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I have to assume Pete Hegseth has been campaigning to call it WARPA now…
From the Wikipedia entry for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): “The name of the organization first changed from its founding name, ARPA, to DARPA, in March 1972, changing back to ARPA in February 1993, then reverted to DARPA in March 1996”
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Tonight is Krampusnacht. Celebrate by looking at all these old Krampuses I've made over the years and then wait patiently for your inevitable punishment, you wicked child.
A digital illustration on toned paper background of a large, black, and very woolly Krampus, a goat-like demon who goes out to punish the bad children the night before the feast of St. Nicolas, December 6th. This Krampus has very long curving horns coming out nearly horizontal from his head. He has pointed ears, fangs, a long red tongue, and his whole body down to his goat legs is converted in thick black fleece, including a long tail. In his left hand, outstretched forward and over his head, he holds a large two-pronged fork, and in the other hand held at his side, a red whip looping around behind him. He has bells on his belt, and on bands around his wrists and ankles. A curling black banner above Krampus bears red lettering reading ‘Vielleicht passiert es heute’, German for ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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A digital illustration on toned paper background of a large, black, and very woolly Krampus, a goat-like demon who goes out to punish the bad children the night before the feast of St. Nicolas, December 6th. This Krampus has very long curving horns coming out nearly horizontal from his head. He has pointed ears, fangs, a long red tongue, and his whole body down to his goat legs is converted in thick black fleece, including a long tail. In his left hand, outstretched forward and over his head, he holds a large two-pronged fork, and in the other hand held at his side, a red whip looping around behind him. A curling black banner above Krampus bears red lettering reading ‘Vielleicht passiert es heute’, German for ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
December 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Ghosts of Krampus Past, Day 4

2023 & 2024
A low-angle view of Krampus, looming above you the viewer, standing in snow that has been incompletely brushed off a cobblestone path. It is early evening in winter, with the sun already behind the trees. He is an ample-bellied and barrel-chested Krampus, with thick, shaggily furred blue-gray goat legs and a similarly furry tail curling out in front of him. He has a broad face and glowing eyes, two tusks curling out from his lower jaw and over the corners of his mouth, and between those, a long pinkish tongue curling out. Two large curling goat horns sprout from his head, and two smaller, straighter ones point upward between those. He has a large, maroon-colored bag over his shoulder which is filled with the squirming victims already caught. He wears only a wide belt with an ornate buckle and a purple loincloth. A red leather multi-strand flogger hangs from his belt. He is reaching down toward you, his palm an outstretched fingers with their long pointed nails growing in your view... A digitally-drawn illustration done in a fake woodcut print style. A lanky black Krampus with long curving horns, long waggling tongue, and furry goat legs holding a bundle of sticks for beatings. He's in a dynamic prancing pose looming over a pair of unruly, surly-looking children in Victorian dress who are fighting over a teddy bear and are about to learn to behave. In the top left of the composition is the German phrase 'Gruss vom Krampus' or 'Greetings from Krampus' A digital illustration of Krampus, a furry, feral blue man with fangs and horns and goat legs and a tail. He's wearing a fur-lined and belted tunic sort of thing, and is holding a whip in one hand and a chain and manacles in the other. He seems to be running or stomping, but he's definitely not in a good mood. He's drawn in chunky, squarish way with stumpy, cartoonish proportions. Under his feet is custom lettering reading 'Krampus'. A 3” wooden panel in the shape of a round Christmas ornament. A blue grinning Krampus head (horns, fangs, tongue, etc) is painted on it with acrylics. The head is flanked by painted lettering reading ‘Krampus 2024’
December 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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A digital illustration of the Doof Warrior from Mad Max: Fury Road. He’s a guy in a red union suit wearing a strange shapeless leather mask/helmet thing. He’s playing a jerry-rigged double-necked guitar made out of junk and spare parts that includes a flamethrower between the two necks which is currently throwing flames. He is suspended in a dramatic jumping pose by some bungee cords I didn’t actually draw in, in front of a huge stack of implied amps and speakers which, if you look hard enough, are actually the words ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Yes let’s do that in 1932
A government guy yelling at people his office to “Pass a federal law that puts the gun into the same class as drugs and white slavery!”
December 4, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Here’s Boris Karloff as a Chicago gangster within a year of his first portrayal of Frankenstein’s Monster
Boris Karloff in a flawless Gangster suit holding a Tommy Gun and saying ‘Three hundred slugs a minute!’
December 4, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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There’s a series of title cards at the start of Howard Hawks’ Scarface (1932) about how the picture was made to demand the government do something about rampant, lawless gangsterism. Ending with this:
White type over a mottled gray background reading ‘Our government is your government. What are YOU going to do about it?’
December 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Ghosts of Krampus Past, Day 3 pt II

In 2021 Trekell made Krampus-shaped painting panels and I painted three of them for an art show. It was one of the first big social things I did since the pandemic started. Many people I was there with got covid immediately thereafter.
