Patch Zircher

absolutely

There's a lot of emotional manipulation.

The difference is protests are a response to an issue, a problem.
Whereas rallies have a lot of idolatry.

Looking up political rallies (from all over the world) for reference (not protests (which I'm very much in favor of, but rallies) and it's nauseating.
In everyone's eyes there is the madness of zealotry.
And it's global.

In novels, writers describe feelings that would cause a lot of friction on social media.
Writing through a character makes this possible, and it is one of the last refuges for complex or contradictory expression.

Hey, I think you're terrific. I make my own family mad sometimes. Just ignore me when I'm a goof.

You can't say somethings on social media and expect positive results.
If I said I just want to spend my remaining years at peace, not angry, that would still make someone angry.

Social media isn't for expressing every feeling.

Renaissance artists, writers, classic Hollywood; you literally have to do an internet search to sort the saints from the sinners, the moral from the immoral, the right and left wingers, the good guys from the bad guys.

I guess I really LOVE art and understand that people are fallible.

General rule: I try not to get too upset about something that, with time, won't matter.
This keeps me enjoying art regardless of the artist.

There were scandals and politics 75 years ago, the art lives on.

By singular I mean a comic, from any publisher, might have a man on fire.
But a reader would recognize the Human Torch from any other drawing.

Ink is the life blood of comic art.

Also, give me 'matchhead', parallel lines human torch (first image) over other versions.
The matchhead design was graphically strong, and singular.

Nostalgia is tempting me to buy Fantastic Four omnibus 6. This is the FF when I was in Junior High and early high school. Lots of George Perez art.
This is one of the title's sweet spots.

A stylish short film-- watching it, it seems to have influenced a lot of directors a generation or two later.

Absolutely.

Watched Toby Dammit, starring Terence Stamp.
Originally part of an anthology, it's currently on Criterion as a stand alone.
An alcoholic 'rock star' actor is haunted by death-- personified as a woman-child.
Quintessential Fellini with pans over exotic faces & figures, and quirks of dialog.
#FilmSky

Lee Van Cleef's tombstone at Forest Lawn is engraved with "Best of the Bad".

True. Cool level: unchartable.

On my drawing table, Mr. Solomon Kane:

The variant covers for our first Solomon Kane series included works by Mignola, Marinkovich, Brereton, and Kayanan-- and I was just stunned and delighted as these came in.

I could kick myself.

Brian Stelfreeze
Denys Cowan
Trevor Von Eeden
Olivier Copiel
Chuck Patton
Ronald Wimberly
Billy Graham
Khary Randolph
Mark Bright
Khari Evans
Doug Braithwaite
Keith Pollard
Jamal Igle
Shawn Martinbrough
Matt Baker
Larry Stroman
Sanford Greene
George Herriman
Chris Cross
Darryl Banks
Ken Lashley

YouTube video by GGAwards-PrixGG Noah Reid performs A Case of You | Noah Reid interprète A Case of You

Noah Reid performing a tribute to Catherine O’Hara in 2021 when she received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award.

Tarrant county, Texas - Political Earthquake

I bought the audiobook a month or so ago, Mike (I read that you liked it). Will read soon.

Wasn't that.

Reading a take so bad I checked to see who liked the take to be sure I wasn't following any of them.

Have to preserve my sanity.

Looks very 'yikes'. But if you have the courage :)

Black History Month: 16 fave black authors:

Ralph Ellison
Tananarive Due
Toni Morrison
Samuel Delany
Percival Everett
Zora Neale Hurston
Alice Walker
Chester Himes
Walter Mosley
Octavia Butler
Richard Wright
Zadie Smith
Edwidge Danticat
Charles Saunders
Jean Toomer
Tracy K. Smith

#BookSky

I guess there's a movie called Morningstar (2014) with a warrior employing a morningstar mace. But I haven't seen it.