make comics. you don't have to be a "good" artist. you find a story that matches your art style and you do it and it's awesome. and a kid who NEVER PARTICIPATES got out from under a desk and PARTICIPATED and had a blast.

If only...

He's just selected all the Porky's movies from the Criterion closet and is taking them home for reviewing purposes.

Art of an ocean with large waves and a moody sky, and moving through the waves is a long serpentine animal with a crest along the back

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
~Werner Herzog

Just realised it's #NationalSeaSerpentDay 🐍 today, a celebration of one of my favourite folkloric creatures

🎨 'Sea Serpent In The Waves' by Elihu Vedder (1836-1923)

Definitely orbs 😁

It's a great film if you can ignore Jared Leto 😁

A fine list and we can all quibble about who should have been included, but that's all part of the fun 😁

Pop perfection 💥

Yep, the sycophancy is off the scale here 🙄

"Thou shall have no gods before me"

That would be telling 😆

Cool. It's all about the boats in Venice 😀
When we were there a few years ago, we stayed on the Lido, which meant we took a water bus to the main island every day to see the sights. It was just an amazing place - we loved it! 👍
( Here's us, posing around one night lol )

This is just like my visit to the chiropractor this afternoon 😄

Looks like you crazy kids are having a great time! Venice is stunning and you two look very cool 👍

Living in or near Oak Ridge, TN most of my life, & having worked at a Manhattan Project museum, this story is very close to me. Today I'm mourning the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hating the nuclear shadow that's haunted us for the past 80 years, and praying they are never used again.

I was given the Lone Sloan / Delirious and Yragael / Urm books for Christmas when I was a teenager, and they blew my mind 🤩

Venice is so beautiful, you're going to love it 😍

Ha ha hilarious ha ha nice one ha ha so funny....

Wait. You're fucking serious?

To be Frank, this is Cannon 😁

But... but... AI is the future ☹️
It's almost as if real people with real skills actually had a value. Who would have thought it? Crazy times 🙄

Newspeak 🤬

The article states "It is unclear why the Trump administration seeks to end the missions." Because they can't see a way of making profit out of it. That's what it's about, that's what it's all about. But when the planet burns, their money will burn with it.

Indeed. I've only seen her twice, but both gigs were absolutely stunning 💥

It's not my favourite either, but it's still a great song. She did a cracking version of it in Birmingham a few weeks ago 🎵

Can sympathise. It's not much fun to wake up, hopping around the room in pain ☹️

Title page of 1577 pamphlet: "A straunge, and terrible Wunder wrought very late in the parish church of Bungay: a town of no great distance from the citie of Norwich, namely the fourth of this August, in the yeere of our Lord 1577. in a great tempest of violent raine, lightning, and thunder, the like wherof hath been seldome seene. With the appeerance of an horrible shaped thing, sensibly perceiued of the people then and there assembled. Drawen into a plain method according to the written copye. by Abraham Fleming."

Brace yourselves. It’s the 448th anniversary today of the documented and very real appearance of the Terrifying! Satanic! One-Eyed! ghost dog Black Shuck at two churches in Suffolk, where he wilfully murdered “two persons, as they were kneeling uppon their knees, and occupied in prayer”

Monday morning...

No worries 👍
Have a good 'un! 🍻

Hey Pete, Facebook is telling me it's your birthday today. If it is, Happy Birthday! If it isn't, happy birthday anyway 😁