All Hail Thorndike Pickledish !!

The End of an Era

2010-06-01T09:22:00.000-07:00

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we, the children of Robert O. Smith--original Bench Bozo, "Masked Avocado", Dr. Zingrr, Walter Wart the Freaky Frog, lifting legend and so much more--announce his untimely passing at the age of 67 from pancreatic and liver cancer. Unlike Ronnie James Dio, he was NOT--to the best of our knowledge--eaten by a dragon, but surely there was some strange "disturbance in the force" or cosmic kryptonite that finally brought down our very own superhero of a father.

His wishes were simple--no public memorial, no digital gold-plated turbo-casket with fine cordovan leather interior and motion-activated whirling Mercedes-Benz hood ornament. He requested cremation and a celebration of life among his closest friends.

If you would honor him, keep on doing what you do--bench with the best of your ability and passion, striving ever toward bigger and better lifts, or create art and sound, inspired by his memory. We will keep that memory alive and continue to update Bench Bozo and All Hail Thorndike Pickledish, sharing images and his original drawings from a lifetime dedicated to lifting and creativity. Our thanks to all who knew, loved, and shared that dedication with him. We will love and miss him always.

-Justine Wintersmith and Zach Monroe

Black Hole--err ..black SQUARE --theater !!

2010-05-05T16:23:00.000-07:00

Since BLOGGER can't seem to fix the screen area (used to contain a preview pic)

I've renamed my movies 'Black Hole theater' (yes-it's a square actually) so that it wont feel so weird clicking on an empty box--but click on the 47 second adventure below--it's as fresh as yesterday's headlines !!

Absolutely !!!

2010-04-18T21:12:00.000-07:00

The Latest "Thorndike" is a 52 second movie about the use of "Absolutely" in our daily conversations--as before, the CLIP is HERE-(altho Blogger provides no thumbnail )-just click on the arrow..in the black box below .
(have sound on)

Worry too much about how much you worry?

2010-04-02T17:57:00.000-07:00

This is the gal who stars in the movie below...yes...the movie and sound is there (blogger glitch shows no 'thumbnail') click the arrow--it's 1 min 15 sec long...or short, actually !

The first time I died.

2010-03-25T13:45:00.000-07:00

Altho the above frame is black (empty) the 60 second movie IS there--please click the arrow with sound on--to see and hear the latest Thorndike !

Let me answer that question !!

2010-02-09T18:45:00.000-08:00

....you would still be their fan....that's what !

Other 'thorndike' work AT THIS SITE CLICK IT

Pink your Pickle REDUX

2009-12-17T14:24:00.000-08:00

19 seconds-- Based on a true story !

Even tho there is a BLACK space where the video is supposed to be--the video IS there hit the play arrow for the re-do of pink your pickle----ahh that's better...

Feb 25 2010 7:01 am PST

A Grunty Guy Xmas

2009-12-13T13:26:00.000-08:00

It has been 67 years since my last confession...

Duplicate !!

2009-12-09T22:07:00.000-08:00

Over on Bench Bozo I talk about my Bench pressing workouts and usually keep "All Hail" for my experimental animations - but today I wanted to duplicate a post...here is "Deadlift Bozo"

Short and sweet about a judging question...if you did MORE than a lift called for ...would you still be called 'no lift' due to not following the rules of the lift??

Why I wanted to share it? --I really like the character I made in Amorphium..and the simplicity of it all !!

(in case you still don't get it--the Deadlift is a smooth movement to the top of the thighs only--the snatch is an olympic lift that goes over the head )

Surreal Estates

2009-11-25T13:42:00.000-08:00

Dreaming is nicer than being awake... at Surreal Estates !

You'll say "What The Hell???" Like NEVER Before !

2009-11-14T19:49:00.000-08:00

Get yer motor runnin !!

2009-11-09T19:06:00.000-08:00

A short rumination on going nowhere fast !

Edit: Go Ahead, YOU combine cars-fried chicken in Biodiesel...and frustrating motoring in under a minute and show whimsy !

Done??

