Those eyes... If eyes are the window of the soul, then that chicken's soul is a raging thunderstorm...
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24 Feb. 2023
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"Heroes Fall" by RFY (HF)
[Crayon and felt pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments, drawing, and color tweaking.] Yes. Heroes do fall. (Ask The Bangles!) The trick is not going with them! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://nftshowroom.com/gallery/richardfyates_back-to-primitivity_heroes-fall-by-rfy-hf
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"Beyond the Gates of Meaning" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ballpoint pen on notebook page with digital embellishments, color, and erasure poetry.] The guardian of the gates has no hands, but that's to be expected. The words themselves swirled wildly and without clear purpose. This was no square-dance! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/155
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"He (And His Mustache) Was Watching" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing, moshed, then more digital drawing, all done with my phone!] There is no background nor foreground, only underground. The eyes betray us, but we can't look (or look away.) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/156
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"Anxiety Screams" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing created on my phone.] Self portrait. The world is not a free lunch. You got to catch your own lunch. Monsters! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/157
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[Posted to Typed.art]:
"DAY 69
Nobody kisses on the first date, do they? (I haven't had a first date in over 30 years, but I'm assuming that my experiences still hold.) Sitting in bed with a heatpad on my back, cuz I need it. Day 69 of my forced writing project. Friday. I had too much sugar today. (The doctor told me to cut the sugar out or SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES... But is a life without milkshakes REALLY a life???) It's cold. (Both as a fact of life and as a temperature in this room!) At least we get to sleep in tomorrow!
(Already 8:36 P.M.!?) That sucks...
Tomorrow we have an outing planned. My social anxiety is cruising high at the moment. Hopefully, it will be more fun and less not fun. I think I've just been so freaked out lately that I want to have a couple of days to chill (without medical shit or emotional shit or mortality creeping in the window...)
Still making lots of artz. Not certain if anyone else cares, but that's okay. I'm making for the joy of making. (Selling is boring.) Joy should counteract anxiety, but my neurosis is STRONG... (The DARK SIDE, for sure.) Monsters and ghosts and snakes and bunnies and suns and moons... These are my usual subjects. They probably mean things, but we can't know FOR CERTAIN what the true meaning is... (We don't question. We just enjoy.)
Haptic. I'm super bothered by physicality. (The doctor upped my meds, but I'm not comfortable with increasing the dose. Don't want to lose my "creativity," which some might call my "craziness.") Haptic knick-knacks. Twitchy, touchy... I also don't like people standing behind me. I have one friend (haven't seen him in a couple years, but I still count him as a friend) who thought it was hilarious to slowly walk behind wherever I was sitting and just hover. For a long time, he was a bingo caller at an old-folks' facility, cuz he said the old grannies had the best pot... We live in a weird world...
In other news, my computer died on me for a while this afternoon. The battery has been essentially non-functional for years, but now the charging cable (which I always have to keep plugged in) has started to randomly "disconnect" on me. If this happens, I have seconds to spot it and snake the cord around until it reconnects, otherwise the laptop just clunks dead... Then I have to work to resurrect it, which isn't easy, especially if I haven't figured out where the kink in the electrical flow is yet... GOSH!
Knee knay knigh know knew.... Couldn't think of anything more clever to say...
Later folks!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)"
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25 Feb. 2023
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[Posted to Typed.art]
"DAY 70
Met with humans today. We (the group) are putting together an exhibition of postcard art which will be up in the Koth Gallery (in Longview, Washington, USA.) for a month starting April 1st. I love postcards, but being out of the house all day means that I got little done (art wise) today. Fine.
All work and no play...
More noise tomorrow!!!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)"
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26 Feb. 2023
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[Posted to Typed.art]:
"DAY 71
Have you ever wondered what an OFFICIAL "holy fool" reads? (Probably not. Why would a fool read? So he can find new things to not know about!) I'm one of those kinds of fools who keeps a list of what I've read, although a book or article or whatever only makes the list if I FINISH reading it. (No cheating!) Here's my most recent chunk 'o readin's:
---22 Jan. '23. Finished rereading this:
Sedlmeier, Cory (ed.). Atlas Era Tales to Astonish Volume 1. Marvel. 2018. (Individual issues originally serialized from 1959 to 1960. Good, fun, cheesy monster stories written primarily by Stan Lee and illustrated by a ton of different folks, including Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, etc. etc.)
---Also 22 Jan. '23. I reread:
Thompson, Jill. The Dead Boy Detectives. DC Comics. 2005.
---28 Jan. '23. Finished rereading:
Lacatski, James T., Colm A Kelleher, and George Knapp. Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program. RTMA, LLC. 2021.
---31 Jan. '23. Finished rereading:
Tezuka, Osamu. Astro Boy Books 1 and 3. Dark Horse Manga. 2008. (Collects comics originally published from 1960 to 1975.)
---2 Feb. '23. Read this:
Endo, Tatsuya. Spy x Family. VIZ Media. 2020. (Originally serialized in Japanese in 2019.)
---7 Feb. '23. Finished rereading:
Powell, Thom. Edges of Science. Willamette City Press. 2015. (Psychic bigfoot stuff! Great fun!)
---13 Feb. '23. Finished reading this horrible, awful, racist, colonial-minded piece of shit of a book. (Disgusting. Not recommended.):
Rogers, L.W. Elementary Theosophy. Theosophical Book Concern. 1917. (Utter bullshit.)
---17 Feb. '23. Finished rereading:
Sedlmeier, Cory (ed.). Atlas Era Tales to Astonish Volume 2. Marvel 2018. (Individual issues originally serialized from 1960 to 1961.)
That's what I've stuffed into my head in the last month or so. Some great stuff in there, and at least terrible piece. However, I am of the opinion that it's important to read opinions that you DON'T agree with, as well as those that you do. This helps keep you sharp and teaches you to evaluate based on the evidence being presented by the author (even with fiction!) I love reading supernatural / paranormal texts, but I also eat up the skeptical books that refute the entertaining stuff. (Seems important to me. There's nothing in the world more DANGEROUS than certainty!)
K.O. folks! We'll see you on the flip-flop!!!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)"
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"Zero Percent Skull" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Photograph of a "zero percent loaded" screen on my ancient laptop, moshed, with digital drawing over the top!] Mariah said this skull reminds her of the "Cockney" character from MIGHTY BOOSH. I get it (even though the ring around the Cockney's eye is white... Wait. The eye on the right of this image has a white ring around the "pupil..." It's all too complex for me. I just draw stuff...) Meanwhile, let's put this piece on SUPER SALE!!! We'll do 101 editions for only 0.013 tezos each! (Why the fluff not???) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/158
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"Holy Fool" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen, felt pen, colored pencil, and crayon on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] The job of a HOLY FOOL is to engage with difficult ideas, spirit folk, and dream creatures, and then come back to the NON-FOOLISH and lie to them about what we have encountered. The lies are (of course) for the protection of those who are unprepared to deal with the reality of the fantasy. Some of us enjoy our jobs more than others... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/159
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"Cloudy (With a Chance of Stitches)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Photography, sticker collage on carboard, and digital drawing with digital manipulation and wtf-ness.] The toaster's trying to kill me and the television's been laughing at me again!!! So it goes... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/160
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"Hardcore Consumption" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Oil pastel and watercolor on paper with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] CONSUME UNTIL DEATH! (AND THEN CONTINUE TO CONSUME!!!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/161
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"Flame Broiled" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing created on my old Kindle Fire (1st gen.)] Too much spicy food, or is this critter just a very convincing speaker? ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/162
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27 Feb. 2023
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[Posted to Typed.art]:
"DAY 72
I was born in 1972. Doesn't seem that long ago to me...
Mariah is sitting in bed, drinking tea, and watching some western-leaning t.v. show. I'm mostly watching it, too. I'm not usually a fan of the western genre, unless there's ghosts or it's played for farce. This one isn't particularly funny at all... (Not as funny as Apple Dumplin Gang...)
Jeeze. I'm sitting with a blanket on my shoulders, a heat-pad on my back, and a laptop on my lap. (Funny place to put it!) Doot doot!
I've been looking online for a new laptable / lapdesk (since I'm usually sitting in bed or on a couch or on the floor...although it's harder to get up off the floor than it used to be...) Seems like it might be useful, especially if it allows me to do things like READ and DRAW. Those are my favorite things, ya know: reading, drawing, writing, listening to tunes, too (although that doesn't need a lapdesk.) LAPDESK. Strange thing to even think about! If I did like most of you folks (who were NOT born in 1972 or before), I would write and draw and read all on the computer, but I don't. I like to hold the pen in my hand and feel the smear of the oil pastels across the paper. Drawing digitally is okay, and I do occasionally create that way, but I think my art is more wild and interesting if I start with physical media...
Jah jah jah! Tomorrow is another day!!!
Later...
