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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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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
unclegabbadoo.bsky.social
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
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From the Old Burying Ground in Watertown last April, when I was testing to see if the Minolta I'd repaired actually worked. (And indeed, it came back to life in the graveyard.)

📷 Minolta X-370
🎞️ T-Max 400
#photography #believeinfilm #filmphotography #blackandwhitephotography #wingedskull #graveyard
Black and white photo of a colonial era tombstone. Under a winger skull at top, the inscription reads, "Here Lyes ye Body of Elizabeth Beeres Wife to Jabez Beeres who dec'd February ye 18th 1717, in ye 65th Year of Her Age."
October 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Nightmare #142 Flowers Teeth or Ghost

Watercolor and gouache, 4" x 6", 2019

#expressionistart
Blue-gray monochrome watercolor painting: A ghostly cat-like creature with a startled expression and sawtooth fangs, rears its head against a gray washy background.
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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"M is for Monnnster"

4"x6", gouache and water color on synthetic paper.

#abstractart #innnterestingmonnnster
Abstract water color painting: against an amber-gray background, brushy, stamped marks loosely form the shape of a capital "M". Eye shapes at each of the upper points of the "M" are connected by a "V" shaped line that suggests a beak. The legs of the M are charging forward.
October 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Shadows slant across the lower half of an old brick apartment building at a similar angle as a small gabled roof over a doorway. The rest of the building is in bright afternoon sun, with a clear blue sky behind. Close shot of tree branches against a pale gray painted concrete wall. Bright sun shines through yellow foliage.
October 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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At center in the middle ground, a round brick structure with a paneled, pointed roof and stone work around its tall windows, stands on a grassy lawn, reddish sunlight hitting it from the right. In the foreground a black metal fence juts in from the right and leads up to the building. The same building is seen from a distance and from a different view, now flanked by two smaller similar structures. They are lit with reddish sunlight, seen across a field of tall grass in shadow, and pale sky behind.
October 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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October light
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Light at sunset glowing through the remaining bright red foliage at the top of a tall tree. In front of it in the middle ground, a much fuller tree is silhouetted in dark green, the sky behind in warm pastel hues. The same shot, from farther away, the sunlit tree flanked on either side by bare tall trees that also have shorter dark green trees in front of them.
October 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM