[This is TECHNICALLLLY HIVE One-a-Day #06! Jeepers! Now I'm TWO up on the month! What if I get to 50 posts in one month! Does that make me a MONSTER???]
Once upon a time, Godzilla and Groucho Marx walked into a bar, and the bartender says, "We don't serve your kind here!" And he points directly at the cigar in Groucho's mouth. Groucho turned, head hanging low, and walked out of the bar. Godzilla, who was unhappy with how his friend had been treated, breathed flaming nuclear waste breath all over the bar, burning it to the ground... And he was right to do it! (The end.)
Stuff...
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1 May 2025
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"Do You Remember?" by RFY (HF)
[Felt pen, gel pen, and colored pencil on paper with digital embellishments and color.] We have a terrible problem with cultural amnesia, especially if it's not about NOSTALGIA SALES! (Icky...)
https://rodeo.club/post/0x7E06037AB61D4180009Bd93357045A7fCF6E1c68/46
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"Sid Would Be Indifferent" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ballpoint pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] Sid Vicious was super young... People shouldn't forget that. I don't think I'll forget it...especially since I mentioned Sid in one of my notebooks for some reason... ???
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"Grabbing Hands" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing created with a no-longer-supported, free sketch app on my really old phone...] The Grabbing Hands grab all they can! All for themselves... Probably evil CAPITALIST hands...
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1TfjJZJesW4YEUvBmYZJx5rerFaFXxPjBc/50
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2 May 2025
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HIVE May One-a-Day 03 by RFY (HF)
Day two, but post number three! (I'm still one ahead for the day!!! If I get a chance to stack a couple more tomorrow and/or Sunday, I should!)
My name is quite likely Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool), and today I was MOSTLY just a grandpa. (I usually watch my grandson three days a week, and I pick my granddaughter up from school twice per week. Busy grandpa!)
Tomorrow is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY, and I think Mariah and I are going to a comic shop we've never visited before, and we're taking RIOT! This will be his very first FCBD! My plan is to take a couple beat-up, doubled, or otherwise crunked books, cut them up, collage them onto some 8.5 by 11 inch sheets and have my older daughter, Frankie, laminate them with her fancy machine... And then I'll take the laminated sheets of collaged comics and make a book for Riot! (His first COMIC BOOK!) That should be fun, right???
After we get back into town, I think we're gonna go to Pazuzu's Pizza (where the demons eat!) and have some monster chow! Exciting times!
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Today's artz:
Thanks for the visit! Another fancy post tomorrow!!! Keep the dream alive!!!
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3 May 2025
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HIVE May One-a-Day 04 by RFY (HF)
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I have committed to posting 31 times in the month of May. The Thrills and Spills that we will share... Oh...my... Oh... (Do you have chills, yet??)
Today, as I'm sure you all know, was FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! For fun, Mariah, my older daughter, Frankie, and I took my grandkids, Felicity and Riot, to PANTHEON in St. Helens, Oregon, where we met DEADPOOL and SPIDERMAN! (And we got some free books... And I bought some stuff, too. Support the indie shops when you can!!! Here's some photos, peeps...)
(The photos are by me, the first two, and by my daughter, Frankie. Both taken with our phones!)
Thanks for the quickie visit! Not a ton to read (on here today... I do have a SLUG of books to read, tonight and tomorrow... Comics, yo, are the fun stuff! It's what I do: ART and WORDS and MOTION and COLOR and NONSENSE and yah yah yah... Please give them a try, if you haven't in a while. If you want some suggestions, hit me up. I've read a few things over the last 50 years...)
LATER!
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"I Might Never Go Shopping Again" by RFY (HF)
[Gel pen and liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] True confessions!!! (Or funny lies... Both are valid forms of entertainment!)
https://nftshowroom.com/gallery/richardfyates_spork-2025_i-might-never-go-shopping-again-by-rfy-hf
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"Life...uh...Finds a Way" by RFY (HF)
[Felt pen, gel pen, brush pen, and liner pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] It's growing... And that's not good...
https://rodeo.club/post/0x7E06037AB61D4180009Bd93357045A7fCF6E1c68/47
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4 May 2025
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HIVE May One-a-Day 05 by RFY (HF)
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I have committed to posting 31 times in the month of May. The Thrills and Spills that we will share... Follow the yeller brick road...
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Tomorrow is my yearly physical. Because I am psychotic, I'm always terrified that the doctors are going to decide THIS is the time that they keep me... (I have many irrational fears. MANY...) Therefore, I will be spending today working on art (aside from the birthday party that I'm going to for my grandson's half-brother... Families are complex but provide unlimited opportunities for entertainment and intrigue!) Hopefully, this will bring my blood pressure down enough that the medical peeps think I'm "normal enough" to hang with the humans!
It's funny to me that I often force myself to do these "one-a-day" challenges (I've done "freewriting," and two NEOCITIES months, and numerous HIVE versions...), because they usually devolve into chaos and anxiety. However, the drawing that I did above (in PAINT) would not have come into being if this challenge hadn't been self-imposed upon me (by a REAL JERK, I might add...) The drawing is super-simple, but I like it. The colors and the semi-abstractness... Yeah. That's fun stuff for me...
Still have my AUTHOR FESTIVAL coming up in a couple weeks (at the Longview Public Library here in the Pacific Northwest), AND I just found out that there is a TEZOS CON coming up in SEATTLE at the end of JUNE! That's close enough that Mariah and I can take the train or drive up to catch the dang thing! (Apparently, there was also one last year in Seattle, but I was out of the loop and missed it! Silly me...)
[Image stolen from ryangtanaka on WarpCast, https://warpcast.com/ryangtanaka/0xb488f112 ]
See you there???
@richardfyates/hive-may-one-a-day-05-by-rfy-hf
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"Eye with Prejudice..." by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, gel pen, liner pen, paint pen, and colored pencil on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] It's so horribly sad... Someone lost their balloon...
https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1TfjJZJesW4YEUvBmYZJx5rerFaFXxPjBc/51
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Thanks for indulging me! I'm not trying to be a bother, just letting my nervous energy spin out of control for a while. (Like a pressure release, ya get me???)
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KEEP IT REEL PEEPS!!!
P.S. - All of my stuff in this post is CC0, Creative Commons, and can be used by other folks for whatever they wanna do with it. If you want to say where you got the raw, that'd be cool! END OF LINE...
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