IF: fearless
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “fearless”. It’s a thin line between fearless and stupid.
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IF: cocoon
This week’s challenge word on the Illustration Friday website is “cocoon”. I saw a cocoon All wrinkled and drawn Like a deep ocean prawn From the shore of Rangoon I poked the cocoon It had a strange shape Not unlike an ape Or a hairy baboon The cocoon I inspected Twas webby and white Layered …
IF: ahead
This weeks Illustration Friday challenge word is “ahead”. “Go ahead, make my day.” “Dirty Harry” Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Sudden Impact (1983)
IF: detective
This week’s challenge word on the Illustration Friday website is “detective”. I read William Hjortsberg’s detective novel Falling Angel in 1978. The novel began life as a piece of feature fiction in Playboy magazine, but Hjortsberg fleshed it out into a captivating homage to the hard-boiled detective novels of the 1930s and 40s. Told in …
IF: linked
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “linked”. “There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I’m Ethel Merman.” Ethel Merman That quote from Ethel Merman, about herself, is baffling. One would think a more charismatic celebrity with a more compelling …
IF: dip
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “dip”. Springtime. It’s the time when the skies are clear, the air is fresh and another baseball season begins. After a six-month rest, the Boys of Summer are back on the green fields and dirt basepaths. Dressed in their familiar hometeam colors. Shagging flies. Laying down the perfect …
IF: rescue
The weekly challenge word on the Illustration Friday website is “rescue”. In February 1953, 1st Lieutenant Charles Spath was forced to abandon his jet over North Korea. Using his survival radio, Spath reported to a flight mate that he had broken his leg. A nearby ground squadron followed his radio frequency and they were able …
IF: expired
This week’s challenge word on the Illustration Friday website is “expired”. “I’m sorry, Mr. Voorhees, I can’t help you. Your license is expired.”
IF: subterranean
The new challenge word this week on the Illustration Friday website is “subterranean”. Okay, I went with the obvious (as in “homesick blues”). And, although he appears on my blog, as of this writing, Bob Dylan is not dead. (But, these people are.)
IF: brave
This week’s Illustration Friday‘s challenge word is “brave”. John Sedgwick graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1837. He entered the artillery as a lieutenant and fought uneventfully in the Seminole Wars and the Mexican-American War. However, upon his return from Mexico and he entered the U.S. Cavalry as a major. Sedgwick …