Saturday, April 30, 2011

30 Day Movie Challenge-Day 16

A movie you used to love but now hate.
I used to love war movies when I was a kid and I used to love this one. I'd watch it every time it came on TV and I get so worked up about those dirty Commies in Vietnam that I'd be in a propaganda lather by the time it was over. Then the war dragged on forever and it was apparent that we'd been lied to by LBJ, Nixon, Ford, and especially by that war criminal Henry Kissinger. And I grew to hate this movie.

I also hate John Wayne in this movie. I'll go so far as to say I hate him in everything but True Grit and The Shootist. Let's face it, he was awful He was more wooden that a forest of giant redwoods.

I still like some war movies, the ones that show us that war is stupid, futile, and hell. I don't care for the ones that glorify war or mass killing.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Hey you!

Wake up, we're almost there!

30 Day Movie Challenge-Day 15

A movie character you identify with.I know what it's like to be an outcast in a relative's home.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Satisfaction

The birthers still aren't satisfied. They now demand that Obama release the following things:
  • His medium form birth certificate.
  • The flock of pigeons he's been keeping in his pockets.
  • His Powerball and Mega Millions numbers.
  • Barabbas.
  • A 12" maxi single.
  • The hounds.
  • His tips for getting blood stains out of clothing.
  • His plans for next Christmas.
  • Some gas.
  • The kraken.
  • An Ellen of lesbians.
  • His Muslim name.

30 Day Movie Challenge-Day 14

A movie no one would expect you to love.

I love this film. It's the film that made me fall in love with Judi Davis and Emma Thompson.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Canadians of the week

Sarah Dunsworth and Lucy Decoutere.

Panacea

Ron Paul (R-Libertarian-ville/Ayn Rand City) says that every problem with our current system of government can be cured by abolishing the Federal Reserve. And then he goes on to babble about returning to the gold standard and the kids with their loud music and the throwing of balls on his front lawn.

Here's what some of his backers have to add about the Federal Reserve:
"I'm a lovely gold sheen. I should be the gold standard. Me. And one day I will be, and that day will be the day they abolish the Fed."

"I can still give blow jobs if we abolish head. Right? Oh shit...you said 'Fed,' didn't you?"

"I back most of what Ron Paul says but maybe we shouldn't be so hasty about abolishing the Fed. I abolished it and look what happened to my hair."

"I want the Fed, the gays, uppity blacks, and the razor stubble on my underarms abolished. NOW!"

"Abolish the Fed. My Uncle Fred. Guys named Ted. A loaf of bread. A two point spread. The movie Fled. Turn the streets blood red. You need a blow to the head. Where's my axe? Hey, come back here..."

30 Day Movie Challenge-Day 13

We saw this movie years ago when it first came out on DVD and we laughed till we cried. I know it's fashionable to slam this film but I fucking love it. When Charles Grodin finally cracks, I thought I was going to die laughing.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

30 Day Movie Challenge-Day 12

A movie you hate.
I hate Pretty Woman with the heat of 1,000,000 suns that are going supernova. It's sends the wrong message that prostitution is totally cool as long as you end up with the rich white guy. It inflicted Julia Roberts and her braying laugh on us. And it was made by Disney. Everyone involved with this piece of shit should be ashamed.

If we are broke, here's why

The right wing incumbents and the 'serious' right wing media pundits, who are actually just shills of the ultra conservative Heritage Foundation, love to claim that as a country we're 'broke.' They use that line of bullshit to justify their anti worker, anti poor, and anti benefit agenda. Of course you and I know the reasons why we're 'broke' and that's because they gave the richest among us a tax break, they refuse to tax businesses fairly, we're saddled with two wars, and we're living with the failure of the war on drugs.