Halloween Dream

2009-10-22T09:00:00.000-07:00

What was scary was, when the warning came true...
and I was behind the wheel of a machine...

Dreamt in a Truckee California Hotel during my small market
radio days..I had worked at a "Ka-HI" this was when I worked at KHOE..
I actually found that there was a K-HUM too...wouldn't that have been rich
to have worked at KAY---HI--HO and HUM...

Words...I love em !

All it needs is an ending !

2009-10-10T15:24:00.000-07:00

What I thought was attention deficit disorder, was thankfully... only merging in and out of other layers of reality--alternate dimensions-- and bending the cosmic wallpaper...

whew ! I'm relieved ...I thought it was something serious !

2012

2009-10-05T13:00:00.000-07:00

Tired of Holiday decorations and New Years ads popping up before Halloweens over?
I thought I'd go beyond that predictable mark and shoot this subject prematurely your way !

Cartooned in ZBrush and Moho-voiced in Cool edit pro-Animated in Antechinus Animator.

Last chance for a summer 'song' ?

2009-09-26T10:00:00.000-07:00

I hesitate to put this little movie up-
- there are so many other problems in the world to care about -
- one of my main peeves seems so miniscule...

The BEST EVER Help Line !!!

2009-09-17T16:25:00.000-07:00

38 seconds with the World's BEST Help line....can you deny it?

In Masochistic Low Fidelity !!

2009-09-14T19:12:00.000-07:00

Scream of consciousness !
My early animation experiments, woven into a scary few moments.

YOUR Wish COMES TRUE !

2009-08-31T18:56:00.000-07:00

After careful consideration here at Pickledish house, we advise against believing anything the 'first' guy says...it appears he has a pine cone for hair....and that cannot lead to clear thinking...especially as it seems to rotate..cutting into any gray matter he may have.

Thank You

For the love of hair ...

2009-08-08T10:22:00.000-07:00

HEATWAVE in Vancouver !!!

2009-08-01T15:19:00.000-07:00

America's Got... TROUSERS !

2009-07-28T17:42:00.000-07:00

I "BS"...but, seriously !

2009-07-22T17:30:00.000-07:00

You have 24 seconds with the doctor... make it count...

fool...STOP !!!

2009-07-19T16:07:00.000-07:00

A 90 second ad-lib about an embarrassing moment yesterday...the pictures are just to give you sumpin to look at, while you hear the story...expect no sync or a myriad of pics...just a few sketches I did in Moho...and a photo or 2 of my ride...

Enjoy???

Spazzo !!

2009-07-13T18:25:00.000-07:00

Spazzo Nite Club --

12476453-269 "A" road-
corner of Nottathru street and Pathetic Hiway south..
..just off Lupus Hiway.
next to Starbucks !
NO ! not THAT Starbucks...the one across from it.
Surrey BC
18 and I.Q please.

WHA ???

2009-06-28T10:32:00.000-07:00

TV SUX

Say it out loud--
"Gorilla'd Cheese Sandwich"
50's puppet Sensation Howdy Diddley !

Howdy's Aunt Aretha Doody

2 for the show...

2009-06-18T17:04:00.000-07:00

---Face Trick---

I got a laptop--reconditioned one...see, I only know the landscape of my OLD desktop with Windows 98--so I figure if my 10 year old mainstay computer ever dies --I'd better have sumpin in line that will record voice..allow me to draw and animate---so the 26 sec movie above--is me drawing in Amorphium and Moho on the Laptop...and recording the voice on the cheesy mic that is built in...it proves that I can work with the new program--but I can tell I have to upgrade the mic... the movie woulda been better at a higher frame rate...but this is what turned out to fit for time.
so, funny? .
..uhh...maybe...
a test O' the Thorndike Pickledish communication lab...
yes !

The other day I had to change my answering machine...it's diaper was full of telemarketing droppings....couldn't think of much--but here is the one that answers my phone today....

Thorndike's $1.39 studio

Suxazitduz PM

2009-05-24T13:12:00.000-07:00

Watch my latest ad for Suxazitduz PM

So you don't forget, order before midnite tonight !

voiced by me on cool edit pro-drawn and animated using MOHO*

*Moho is now called Anime Studio

All in ONE Handy Place !

