Monkey & Bird<\/a><\/em> stalking the cartoon couple as they went on their first date. I have some ideas for her, and she has been making regular appearances in a few sketchbooks I’m rotating through.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/it-came-from-the-SB-banner.jpg?resize=640%2C96&ssl=1\")
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Just lately it seems that I’m hitting the old sketchbooks a lot harder than I have been, and I am having fun while I’m at it. 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I like having noise in the background while I am sketching so I’ll usually have the TV on. I favor episodic television and trash movies that won’t require my strict attention but are still enjoyable. Lately, I’ve been tuning into Tubi TV<\/a><\/em> via my Roku<\/em> box. Tubi<\/em> has free, ad supported content and a fairly decent library so they have become my streaming station of choice. Recently I took in Roger Corman’s Sorority Girl<\/em> (1957) which I had never seen or even heard of before discovering it in Tubi’s<\/em> lineup. This was a lot like most of Corman’s films — cheap and just salacious enough to overcome the lack of story, setting, stars and Technicolor. It featured beloved character actor Dick Miller<\/em> and tragic, never-quite-was<\/em> actress Susan Cabot<\/em> who’s real life and death is a lot more tawdry and horrifying<\/em><\/a> than a dozen Roger Corman movies.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Noras-dawning-horror.jpg?resize=640%2C551&ssl=1\")
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