But for the sake of argument, let's say they're correct and we are broke as a nation. And if they are correct, in addition to the reasons I just gave, we're broke because Wall Street and big business with it's short term greed has wiped out the middle class. We're broke because the poor and working poor have no money and they have no money because big business outsourced their jobs, which once pulled them up to the middle class and enabled them to buy homes, cars, and send their kids to college, and they replaced them with hourly jobs at the Wal Mart that pay slave wages. Big business decided to invest it's money over in China, thanks in a large part to Milton Friedman and his daft economic policies, and in India, and in doing they stopped investing in America and American workers, and I include Canadians in that as well, since after all Canada is in north America. Big business decided to draw a line in the sand here in the USA to keep 'socialized medicine' out of the hands of the people and in doing so they increased the cost of doing business here which in turn gave them a reason to outsource jobs to China and India. And I have nothing but sympathy for my Chinese and Indian brothers and sisters who are now toiling like army ants to make all those cheap goods that are supposed to be resold here in our local Wal Marts and Walgreens. Those workers over there are getting the shaft as well because they're paid pennies on the dollar compared to what they'd have to pay Americans, which means they're working harder for less money to make shit that we're supposed to buy but can't because we're all out of work or underemployed so that big business can make record profits.

Another reason why we're broke is because of rising gas and food prices. They made sure we're a car dependent country and they know we all have to eat so they're raising prices to in order to make more profits and Wall Street will reward them by raising their stock price which means that the rich get richer while we all get soaked, yet again.

So what part of that economic model do you not find unsustainable? What part of the 'broke' they keep screaming about is really the case? We're fucking broke because of short term greed and colossal stupidity. The only way we can get on our feet as a nation again is for the labor movement to rise up and and take back the gains it made during the Great Depression and in post World War 2 America. In fact, it needs to go deeper than it did before. We need worker representatives on all boards of corporations. And don't tell me they can do it, they do it in Europe and other countries and it works out fine. We need to stop swallowing the right wing talking points and stop believing the lies about tax cuts and benefits. If tax cuts stimulated the economy and created jobs, then the first round of the Bush tax cuts would have prevented our current recession. They didn't of course and they never will. Tax cuts only work for the rich. What really works to create jobs are the two things right wingers and their conserva-Dem partners in crime hate:
  • regulation
  • and massive government investment in infrastructure.
Regulation doesn't strangle or stifle jobs, it spurs innovation and creativity, which are two tings that big business hates because of the inherent risk involved with innovating and being creative. Regulation drives innovation. And as we saw in the days of the New Deal, massive government investment means jobs that pay a living wage which means the workers have money to spend in their communities which means that businesses flourish and more people are able to buy houses, cars, and send their kids to college.

But how can we pay for a massive investment in our country when we're broke? Why we raise taxes of course. We end the Bush tax cuts and we end the wars of terror and the war on drugs. We use all that money to pay for single payer national health insurance and to put Americans back to work. And then when our economy is humming again, our tax revenues will go up and we can afford to keep doing what's needed to keep our country in the black.

And we'll keep doing it until we forget how we got prosperous and we start swallowing the lies that business needs less regulation and that taxes should be cut so the rich can create more jobs.

Monday, April 25, 2011

Ever wonder what happened to Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio?

When the acting roles dried up she took to shagging bears and she hasn't looked back. Boo ya!

30 Day Movie Challenge-Day 11

A movie that changed your opinion of something.

When I was young I equated Frank Sinatra with old people. He was a singer old folks liked, not young vibrant hip 'with it' dudes like me. He belonged in the pantheon that included Andy Williams, Guy Lombardo, and Kate Smith, all relics of the previous generations who held none of my interest. But after seeing his performance in this film, I decided he was all right as an actor. I'm still no fan of his singing, it's all Lawrence Welky old fogey stuff to me, and so is all that phony Rat Pack 'cool' bullshit stuff, but thanks to this film I'm willing to put up with his acting.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

30 Day Movie Challenge-Day 10

A favorite classic movie.
I'm not sure what constitutes a 'classic' movie but I chose this one because it's over 30 years old and it's filmed in black and white.

And because it's one hell of a film. The performances blew me away and I remember being in a daze after seeing this film. I was dazed because it was so brutal, life like, and amazing. In my opinion it was the best film of the 1980's and Scorsese should have won an Oscar for directing it.

A Monkey Movie Report

I loved this modern fairy tale written and directed by Neil Jordan, the man who also directed In America, The Crying Game, Butcher Boy, among others.

This film tells the story of a down on his luck fisherman (Colin Farrell) who's got a stone cold alcoholic ex wife and a daughter who will die soon if she doesn't get a kidney transplant. One day while fishing he hauls in a young woman in his net. She's mysterious, sexy, and maybe she's a mermaid or a selkie. After her arrival Farrell's luck turns around, he falls in love with the mystery woman, and his daughter sees an improvement in her condition. Then reality sets in and we find out who the beautiful woman is. And things get even more interesting from there.

