"Horses (SPA Guest Host)" - Postcard

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This week I have the honor of guest hosting Sunday Postcard Art, and I chose the challenge theme "Horses."

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Alice" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "All Things Alice".

Important note about SPA: Mandy has been locked out of Wordpress, and had to create Sunday Postcard Art on Google blogger blogspot here.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go

White Rabbit (Go Ask Alice) - Jefferson Airplane

"Spin The Wheel Of Propaganda News" - Postcard

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My piece is a "cartoon" in the same vein as Charlie Hebdo cartoons. (Their "cartoon" offended me, but apparently some thought it was "funny" so, I too, can make cartoons that others might find offensive.) My piece and words are also free speech that is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. (Well, it used to be, prior to the ascension of the US Government Ministry of Truth dictating to Social Media Platforms which of their users need to be banned for "misinformation" as defined by the Government.)

Maybe Tom the bully will leave me another comment, telling me to shut up, because I'm not allowed to say anything unless he (and other "Free Speech is fine as long as it agrees with mine" bullies) approves of it.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Spin The Wheel Of Propaganda News

When Obama was President of the United States, that is when I first noticed that News reporting was like a spinning wheel of topics. When the wheel stopped spinning, whatever topic was pointed to became what every Five Eyes News channel / website discussed.

Each "spin the wheel" topic was covered for one day or longer, then the wheel was spun again, and a new topic replaced it. Because the News can only report on one topic at a time.

Maybe the News was always that way, and I didn’t notice it.

During the Obama years, sometimes the Kardashian melodrama became "front page" News, when it should have been in the Entertainment section. Now, during Trump President Term 2, the Kardashians have been replaced with the Beckham melodrama, which serves the same purpose.

Recently, the News topic was Iran, then that got replaced with Greenland. This week was a "bye week" because of the annual, week long WEF (World Economic Forum) Davos meeting. (Search Assistant: "A bye week in football refers to a scheduled break during the regular season when a team does not play any games. This allows players to rest, recover from injuries, and prepare for upcoming matches.")

Maybe this weekend, while a large swath of the United States is reeling under a major Winter snow storm, Trump will bomb Iran, spinning them back into the News topic du jour.

"Head Games" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.38

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Rain Of Fire" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.38

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Hero Knight 2" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.38

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Hero Knight 1" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Childhood Heroes".

Note: I've been getting errors trying to leave comments on blogs, but I don't know why. Deann left me a comment, saying I'm being marked as spam.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Dream" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Dream".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Featured in the weekly sampler.

Halloween Headless Knight - Photograph

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I took that photograph this past week.

"Medieval Shapes" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Geometric Shapes".

The diamond shapes are from an Illuminated Manuscript. When I saw the image, the diamonds popped out at me, so I digitally cut them out of it, to use in this. They might not be perfectly geometrical, but this is where my muse took me.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.38

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Burnt Text - Week 01 - The Book of Days

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This week's theme for my Book of Days was Burnt Text.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The master index for all of my entries is here.

"Knight On Horse" - Postcard

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I made another piece for this week's Sunday Postcard Art theme "Knights".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Knights" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Knights".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.34

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Fiddler Moon" - Postcard

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This week's Our Midweek Muse theme was "Male of the Species".

I created this using GIMP 2.10.32

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Summer Knights" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.24.

This piece is similar to another one I made recently.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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I use my own invented term “predictable performance” to predict beforehand the actions of those who are in power on the “world stage.” I have a high accuracy percentage rate. Predicting what will happen is not hard to do, if one is paying attention to actions instead of words. But it also requires one to be objective, which fewer people seem to be able to be these days. Sometimes my timeline is a bit off, but my prediction itself is still correct. But sometimes I’m completely wrong, too. Time will tell, which category 9/9/2021 falls into.

99 Red Balloons - Nena

99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
As 99 red balloons go by.


I wonder if the Roman Empire had a huge debt held by (owed to) other “countries” just before it collapsed.

I also wonder if there were people pulling the strings and mocking the Romans, as the Roman Empire collapsed.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on; (Othello - Shakespeare)


Nights In White Satin (full version) - Moody Blues

Nights in white satin, never reaching the end,
Just what I'm going through they can't understand.
Some try to tell me, thoughts they cannot defend,

Breath deep
The gathering gloom
Cold hearted orb
That rules the night

"Summer Knight Passion" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.24.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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I know I can't be the only one who notices all of the clever, "cute" nicknames the US Government, US News Media, and US Entertainment industries have come up with over the decades:

"Baghdad Bob", "Jihadi John"

"Patrick Price", "Parker Promo", "Maya Markdown", etc. (State Farm insurance)

Harley Quinn (harlequin, DC Comics), Brook Lynn (Brooklyn, soap opera General Hospital)

Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse, and Snowzilla

I’m surprised they haven’t found a way to be clever with shape words like Polygon, etc.

Because we've had clever uses of numbers. Remember how some people were getting married on dates like 7/7/2007, 8/8/2008, 9/9/2009, etc.? 12/12/2012 was the last date available for that sequence until 2101. But 4/3/21 was also popular. (ABC News) So maybe 8/13/21 will be too. (Fibonacci)

Numbers like 9/9 work well in the world of "cute" because the date format is the same in the US and the EU. I wonder if anything "momentous" will happen on 9/9/2021.


99 - Toto
99, I've been waiting so long
I never thought it would happen


Return of the Mack - Mark Morrison
Well, I tried to tell you so
'Cause I knew it from the start
Letting all the people know

"Beltane Sunrise / Beltane Sunrise Knight" - Postcard

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Today is Beltane.

This is a very loose interpretation of Beltane. I like the first piece better than the second one that has the knight in it, but I'm posting both.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.18.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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Sunrise (Is it in your mind at all?) - Simply Red

Maybe the next time I'll be yours and maybe you'll be mine

I don't know if it's even in your mind at all
It could be me
At this moment in time
Is it in your mind at all
It should be me, it could be me
Forever

Journal Back Accordion Pocket

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I created a back accordion pocket for the weekly planner/journal that I'm using for my Book of Days.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.14.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

The master index for all of my entries is here.

"Blue Wizard" - Postcard

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I actually created this in February, but I never posted it. I'm in the process of going through my UFO (UnFinished Objects & Projects) pile to complete them or throw them into the scrap heap.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.12.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"The Look" - Postcard

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.12.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Revelation 6:8

Then you pass by giving him the other side of you

Like the mystics do

So that every time he moves, he moves for you

The Friends of Mr.Cairo (Emotional Cut) - Jon & Vangelis