Rest assured, we will get to the bottom of this issue. There may be supernatural activity, but there is absolutely no reason to believe that it is in any way interesting or noteworthy. A mass email will be sent should the situation alter. Until then...
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20 Feb. 2023
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"Haunted Doll (Glitch & Swirl)" by RFY
[Photograph of an unwilling subject, moshed and manipulated!] She cries. She screams. She talks backwards, and he eyes roll up into her head... It's all very sweet. ---Richard F. Yates (with Felicity Echo Hanson as model)
https://nftshowroom.com/gallery/richardfyates_back-to-primitivity_haunted-doll-glitch-swirl-by-rfy
Sold!
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[Posted to typed.art]:
"DAY 65
Started the day doing some watercolor and oil pastel works with the baby. She quickly got bored, (only completed three pieces,) but I was much more efficient and finished FOUR! (I win!!!) I also finished a new HIVE post today (utilizing the Peakd front end,) and then shared it on several other sites: Ello, Tumblr, and WordPress. This may seem like CHEATING, but I think of it as similar to syndication. Some folks don't look at Ello but they might have eyes on Tumblr. Some people might enjoy all four platforms, but with the thousands of posts that go out per second, who can guarantee that a potential viewer will be looking at the screen just as I post my piece but before the slush pile of OTHER posts by OTHER peeps buries mine 20,000 fathoms deep? So, I compile my materials for a few days from various posts, conglomerate them into a single piece and then smear them throughout the interwebs. It's worked so far! (Worked for what, I don't know...)
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All me...
https://objkt.com/profile/richardfyates/created
@richardfyates
https://ello.co/richardfyates
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/popculturerecoveryproject
https://freaksandspooks.wordpress.com
https://primitiveentertainment.wordpress.com
https://nftshowroom.com/richardfyates/gallery
https://makersplace.com/richardyates/gallery/created
For even MORE me, go here:
https://primitiveentertainment.wordpress.com/connections-and-links/
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Watching a Discovery Channal show (with a wonderful "attacked by a pillow" scene), but it seems to be falling for the "if it ain't Christianity, it's probably Satanic" trope... What a ridiculous oversimplification... Still, I love this blatantly horseshit stuff! It amuses me to no end!!! Automatic writing, "spirit art," this show has it ALL!!!
Time to read? Almost... Almost... Meanwhile, have a good evening!!!
Later!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)"
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21 Feb. 2023
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DAY 66
Declaring this a "sick day." Don't read too closely or you might get virused...
uioi eio ee ay ia ssssss wom boom voom
You have been scanned. We are sorry. It was, however, inevitable...
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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22 Feb. 2023
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"My Name is Mud" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ultra fine-point Sharpie and sticker collage on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments, drawing, and color.] Mixed media collage is fun. My hope is that the context is significantly reordered by the juxtaposition of various found images such that a viewer is forced to reconcile the possible cohesive meaning or intention of the product as a whole. Would be nice... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/146
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[Posted to my Tweeterz account]:
"My TEZOS birthday is coming up! April 23, 2021, I released this bird / lizard / cave monster thing on the unsuspecting populace (on HEN, of course.)
Token ID #45810"
https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/45810
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"Spaam Bunny with Serpent Guides" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] Lord Spaam Bunny contemplates his next move. Will any of us see it coming??? (Doubtful!) (I'm bad at trends, but that's okay. I'm also bad at drawing, so it's a win-win, right?) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/147
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"A Bunch of Thrills" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] Autobiographical pieces amuse me. They are momentary gestures, like ephemera, Dude, and I really enjoy making them. People can look at them and go, "Ah! I see!" ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/148
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"Sketch Man" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing created in a free app on my ancient Kindle back in 2013. Ten years old.] Is this a self-portrait? No. This is an attempt at creating a realistic portrait of a demonic puppet, but somehow (unfortunately), it comes across as sympathetic. Why? Why do I always have sympathy for bad guy? (Maybe it is a self-portrait...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/149
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"Can You Feel It" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen on orange construction paper with digital embellishments and color.] Here's a silly question... Does this piece count as concrete poetry? Do people still know about concrete poetry? Did I ruin it by including the triangles? (I don't mean aesthetically, cuz I like the color touches. I mean in regards to literary form.) Here's another really important question: DO I CARE? No. (That one is answerable.) I just made something, and in the moment I decided to have the skull say what it was saying with written words instead of a mouth. There might be some deep, psychological reason for WHY I made that choice, but the real reason is that I did it cuz I FELT LIKE IT, at the time. These pieces are moments captured in artifact form / gestures / that follow their own logic. ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/150
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"Drip Confetti String" by Felicity Echo Hanson & Richard F. Yates
[Felt pen, brush pen, and paint pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] This is a recent collaboration between my three-year-old granddaughter, Felicity, and me. I helped a little with this piece, but it's mostly her show! ---Felicity Echo Hanson (Toddler Terror) & Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/151
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[Posted to Typed.art]:
"DAY 67
Finished eating my dinner, put away the few leftovers, helped load the dishwashing unit, started it (the unit), and slunk back to my room. Still feeling chest-yucky today, but not as lethargic as yesterday. Lethargy's a bitch... (That latter statement is completely meaningless, in a syntactical sense, although it may have a bit of colloquial currency.) Now (7:17 P.M.), I'm sitting in the bed typing on a laptop to the quiet hum of the washingmachine churning away just outside my bedroom door.
