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March 22, 2004

It's Almost April.

And that means it's time to get my act together and start planning the spread for my table at Comicon.

The only thing I have planned right now is a sketchbook. I was really impressed with the sketchbooks on sale last year, so I'll copycatting this July with my own mini. It hasn't got a title yet, but it'll be a series of sketches of profoundly abnormal people; lunatics, circus freaks, the dead, people with horrendously unpleasant and unsightly diseases and injuries, that sort of thing. It was inspired by my developing fascination with psychicatric, medical, and memorial photography. Here's a dry run.

30-year-old Elisa Ann Williams was committed to a British lunatic asylum in March of 1877 with a diagnosis of "chronic mania," apparently aggravated by "domestic trouble." She insisted that she had committed murder, and must suffer death. Her hobbies included imagining voices and screaming at the walls.

The portrait and patient dossier were lifted from Harm's Way, a compilation of antique Burns Archive photographs edited by Joel-Peter Witkin. This is the only Burns Archive book I have; the rest, such as Masterpieces of Medical Photography and Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America, won't leave the shelf for less than $400.00.

I need a wealthy patron.

That's pretty much it for today, except for one thing: Wednesday is now, officially, email day. I'll answer all the emails I recieve during the week on Wednesdays, if they don't merit being answered immediately. So patience, guys, okay? I get a lot of email, and I can't get to it all right away. But I swear to you that I read and appreciate it all. I realize that you don't have to write me, and I thank you for doing it.

In conclusion... what the hell.

Posted by Spike at March 22, 2004 09:25 AM

Comments

Thanks for passing that link along. It was... um... interesting.

I guess it is wholly to be expected that, in a world as fleshed out as Tolkien's, people would wonder about that sort of thing. From what I've read about his personality, I doubt he did give it much consideration. I think Tolkien respected his characters too much to dig into their sex lives.

The abundant nerdiness in me has wondered before about exactly how childhood would work for elves (do they take centuries to reach adulthood?) but I can't say I've fretted much about exactly how Celeborn and Galadriel consumate. Definantly the kind of thing fanfic writers would want to know. Scary, scary people, them.

No offense to fanfic writers. Okay, just a little offense.

Posted by spookable at March 22, 2004 12:29 PM
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Here's a link for you Spike. http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/phil/psychology/PathologicalLyingAccusationandSwindling/toc.html

It's a bunch of case histories of pathological liars published in 1915. No photos, but pleanty of fodder for the imagination.

Posted by Lisa Jonte at March 22, 2004 02:22 PM
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Good pic. I like how the hair came out.

Posted by The Bloated Camel at March 27, 2004 12:02 AM
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Thanks, Lisa. And Camel. I need to finish it up before it's ready for primetime, but I wanted to show it off early.

Posted by spike at March 28, 2004 12:38 AM
66.73.4.247

Two questions about your Teratology series:

Have you ever heard of a game called "Over the Edge", Charla?

Do you still have eyebrows, Charla?

Look forward to working with you.

--Love,

Clyde

Posted by Clyde Throckmorton at March 30, 2004 08:27 PM
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Are you being goofy, or are you just retarded?

I've found the only people who care enough to bring up Teratology on the blog page are either offended, nancing Otherkin or delusional motherhood fetishists.

Posted by spike at March 31, 2004 12:31 AM
66.73.4.247

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