Don Erickson

J. Mayes Residence (Round House), Glen Ellyn, Illinois, 1954

The "Birdcage" apartments, 6901 North Ridge Blvd, built by architect Don Erickson in 1959. Erickson was an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright. The stairs are free-floating, suspended on the vertical metal columns. Unusually for American apartments, each unit has a separate entrance, much like a motel.

Tears from an unknown sadness

Moonlight (2016) / Your Name. (2016) / Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks (The National) / It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012) / Punch-Drunk Love (2002) /  Art by Mathilde Van Gheluwe / Severance (1x3) / Twin Peaks (Log Lady introductions 1x4)

Bela Lugosi, Leif Erickson, Nils Asther, Lionel Atwill, Ralph Morgan, Francis Pierlot, Don Porter, and Frank Reicher in Night Monster (1942)

Bad movie I have Swamp Thing 1982

Sailor Beware

With a blend of humor, romance, and physical comedy, "Sailor Beware" weaves a delightful narrative filled with lighthearted moments and unexpected twists.

I have not reached one of my favorite Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis films, though not my all-time favorite of their collection. Their second military film, the 1952 Hal Walker directed “Sailor Beware” is a movie black and white musical comedy, I’ve watched many times over, usually when I’m feeling down, though it has been a while. This film is adapted from a 1933 play written by Kenyon Nicholson and…

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Hackett’s 60th Birthday

In late October 2023, I entered four works in the Hackett Squares Artshow, part of Hackett’s 60th Birthday celebrations. Hackett is a suburb in the inner north of Canberra, Australia below the slopes of Mt Majura. My personal connection to Hackett (first homes built in 1963) is that it is where I had my first home built (in 1964) and where I then lived from 1965 to 1993. My children attended the…

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2705. The Classics

This is “The Classics.” So much danger for too little dollar. 

The ape started with the classics. Madame Bovary...Don Quixote...Moby-Dick...

      These are all startling examples of the human condition, said the ape. 

      But the ape was received by silence.

      He started reading Curious George...

      Around him thundered a rapturous and very pleased applause.. 

Sesame Street Behind the Scenes

Wissen Sie wo Ernie wohnt? ("Where does Ernie live?") is a German documentary, aired on December 14, 1975 on NDR.[1] While the program opens with the "Der, die, das" theme to Sesamstrasse and contains German voice-over narration, it was filmed in New York City and consists of behind the scenes footage of the American Sesame Street, The Muppet Workshop, and the Henson Townhouse among others. Those appearing include Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Don Sahlin, Kermit Love, Caroll Spinney, Jane Henson, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Jon Stone, Jimmy Baylor, Northern Calloway, Sonia Manzano, Emilio Delgado, Dulcy Singer, Bonnie Erickson, Dave Goelz, Rollie Krewson, John Lovelady, and others.

Sorry for all the Mad Men posts. This show is just so underrated.

But every time I watch this show I still wondering about the ending with the coke commercial. I know a lot of people think Don went back to McCann Erickson and he was the one who made the commercial. But for some reason I just don’t think he went back to advertising after the revelation he had at that retreat thing in California.

I feel like he probably told Peggy about the idea and she did the commercial just from the similarities of the people in the commercial and the people at that retreat he was at. I don’t know. Just my thoughts.

Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its The Return of the Living Dead Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD, which releases on October 18. Due to licensing issues, it will feature the same song replacement as the previous Blu-ray.

Shout Factory is carrying an exclusive bundle that includes a set of four enamel pins designed by Matthew Skiff (limited to 1,000) and an 18x24 poster featuring the theatrical artwork for $94.99 (pictured below).

The 1985 horror comedy is written and directed by Dan O'Bannon (co-writer of Alien). Clu Gulager, James Karen, Thom Matthews, Don Calfa, Beverly Randolph, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., and Linnea Quigley star.

The Return of the Living Dead has been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative and is presented in Dolby Vision (HDR 10 compatible) with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 sound.

The three-disc set includes the extended workprint cut of the film (in standard definition), the documentary More Brains: A Return to the Living Dead, and more. Details are below.