These might not be interesting details to you, but for a person working thru a free-writing exercise, the important thing is for words to hit the page (or "screen" in this case.) The meaning OVERALL (ultimate meaning) is that I am writing. This is a FORCED WRITING PROJECT, afterall... I've done these sporadically over the years, but they usually don't last more than a few weeks. This one is different. It FEELS different... (Perhaps I'm an exhibitionist, and the other forced writing projects didn't have the "PUBLICATION" element that this one does. Who knows. I'm writing. Writing is good... Even if all I'm doing is blowing away the cobwebs...)
I have this image of "RICHARD THE WRITER" as a dusty, badly damaged, but one-time top-notch automaton that I bring out of the BRAIN ATTIC when I need to create meaning (or nonsense) with words... When I first turn the machine on, it coughs and shoots dust out of the exhaust port, and trieds to turn the gears and wheels and other fancy automaton gizmoids - kind of like an old Ford car. It will probably start, eventually, but it's going to let you know that it ain't happy about it!!! In order for the WRITER to get back to FULL STEAM, all the cobwebs and dust particles and dead bug bodies have to be ground up, lubricated, and smashed back into the system.
You know, "BLOW AWAY THE COBWEBS..."
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Did I tell you folks that Mariah and I already have some "doing stuff" plans for the times-coming-up??? We have a GHOST CONVENTION in March (in Seaside, Oregon); and we have a Duran Duran concert in April (in Portland, Oregon); and we've decided to catch a play (in Ashland, Oregon) in July or August. I think we're going to visit our favorite local theme park, Enchanted Forest, (just south of Salem, Oregon...guess we do a lot of stuff in Oregon, even though we live in Washington!) sometime this spring. No solid date on that one, yet, though. If I'm still doing this writing project while these events are in session, I'll have to do my entries via phone, but I usually take a bunch of pictures and write a post about each "THING," when Mariah and I get up and go, so there's that to look forward to, as well.
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Is that enough for tonight? Probably. I'll do ya some more tomorrow!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)"
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[Posted to Typed.art]:
"DAY 68
Writing (23 Feb. 23)
10:29 A.M. - How can my ass already be tired? I just STARTED!
I feel the need to explain myself, and therefore.... I won't. Federal prison is not a vacation home. Donuts on the lawn. (How many things could that mean???) Dead Milkmen...
So much has happened since our last episode. My notebook has LINES now. It's so...restrictive. I either have to conform to the pre-set values, OR I have to make a special concerted effort to override the lines (pretend they aren't there - BUT THEY ARE THERE!!!) It's seriously affecting me. Not infecting. That's different.
Enjoying the beat-pulse. I like just sitting and listening to music. It's calming, even if the music isn't particularly calming. (My blood pressure isn't terrible right now, but my blood SUGAR is out of control. Why is my blood always trying to kill me???) (Okay... Maybe it's not the BLOOD as much as it is the milkshakes and soda pop and seven dollar coffees and candy and chocolate muffins and.... Perhaps I've made my point.) When you get old, you have to work on your diet. I used to eat little else but cereal, donuts, and chocolate milk. (Had no future consequences!) (Worth it. I love donuts. I used to love chocolate milk, until I decided that I could no longer support Nestle as a company. They lost MILLIONS in revenue when I stopped buying Quik.) Now, as in at the moment, I have a jug of WATER by my bedside instead of anything yummy.
Did I mention that I'm sitting in bed with a pair of old Skull Candy headphones over my ears, an ancient laptop on my lap, a heating pad on my back, and the blinds slanted so I can see the sunshine trying really hard to melt the little bit of snow that fell last night, despite the fact that the temp is still 32 degrees f (which is 0 degrees c.) ;alksdf j;aklsdjf ;aslkdfj ;as;dlkj
The noise. The news. The noose. Slipped and fell... Fell up. Fell up the stairs and landed at the top. The tippity top. Slipped. Noise. THE noise. The noise of falling...