2009-05-05T09:06:00.000-07:00

The other day I found an interesting site--that has an attached contest, simulcast on You Tube...Needing a place to put most of my short films at once, I plopped in 6 films over at BIT FILM-- CLICK HERE
My Favorite aspect is being able to make up stupid names as credits on the film...this, to me is more fun than the films themselves...
for special effects in one, I wrote 'Hal Lou Cynation'---ha ha Hallucination ...
in music for one, I wrote "Hertz Meinhead" --hurts mine head...hee hee..

go on over, see what I mean, n' thanks

All talk and no Cars !

2009-04-18T15:39:00.000-07:00

It is once again time to steal from myself...I invented the names of these GM cars long ago...but now they are more appropriate--it is your doody to support them !

Also on cars...I've always loved the older Jaguar models...and the fine marque has changed owners in the last many years...finally to be taken over by Tata motors of India...I remember when people would say ..."Hey man...nice Jag !!!"

If I had my old Mark 10 right hand drive, back again, and my 1976 XJ12L in my driveway....would I hear ..."Hey man ....Nice Tata's"

I hope not.....

back to the pec deck for more flyes

My Favorite Picture

2009-04-17T11:26:00.001-07:00

I was on the beach a few weeks ago --and saw this --just had to shoot it--click on it to see a larger image....I wonder why there is a fireplug on the beach?
Is it in case the sand catches on fire?
this is an Anaglyph I tried to make from 2 separate angles--I do get the "Gull Friend" out in front with Vancouver in the Background.

I was going to do one O' my animated movies for ya...but I didn't like the end result..so this time it was just snaps with my 30 cent camera.

You say KOMODO I say KIMONO

2009-03-28T17:16:00.000-07:00

Komodo Dragon

Two Komodo Dragons were accused of killing a man recently...it was not drug or gang related...the Dragons were waiting for the fellow to fall off the tree he was picking fruit on...it might have been justified..

who knows if it wasn't their fruit..
their tree??

And with a name like Komodo..don't you think the defense lawyer will be quick to point out the Dragons being bullied in school with things like....

"Hey Dragons--go back to your Commode"

Meanwhile...a Kimono Dragon might be an iffy partner in a dollar a dance club...it might be hard to slip away without being ...dare I say...."frenched"
Kimono Dragon

Me such BAD man !

2009-03-22T17:56:00.000-07:00

This is a rant about the GYM today....Psychiatric help anyone ??

When I started this BLOG it was going to be just an occasional humorous bit of artwork or animation...and my "Bench Bozo" was going to be JUST my Bench Press training--and never the twain shall meet....well, today some merging has taken place and gym stuff (irrational mumbling) has become today's Thorndike Pickledish talking bloggeroo---relapse and enjoy... 2 minutes of me ruminating over the rant that IS the masked gym whistler....

Anatomy of a Brain Amateurism !

2009-03-10T14:14:00.000-07:00

I did this in the free Program "Project Dogwaffle" used the mouse to draw it.

Then I took the ONE panel and stretched it in the old "MOHO" program --MOHO is now improved and called "Anime Underwear" or some name with the word "Anime" in it....
I made 58 frames--repeated them-to 232 at 8 frames a second--I ad libbed a voice track to it and here is 29 seconds of silly thinking out loud..

It's a fun way to blog --when you don't type out your thoughts for the day..but instead do a 'talking letter' to expose the workings of your 35 cent computer and it's inner drawing board....

I like this one today--but tomorrow --or maybe later tonite --I'll probably be embarrassed and want to send it to the messy art grave yard.

Lost Isle - FOUND?

2009-03-02T18:54:00.000-08:00

click to see all the touch ups---I mean Larger size image..

'Typos' a Greek isle, written about in depth, by Hunton Pecker, in his novel,
"Smith VS Corona...the yellow beer chronicles"

Brain Amateurism #2

2009-02-15T16:58:00.000-08:00

Your password is ---Weather Balloons--when the 48 second animation ends...you say....Weather Balloons !!
Ready?

