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Orphan Art Works Bill will Turn Copyrights Inside Out

Holy Cats; I recieved this note last night from painter Melanie McGraw; and copyright guru Jim Grace from Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Massachusetts confirms this morning that it's no joke.  Sounds like the antisocialists want to remove Copyright Registration from the Library of Congress' purview and sell off the process to a private corporation, perhaps even an affiliate of Disney, which has been Mickey Mouseing with the law for decades now... all burden of registration falls on creators in this nightmarish scenario... read this and see what you think...

http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/

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A Most Excellent Plus-Size Bohemian Socialite

My pal thru the BigMoves Dance Troupe, Janie Martinez  came to my art opening at the Museum of Sex winter before last & I got to know her a bit better at the BigCutieCon last summer... here's her note as of this morning...

'Hey y'all,
Just a quick note to let you know that I will be appearing in this weeks TimeOut NY magazine. The "Horny" issue is out in stores this Wednesday. They interviewed me for the magazine spread to talk about art and size acceptance, theatre and dance, they also shot some video for their website and had a whole photo shoot in front of the Knitting Factory in various states of undress. I am including a candid shot from the shoot just to give you an idea of what I was doing. I don't know what shot they picked for the magazine but I have been assured that it is fabulous. Pick up a copy starting on Wednesday!
All the best,
Janie'

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A buxom Paleolithic hunter-gatheress

This is a superb Roy G. Krenkel creature

I put this on Photobucket in the fall and put it up on the DIMENSIONS Magazine 'Weight Board' as one of our seminal influences... it was a big topic of discussion and Conrad despite his post-9/11 strictly-PG policy let it stay up despite the nipples... 'cause they're cartoon nipples and because this is such a rare print...
But 4 days later Photobucket took it down... because of the cartoon nipples.

This is Roy G. Krenkel... he actually RECRUITED fellow EC Comics creator Frank Frazetta to do those Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. (Conan the Barbarian) Howard paperback-covers which changed Fan Art forever... Roy invented the style but Frank perfected it.

Roy was a shy impoverished bachelor... when the producers came to him for sketches for the CONAN movie he refused to believe anyone was really interested in him... he passed away shortly afterward-- at any rate this fat Paleolithic hunter-gatheress is in the public domain since Roy left no kin...

A few rare copies  of his masterpiece CITIES AND SCENES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD can be found on the Web...

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Bush Exile/Retirement Threatened as Lefties Take Paraguay

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5...CmwHZc6LWY_SKA
http://wonkette.com/politics/george-...too-208549.php
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp...7D&language=EN
http://digg.com/politics/Is_Bush_Pre...rm_In_Paraguay
http://tsoldrin.blogspot.com/2006/10...n-readies.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/16/11414/803
http://salvationrevelation.com/the-b...d-the-moonies/

Jenna had been down there last year to broker a land deal wherein Dubya and Reverend Moon bought tracts of land... land surrounding the major freshwater aquifer in Paraguay, longtime Nazi-exile country-of-choice... the joint plots abut Bolivia, providing postpresidential fun fun fun with Blackwater ContraRevolucion cokedealing noble-enterprise opportunities galore...  Liberation Theologist Lugo, former Bishop  and Friend of Hugo, may put a crimp in the sodastraw...

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Skinnyland! Where the Elbow Dimples are Shallow!

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Mrs. Driver, Narcs on the Neighbors!

 This is today's episode of the extremely hip and engaging oldtime King Features Syndicate comic strip JUDGE PARKER, which the WSJ-owned Cape Cod Times cancelled in '02 during an episode highlighting Contra intrigues in the Carribbean... replacing it with insult-to-teenagers-everywhere ZITS.  The fabulously liberal Seattle Post-Intelligencer runs JP and many other great strips IN COLOR every day!  Isn't it great to have the Net to pull end runs around your local occupying-force of a newspaper?  Wish I'd found it earlier to see how that contra hit-man story arc played out.  Full disclosure: I am a freelancer with KFS, which pretty much invented the newspaper comic strip...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/judgeparker.asp

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Bozo-Approved!

OMG Gang sorry for the nonCapespecific cut&paste but this image immediately hit me while reading of this young rightwinger(the congressman from Blackwater, or at least the Great Dismal Swamp)'s  misadventure...  my Nephew Ned the 3rd-generation advertising man just moved to NC so I plan to annoy him tonite with this... ( image lifted from  http://records.goldenagecartoons.com/wb01.html )

Congressman Patrick McHenry is having a bad week.  First, the bellicose, 32-year-old chickenhawk from North Carolina got in trouble for calling a Green Zone sentry a "two-bit security guard" while in Iraq--a statement for which he was later forced to apologize.  As if that weren't bad enough, he's now in serious trouble for trying to act like a tough guy at the expense of U.S. troops in Baghdad.  

On Friday April 4, the North Carolina Congressman assisted insurgents in Iraq and endangered American lives by bragging cluelessly about being rocketed in the Green Zone in a homemade video he posted on his own Congressional website.  In the video, he related to anyone with an internet connection just how effective those rocket attacks had been.  This is a huge no-no for anyone who's ever spent more than five minutes in a combat zone--and it's worthy of both censure and another apology.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/9/142151/7514/475/492780

http://brandon-friedman.dailykos.com/

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Barack's Commie Mentor!

Accuracy in Media - NOT.

Holy cats I used to read in the Village Voice about Reed Irvine's 'Accuracy In Media' thinktank. Note that your late buddy Charlton "Damn Dirty Apes" Heston is listed on the National Advisory Board.

So here's the headsup on the next round of swiftboating to come now that The Wright Thing is cooling off.

Of course without the Red Army they'd all be speaking German in London now, but hey...

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Unanue Back In?

http://www.politickernj.com/editor/18154/gop-mess-crowley-wont-run-unanue-reconsidering Speaking of the occult, tarot-card-designer Aleister Crowley's great-grand-nephew John, the Biotech entrepreneur has seen the writing on the wall and dropped out of the NJ senate race prompting wild-child clubowner & Goya heir Andy Unanue to consider dropping back in... raising more questions here at CapeCodToday about brother Bob's bizarre 'meet your nouveau-riche neighbor' press release in these pages last week... wherein he claimed to be too busy with the bean bidness to take a skiing vacation... while off on a skiing vacation with brother Andy and family plotting the run against Lautenberg.  What's at the bottom of all this? Don't ask me... I don't know beans!

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More Occultness:CIA Voodoo Pope?

Hi Gang    Read between the lines here.  The New World Order finds a friendly King of All Houngans!  The Lwa may have something to say about this one... heh heh...  Sometimes you doom the goat... and sometimes the goat dooms you.  Stay tuned... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/world/americas/05beauvoir.html?ei=5099&en=4744a6612a514443&ex=1207972800&partner=TOPIXNEWS&pagewanted=all

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