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)"
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"Night Beast" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Crayon on black construction paper with digital embellishments, color, and drawing.] Mariah says, "Something bad happened to that bird!" I think she's hit the nail on the head... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/164
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"gm (Fake Volcano)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing created on my phone then moshed until it threw up and passed out, and then I drug it inside and painted it with psychic essence.] Negative Zone looks lovely this morning... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/165
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28 Feb. 2023
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"Zombie Grumpus" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Gel pen on paper with digital embellishments and color.] I think this grumpy zombie is actually a spirit communicator. He has the marks of the eternal about his visage... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
P.S. - WINTER DEPRESSION BE DAMNED! I'm going full INDIFFERENCE for a while. Enjoy while you can!!! 23 editions for only 0.13 each (for a limited time!!!)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/1004
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"Be BAD!" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] This one is just a solid, useful piece of advice! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
P.S. - WINTER DEPRESSION BE DAMNED! My indifference is growing stronger! Bring on the bears, the bad weather, the sickness, the crippling depression! I don't care, cuz I can just make ARTZ! 23 editions for only 0.13 tezos each! Eat 'um up while they're still cheap! (This price won't last forever!!!)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/166
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"Food for Thunk" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen, brush pen, felt pen, and paint pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] Reading Robert Anton Wilson brings on the INSPIRATION! The world APPEARS this way or that, and it IS neither this nor that. The perspective is a matter of flicking a switch (and I don't mean a Nintendo!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
P.S. - WINTER DEPRESSION BE DAMNED! I find inspiration in the damnedest places... Like books! (Even books with no pictures in them, sometimes!) Maybe this will be inspiration for others? 23 editions for only 0.13 #tezos each! Unbelievable!
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/167
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"Copious Judgement" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] Some monsters can be SOOOOO judgmental. I mean, let he who lives in glass houses not be a dick, if you know what I mean... Live and let lie... (Or no??) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
P.S. - WINTER DEPRESSION BE DAMNED! Let those who wish to judge judge. Let us who choose to create create. We'll see who is the happiest in the end!!! (23 editions for only 0.13 #tezos each!)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/168
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"Found in a Cave" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Paint pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] A team of Archie-ologists discovered this odd scripture in a cave in Toledo, Washington, USA. Nobody knows exactly what it means or who created it, but the team believes it MIGHT represent either a shaman in a bird costume preparing for a ritual, OR it might be a depiction of a creature from outer-space! (There is nothing to SUPPORT this latter claim, but does that stop a good story??? Apparently not...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
P.S. - WINTER DEPRESSION BE DAMNED! Let's do one more fun-filled weirdo piece just to make it an even FIVE. 23 editions for only 0.13 #TEZOS each! Amazing for such an intriguing, ancient artifact!
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/169
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[Posted to Typed.art]:
"DAY 73
Pretty good day today, other than the horror of living with eight cats... That's too many cats, and they're too goddam friendly! I like pets that don't climb in your face or scratch the shiznit out of you when they're doing parcore...
Artz iz fun, though, and I had lots of time to work on artz today, so... NEAT!
Short post, for me, but not empty... Here are some bonus words: Iron death chunk candy actress floats oblong thru the chilly purgatorial air. My life vest had rotted but looked like a million bucks. The waterfall is an excellent means of getting down the mountain, but not a perfect method....
I lost my laugh bone. Too much cartilage!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)"
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1 Mar. 2023
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"TEZTRASHONE (March 2023)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Bugs and digital drawing over found image with digital embellishments and trashiness.] Trash art has been around for a long time. Some of my TRASH HEROES: Andy Warhol, Kurt Schwitters, John Waters, Divine, Ed Kienholz, Oscar the Grouch, and Roy Yates (that was my dad's name. You should have seen his HOUSE made almost entirely out of found materials!!!) Trash, to be honest, is in the heart! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/170
Sold!
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[Posted to Typed.art]:
"DAY 74
Time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin'... (Steve Miller Band, obviously...)
I don't know. I don't. I'm not even going to pretend.
I wonder if my wife has come home yet. She went to zooombah with our younger daughter after work, and I've been hiding in the bedroom, so I'm not sure if she made it home. I should probably go look... That would be the right thing to do...
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She's home now. (Don't let anyone tell you that being a neurotic is no big deal. Being full of fear and anxiety all the time can kill you!) Hooray!
Make sure that you are kind to the freaky people you know. They are suffering, even if they are making you laugh with snarky humor!
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SLAM BANG WOOOOO! WOOOOO!
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Here's a question: Given that I write (primarily) for entertainment and pleasure, and complicated by the fact that I love Dada-like jibberish and nonsense, would it be possible for an A.I. to emulate my writing style. (For better or for worse, my written voice is distinct, including spelling errors, punctuation anomalies, and quick trips into nonsequiturs and abstraction...) One might counter with this: Who would WANT an A.I. to emulate your writing style? And that is a valid question, but only a meanie would ask that. Don't be that kind of nasty entity.
Enough junk for tonight. Maybe more tomorrow... Perhaps!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)"
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LATER SKATERS!!!
---RFY (HF)
P.S. - Eat your cereal and keep watching the skies!!!