Monkey Muck
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
People speak out on SuperTuesday results
Monday, February 26, 2024
Monday, January 15, 2024
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Happy New Year!
Working on creating the legend of 'Chicken' Dick Jones. I have two solo shows in 2024 and one in 2025.
Get off dat ass and come see my genius on display.
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
White Chicks Talk About Stuff
Friday, October 27, 2023
Friday, September 22, 2023
So, we did a thing this summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=630UbYKavCY&t=60s
That is the link to BenDen Productions first video. It's a short film about my big sister Linda who got killed at age 9. But it's also about racism, immigration, and forgiveness. Watch it. And look for our ext project, a massive episodic space opera.
Saturday, September 2, 2023
A new work
The Anxious Cat.
(Acrylic and marker on 30x38" canvas)
This work is all one line. I started with my marker on the canvas and filled in the spaces with paint.
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
I'm a real artist now!
Monday, June 19, 2023
Triumph
My first solo art shw was a smashing sucess. I priced my work so that working folks could afford it and I ended up selling a lot of work. This piece went to a good friend's home. And this show has other dealers in the area interested in giving me shows in 2024.
I'll be giving most of my money from it to non religious charities and using it to buy art supplies for the elementary school down the street from us.
I'm over the moon.
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Monday, March 6, 2023
Trump or DeSantis?
Sunday, October 30, 2022
A shocking crime
On October 14th I was attacked and assaulted by a cardiologist named Jeff Schoondyke at Karing Hearts Cardiology. I have the police report to prove it and I have filed a complaint about this incident to the TN medical board. This man attacked me while I was having an anxiety attack and my neuropathy was flaring up. He is a menace, a bully, and a person who thinks he is a god.
If he loses his license to practice medicine in TN, I won't hold my breath, then he deserves it.
I fear for my life as long as he is allowed to practice medicine and lives in Johnson City, TN.
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Eight Karens explain why they believe Trump's election lies
Thursday, June 2, 2022
National Bird Night 1975
In 1975 white America was beginning to find out what black folks always knew, that the USA was still segregated as hell. This piece is all about that. Ask any white person you know if they know what 'redlining' is and most can't tell you. Banks literally took a map of a city or county and drew red lines around areas they didn't want black folks living in. Home loans were declined to black folks because white folks feared them and feared they would bring down property values.
Notice how the black(ish) birds are cooped up behind the redline while the 'virginal' innocent 'normal' whiteish bird has plenty of room to grow and get access to good schools and a better life since property taxes pay for schools in all areas, those in neighborhoods with better housing got better schools and more, while at the same time black kids were expected to do as well academically as white kids despite having virtually no school funding and trigger happy cops ran wild to enforce laws that protected the institutionally racist system. Bankers and mortgage company owners exchanged Klan robes for business suits. And the sad thing is it hasn't changed much since 1975.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
National Bird Night 1974
Sunday, April 10, 2022
National Bird Night 1973
1973 was one of the worst years ever for me. In late winter/early spring in Detroit an incompetent doctor killed my mother on an operating table. I was not ten years old yet and I had watched my big sister Linda get hit and killed by a car and then a little over two years later I lost the most important person in my life, my mom. We, my remaining siblings and I were forced to go live in a farm, in what turned out to be the Klu Klux Klan HQ of Michigan, with my dad's half sister, her adulterous husband who was obsessed with proving at all times that he was the Alpha male, and their bullying children. It was made clear from day one that they came first and we were second class citizens in a place I did not want to be. I was bullied by my aunt and uncle, whipped with belts, slapped, kicked, and under constant threat of violence. Many foster kids had it worse but any abuse of children, especially ones suffering the trauma I was suffering, was wrong. And to this day my bullying cousins refuse to admit they bullied me. Too bad their parents are dead because I wanted them to admit how badly they treated me and my siblings and to spit on them to show my contempt. Still though, dancing on their graves is pretty satisfying.
This work represents on one level my mom leaving my physical life and on another it represents the gains made by women in the fight for equality. I added bits of color to the female figures to give a nod to all the courageous women of color who had it worse than white women. And the crow/raven has long been associated with death in western art.
Monday, March 7, 2022
National Bird Night 1972
Thursday, March 3, 2022
National Bird Night 1971
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
National Bird Night 1970
Monday, February 21, 2022
Rand Paul Presents More Science Experiments for Young Conservatives
Hi kids! Rand Paul here, I'm a board certified doctor of something, never you mind that the board is made up of me, my wife, and some toothless homeless guy who gives me blowjobs for not calling the cops on him for vagrancy. So you can be sure I know science, not like that smarty pants Dr. Fauci.
Ready for some fun science for conservatives? Here we go!