Bonus Features

Disc 1 - 4K UHD:

Audio commentary director Dan O’Bannon and production sesigner William Stout

Audio commentary by actors Thom Mathews and John Philbin and makeup effects artist Tony Gardner

Audio commentary by production designer William Stout and actors Don Calfa, Linnea Quigley, Brian Peck, Beverly Randolph, and Allan Trautman

Audio commentary by Gary Smart (co-author of The Complete History of the Return of the Living Dead) and Chris Griffiths

Zombie subtitles

In Their Own Words - The Zombies Speak

Disc 2 - Blu-ray:

Audio commentary director Dan O’Bannon and production sesigner William Stout

Audio commentary by actors Thom Mathews and John Philbin and makeup effects artist Tony Gardner

Audio commentary by production designer William Stout and actors Don Calfa, Linnea Quigley, Brian Peck, Beverly Randolph, and Allan Trautman

Audio commentary by Gary Smart (co-author of The Complete History of the Return of the Living Dead) and Chris Griffiths

The Decade of Darkness – ‘80s horror featurette

Theatrical trailers

TV spots

Still gallery – Posters, lobby cards, stills, and behind-the-scenes photos

Still gallery – Behind-the-scenes photos from special makeup effects artist Kenny Myers

Zombie subtitles

In Their Own Words - The Zombies Speak

Disc 3 - Blu-ray:

The Return of the Living Dead workprint (standard definition)

More Brains: A Return to the Living Dead - 2011 feature-length documentary with cats and crew

FX interviews with production designer William Stout, FX make-up artists William Munns, Tony Gardner, Kenny Myers and Craig Caton-Largnet, visual effects artists Bret Mixon and Gene Warren Jr., and actor Brian Peck

Music interviews with music consultants Budd Carr and Steve Pross and soundtrack artists Dinah Cancer (45 Grave), Chris D (The Flesh Eaters), Roky Erickson, Karl Moet (SSQ), Joe Wood (T.S.O.L.), Mark Robertson (Tall Boys), plus musicians Greg Hetson (Circle Jerks) and John Sox (The F.U.’s, Straw Dogs)

Interview with John A. Russo

Production design interviews with writer/director Dan O’Bannon and production designer WIlliam Stout

The Dead Have Risen – interviews with cast members Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Brian Peck, Thom Mathews, Beverly Randolph, Linnea Quigley and more

Interview with writer/director Dan O’Bannon (his final interview)

Horror’s Hallowed Grounds filming location featurette

When an accident at a medical supply warehouse reanimates an army of corpses, they arise from their graves with a ravenous hunger… for human brains!

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Dread by the Decade: Mystery of the Wax Museum

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Source Material: "The Wax Works" by Charles S. Belden Year: 1933 Genre: Psychological Horror, Mystery Rating: UR (Recommended: PG-13) Country: USA Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 17 minutes

Director: Michael Curtiz Cinematographer: Ray Rennahan Editor: George Amy Composer: Cliff Hess Writers: Don Mullally, Carl Erickson Cast: Glenda Farrell, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Frank McHugh

Plot: Just before a wax museum opens, corpses begin disappearing from the local morgue.

Review: Snappy dialogue and striking visuals aren't enough to pull together a film that can't decide if it's a comedic noire or tense horror.

Overall Rating: 2/5

Story: 1.5/5 - You can guess the twist without even watching it and its disturbing central concept is only superficially explored. Too much time is spent on dialogue that is not as clever as it wants to be.

Performances: 2.5/5 - Atwell is an unmemorable bad guy, Wray is a generic damsel, and Farrell is sometimes trying too hard to be brash. There's also awkward fight scenes where the actors wrestle silently.

Cinematography: 4/5 - Great use of technicolor and fluid camera movements.

Editing: 2.5/5 - Overly abrupt cuts.

Effects: 4/5 - Wonderful use of pyrotechnics and some fun mad scientist tools.

Sets: 4/5 - The wax museums (there are actually two) are the highlights, though they're underutilized.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 2/5 - The burn prosthetics are a bit weak, even for the time.

Trigger Warnings:

Mild violence

Mild body horror

Ableist depiction of a deaf character

Misogyny (uncritically perpetuated)

Brief racism

Burke’s Law -  List of Guest Stars

The Special Guest Stars of “Burke’s Law” read like a Who’s Who list of Hollywood of the era.  Many of the appearances, however, were no more than one scene cameos.  This is as complete a list ever compiled of all those who even made the briefest of appearances on the series.  