Farrell is a stand out in this film and so is his co star, who was also his real life girlfriend at the time, Alicja Bachleda. Both of them play the world weary vulnerable hurt yet willing to give it one more go character well. However it's Alison Barry as the dying little girl who steals the film. She's precocious, precious, and perfect in this her first major role. Also praiseworthy are Stephen Rea and Dervla Kirwan as the local priest and Farrell's ex wife.

This is a nice sweet little film that deserves to be seen and appreciated. I highly recommend it.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

30 Day Movie Challenge-Day 9

A movie with the best soundtrack.
This movie soundtrack was a double album when it was released. It featured songs by Roxy Music, Joe Jackson, The Pretenders, The Ramones, XTC, Talking Heads, The Ruts, and more. The movie was pretty dopey but the music rocked my world back in the early '80's.

Friday, April 22, 2011

30 Day Movie Challenge-Day 8

A movie you've seen countless times.

I have an unholy love for this film. Which is odd considering I usually can't stomach Helena Bonham Carter.

Wordless comic book panel of the week

Also, this lovely couple are this week's 'Brunettes of the week.'

Examples of great design

I never cared much for this series but I love this cover.

Trolling for right wing Jesus

I had a right wing Christian troll for a day or two this week. He took offense that I didn't believe in his fairy tale religion and that I didn't subscribe to the 'fuck the poor' economic model they love so much. He lectured me about 'liberal economics' and how atheists are selfish and how only Christians are good.

His main tactic was to tell me to stop my ranting and look at the facts. Then when I showed him facts to back up my points, he said those weren't the real facts. Apparently, only right wing supply side Jesus worshipers own the facts.

I had to ban him because he was in violation of my comment policy. His main violation was leaving too many comments on one post. His next violation was he was arguing with other commenters. And his third violation was his proselytizing. Disagreement with me is fine, just don't be a dick about it, don't try to convert me, don't be a dick to my other commenters, and don't leave more than one disagreement comment on a single post.

Freedom of speech means you can say what you like, it doesn't mean I have to listen to it and or give you a platform on my blog to spout your religious and or political views. You can say what you like any where you like and I can choose to ignore you any time I like.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Sales people of the week

I'm buying whatever they're selling.

30 Day Movie Challenge-day 7

A movie with the most surprising plot twist or ending.
I loved all the twists and the ending of the first one. The sequels, not so much.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Religious round up

  • Christian minister Terry Jones wants to go stand outside of the largest mosque in the USA, which is in Dearborn, MI, and protest Islam on Good Friday. He claims he doesn't want violence but he and his followers, just simple God fearing Christians, will be armed and ready for any violence that might come down. His actions don't match his intent or his words. If he didn't want violence, or attention from the media, then he'd stay at home and protest Islam inside his church. To say he's bringing guns but that he doesn't want violence is like saying you don't want to suck cock while kneeling with your mouth open at a glory hole.
  • Catholic nut, and media attention whore (notice a pattern here?), Bill Donahue claims that the sex scandals in his church aren't due to pedophile priests. And he states that since some of the victims were teenagers that means that the priests who raped them weren't pedophiles at all, they were just gay and so the real problem is the gays in his church. The mind reels when you consider that he's saying the priests and the church aren't at fault in the child rape scandals, it's the fault of those little kids with 'purty' mouths and come hither asses that are the cause of all the rapes. You just know that sooner or later Donahue is going to get busted chugging cock, fondling a boy, or be in possession of kiddie porn.
  • Muslims murder people because some asshole in the USA burns their holy book. That makes as much sense as...well...no wait, it doesn't make sense at all. Their god isn't in their holy book, it's supposed to be in their hearts, minds, and actions. And in this case, their actions speak louder than any words ever could.
  • Talentless hack Chuck Norris says that he's heard that the Muslims are taking over with their 'ring of sharia.' He's not sure where or when it's happened in the USA but since he heard someone say it, it must be true. Yo, Chuck, I heard someone say you and Ted Nugent 69 while shooting your 'guns.' So that's got to be true too. Doesn't it?
  • Pat Robertson and James Inhofe are incensed that a Muslim candidate won the election in Ivory Coast. How dare those Muslims go to the polls and vote for their candidates? How dare they run for office in places where they make up the majority of the population? Dirty fuckers, Jesus will show them one of these days.
  • Alan Keyes says that the earthquakes are a sign that his god is unhappy with us. Remember this comes from a man who disowned his daughter because she came out of the closet. I'd say if a god got mad at anybody in that situation it'd be the asshole who kicked his daughter out.
  • Roman Catholics and Mormons still hate marriage equality. If you call yourself either of those things then you hate marriage equality too.
  • Some guy wrote what he's calling a secular bible. Nice try guy, but I reject your work. I don't believe in or follow any bible, secular or otherwise. And I don't use On the Origin of Species as my holy book either Kirk Cameron, so there. I'm an atheist, I have no bible and I don't look to any bible for any guidance, universal truth, or for inspiration.
  • I hope Jesus doesn't see the Easter bunny or his shadow when he comes out of his grave on Sunday because if he does then that means we're doomed to another year of idiotic Christianity and it's asinine followers.

