Billy, who lives among roughnecks and fishermen and Second Amendment Republican military retirees, has decided that he needs more attention.  The second I turn my back he is out of the house wearing his favorite clothing and jewelry, strictly forbidden.  I am at my wit's end what to do with this rabbit.  He promised he would mow the yard today.  When he came home with those boots he told me they were for a friend, a likely story and I didn't believe him, Billy is not exactly generous and his friends tend to be temporary at best.  Ever since switchblades and brass knuckles were made legal to carry concealed in Texas I almost throw up every time the phone rings.  Oh, well, I wanted a pet bunny and for my sins I got one.  My car is wrecked and all my friends won't come visit anymore, but I got a pet bunny.  Everything I learned about talking rabbits growing up was a lie. Thanks Walt , thanks Chuck , owe you guys one. https://hybridfabulousfu...

Hi Guys! Let's climb into the wayback machine and check up on my pal, Lorenzo !  Old Lorenzo wants to be a famous artist someday, but seein' as he lives during the time of Andrew Jackson , he can't seem to find any customers for his fancy paintings .  Those early Americans were just too darn practical .  Besides, art is for aristocrats , not lovers of liberty ! So for now, Lorenzo has to get by as a portraitist !  You see, the camera hasn't been invented yet, which makes portraits the one kind of art that Americans will pay for .  I mean, we all want to be remembered , right? Lorenzo has found out the hard way that not everybody can afford a painted canvas in a gilded frame .  But silhouettes, or " profiles ," as they were called, could be made dirt-cheap !  You didn't need a lot of expensive art supplies , just a few sheets of paper and some scissors or a pen-knife !  Then presto !  You're ready to go ! Lorenzo's ...

  Blind Man's Buff, 19th century postcard. Eugene Osswald, Fliegende Blätter , 1923.  'Flying Pages' is a good translation. Eugene Osswald, The Animal's Ball, 1017 The Brother Bears and Other Stories by Anna Williams Arnett, 1927  Aubrey Hopwood and Seymour Hicks. The Sleepy King, 1900 Cave painting from Lascaux, c.18,000 BCE. University of Chicago's 1908 yearbook. Signed 'Bate'. Winter Adventure, Theodore Kittlesen.  This guy rocks! https://misterscribbles.blogspot.com/2018/12/theodor-kittlesen.html  Diane De Groat, Little Bunny's Loose Tooth Kladderdastch Magazine, 1924.  By the Cincinnati born Arthur Johnson,  a Nazi. Krokodil, 1956.  I cannot find the artist, this is presumably encouraging people to grow and/or eat vegetables.  Excellent drawing. Again with the Eugene Osswald! Osswald. Frank A. ...

Mary Ludwig Hays served with a field artillery crew at the Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778.  The weather was so hot that day that her husband passed out from a heat stroke while performing his duties at the cannon.  The weapon was ordered withdrawn, but Mary, who had been previously occupied bringing pitchers of water to the thirsty crews, grabbed the rammer and took her husband's place, thereby keeping the cannon in service.  At one point, an enemy cannonball passed between Mary's legs, shredding her petticoat, but leaving her otherwise unharmed.  She did not falter. This is a somewhat fanciful tribute, as Mary Hays was not an anthro deer.  This crew is also down to about half-strength, which may or may not have been the case when Mary took her position.  Ideally, there would have been six or more men assigned to each cannon, the firing of which involved a number of precisely coordinated steps:  http://www.revolutionarywarjou...

This is a stuffed frog playing a wooden violin, if you can dig that. I think this is macabre. Mocked in death. These are pretty well done for what they are.  I am thinking that I should burn them now that I have their pictures.  Just last week I bought an excellent boar's skull with tusks all a'grinning.  The skull is for a 6-foot shaft in my garden, facing my neighbors. How could I go wrong?   https://misterscribbles.blogspot.com/