Happy #internationalblackcatday from #pyewacket and @scottobear . We are sleepily watching taskmaster on the couch. #catsofinstagram #blackcatsofinstagram https://instagr.am/p/CG3yokagPna/

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Nebelspalter, 1904⠀
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#clown #wedding #blackcat #party #leash #sadclown https://instagr.am/p/CG3hGlHgzTd/

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Current mood

#luchador #blackandwhite #currentmood https://bit.ly/3mtl4NW https://bit.ly/35GObGH

From The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1918

#vintageillustration #nessie #scarecrow #chessie #dinosaur #cryptid https://instagr.am/p/CG1xm7RgA0H/

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Empyreus built into more of an “asterisk scythe” formation, while watching the new version of Dahl’s Witches… Anne Hathaway and the rest of the cast along with the effects made for a superior film than the Angelica Houston version. This one would have scared the bananas out of me as a kid.

#gohlem #weaponeersofmonkaa #spymonkeycreations #Toyrobot #Toyphotography #glyosbuildchallenge #modulartoys #onelldesign #glyos #empyreus https://instagr.am/p/CG1E9HRAfNv/

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Price gouge update. I just had to look.

Just checked Amazon, the price for a 12 pack is now $19.50, or nearly 4x what it cost back in 2016. (And that doesn’t include tax)

How the hell are the hungry poor supposed to eat the very basic survival garbage when they can’t even get a ramen meal for under a what… more than $1.60 for a lousy packet of starch and salt? When I was on my own and in school, (admittedly 30 years ago)
$1.60 would literally have bought me 16 packets of ramen.

4 years ago, much more recently, (see post below) it would have paid for 3 packets and a can of veggies to mix in.

I wish I had seen the price prior to the pandemic.

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From my journal 4 years ago today – (Oct 26, 2016, shopping at harris teeter)

When did “top ramen” go to 2.79 for 6? That’s almost triple what I remember. I would get 10 for a buck last time I purchased the stuff.

#pricegouging
#nowvs4yearsago
#nowvsthen
#orientalvssoy #amazonovercharge https://instagr.am/p/CGz3QnfAZTt/

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Devilbots fighting over your soul. (Feels a little like social media twitter and facebook competing for your mental essence?)

Silver skull face has height, but scythe arms has a hell of a reach that makes for a wicked haymaker and left hook! … pardon the pun…

I guess if they are going to drain us, they should at least duke it out first.

I was going for a demonic look with the red and silver but I think it would be more effective to have two very contrasting colors at odds with one another.

#glyosbuildchallenge #glyos #Spymonkeycreations #weaponeersofmonkaa #onelldesign #modulartoys #gohlem #empyreus #robotpunch #robotkick https://instagr.am/p/CGzyaFugcXS/

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We interrupt the World Series to bring you yet another Bob Haney/Jim Aparo rubber mask reveal. Detail from B&B 145.

Ht to bronze age babies twitter https://instagr.am/p/CGyh08sg4TC/

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“The unseen witness.”  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899. https://instagr.am/p/CGyY47JAlEF/

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From L’Assiette au Beurre, 1910

#vintageillustration #weddinganniversary #14years https://instagr.am/p/CGxWEg0A_w1/

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Good night. #bear #durduriamhooman https://bit.ly/3dUS6U2 https://bit.ly/3op3nRt

Showing off a Silver skull, red parts otherwise and dramatic weight loss, diet Empyreus prepares for a little martial arts kata and then leg day.

One day, he will grow up, stop going to clubs and collect the souls of the wicked.

#empyreus #weaponeersofmonkaa #glyosbuildchallenge #Spymonkeycreations #glyos
#onelldesign https://instagr.am/p/CGwH5peAusQ/

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From Lustige Blätter, 1917 #caturday #vintageillustration https://instagr.am/p/CGvyq8rA8BH/

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Spotted by Pyewacket, and photographed by @maximillian_deersteak

Best guess? a cattail toothpick grasshopper.

Leptysma marginicollis, the cattail toothpick grasshopper or slender locust, is a grasshopper. It has a very pointed head and flattened, sword-shaped antennae. Thus, it superficially resembles grasshoppers in the subfamily Gomphocerinae, but is easily distinguished by the presence of a spur, or spine, between the front legs. They are usually brownish with a white, yellow, or brown stripe from the eye to the base of the front legs. The head is as long as, or longer than, the prothorax. On top, the body may also be red or pink. The front wings are sharply pointed, extending 3-5mm beyond the tip of the abdomen. https://instagr.am/p/CGu32LdA9N4/

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From Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats, Written Principally By a Lady of Ninety, 1923.

#vintageillustration #caturday https://instagr.am/p/CGuyU-pAuwW/

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