This blog is now this many

My blog turns five years old today.

Five years seems like forever but it's barely the time it takes you to blink, even less as a matter of fact. It's been fun, maddening, and very rewarding to have kept this blog going for five years. I've met some of the nicest, smartest, funniest people through this blog and I'm grateful for all of them and for you dear reader. I've only encountered a few assholes and I've only had to ban a few people from commenting. I've met and made some great and true friends in real life through my blog and I'm super grateful for that.

I have no intention of stopping writing this blog because I doubt I'll ever run out of things to say or bitch about. Thanks to all of you who read, who lurk, and who comment. You make this all so much fun and rewarding.

Here's to the first five years and to five more and five more and five more and five more after that!

30 Day Movie Challenge-day 6

Favorite TV movie.


I was going to change this to 'Favorite Foreign Film' because I couldn't remember any TV movies I really liked. But when I heard Michael Sarrazin died of cancer today I remember that he was in an early '70's TV called Frankenstein: The True Story and I loved the hell out of that production. I was a shy impressionable 11 yr old kid when that came on TV and I latched on to it like nobody's business. I remember Jane Seymour being really evil after they brought her back from the dead and I remember Sarrazin's creature character as having more humanity than most of the other characters in the story.

Rest in peace Mr. Sarrazin, you were a huge part of my early years and you were one damn fine actor.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

It's time to open up the ol' mail bag

The letters keep pouring in day after day and week after week so I figured it's time to answer a few.

Daisy the Sheep wrote in to ask, "Can you shear me now?"
Yes, Daisy I can. Meet me tomorrow night over by the burning dumpsters on Route 4 and wear lipstick this time.

Penny Jello wrote a note that said, "How did you get to be so awesome and dreamy?"

Dear Penny,
Practice sweetie, practice.
Sincerely,
Dr. Monkey

Dear Dr. Monkey,
Where can a young rapscallion find other gad about lads to become chums with? I enjoy parading about in the latest fashions, singing sea chanties, and swabbing poop decks. Can you hook me up with other like minded lads?

Yours truly madly deeply,
Davey Jingobollocks

PS: I've enclosed a recent picture. I hope you like it.
Dear Davey,
I have just the chum for you. Meet me out on Route 4 near the burning dumpsters. Bring a pair of shears, some lipstick, and an Edith Piaf CD.

Thanks,
Dr. Monkey

Dr. Monkey,
I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm just a 2 dimensional illustration in a world I never made.
Can you confirm this?

Worriedly yours,
Henry Jaglom

Dear Henry,
You're just as real as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Michele Bachmann's conscience. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to turn the page on our little exchange.

Fictionally yours,
Dr. Monkey

You Damnable Dirty Primate Scoundrel,
I've had enough of your monkeyshines and jackassery. How dare you insult people with this blog of yours? I demand that from this moment on you stop writing stupid 'humor' pieces and that you from now on post only pictures of cute animals, women with large breasts, and Presbyterian intellectuals.

Disgustedly yours,
Samuel Krappslast-tape
Dear Sammy boy,
As soon as I find a Presbyterian intellectual I'll comply with your request.

Sincerely,
Monkey Von Monkerstein, MD, DDS, ASAP, NRBQ

30 Day Movie Challenge-day 5

Favorite love story in a movie.
This is one of my all time favorite movies and that is because of the love stories in it. And I refer to the love and friendship that develops between Will and Marcus, the love Fiona has for Marcus, and the love that blossoms between Will and Rachel. It's a sweet modern tale of all kinds of love.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Been there, done that

It's not like we don't know how all this current deficit, tax, and budget cutting mania is going to end. We do. And history shows us it's not going to end with a happy low tax/business friendly/full employment utopia.