Today's Brain 'Amateurism' !!

2009-02-09T16:05:00.000-08:00

Spose' since this Rhymes--it could be me as Rapper "Try-T Why-T"
(trite-ee whitey) I gets better as it goes--and it is just today's 50 second wig bubble !

drawn in Dogwaffle.
And the 'soft' previously know as Moho
--and ZBrush
with edits in "Painter"
voice in cool edit pro
(now called Adobe Audition)

And Then I drew....

2009-02-08T08:38:00.000-08:00

Herr Nicholaus 'Ned' Nasenbar --down on hard luck
because of low funding at the Zoo...
Sat on street corners saying 'Putt- putt -putt'
over and over hoping to be hired as an adult toy !! !

Here Is "YODEL" spelled Yodel..and pronounced YO-DELL...
who is from the forthcoming "Star Wars the Cow Pie Menace"
..Yodel is found in an Oklahoma Trailer Park....
when Luke asks how to use a pitchfork..
Yodel says I reckon ya ..'Thrust the Fork loose !!!'
( Trust the force Luke ...get it??) ------

Ms. Muir was definitely a different person on or about every 18th of the month

Thorndike... CLEAN the Damn Water !!
do You hear me..
CLEAN THE DAMN WATER

drawn using ZBrush--Dogwaffle and/or Amorphium- pics 1-3-and 4 are animated--if not moving wait for it

What Me Tube???

2009-02-02T12:20:00.000-08:00

My pal Zaitsoff sent me some You Tube addresses...and they turned out to be my ancient 45's that a comedy fan had put up--

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=p0gLnZ8fXVE&feature=email

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=-72kGVH6Im4&feature=email

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=-qJFtp2xTK4&feature=email

He went to the trouble of putting up some interesting frog animation/slide show videos while the bits played....at first I wasn't ready to have Lonely Bullfrog or 'Wart' now my love --on the TUBE--but when I found SF Bound --Paranoia and The imperial Grandmother up--I was pretty happy...even Happier when I saw the other artists he put on his site---follow the URL's to ToyBoyTwo's channel--
lotsa Python and Sid Caesar --and some comic gems....hah...if only someone had the guts to put up Viet Nama Mama---wait --no, that one scares everyone away...it's like I was imitating Yoko before she ever put a record out...hah---

anyway--thanks--and All Hail 'ToyBoyTwo' !

Yes -Yes --but so very NO !!

2009-01-24T09:17:00.000-08:00

29.5 seconds that explains EVERYTHING??!!!???.....

.....Naw .......

Sketch Book 30 years back.

2009-01-19T16:25:00.000-08:00

click on each pictures to see a larger version

When Thorndike PickleRobert was all nite DJ on Seattle's KVI (before it went News Talk Culture Shock) between tunes he would scribble --and as the cartoon appeared to look like something, anything, the picture would 'draw itself'--
later a caption was added
and there was his own do it yourself mental examination....

drawn in late 70's early 80's copyrighted in 2000 for web use

Brain Feathers !

2009-01-12T16:41:00.000-08:00

Brainpan Boogie

New version Tues 13th

Do you speak in chunks of mutton and mint flavored word sausage?
Sometimes even "Golden Glob" winners do too...
Well, this took all day....... to craft 37.2 seconds of Uptrite' pooetry !

What I do like, is the camera pan I did with the old MOHO program (it is now Anime' sandwich or some such) and the goofers I drew in ZBrush and the fiendish looking kid who menaces at the end...the model of the woman I like too..cuz it's not much in the way of a TP "Hideousity"--AND....Over Dog "bit" spokesdog.

I do like the idea 'Brain feathers being preened n' fluffed into a dream pillow'....I may use that idea properly one day...but never the less..here is what took me a whole damn day...and now...I finally kinda like it !

I found that to make fun of people who sing in their cartoons..you have to try to sing...I wont DO that again (Cybil Shepard syndrome I call it )--I also will never use my 'Nancy Grace' voice again....
...talk about creepin myself out !