Acrylic paint on a wooden panel shaped like Krampus' head with horns, pointy ears and long tongue. This one his face is done in pinky flesh tones, brown fur, and gray horns. Acrylic paint on a wooden panel shaped like Krampus' head with horns, pointy ears and long tongue. This one is a black, gray, and purple goth-y Krampus. Acrylic paint on a wooden panel shaped like Krampus' head with horns, pointy ears and long tongue. This one is done in a lot of shades of blue except for his pink tongue and looks a little muppety.
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Ghosts of Krampus Past, Day 3

2020-22
A Lady Krampus based on Bettie Page. She has the signature hairdo with shiny bangs, smooth double-curved horns and brown furry goat legs and a long tail. She's wearing a red satin corset with frilly trim and matching opera-length gloves. She's in a mostly profile, high stepping pose with her near leg held up. There's a frilly garter around that leg holding a silver dagger. Finally she's holding with each hand both ends of a black flogger, consisting of a long shaft with two leather straps at the end. A very domme-y Lady Krampus She has tall recurled goat horns and blue-gray furred goat legs and a long tail. Her hair is a cascade of blue dreadlocks down to her lower back. She has a menacing scowl on her face displaying her fangs. She's wearing a red leather, metal-studded harness. The breast cups have sharp looking claw-like metal ornaments around the top edges and spikes at the nipples. The outfit includes matching forearm bands and another studded band. around her left upper arm. Her right arm is held in the air cracking a long red leather whip. And her left arm is angled down, holding a large ornate two-pronged fork, tines down. Digital illustration of Krampus. Here’s a scary blue devil man with goat legs, long curving horns, a tail, and a long pink tongue curling out from between fangs. He’s wearing a red, fur-lined jacket with jingle bells on it. He has a whip in his right hand, a two-pronged fork in his left, and a basket on his back to cart away the naughty children. The background is graduated dusky greens and there’s a raggedly rendered burnt orange circle behind him. Walking in the woods of an early winter evening, with the sun dropping behind the bare trees, it is your ill fortune to have encountered the Krampus. A red-eyed demon's face, fanged teeth and a long vicious tongue, crowned by four large curling horns. His entire body from long neck, to claws, to cloven hooves, to tail is covered in dark, thick, curling fur. He wears a leather harness across his torso, decorated with three large tarnished brass bells. He carries a long leather lash. he's point at you as he pauses coming through the trees. You know you haven't been good enough...
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Against my will it has been brought to my attention that Ron Santo died 15 years ago
A photo of the Wrigley Field marquee and under the neon letters reading 'Wrigley Field Home of Chicago Cubs' is a digital LED sign reading 'Ronald Edward Santo 1940-2010'
December 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Ghosts of Krampus Past, Day 2
Krampus card front from 2019. A blue Krampus, long curving vertical horns, furry shoulders, goat legs, and tail. With a read cross-body harness around his chest and a red loincloth. He's holding the traditional bundle of sticks for beatings in one hand, and in the other - held aloft by the collar of his nightshirt - he holds a weeping, towheaded boy. On his back is a large basked that holds a similarly hysterical girl with blond pigtails. Under Krampus' feet curls a banner with the text 'Greetings from Krampus'. Detail view of previous, zooming in on Krampus and the terrified children An alternate Krampus from 2019. Drawn in a much more cartoony style, our man (blueish gray again) stalks across the page with a prancing step facing left, holding out a clawed hand in front of him and holds a red leather whip in the other. He's wearing a metal cage as a backpack which is exactly big enough to hold one screaming child. Behind and above in large decorative red and gold letters is the word KRAMPUS Black and white version of previous, when it still included an evil-looking little Victorian boy who is about to do something dastardly with a lit match to an unsuspecting kitty cat, but don't worry Krampus gonna grab him first...
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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When I saw the new Fantastic Four in the theater I missed that they stole a Marina City tower for it
Galactus, a very large man in a crazy outfit who is also kind of on fire, is seen from above looking up at the camera from a city street. Behind him is one of the towers you would likely recognize from the cover of an old Wilco record.
December 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Still one of the great tweet exchanges
Elon Musk tweeting 'Take the red pill' and being quoted by Ivanka Trump with 'Taken!' along with a reply to Ivanka from Lilly Wachowski saying 'Fuck both of you'.
December 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Posting some Ghosts of Krampus Past, leading up to Krampusnacht on Friday. I've made a lot of Krampuses, if you were unaware. These are from 2012-2015.
A screen printed Krampus design from 2009. An extremely goaty, brown, furry Krampus with curling horns hunching down to grab a little victorian dandy boy who is in the process of destroying a pocket watch with a hammer. Krampus has a large red bag slung over his back that clearly contains other children he's picked up on his rounds. A decorative frame reads: 'Achtung! Sei gut! Krampus kommt!' (Look out! Be good! Krampus is coming!) Krampus from 2013. Our blue-tinted hero drives a big wooden wagon, as he cracks a whip over the heads of two children in a wooden yoke who are pulling it. In the rear of the wagon is a large cage full of other children who are also reassessing their behavior the past year. This was drawn for a holiday card for my employer at the time but at the last minute *someone* decided it was innappropriate for official holiday greetings and was never sent. A hard-edge vector rendering of a furry blue Krampus, crouching on his goat legs and waggling his long tongue at the viewer. He holds a bundle of switches in one hand and a three pronged fork in the other and chains dangle from bands on each wrist. Yellow type above and below reads 'Gruss vom Krampus'. From 2014. Black and white line drawing of a never-colored Krampus from 2015. Pretty much my basic guy: horns, tongue, goat legs, furry tail, some ripped abs in this instance, holding a bundle of switches. He's got a basket on his back which holds a weeping little girl, and he's holding up a screaming little boy by the collar of his pajama top.
December 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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This is in contrast to the Glam Gryla I did a few years back
A digital illustration of Gryla, a giant Icelandic witch monster who punishes naughty children at Christmas time. My rendition leans more monster than traditional hag-like witch. She's got pale blue skin, pointed ears and greenish hair in two braids, and short horns on her head. She's dressed in a traditional Icelandic outfit with a short red scarf over a dark green vest with red trim. A patterned apron is under the jacket, all over a long black skirt. She has long, full sleeves, and is holding a staff with an elaborate crook at the end with a glowing, magical light hanging from it. Standing with her in this huge, indistinct snow field is The Yule Cat. Something like a black Norwegian Forest Cat but the size of a smallish elephant. In the distance are mountains, stars, and aurora borealis.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Now is the time of Yule and Monsters
A digital illustration in the form of a multi-color relief print. At center is Gryla, Iceland's Troll Witch who stalks the land around the yule snatching misbehaving children and turning them into stew. She has blue skin, a craggy hag face with horns, fangs, and pointed ears framed by long, white hair in two big braids. She's wearing a traditional-ish looking dress and pinafore type thing under a big overcoat. In one hand she's holding a gnarled walking stick, and the other, reaching out toward the viewer is on the back of her pet Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat. He's a huge, fluffy, black cat, getting ready to pounce with his mouth open and one massive paw swiping out. His job is to eat children who are found without new clothes before Christmas. The point of focus of these two monsters, is two terrified, screaming children wearing tattered winter clothing in the lower right of frame. The ground all around is covered in snow, and the background inside a rough-cut framing shape is a spooky forest under a night sky with crescent moon, stars, and swirls of howling wind. Part of the top of the frame widens out into a red banner reading 'Gryla & Jólakötturinn'. Now get out there and try not to get eaten.
December 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Somebody really likes Prehistoric Planet
The silhouette of a cat with his face right on the screen of a TV upon which is displayed a computer-generated herd of extinct giant wombats (Diprotodon)
December 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Need more snow than that before I’m putting my dibs out
A plastic blister package containing a miniature black plastic folding chair displayed propped up on one of my bookshelves. The card inside the package reads: Chicago Dibs Starter Pack CHAIR! Holiday Ornament Inaction Figure
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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He’s buried here so he’s legally ours
The marker for the architect Bruce Goff’s grave. Consisting largely of a curved sided isosceles triangle with GOFF in idiosyncratic lettering across the base of the triangle and at the vertex is the large, strange translucent green stone that is the only thing keeping him from stalking the earth.
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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White Saturday
Looking over the River Park boat launch across the river. Everything that isn't water or bare tree branches is pretty much white. Heron Corner, where the north branch channel meets the north branch of the Chicago River. River rapids, bare trees and lots of snow. River Park athletic fields. Basically just a distant line of bare trees dividing white fields from white sky.
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Black Friday (2021) was about as bad as I expected. A lot of bad writing and half assed ideas stranding a cast that could have made something more watchable. The female lead was the little girl from Pan’s Labyrinth! But this production card gave me chills:
SCREEN MEDIA A CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY (This movie could not be chicken soup for anyone’s soul!)
November 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Black Friday (1940) is a very weird Jekyll & Hyde story via a brain transplant (?!) between a gangster and an English professor. Lugosi was clearly there just to pad the cast list a bit. Karloff had more to do but much of it was just having a mustache. But it included this closeup:
A very tight shot in black and white on the face of Boris Karloff. He’s glaring out sternly from deeply shadowed brows and wearing a dapper little gray mustache over his frowny mouth.
November 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Happy birthday, William Blake
Ralph Fiennes (as serial killer Francis Dolarhyde), nude, with his back to the camera, showing off his black line full-back tattoo of William Blake’s Red Dragon illustration in the movie Red Dragon.
November 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Thank you for your service
Defaced CTA as for the “frend“ AI necklace thing
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM