IF: mirror

This week, the Illustration Friday word is “mirror”. The coolest movie I ever saw was Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise.  It was a camp, over-the-top, rock and roll take on the Phantom of the Opera  … and I ate it up. The production was unbelievably low-budget. The songs, by prolific songwriter Paul Williams (who also starred as …

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IF: book

The Illustration Friday word this week is “book”. When she wasn’t writing poetry, Sylvia Plath spent a good portion of her life trying to kill herself.  At 21, Sylvia made her first attempt at suicide by taking a handful of her mother’s sleeping pills. When she was discovered three days later, in a crawlspace beneath her house, she chronicled the …

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IF: crooked

This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “crooked”. “Canada Bill” Jones would shuffle and trip into a room, wearing ill-fitting clothes and a cocked grin. His hair was mussed and he’d ask stupid questions. And it was all part of his master plan. Born in England in the early part of the 19th century, Bill moved to Canada while …

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IF: freeze

This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “freeze”. With the Batman  movie franchise wrapped up and no chance for a featured role, Mr. Freeze took a part-time job at the BirdsEye packing plant in order to make ends meet.