The distinctions are not clear. The effort is supercilious (at best). (Recursion time...)
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I went astral projecting to this place: https://astral.ninja/ I don't know what it means. I like to explore. Could it be my new thing? (Must there always be a new thing???)
I said something here: https://astral.ninja/npub1yr752235fq6zhfdv57f7ua4gfmznrtaq9re0qmqu4shjgwsskmjsfes239
I don't know what it means... It might not mean anything, and that's great! We need more meaningless stuff in the future (in the present, too.) (LIVE IN THE NOW!)
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Should I eat lunch? If I don't each lunch, now (12:03 P.M.), I probably won't eat until after 5:P.M. (If you saw my stomach, you might think I could miss a meal or two... Maybe you'd be right.) I have some chips (orange and triangular and pseudo-cheesy) that I could NIBBLE... Seems weird to eat chips without soda, but soda is OUT! (Doctor said so.) Shit. Dang. How come all of my favorite things are so deadly? Why can't brussel sprouts be poisonous and milkshakes be like the fountain of youth??? WHY? What kind of sick creator makes the world like THIS instead of THAT?? Is this proof that, if there is a GAWD, who could have made the universe any way they wanted to, that he/she/it/they chose to make MILKSHAKES evil and brussel sprouts good? Does that make any sense???
I don't want to hear about it. I'm just listening to tunes and writing, now that I've finished exploring a weird new space that I don't understand. (I can't even figure out how I'm supposed to move the screen up and down. Ha! Old people on computers....)
This is enough writing for today... (for now...)
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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Writing Playlist (23 Feb. 23)
---Red Planet - "Blackout"
---Wet Leg - "Chaise Longue"
---Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - "Cornflake"
---The Move - "Do Ya"
---The Movement - "Jump! (Mutha Mix)"
---Neneh Cherry - "Buffalo Stance (Nearly Neuebeat)"
---Sister Bliss - "The Future is Now (Future Pulse)"
---The Prodigy - "Omen (Extended)"
---Alice Cooper - "You're a Movie
---Jack Stafford Foundation - "The Hard Way"
---The Diceman - "Supervisor Error"
---Flipper - "In Life My Friends"
---Bauhaus - "Departure"
---How I Became the Bomb - "Temporary Secretary"
---Lionrock - "Push Button Cocktail"
---Division of Laura Lee - "Trapped In"
---Butthole Surfers - "Hey"
---Fugazi - "Margin Walker"
---L.A.L. - "Puget Sound Sanitation"
---"The Pretty Things - "Walking Through My Dreams"
---Krome & Time - "The Slammer"
---Slam - "Positive Education"
---Resentments - "Ok Ok I'm a Starfucker"
---They Might Be Giants - "Your Racist Friend"
---Chrome - "Meet You in the Subway"
---X-Ray Spex - "Let's Submerge"
---The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - "She Said"
---The Dead Milkmen - "Bitchin' Camaro"
---Play Dead - "This Side of Heaven (Extended Version)"
---The Gruesome Twosome - "Hallucination Generation (Syametic Nightmare)"
---Swamp Terrorists - "Dive-Right Jab ('Til You Drop KMFDM Remix)"
---Underground Sound of Lisbon - "So Get Up (Kingsize Mix)"
---SNFU - "Wild World"
---Snuff - "Iyehf Taidu Leikh"
---Bazuka - "Dynomite"
---Sukpatch - "Fleet"
---Long Hind Legs - "Open Wide"
---Paul McCartney - "Mr. H. Atom / You Know I'll Get You Baby"
---45 Grave - "Evil"
---Orange Goblin - "Scorpionica"
---Black Sabbath Riot - "Suck Blood"
---Grateful Dead - "Hell in a Bucket"
---Heavy Water Factory - "Delusions (Left Turn on Albuquerque Mix)"
---Flesh for Lulu - "Decline and Fall"
---The Raincoats - "Don't Be Mean"
---The Breeders - "Safari"
---Krust - "Coded Language""
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"Psychic Vampires Attack" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] Don't give in! Stand up for your MIND! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/152
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"Spirit Bird" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Rainbow pencil on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] You can tell by the eyes that this is not a normal bird. It's also over six feet tall, and it SAID it wasn't a normal bird, but the EYES... That's the real tell! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/153
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"Not Textile (But Textile)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Crayon and colored pencil on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] It's like ABSTRACT man... Color experiment with some digital elements. Totally... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/154
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Thanks for visiting! May your days and nights be filled with frights!!! LATER SkATERS!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)