The "SH" factor !

2009-01-03T12:56:00.000-08:00

Help me solve the Mystery of the new Vocal aberration the "SH" factor !

Movie proudly modeled in ZBrush
and animated in the wonder of Repeato flap...the cheatiest style !
the choice of lazy animators !

There will be Beans !

2009-01-02T14:48:00.000-08:00

Ready--aim--FIRE....

Tuesday I decided to make a huge pot of chili--so when I shopped for all the stuff I remembered to get chili powder

(the kind with all the 'chili aspect' in it---cumin-garlic-chili-basil or whatever ALL the ingredients of 'chili' are)

So, at Meinhardts I pick up the envelope of 'chili' powder --
come home...
braise the meat...
cook the onions...
green peppers --
tomatoes...
tomato sauce...
tomato paste (to glue any broken tomatos back together)

black beans--
kidney beans...
and the chili flavoring sauce....
stir...
taste...

........no chili flavor??.....

But HOT oh my god--the chili PREP powder was all CAYENNE

--yes Meinhardts
was literal
(no one else I know is)
instead of calling it cayenne powder
they labeled it chili...most people take that to mean quick n' dirty combo fixins..

Well...2 pounds o' meat is ruined...

all told 5 pounds of edible item should be flushed.....

one bite of this and you'd be in the emergency award...

yes...this was MACE in the non spray version, with beans...

What to do??? go buy real chili fixin powder 2 more cans of each bean--2 more pounds of meat??

damn, no, the idea is use what I've got......remember-the problem is icy sidewalks and getting to any store that has that stuff is a big factor.

well I have curry cubes (Glico) mild...so I'll morph this into CURRY !

I have banana's -

-overly sweet Goldilocks brand shortbread...shaved back to powder...

....milk....

but no yogurt --

no nuthin to kill the fire-

no coconut--no chutney--

--alright all of the above get chopped and sifted in--

oooh the bananas really help...

milk..too...

so now it has a wonderful flavor--really --not kidding

...cept this is the reaction I would get...

"mmm Thonrndike--this is soo flavourful and sweet --and rich--oooh it is heavenly...

wait....

20 seconds in--

it's a bit hot isn't it??--

ohh it's so good but it's so hot...
oh my god...my head is pounding ...

my gut !"

wheee oooo wheee ooo....(sound of ambulance)

So, I put it away...thinking after a few days in the fridge I'll go buy food to dilute it...like a stew maybe...

so today I bought more meat--more onions -celery-plum tomatoes--potatoes-carrots...and I precooked those things in 3 batches and dumped them into the pot after they were cooked.....stirred it up...simmered it...

and it is just the right hotness...and still flavorful...red wine splashed in helped...so did cranberry sauce (small amount) so the once upon a time chili--will be Curry Stew !

and oh yeah---I used my coffee grinder to powder up some cumin seeds...that will be nice next time I grind some dark roast

and ..DAMN !

this stuff is good...
unfortunately it looks a bit like......

POOT!

chef Thorndike Singh Ouchmypoorhiney

Year End Wrap Up !!

2008-12-30T07:35:00.000-08:00

44 Seconds to Wrap Up the Year???---Aww damn. did we sell 59 minutes of Commercials again???

Hand sculpted with a mouse (not a tablet) using Amorphium 2
and one section in ZBrush (bridge part) Voiced on a 1992 copy of Cool Edit Pro
other softs to put it together on a caveman computer...Ulead Gif animator--Antechinus Animator and a Boilsoft avi-mpeg converter....budget....
33 cents....less than a penny a second and worth every...portion of a dollar of it.

Hickeys Everywhere !