In her masterful history of the carnage wrought by Milton Friedman's economic policies Naomi Klein, my long time imaginary Canadian intellectual girlfriend,

shows us that time and again countries that bought into the IMF/World Bank meme that in order to 'cure' their economy they had to cut taxes in increase investment (which never ever really happens when taxes are cut), slash public benefits (which is actually the worst thing to do in a time of fiscal crisis), and privatize public utilities (which is the worst thing to do for the biggest number of people), all saw their countries go into economic and sociopolitical free fall. They all saw their populations suffer, the poor and working poor the most, and they all, and this is true for every single one of them and it will be true for the USA, Canada, and the UK, came back only after they dumped conventional thinking that said if they followed the IMF/World Bank plan they'd be an economic paradise. They came back only when governments stopped privatizing and cutting taxes. They came back only when governments shifted away from the disaster capitalism models and back to a model that offered regulation of capitalism and a strong government hand in the economy.

The Paul Ryan budget plan will lead us down the same road Chile went down under Pinochet, the same road South Africa went down when they saddled the ANC with the apartheid debts of the past, the same road numerous Asian countries went down when financial speculators caused the 'Asian tiger' financial crisis a few years back, and the same road the Britain is going down under Cameron and the budget and benefit cutting Tories, in fact it's already happening over there, the British economy is not expanding as they said it would once these cuts began, it's contracting, just like ours will if we adopt the Draconian cuts offered up by Republicans and conserva-Dems.

Disaster capitalism benefits the capitalists who rigged and still control the system.

Everybody else gets screwed.

30 Day Movie Challenge-day 4

A movie that made you sad.
This unsettling but brilliant film made me sad because the main characters all ended up doing what they had been bred to do. I don't want to say more because it will ruin it for those who haven't seen it. And you should definitely see this heartbreaking touching film. It made me sad but it's one of the best films ever made.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Fun couple of the week

Movie review times 2

I'm not huge on animated films, but I do enjoy the odd one every now and again and I must say I really liked this one:
It tells the story of a monastery in Ireland that is about to be over run by Vikings and the struggle to save an illuminated manuscript. The young monk who puts himself in harms way to save it befriends a forest faerie and together with the old monk who started the manuscript the three manage to save it and civilization in the process.

This film is beautifully animated, it has a spare style that reminded me of Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues. The colors pop in this film and the whole thing is really visually stunning. I highly recommend it, despite the religious elements.

How I managed to miss seeing this film for so long is beyond me. My friend, the smartest man in the world, Joseph F. told me about it and when he recommends a film, you better believe I'll see it, sooner or later

This film tells the story of a young undocumented woman who comes to the USA from Mexico. She joins her sister, who is already here and citizen of the USA who is married with 2 children. She joins her sister on the janitorial staff at a big office building in LA and they get involved with an effort to unionize the janitors. One sister is against unionizing, the other is for it. The film concentrates more on the story of the sister who is for the union but since they are sisters, their stories overlap and intertwine in ways you don't expect. It's a rousing and unexpectedly funny and touching tale that's done very well.

As the sisters Pilar Padilla and Elpidia Carrillo stand head and shoulders above everyone else performance wise. They share many heartbreaking and beautiful scenes that are so touching they may make some of you shed a tear or two. Adrien Brody is also good in his role as the loosey goosey young union organizer. And George Lopez turns in a great performance as the sleazy head supervisor of the janitors in the building, it's kind of disconcerting to see him play one of the villains but he pulls it off so very well.

Ken Loach did a hell of a great job with this film. I highly recommend it. And if you have Sundance On Demand on your digital cable, this film is currently playing for free so check it out.

30 Day Movie Challenge-day 3

A movie that makes you happy.

This film makes me happy because everyone gets what they want by the end of the film. It's a rougher road for some, but they all end up happy and loved. And they used one of my favorite songs in this movie, Whole Wide World by Wreckless Eric.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Where are they now?

Where is the little girl who sang the solo part in the Monty Python production number 'Every Sperm is Sacred' in The Meaning of Life?
She's all grown up but she still likes to play in the mud.

Actually, I'm not sure where she is now, I just used this post as an excuse to post a picture of Sports Illustrated swimwear model Jessica Gomes.

Yeah, I know, I'm evil and must be destroyed.

30 Day Movie Challenge-day 2

Most underrated movie.

My choice is:

I saw it in an empty theatre in Roanoke and it got virtually no press in the corporate media. It's funny, fun, sexy, and I guess the problem was it's got too many black people in it. I saw it again a few years ago and I wrote about it on this blog and it held up well, my original opinion was that it was a classic of it's genre was correct.

Friday, April 15, 2011

30 Day Movie Challenge

Day 1-Best movie you saw last year.

Hands down it was this one:
Great acting, good story, and the females moved the lot along, the guys were the window dressing this one.

No thanks, one was enough

I had never heard of this TV show until I saw the DVD's at my local library. We dig the British stuff here at Monkey Central so I got the first one and we watched the first episode the other night.

My verdict after watching an episode and a half: yuck. No thanks. Make it stop.

My main problem with the show is the lead Richard Griffiths. He's fine actor in some of his projects but in this, holy hell, he stinks. He's simply not believable as a police detective. He's too fat, shambling, and befuddled. I did not believe for one millisecond that he was a cop, even a desk jockey cop. Criminals would laugh at this fat bastard as they walked away from him. If he ever got into a chase with one they'd just toss some fish and chips or chocolate covered eclairs at him and they'd skip away free while he chowed down. Seriously, his character looks like he'd be more at home at Apu's All U Can Eat Indian Buffet than at a police precinct. And watching the younger cops defer to Griffiths character as if he's the gold standard of policemen, is just painfully laughable.

My second problem with this crap show is the pacing. To say it was glacial is to imply that it's fast paced. I wanted to scream at the actors, "Get a fucking move on! Your hour is about to be up!" But I didn't because Sparky had fell asleep while watching this turkey. I'm kind of glad she did because watching her sleep was more exciting that this show.

The production values of this show are pretty daft as well. It looks like as if it's been shot with a pound and a half of Vaseline on the camera lens, which I guess is supposed to make everyone look sexier than they really are. There is not enough Vaseline in the world to make most of these people look sexy.

The only bright spot in this show is Maggie Steed. We came to know her through Clatterford, and she's great in that show but not so much in this one. She does however look smashing in this show, and unfortunately she's the only on who does.

But alas, a cute GILFy Maggie Steed is not reason enough to sit through hours of this crap show. It might be someone's idea of a good TV show but it's sure as hell not mine. Avoid this turkey at all costs. Oy vey, it stinks.

A world gone wrong

How fucked up is our economic and political system? It's so fucked up that when the Yes Men
put out a real looking press release that says that GE is going to pay some of the taxes they owed in order to offset some of the cuts to the budget that are going to harm working people Wall Street slams GE and their stock price drops. Imagine that, your multinational corporation gets slammed for doing the right thing. Too bad the Yes Men were pulling a hoax on us, but I'm glad it made GE's stock go down.

Fuck yeah Yes Men.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Spring in bloom




I feel sorry for you people who don't have dogwood trees where you live. They are spectacular when they bloom out in spring.

Work in progress

Watching that documentary on Basquiat the other night inspired me to start making some art again. So I've combined my hound linocut with ransom note style letters and I've come up with a series I'm calling my 'ist' series.

They are all going to be different shades and saturations of red, green, blue, or black. They'll all have one of the following words that end in 'ist' under the linocut: Resist, Insist, Desist, Exist.
Resist will all be shades of red.

Insist will all be shades of green. Desist will be shades of blue and Exist will be shades of black.

All of these pieces are being done on thin cardboard (the kind they use to back comic books with when they bag them) and they are 8.5" by 11". Each piece is one of a kind and is signed, numbered, and dated on the back.

They are available for $25 each, two or more for $20 each, and or a set of all four for $75. Shipping and handling is $3 for a single piece to US addresses and will be slightly higher to Canada and other non US addresses. There is no shipping and handling fee on multiples going to the same address. I accept PayPal, personal checks, money orders, and I'm willing to trade some pieces with other artists. Contact me via email if you'd like to purchase one or more of these new works, or any of my other sketches or collages. My address is monkeymuckATgmail DOTcom, or drop me a line on Facebook.

Thanks.