The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “sugary”. This could be a companion piece to my illustration for “yummy”. Here’s my original Tale of Swirly von Swirly deCocoa McDuff Swirly von Swirly deCocoa McDuff Made candy and gumdrops and sugary stuff He mixed up ten pounds of peppermint sweets And coconut tangerine crispy rice treats …
The challenge this week on illustrationfriday.com is “packed”. Moving day at Castle Frankenstein.
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “clique”. no clique would have them, so they made their own.
The illustrationfriday.com challange word this week is “island”. The song “Zombie Jamboree” began life as “Jumbie Jamberee”, a calypso song written by Winston O’Conner. Winston performed under the name Lord Intruder in the early 1950s. In 1953, Lord Intruder released the song as the B-side to his recording of “Disaster With Police”. The Kingston Trio recorded …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “clutter”. Sylvia Frumkin was the pseudonym given to Maxine Mason, the subject of the 1982 book “Is There No Place On Earth For Me?”by Susan Sheehan. Maxine was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The content of her speech revealed what was going on in her cluttered mind. There’s no such …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “memories”. This weekend is Labor Day weekend, the unofficial end of summer. I was prompted to think of all of the things I experienced this past summer. While not necessarily the best memory of the summer, the most unusual occurred on Memorial Day Weekend, the unofficial beginning of …
Just a few years after his discharge from the US Navy, Leonard Schneider was arrested in Miami, Florida, for impersonating a priest. He had stolen several priests’ clergy shirts and a clerical collar while posing as a laundry man. He then solicited donations for a leper colony in British Guiana after he legally chartered the …
All Brenda Ann Spencer wanted for Christmas 1978 was a radio. That’s all. Just a radio. Her father bought her a rifle instead. On Monday, January 29, 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire on children arriving at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, across the street from her house. She killed two school …
The challenge word this week on illustrationfriday.com is “sail”. In Greek mythology, Charon is the ferryman of the dead. The souls of the deceased are brought to him by Hermes, and Charon ferries them across the river Styx, to Hades. The fee for his service was a single obolos coin which was placed in the …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “poof”. I have always loved magicians. My mom introduced me to magicians when we watched Tony Curtis’ totally inaccurate portrayal of Harry Houdini in 1953’s “Houdini”. When I was a kid, on every “Ed Sullivan Show” on Sunday night between a performance by Vikki Carr and Morty …