2008-12-29T06:48:00.000-08:00

That name...that slightly..kinda funny last name..."HICKEY" ...there is that famous character actor...William Hickey...
There is Cheryl Hickey the host for one of the entertainment TV shows..
There is the TV character NAME, Earl Hickey, on "My Name is Earl"

But the most famous Hickey of all....ERSEL...no not Edsel....ERSEL HICKEY !!
he was a fine rock (Rockabilly and Pop) singer of the 50's and beyond...what a nice man he was...
and he wrote the great ballad recorded by so many..."Bluebirds over the mountain"
well actually he penned many songs for many artists...Jackie Wilson did one of his songs --and the Serendipity Singers first big hit was written by Ersel
--Don't let de rain come down my roofs got a hole in it and I might drown !---

Anyway, when I was struggling to use Flash to animate...I came up with an idea to try to animate his flip side to Bluebirds..."Hangin Around" it took me 93 hours to do this.. CLICK THIS FOR THE TUNE
might be a long load time 'sorry'

When Ersel's friends saw it online...they foned him and said there is this silly animation on you--on the web....whatta ya know--Ersel emailed me --we talked on the phone at length...he approved highly of my crazyass work and even had someone link a Higher- Fi version of my Flash toon...which I found once happily by accident on the web...

Before he passed on he was nice enough to send me 2 cd's --a vinyl disk--2 autographed pictures and a tee shirt from one of his BIG gigs... and some shots from his own camera of that performance...I still have the autographed picture on my living room wall !

Thanks to Ruthita for emailing me a thread of DOO WOP-ISHNESS that reminded me of this long lost song and my scribbled tribute to it..
most of the animations I did at CROODLOOPS have been taken down by me or my webmaster...sure glad we still have Ersel to listen to !

Let me tell ya why this is NOT redundant !

2008-12-18T09:00:00.000-08:00

In 2006 I put together a DVD disc of Comedy called:

And at the very beginning of the ALL HAIL T.P. Blog in 2007 --I ran the "Trailer"--to save space it was linked to the file sharing site "Zippy Videos" --well, it seems Zippy is NOW long gone...so once again, I'd like to regale you with the true Bafoonaphonic presence of the the original promo..linked RIGHT HERE..never to vanish.

And as before, this earth shattering offer exists..

So, now my FABULOUS Business plan (What Genius this is) you determine that you are weird enough to stand the entire Thorndike experience...then send the man who claims to be me... robotalk@shaw.ca ...an email with YOUR correct MAILING address, like Joe Blough 2323 Nottathru Street, Sillytown USA --and I will mail you the Homemade masterpiece that is
"A terrorist Donut in your Fruit of the loom"---then when you watch it and like it....YOU send ME $15.00 (12 for the dvd 3 for postage) Sorry we dont have the PAL format--

IF you don't like it--I'm out 15.00 bux, cuz no way will you pay for sumpin you dont like

Of course if you give it to someone who DOES like it ..

have HIM send me $12 bucks (9 for a USED dvd and 3 for postage)

remember, if this sucker ever 'takes off' you'll have the original version...worth bunches on Ebay--Don't Laff the Walter Wart 45 is 60 times more valuable on Ebay than it ever was in the stores in the 60's

I'm 66 or 6+6= 12 my new AGE and lucky number!

2008-11-29T09:22:00.000-08:00

These are ANIMATED--if they are 'stills' on your screen--wait a bit --OR--refresh--glug glug glug !

When approaching lovely women, I felt like this...only to find out later...I didn't look...this good.
At 15 I went by the name "Bob"---Bob was always at war with Bob...not much has changed after all these years.
Outer Space twins witness Asteroid bagel !
In High School, Triclops didn't have any dates --so at nite...he would give himself a "Hickey" to make the kids think he had a secret girlfriend.

In my secret identity as 'Phartophosis' alien super creature, may I wish you a bombastic 2009 !!

this work was done by me in ZBrush and Or Amorphium 3--no tablet, I drew with a mouse.....
ouch --damn thing--bit me !

Drum Roll Maestro please !!

2008-11-05T13:18:00.000-08:00

Obama is the NEW President and yet, spell check doesn't recognize his name...yep, we spelled it right, when we notified our friends who don't watch TV

What joy !!

People stayed up all night, dancing in the streets!

In California, the hopeful were joined, sharing the same earring

Now, the question is...can OBAMA find OSAMA and end all the drama...