Beverly Adams, Nick Adams, Stanley Adams, Eddie Albert, Mabel Albertson, Lola Albright, Elizabeth Allen, June Allyson, Don Ameche, Michael Ansara, Army Archerd, Phil Arnold, Mary Astor, Frankie Avalon, Hy Averback, Jim Backus, Betty Barry, Susan Bay, Ed Begley, William Bendix, Joan Bennett, Edgar Bergen, Shelley Berman, Herschel Bernardi, Ken Berry, Lyle Bettger, Robert Bice, Theodore Bikel, Janet Blair, Madge Blake, Joan Blondell, Ann Blyth, Carl Boehm, Peter Bourne, Rosemarie Bowe, Eddie Bracken, Steve Brodie, Jan Brooks, Dorian Brown, Bobby Buntrock, Edd Byrnes, Corinne Calvet, Rory Calhoun, Pepe Callahan, Rod Cameron, Macdonald Carey, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard Carlson, Jack Carter, Steve Carruthers, Marianna Case, Seymour Cassel, John Cassavetes, Tom Cassidy, Joan Caulfield, Barrie Chase, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dane Clark, Dick Clark, Steve Cochran, Hans Conried, Jackie Coogan, Gladys Cooper, Henry Corden, Wendell Corey, Hazel Court, Wally Cox, Jeanne Crain, Susanne Cramer, Les Crane, Broderick Crawford, Suzanne Cupito, Arlene Dahl, Vic Dana, Jane Darwell, Sammy Davis Jr., Linda Darnell, Dennis Day, Laraine Day, Yvonne DeCarlo, Gloria De Haven, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Richard Devon, Billy De Wolfe, Don Diamond, Diana Dors, Joanne Dru, Paul Dubov, Howard Duff, Dan Duryea, Robert Easton, Barbara Eden, John Ericson, Leif Erickson, Tom Ewell, Nanette Fabray, Felicia Farr, Sharon Farrell, Herbie Faye, Fritz Feld, Susan Flannery, James Flavin, Rhonda Fleming, Nina Foch, Steve Forrest, Linda Foster, Byron Foulger, Eddie Foy Jr., Anne Francis, David Fresco, Annette Funicello, Eva Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Reginald Gardiner, Nancy Gates, Lisa Gaye, Sandra Giles, Mark Goddard, Thomas Gomez, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Sandra Gould, Wilton Graff, Gloria Grahame, Shelby Grant, Jane Greer, Virginia Grey, Tammy Grimes, Richard Hale, Jack Haley, George Hamilton, Ann Harding, Joy Harmon, Phil Harris, Stacy Harris, Dee Hartford, June Havoc, Jill Haworth, Richard Haydn, Louis Hayward, Hugh Hefner, Anne Helm, Percy Helton, Irene Hervey, Joe Higgins, Marianna Hill, Bern Hoffman, Jonathan Hole, Celeste Holm, Charlene Holt, Oscar Homolka, Barbara Horne, Edward Everett Horton, Breena Howard, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Arthur Hunnicutt, Tab Hunter, Joan Huntington, Josephine Hutchinson, Betty Hutton, Gunilla Hutton, Martha Hyer, Diana Hyland, Marty Ingels, John Ireland, Mako Iwamatsu, Joyce Jameson, Glynis Johns, I. Stanford Jolley, Carolyn Jones, Dean Jones, Spike Jones, Victor Jory, Jackie Joseph, Stubby Kaye, Monica Keating, Buster Keaton, Cecil Kellaway, Claire Kelly, Patsy Kelly, Kathy Kersh, Eartha Kitt, Nancy Kovack, Fred Krone, Lou Krugman, Frankie Laine, Fernando Lamas, Dorothy Lamour, Elsa Lanchester, Abbe Lane, Charles Lane, Lauren Lane, Harry Lauter, Norman Leavitt, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ruta Lee, Teri Lee, Peter Leeds, Margaret Leighton, Sheldon Leonard, Art Lewis, Buddy Lewis, Dave Loring, Joanne Ludden,  Ida Lupino, Tina Louise, Paul Lynde, Diana Lynn, James MacArthur, Gisele MacKenzie, Diane McBain, Kevin McCarthy, Bill McClean, Stephen McNally, Elizabeth MacRae, Jayne Mansfield, Hal March, Shary Marshall, Dewey Martin, Marlyn Mason, Hedley Mattingly, Marilyn Maxwell, Virginia Mayo, Patricia Medina, Troy Melton, Burgess Meredith, Una Merkel, Dina Merrill, Torben Meyer, Barbara Michaels, Robert Middleton, Vera Miles, Sal Mineo, Mary Ann Mobley, Alan Mowbray, Ricardo Montalbán, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ralph Moody, Alvy Moore, Terry Moore, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Morell, Rita Moreno, Byron Morrow, Jan Murray, Ken Murray, George Nader, J. Carrol Naish, Bek Nelson, Gene Nelson, David Niven, Chris Noel, Kathleen Nolan, Sheree North, Louis Nye, Arthur O'Connell, Quinn O'Hara, Susan Oliver, Debra Paget, Janis Paige, Nestor Paiva, Luciana Paluzzi, Julie Parrish, Fess Parker, Suzy Parker, Bert Parks, Harvey Parry, Hank Patterson, Joan Patrick, Nehemiah Persoff, Walter Pidgeon, Zasu Pitts, Edward Platt, Juliet Prowse, Eddie Quillan, Louis Quinn, Basil Rathbone, Aldo Ray, Martha Raye, Gene Raymond, Peggy Rea, Philip Reed, Carl Reiner, Stafford Repp, Paul Rhone, Paul Richards, Don Rickles, Will Rogers Jr., Ruth Roman, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Gena Rowlands, Charlie Ruggles, Janice Rule, Soupy Sales, Hugh Sanders, Tura Satana, Telly Savalas, John Saxon, Lizabeth Scott, Lisa Seagram, Pilar Seurat, William Shatner, Karen Sharpe, James Shigeta, Nina Shipman, Susan Silo, Johnny Silver, Nancy Sinatra, The Smothers Brothers, Joanie Sommers, Joan Staley, Jan Sterling, Elaine Stewart, Jill St. John, Dean Stockwell, Gale Storm, Susan Strasberg, Inger Stratton, Amzie Strickland, Gil Stuart, Grady Sutton, Kay Sutton, Gloria Swanson, Russ Tamblyn. Don Taylor, Dub Taylor, Vaughn Taylor, Irene Tedrow, Terry-Thomas, Ginny Tiu, Dan Tobin, Forrest Tucker, Tom Tully, Jim Turley, Lurene Tuttle, Ann Tyrrell, Miyoshi Umeki, Mamie van Doren, Deborah Walley, Sandra Warner, David Wayne, Ray Weaver, Lennie Weinrib, Dawn Wells, Delores Wells, Rebecca Welles, Jack Weston, David White, James Whitmore, Michael Wilding, Annazette Williams, Dave Willock, Chill Wills, Marie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Sandra Wirth, Ed Wynn, Keenan Wynn, Dana Wynter, Celeste Yarnall, Francine York.

