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Uncle Gabbadoo
@unclegabbadoo.bsky.social
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In this horrible age of abuse and decay
It's good to know somebody's looking okay

Art: https://www.instagram.com/edormodyart

Music : https://baluchitherium.bandcamp.com/
https://lonesomered.bandcamp.com/album/struts-and-frets
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Lon Cheney in London after Midnight
December 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Incidental Rothkos briefly appearing in the side yard this morning
Misshapen squares of light, reflected from the neighbor's house onto the siding of my house. The squares are in two stacks, side by side, a streak of moss or algae growing in the shaded space between them. Looking straight down at stones set in the ground for a walkway, mostly covered in moss, except for a vertical rectangle of bare stone at left. Above it, a square section of grass is lit by reflected light.
December 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Here we go!
#PattiSmith #Horses50thanniversary
Marquee for the Orpheum Theater in Boston, lit up with words reading "Patti Smith and Her Band Perform Horses. Nov 24"
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Small button badge showing a white map of North America on a red field, captioned, " US out of North America"
November 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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2014, NYC with @thepuckhag.bsky.social , it remains one of my favorite celebrity sightings
Sesame Street's Ernie and Bert (with muppeteers) posing for pictures by the pond in Central Park Same crew, but with Rubber Ducky, sailing on a tiny boat on the pond
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Now more than ever
A small circular badge with a map of Noth America shown in white against a red field, captioned "US out of North America"
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Just staring straight into the existential horror of compost night with that same old winning smile
A rotting jack o' lantern with a very shriveled, sunken face collapsing in on itself, but it was not carved to express fear.
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Just now, a very particular Gen-X victory: I recorded a song whose ending coincided exactly with the end of the tape on the cassette in this 4 track.

Also, for someone as lazy as me, who is accustomed to just quickly recording a song idea on my phone, man, tape sounds so incredibly good again!
A Tascam 4 track cassette recorder on a desk in a basement studio with a microphone on a stand nearby.
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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📸 Holga 120 CFN
🎞️Frankenstein

#120film #filmphotography #lomography #holga #believeinfilm #photography #bnwfilm #monochrome
Grainy black and white photo showing the rooftop of a house in silhouette against a cloudy sky, with one wispy cloud catching the light at sunset. White glow from a light leak at lower left corner.
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Sorely wishing I'd had the Minolta with me when this rabbit was posing before the Driveway Mary, but the pixel phone got it alright anyway.
In the foreground, a rabbit sitting in profile in a driveway, at the end of which stands a small statue of Mary, whose base is all covered in ivy.
November 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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I hadn't intended my jack-o'-lantern to portray Our Glorious Gerontocracy, but here we are
A bright orange jack o' lantern, moldy inside, shriveled up and now toothless, perched atop a healthier looking pumpkin.
November 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Hi term in office has drastically aged him
Close-up of a cat- faced jack-o'-lantern head stuck onto another pumpkin for its body. The same cat jack-o'-lantern a week later with a shriveled up sunken face.
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Doctors: first do no harm.

Trump administration:
Photo of a CVS pharmacy sign at night, but the only letters lit up read: "CV harm".
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Taking the expressway back into Boston tonight with @thepuckhag.bsky.social past the good ole rainbow swatch gas tank
View from the car window of the iconic LNG storage tank in Dorchester MA. It is painted with rainbow paint swatches from an early 1970s design by Sister Corita Kent, and at 14 stories tall, it is called the world's largest copyrighted artwork. After rumors swirled that the blue swatch was a silhouette of Ho Chi Minh, Kent declined to say that was or wasn't her intent, preferring to leave the work open to interpretation. Same gas tank in the rear view, showing the side with the company logo added.
November 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Quote with your favorite film and album from the year you were born.

Lots to choose from, but I like how these look together
Movie poster for Night of the Living Dead, featuring black and white images of people shrieking and zombies attacking Album cover of The Velvet Underground's "White Light / White Heat" featuring a black on black photo of a faintly visible tattoo of a skull.
November 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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A blue jay with a peanut in its beak eyes another peanut within hopping distance
November 2, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Papier maché jack o' lantern, slightly rumpled looking but showing an amused expression anyway A papier maché cat head, popping out of the top of the jack o' lantern in the previous picture. Paper mâché jack o' lantern and cat, posed next to a ghost with a papier maché skull Close shot of the papier maché cat heads showing his debonair mustache
November 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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A group of jack o' lanterns arranged one above the other on concrete front steps A jack o' lantern with a demonic grinning face A jack o' lantern with an old timey cartoon animal face, featuring soft fuzzy socks draped over the sides for ears. The two aforementioned jack-o'-lanterns posed with a smaller cat head jack o' lantern attached to another small pumpkin body, and a papier maché jack o' lantern with a papier maché cat popping out of the top.
November 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Little skull ghost (a desk lamp with a white shirt draped over it, topped with a papier maché skull) lit up and holding a ukulele Janky Crow (scarecrow with a papier maché crow head) sat in a rocking chair and holding a guitar on a front porch, while a black and white cat sniffs at him.
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Ye Halloween Tableau, 2025, with my co-conspirator @thepuckhag.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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"Not For Sale"
Watercolor, gouache and graphite, 4"x6".
Expressionistic portrait of a skeleton in a top hat and dark clothing, cocking its head to one side and holding up a bony hand.
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Owl from sketch to woodblock print. Later it assumed tee shirt form.

October 2022.
#woodcut #halloween #owl
Sketchbook open to a drawing in pencil of an owl perched on a tree branch, with a crescent moon behind. The same owl, tree and moon design, here as a woodcut printed in black ink on orange paper.
October 31, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Dad and me, some several decades ago, back in our church basement hobo clown era.
A photo of my Dad, with me as a young boy of about 8 or 9 years old. We' re dressed as hobos for Halloween, in ratty clothes, but also wide '70s neckties, and touches of makeup to suggest grubbiness. One of my teeth is blacked out for a special comedic flourish. The background is dark except for some folding chairs lit by the camera flash.
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Bucktoothed Vampire
Watercolor and gouache, 4"x6", 2019
An expressionistic watercolor painting: close profile in blue-black monochrome of a monstrous head with mismatched eyes and an open mouth showing blunt teeth
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Watercolor and gouache, 4"x6", 2021
Expressionistic watercolor painting: a skeleton stands in a barren field looking down. Behind it, a shovel stands stuck in the ground, and a large misshapen crescent moon hangs low on the horizon.
October 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM