A Saturniidae moth’s caterpillar [1038x1741]
Gotta love my home town!!
On 22 February 1946, Jimmy Hollis and his girlfriend, Mary Jeanne, were attacked in Texarkana, by a “phantom-like” figure while out on a date in their car. They were beat with an object and Jeanne was sexually assaulted with a gun. They managed to escape. The following month, Polly Ann Moore and Richard Griffin were found murdered. They had both been shot while sitting in their car and Moore had been raped. On 13 April, 15-year-old Betty Jo Booker and 16-year-old Paul Martin were shot dead. Booker had been sexually assaulted and had been found 2 miles away from Martin, and his car was found 3 miles from Booker’s body and 1.55 miles from his body, indicating the teens had attempted to escape the killer but were unsuccessful. There were at least three hundred suspects brought in for questioning throughout the killings. On 3 May, the killer struck again, killing Virgil Starks and seriously injuring his wife, Katie, in their home. He was shot dead while reading the newspaper and his wife was shot in the face but managed to escape and alert a neighbour.
This “phantom-like” killer became known as the “Phantom Killer” and the case remains unsolved today.
I've been banished to what is prerry much a deserted island at my job. I'm working at a branch all by myself. I see people for about fifteen mintues out of my ten hour day and I have to fill most of my time playing my 3ds...... I'd call myself pretty successful.
Really want someone to do drugs with me tomorrow , but everyone is lame and hates me. (More for me then)
“I’m just passin’ through.” “Through the territory?”
~Paul Kirchner, 1976
Tomb of René de Châlons
artist on Tumblr, DeviantArt
As Canadian animator Jean-Francois Painchaud aka SuperPhazed posted his thrumming-rainbow-sex animations on social media, they would (unsurprisingly) survive for a bit then get taken down. Then, Facebook banned several illustrations at once and the move gained him thousands of followers via his tumblr. In an interview with VICE Colombia he said, “Whenever they take down my art or censor me, I make a big deal out of it, hoping that we might be able to change this culture of incessant censoring over time.”
Also unsurprisingly, he lists psychedelics as an influence, saying, “I feel that both psychedelics and sex can help you transcend your ego and tap into a purer state of being – of living in the moment.” Taking mushrooms affected his art but also helped him work through depression and anxiety.
Source: juxtapoz and catracalivre