21st Annual Visual Effects Society Awards — Film Winners

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature Avatar: The Way of Water – Richard Baneham, Walter Garcia, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, JD Schwalm — WINNER Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – Christian Mänz, Olly Young, Benjamin Loch, Stephane Naze, Alistair Williams Jurassic World: Dominion – David Vickery, Ann Podlozny, Jance Rubinchik, Dan Snape, Paul Corbould The Batman – Dan Lemmon, Bryan Searing, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands, Dominic Tuohy Top Gun: Maverick – Ryan Tudhope, Paul Molles, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson, Scott Fisher

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature Death on the Nile – George Murphy, Claudia Dehmel, Mathieu Raynault, Jonathan Bowen, David Watkins I Wanna Dance With Somebody – Paul Norris, Tim Field, Don Libby, Andrew Simmonds The Fabelmans – Pablo Helman, Jennifer Mizener, Cernogorods Aleksei, Jeff Kalmus, Mark Hawker The Gray Man – Swen Gilberg, Viet Luu, Bryan Grill, Cliff Welsh, Michael Meinardus The Pale Blue Eye – Jake Braver, Catherine Farrell, Tim Van Horn, Scott Pritchard, Jeremy Hays Thirteen Lives – Jason Billington, Thomas Horton, Denis Baudin, Michael Harrison, Brian Cox — WINNER

Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Aaron Weintraub, Jeffrey Schaper, Cameron Carson, Emma Gorbey, Mad God, Chris Morley, Phil Tippett, Ken Rogerson, Tom Gibbons — WINNER Strange World – Steve Goldberg, Laurie Au, Mark Hammel, Mehrdad Isvandi The Bad Guys– Pierre Perifel, Damon Ross, Matt Baer, JP Sans The Sea Beast – Joshua Beveridge, Christian Hejnal, Stirling Duguid, Spencer Lueders Turning Red – Domee Shi, Lindsey Collins, Danielle Feinberg, Dave Hale

Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature  Avatar: The Way of Water: Kiri – Anneka Fris, Rebecca Louise Leybourne, Guillaume Francois, Jung-Rock Hwang — WINNER Beast: Lion – Alvise Avati, Bora Şahin, Chris McGaw, Krzysztof Boyoko Disney’s Pinocchio: Honest John – Christophe Paradis, Valentina Rosselli, Armita Khanlarpour, Kyoungmin Kim Slumberland: Pig – Fernando Lopes Herrera, Victor Dinis, Martine Chartrand, Lucie Martinetto

Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: Geppetto – Charles Greenfield, Peter Saunders, Shami Lang-Rinderspacher, Noel Estevez-Baker Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: Pinocchio – Oliver Beale, Richard Pickersgill, Brian Leif Hansen, Kim Slate — WINNER Strange World: Splat – Leticia Gillett, Cameron Black, Dan Lipson, Louis Jones Turning Red: Panda Mei – Christopher Bolwyn, Ethan Dean, Bill Sheffler, Kureha Yokoo

Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature Avatar: The Way of Water: Metkayina Village – Ryan Arcus, Lisa Hardisty, Paul Harris TaeHyoung David Kim Avatar: The Way of Water: The Reef – Jessica Cowley, Joe W. Churchill, Justin Stockton, Alex Nowotny — WINNER Jurassic World Dominion: Biosyn Valley – Steve Ellis, Steve Hardy, Thomas Dohlen, John Seru Slumberland: The Wondrous Cuban Hotel Dream – Daniël Dimitri Veder, Marc Austin, Pavan Rajesh Uppu, Casey Gorton

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: In the Stomach of a Sea Monster – Warren Lawtey, Anjum Sakharkar, Javier Gonzalez Alonso, Quinn Carvalho — WINNER Lightyear: T’Kani Prime Forest – Lenora Acidera, Amy Allen, Alyssa Minko, Jose L. Ramos Serrano Strange World: The Windy Jungle – Ki Jong Hong, Ryan Smith, Jesse Erickson, Benjamin Fiske The Sea Beast: The Hunting Ship – Yohan Bang, Enoch Ihde, Denil George Chundangal, John Wallace Wendell & Wild: The Scream Fair – Tom Proost, Nicholas Blake, Colin Babcock, Matthew Paul Albertus Cross

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a CG Project ABBA: Voyage – Pär M. Ekberg, John Galloway, Paolo Acri, Jose Burgos Avatar: The Way of Water – Richard Baneham, Dan Cox, Eric Reynolds, A.J Briones — WINNER Prehistoric Planet – Daniel Fotheringham, Krzysztof Szczepanski, Wei-Chuan Hsu, Claire Hill The Batman: Rain Soaked Car Chase – Dennis Yoo, Michael J. Hall, Jason Desjarlais, Ben Bigiel

Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project Avatar: The Way of Water: The Sea Dragon – Sam Sharplin, Stephan Skorepa, Ian Baker, Guillaume Francois — WINNER The Sea Beast – Maxx Okazaki, Susan Kornfeld, Edward Lee, Doug Smith Top Gun: Maverick: F-14 Tomcat – Christian Peck, Klaudio Ladavac, Aram Jung, Peter Dominik Wendell & Wild: Dream Faire – Peter Dahmen, Paul Harrod, Nicholas Blake

Outstanding Effects Simulation in a Photoreal Feature Avatar: The Way of Water: Fire and Destruction – Miguel Perez Senent, Xavier Martin Ramirez, David Kirchner, Ole Geir Eidsheim Avatar: The Way of Water: Water Simulations – Johnathan M. Nixon, David Moraton, Nicolas Illingworth, David Caeiro Cebrian — WINNER Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: City Street Flooding – Matthew Hanger, Alexis Hall, Hang Yang, Mikel Zuloaga Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – Jesse Parker Holmes, Grayden Solman, Toyokazu Hirai, Rob Richardson

Outstanding Effects Simulation in an Animated Feature Lightyear – Alexis Angelidis, Chris Chapman, Jung-Hyun Kim, Keith Klohn Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – Derek Cheung, Michael Losure, Kiem Ching Ong, Jinguang Huang — WINNER Strange World – Deborah Carlson, Scott Townsend, Stuart Griese, Yasser Hamed The Sea Beast – Spencer Lueders, Dmitriy Kolesnik, Brian D. Casper, Joe Eckroat

Outstanding Compositing & Lighting in Feature Avatar: The Way of Water: Landing Rockets Forest Destruction – Miguel Santana Da Silva, Hongfei Geng, Jonathan Moulin, Maria Corcho Avatar: The Way of Water: Water Integration – Sam Cole, Francois Sugny, Florian Schroeder, Jean Matthews — WINNER The Batman: Rainy Freeway Chase – Beck Veitch, Stephen Tong, Eva Snyder, Rachel E. Herbert Top Gun: Maverick – Saul Davide Galbiati, Jean-Frederic Veilleux, Felix B. Lafontaine, Cynthia Rodriguez del Castillo

Outstanding Special (Practical) Effects in a Photoreal Project Avatar: The Way of Water: Current Machine and Wave Pool – JD Schwalm, Richie Schwalm, Nick Rand, Robert Spurlock — WINNER Black Adam: Robotic Flight – JD Schwalm, Nick Rand, Andrew Hyde, Andy Robot, Mad God, Phil Tippett, Chris Morley, Webster Colcord, Johnny McLeod The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power “Adrift” Middle Earth Storm – Dean Clarke, Oliver Gee, Eliot Naimie, Mark Robson

Emerging Technology Award Avatar: The Way of Water: Depth Comp – Dejan Momcilovic, Tobias B. Schmidt, Benny Edlund, Joshua Hardgrave Avatar: The Way of Water: Facial System – Byungkuk Choi, Stephen Cullingford, Stuart Adcock, Marco Revelant Avatar: The Way of Water: Water Toolset – Alexey Dmitrievich Stomakhin, Steve Lesser, Sven Joel Wretborn, Douglas McHale — WINNER Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: 3D Printed Metal Armature – Richard Pickersgill, Glen Southern, Peter Saunders, Brian Leif Hansen Turning Red: Profile Mover and CurveNets – Kurt Fleischer, Fernando de Goes, Bill Sheffler

Donald Trump saddled Republicans with a clearly flawed Herschel Walker as their Senate nominee in Georgia, but in the final weeks before the runoff election, the ex-president has not spent a single dime to help Walker — despite the nearly $100 million of donor money he is sitting on.

Some 100 groups have poured $69 million into the Dec. 6 runoff between Walker and Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, according to a HuffPost analysis of Federal Election Commission filings through Thursday.

Ten have spent at least seven figures, led by the pro-Warnock Georgia Honor super PAC with $19.4 million and Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund with $15.3 million.

But groups controlled by the coup-attempting former president, who cajoled Walker to get into the race in the first place, essentially clearing the field for the former football star, have not reported spending anything at all — that despite Trump likely having $94 million on hand between his Save America “leadership” PAC and his Make America Great Again Inc. super PAC.

“He’s not going to spend it. He doesn’t care,” said Martha Zoller, a former adviser to Georgia’s popular GOP Gov. Brian Kemp. “People are really resentful of how Trump has handled all of this.”

Trump staff did not respond to HuffPost’s queries.

Trump also has not staged a rally for Walker since prior to the Georgia primary in May — leading to a stark contrast between him and former Democratic President Barack Obama, who appeared with Warnock prior to the general election and again Thursday evening, five days before the runoff.

Trump has vilified Obama through the years, beginning with the racist lie that he was ineligible to run for president because he was not born in the United States, and later falsely accusing him of “spying” on him and his presidential campaign.

Informal advisers to Trump, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he likely saw polling suggesting that a visit to Georgia would hurt Walker more than help him because so many Democrats and independent voters despise Trump so intensely. Additionally, a Walker loss would then be blamed on Trump, which would further hurt Trump’s recently announced attempt to return to the presidency in 2024.

Trump, though, has not even reported spending on get-out-the-vote efforts, which would not risk bringing negative publicity to Walker.

“I’m thankful he’s not coming. We don’t need him here,” Zoller said of Trump.

Trump injected himself into the 2022 midterm elections by pushing candidates based on their willingness to spread his lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Those candidates typically won their Republican primaries, but many, particularly those running statewide, lost to Democrats in November. Among them: Senate candidates Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, Blake Masters in Arizona, Adam Laxalt in Nevada, and Don Bolduc in New Hampshire; and governor’s race nominees Kari Lake in Arizona, Tim Michels in Wisconsin, Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania and Dan Cox in Maryland.

