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Tag Archives: trash
What’s on TV?
While I sketch, I usually have the television tuned to programs I can halfway ignore. TubiTV seems to be the streaming channel that keeps giving in that regard. While it does show a lot of blockbusters and critically acclaimed movies … Continue reading
Posted in Weird World of the Roku, What's on TV?
Tagged exploitation, humor, prison, Roku, streaming, trash, Tubi, USA
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And he shows them pearly white…
In the wake of the blockbuster success of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) there came a spate of books and publications designed strictly to cash in on the fascination with man-eating sharks. Sure, there may have been the occasional issue of … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter, Trash or Treasure, What I Miss About Comics
Tagged cash grab, cash in, Jaws, Jaws of Death, magazine, man-eater, monster, shark, trash, USA, vintage
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Social Isolation for 88¢!
This ad is a clearing house of school house contraband that would inevitably be confiscated by the teacher. I always wanted to order at least a couple of these items, but I was always talked out of it by a … Continue reading
The Wages of Sin on Tubi TV
Tubi TV is the gift that keeps giving as far as streaming services are concerned. There are online channels I subscribe to and for which I pay a monthly fee, but I keep on drifting back to the free Tubi. … Continue reading
Posted in Trash or Treasure, Weird World of the Roku, What's on TV?
Tagged cord cutter, Free, free streaming, streaming, trash, Tubi
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Werewolf Interrupted
I’m not yet ready to declare the juvenile sketchbook I wrote about recently as the NEW Sketchbook from Heaven, but I do usually keep it close at hand, and I am busily filling its cheap pages with scribbles. It may … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook, Weird World of the Roku, What's on TV?
Tagged analog, Cartoon, cartoons, cheap, comic, creature, doodle, horror, Illustration, Joe Williams, Paul Naschy, pencil, Sketch, sketchbook, Sketchbook from Heaven, trash, vampire, werewolf, Willceau
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Could This Sketchbook Be The One?
Tina snagged me this cheap sketchbook meant for kiddies along with another one that had a disgustingly whimsical Christmas llama on the cover five years ago in what was hoped to be a replacement for the mysterious, blank-covered Sketchbook from … Continue reading
Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Weird World of the Roku, What's on TV?
Tagged Cartoon, cheap sketchbook, doodle, fun, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, scribble, Sketch, sketchbook, trash
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Letters
Posted in Philadelphia, Photography, South Philly Safari
Tagged discarded, junk, letters, South Philadelphia, trash
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Tuesday Doodle
Usually while I am in work waiting for some process to finish or waiting for someone to come to a decision, I will scribble on whatever paper I have handy. Usually the results are trash, but sometimes I’ll get carried … Continue reading
Posted in Doodle Tuesday, It Came From the Sketchbook
Tagged 2mm, aimless, bored, doodle, mechanical pencil, red, Sketch, trash
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Christmas Mickey
This isn’t the typical Truck Mascot in that the stuffed animal isn’t lashed to the front or grill of a truck, but it was close enough to count. Mickey was tied to the back of a landscaper’s trailer which was … Continue reading
Posted in Truck Mascots
Tagged Christmas, city, landscaper, Mickey Mouse, trash, truck, truck mascot, urban, urban phenomena
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