{"id":25185,"date":"2019-04-11T07:23:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T11:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=25185"},"modified":"2019-04-11T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T11:23:11","slug":"pill-poppin-truckers-and-frankenstein-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/04\/11\/pill-poppin-truckers-and-frankenstein-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Pill Poppin’ Truckers and Frankenstein Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’ve been sitting on the couch lately, doodling while watching trash on my Roku<\/a> streaming box. I dumped Netflix<\/a> over a year ago but hung onto Amazon’s Prime Video. It’s got a lot of popular movies, television series and compelling content produced by Amazon, but what I love is the video detritus used to pad out that library. It’s a combination of cinematic crap that they used to play all night on UHF stations and the dusty contents of every third-rate Mom-and-Pop video store<\/a> from the early 1980s. It’s background noise that doesn’t require strict attention so that I can draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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There’s a lot of sub-classics in Amazon’s library. I used to believe that if a movie was old, it was good as in “they don’t make ’em like that anymore.”<\/em> At least that is what my parents would say when a grand fanfare or a roaring lion would open a picture. As I delve deeper into old films with unfamiliar titles but recognizable stars, it turns out that oldie<\/em> doesn’t necessarily equal goodie.<\/em> Such is the case with the crime melodrama Death in Small Doses<\/a><\/em> which was BASED ON TRUE EVENTS. The screenplay was derived from a story in the Saturday Evening Post<\/em> about the dangers represented by truck drivers popping pills to stay awake during long hauls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chuck Connors and Peter Graves in Death in Small Doses<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Peter Graves<\/em> plays a typical good guy role as an undercover investigator assigned to root out the amphetamine suppliers. Chuck Connors<\/em> steals the show and chews up the scenery as a skirt chasing, jazz bopping, pill popping truck driver who doesn’t need sleep as long as he has his co-pilots<\/em> (AKA bennies.<\/em>) It’s worth it just for Chuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this opus unspooled, I scribbled out the monster at the top of the page in the juvenile sketchbook I’m trying to finish off. It was drawn with an old Rotring Art Pen<\/em> which I haven’t used in years. Fortunately they still make ink cartridges for it. It was fun scratching away in that sketchbook’s cheap pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve been sitting on the couch lately, doodling while watching trash on my Roku streaming box. I dumped Netflix over a year ago but hung onto Amazon’s Prime Video. 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