Erick Erickson, a conservative talk radio host based in Georgia, said he’s sensing that Republicans are tired of losing and tired of Trump. “I think more and more of the GOP is starting to move away from Trump after the midterms,” he said. “They ultimately want to win. Trump and his candidates aren’t the winners they claimed to be. So it’s time to move on.”

The midterm losses come just two years after Trump effectively sabotaged both Georgia U.S. Senate seats for Republicans by claiming that the elections in that state were “rigged.” That depressed GOP turnout in the Jan. 5, 2021, runoffs, allowing both Democrats to win and handing control of the Senate to New York Sen. Chuck Schumer.

In that election, Warnock won the right to serve out the final two years of Republican Johnny Isakson’s term, after Isakson resigned in 2019, by defeating Kelly Loeffler, who had been appointed by Kemp to serve until the 2020 election.

Tuesday’s runoff will determine who will fill that seat for the next six years.

Trump is under investigation by the Department of Justice for his role in Jan. 6, including the scheme to submit to the National Archives fraudulent slates of electors from states that voted for Democrat Joe Biden as a way to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to award Trump a second term. A separate probe is investigating Trump’s removal of highly classified documents from the White House and subsequent refusal to hand them over, even in defiance of a subpoena.

In addition to the federal criminal investigations, a Georgia prosecutor is looking at Trump and his allies’ attempts to coerce state officials into falsely declaring him the winner in that state.

Trump, despite losing the election by 7 million votes nationally and 306-232 in the Electoral College, became the first president in more than two centuries of elections to refuse to hand over power peacefully. His incitement of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol ― his last-ditch attempt to remain in office ― led to the deaths of five people, including one police officer, the injury of 140 officers and four police suicides.

At rallies and in statements on his personal social media platform, Trump has continued to lie about the election and the Jan. 6 House Select Committee’s work, calling it a “hoax” similar to previous investigations into his 2016 campaign’s acceptance of Russian assistance and his attempted extortion of Ukraine into helping his 2020 campaign.

The Three Caballeros Ride Again, Mermaid Daisy Duck and The Golden Helmet (classic versions, redraw of these covers and paintings and Donald Duck comics by Carl Barks and Don Rosa)

A long title, but what's there is. Well, after a long time, to publish something, albeit belatedly, related to anniversaries.

The first drawing represents a redraw of a comic cover by Don Rosa and one of his best comics, 2000’s “The Three Caballeros Ride Again”. He drew in his own style, although not very perfect, where the famous three caballeros (Donald Duck, Jose Carioca and Panchito Pistoles) travel around North, Central and South America in their adventures. Here you can see how they cross the Arizona desert and Mexico (cacti can be seen there). Yes, Donald is in a hurry to drive his car under number 313. I definitely recommend this comic to everyone who hasn't read it yet.

Certainly the three of them love adventure.

Another drawing presents Daisy Duck as a mermaid. I know Mermay is over, but I don't care, so I'll post it for Merjune (two words mermaid and the month of June), or Toon June. I took the classic version of Daisy Duck, but I threw the bow out of her. Certainly she is waiting for her beloved to come on the rocks around the sea shore.

The third drawing is a redraw from Carl Barks' ingenious drawing "The Golden Helmet" based on the comic book of the same name, which came out on May 20, 1952, so this year is the 70th anniversary of the comic. Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck are searching with a valuable artifact that can help rule all of North America. I've done this before: https://ducktoonsfanart.tumblr.com/post/672580051030753280/king-donald-duck-king-with-his-nephews-i-will

Certainly, in addition to Donald and his nephews, the museum's curator and two of Donald's villains (no, they are not Beagle Boys) are in search, and they are Azure Blue (reference to Olaf the Blue, actually to the famous Eric the Red and his son Leif Erickson), and Sharky. It's not exactly how it turned out, but I drew in my own style, mostly connecting classic versions from cartoons and connecting it with the style from comics.

Yes, and this was done on the occasion of Daisy’s birthday which is June 7th and on the occasion of Donald’s birthday which is June 9th. I wish them a happy birthday, albeit early!

Yes, just to note that the universes in the Carl Barks and Don Rosa comics are not the same, but different, although Don Rosa referred to Carl Barks, he made differences in his comics, especially in characterization.

Of course, I hope you like these drawings and these ideas and there will be more.