18th of September

Unpublished photo of Eve and Horace in 1953, when Horace briefly sported a beard.

My Dad, Horace L. Gold, was a famous comic-book writer who wrote the Jor-El Krypton Superman’s Origin story for Siegel and Schuster, and what’s more, he had an office at Action Comics immediately postwar.

He was a published author who specialized in fantasy and some science fiction, but also wrote for the pulps, which he covers neatly in his short autobiography, “Gold on Gold”.

His life was simple — it revolved around his typewriter and his constant cup of tea and a continual chain of cigarette smoke. Continue reading

Atlantis the Game

Atlantis Game Board folds neatly into closet space, light, easy to open, guaranteed.

click here to see the stuff associated with the game. I haven’t yet made or listed the other parts, such as player pieces, chance cards, tax cards, rental cards and more.

There’s a whole bunch of parts for the Atlantis game ready to go to the game maker, but I’ve never actually gotten all the parts and put one together, so I don’t know how much it comes to in the end, but I’m willing to find out, if someone wants to help fund the prototype game — I have no idea what that will cost, but the table is a couple hundred bucks just as it is, no pieces, no cards.

I do also have other sizes of gameboards available, but this is the most generous for table-top space. Most are much smaller, and therefore harder to play, I would think, but I could be wrong. Continue reading

The Help Song

The Maga Song (c,f,g)

CHORUS

Q-Anon is Out There, and I need help now.

Better red than dead, and I need help now.

Gotta get help right now! Help right now! Help right now!

 

There’s a hundred million MAGA zombies after you and me.

One lump of trash is how they’ll set us free.

CHORUS

If the Magas come to get you and you need help now,

Call me in the morning, and I’ll show you how.

I will surely show you how!

REPEAT CHORUS

See You At The Top!!!

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I Have No Voice

Hands in ears, scream nonstop at the extremist assholes.

I have no voice. It doesn’t bother me, but it’s quite noticeable.

Whenever I do speak, write, sing, act, paint, draw, sketch or sculpt, there’s no measurable impact on anything or anyone.

I’m not a tweeter, but if I were a tweeter, I could literally tweet my ass off, but nobody will read it, and that’s just fine by me, or it was fine by me until Donald Trump’s name became a household word.

You know, a household word like “slopbucket” or “pig-iron”.

As you read this, keep in mind that this blog was written originally when I first heard the name of Trump, back in 2017, some five years ago. Yep, I saw it coming and called the shots exactly right. Problem is, I can talk, but nobody’s listening. As I said in the beginning, I have no voice. Continue reading

Make Virtual Sculptures Real

This is an actual cutout of a virtual sculpture made in the Godd Engine.

Build it in virtual in the Godd™ Engine — it’s not a model, it’s a sculpture, and you don’t need to be a programmer to use the artist-friendly environment of Godd™. Once you have a sculpture built, you can convert it to an actual cut-out acrylic sculpture.

Here’s how with today’s newest technology, you can create and convert sculptures from virtual into actual 3D forms that can be placed on a shelf or anywhere you’d put a sculpture. The gift value is amazing and there are a thousand things you can do with this item in a gallery, club or craft faire situation.

Godd building is easy. You make boxes and stack ’em, or plaster 3D models into forms that you want to build, and I’ll bet you end up asking me how come I didn’t tell you about this sooner.

My answer is, we didn’t have zoom to help teach the methods, and that goes a long way toward making it possible, along with some advancements in product printing.

These 3D cutout acrylic sculptures come in three sizes — small, medium and large — and they fit nicely into any decor.

These physical objects can be signed and numbered by the artist, and can be created in limited as well as open editions.

The cost is as low as $17.50 wholesale and, unless you decide to hand-sign each one of them, you needn’t order them shipped to your house — you don’t ever need to get involved in the handling. Continue reading

Latest off the workbench

Hey, here’s the very latest off my workbench — the Otis Exhibition. Hope you like it. If you know anyone at or from Otis Art Institute, they will appreciate the many rare photos I have included in this edition, available from gateway books & tapes.

Well, running short, gotta go to breakfast and then to our zoom morning meeting.

Don’t forget, I still have a few empty classified folders left in my zazzle offerings, so take advantage of the 20% off sale — get them today, on zazzle!

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Empty Nuclear Secret Folders for Sale Cheap!

Empty Top Secret Classified Folders for Sale cheap!

Here’s what you do: find a slogan, meme, phrase, buzzword that is instantly recognizable and is currently trending, hash-tagging and flying about the internet on the social media.

The business team has a “spotter” who watches the news channels and finds a topic o’ the day, and in addition, monitors the hashtags to spot the trending phrases.

Your building team now comes into play, using the formula of the Magic Phrase that you decided to focus on today. Here’s what they should come up with: Continue reading

Repent, the End is Near!

This CTF game was written in the Godd™ Engine. It is not currently available, but other equally apocalyptic game layouts are — come to a morning meeting and ask about them.

Luckily, I have a remedy for all this political freakout “civil war” bullshit brought on by the asshole politicians in Washington and elsewhere — I plan to throw my hands into the air, and promptly and unequivocally, give up.

I mean it. Give up. Why struggle against that kind of relentless sandpaper? I have a secret “wonder-weapon”, with which to defeat them all in a single swoop.

It’s when political shit gets flung direcctly into the faces of the public, which you’re seeing now from all sides of the political spectrum — that I lay down my sword and shield right by the river-side, and take up my Ultimate Weapon — humor.

It might be too great a step, definite is cause for alarm, and that’s why I created a set of fun wearable gifts that really says what it’s all about, Alfie.

That’s right. I created a line of gifts and personal wearables featuring a color graphic of an empty Classified Folder”, which is actually the cover of my graphic novel, “SlimeWars”, now available as an e-book and audio book recording.

So I decided to create strange and unusual “Empty Classified Documents” folder wearable and useable products on zazzle — things that would be likely to be wanted by you, and I hope I’m right. If not, it costs me nothing to try, just moving a few electrons around, is all. Continue reading

Generation of Vipers

Labor Day Convention, Jack Tar Hotel, San Francisco 1980.

“O, thou hypocrites, thou generation of vipers.” This biblical quote doesn’t refer to the snakes born every twenty years or so. A generation also means a production of something, as in, “spawned by serpents” or “serpent spawn”.

In my book, it definitely includes the current collection of insane power-hungry assholes in the hallowed halls of Congress.

They don’t appear to know it, but they’ve put the U.S. on a one-way course into civil disorder and unrest, with no relief, because any election will be called a fraud, even when the Republicans happen to win. Continue reading