Bookworms in my smoke detector !?

2008-10-26T16:50:00.000-07:00

Pack ME off to the mental ward !!

Last night I was watching TV...
and my smoke alarm went off !!
-I HADN'T BEEN COOKING for 6 hours---

ghosts???

HELL NO---I knew what it was---

I had heard tell that a woman here in the building had hers go off--
due to silverfish in the ceiling--wiggling thru the sensors of the apparatus....

Sure enough--because of my see thru salad bowl that covers mine --glued in place with toothpaste--don't laugh, it works !

(ingenuity to stop it from going off when I cook anything or fart--even)

I saw a baby 'fish' running in circles along the dish....so I tapped it and tried to stun it--it worked

until 12:47 am

when it happened again--

and again-- in 3 minutes---

When the little shit trips the sensor, it BEEPS only til the vermin runs.. or falls away....

so, I slept with my bedroom door closed---

the little bug has crapped many times in the dish--
little fly flecks...
needless to say--

I'm telling my apt. manager that the ALARM has to be removed--and will have the handy man "Wing" hole it up this week sometime --

Hopefully the little resident will die...
BUT others will follow so there I am !! --

And I wont risk the alarm waking me up on a:

gig --

meet --

or workout day...

WORSE !!

I screamed at the bird lady A reasonable number of birds--unlike the incredible sea of feathered freaks that gathered today

---I was going to move the car... when across the street.... THE BIRD LADY had 100.. birds of all nations following her as she blatantly, fed them and pretended she wasn't -- cars driving along nearly had accidents as these flying rats 'Alfred Hitchcocked' them --

I waited for her and screamed my head off at her...uttered profanities (but cleverly NOT threats) she said,

"I'll get you for this"

then as she kneeled talking to her 800 year old dog --I bent down and screamed in her ear--

'stop it YOU IDIOT'

when she stood up-she was next to me..but on the way she elbowed me and said

YOU TOUCHED ME !!..

I countered

"no, you purposely elbowed me to pretend like I touched you"

--she said,

'one more time and I'll call the cops'...

Needless to say, I stifled the vile smut infested sentiments, I had dancing in my brain pan...

NOW --

spraying the interior of her car with pepper spray--

tipping it over in the night--

stealing her rock (she has a small boulder next to her apartment door)---

and 20 other pranks I've thought of doing to her--

can't happen...

cuz she knows I'm an enemy....

drat ! some days it pays to stay quiet...

blowing my cover in Vancouver--

Pickledike Thornhenge
a tourniquet at Lawn

background data---

EEeUUhh !! Silverfish??= BAD -CHEAP apartment??
--no--it's 1200 a month...and in a better part of town...

...the bugs--sublet ....

Bird Lady IS a menace ...she brings at least 100 to 200 birds a day en masse to one of the busiest streets in Metro Vancouver...she thinks feeding them is a 'kind' thing to do..meanwhile cars traveling 12th ave..nearly collide with these little beggars in flight...she is 2 minutes from a park that she doesn't use...I'm am only ONE of many who are on the " Ban Jenny Birdseed" front.

A ZinGRR Tidbit !

2008-08-29T18:10:00.000-07:00

Doctor ZinGRR's character the Masked Doily (Mexican Wrestler spoof)
It's too easy to blow my cover and let my other identity's out....so rather than staying in my Thorndike Pickledish skin all the time, I leave crumbs along the trail to my Bench Bozo headquarters, and even have hinted at my incarnation as Monster Movie host Doctor ZinGRR in the 70's--but recently a friend found an exhaustive file on this Northwest TV icon of the past...with patience you can find the history at the end of this link;
A link to Dr ZinGRR click then scroll to near the bottom
Way down to Z ya know !
This was a very fun time in my life...I liked doing this show more than my radio work, my stand up comedy, novelty records, anything...one untold story....

I still have suitcases of fan letters from this show that are 'gold' to me...among them a letter from a mental institution near Tacoma Washington that told me...that when my show came on...the inmates in the TV room would howl and shriek with laughter as soon as my 'characters' came on...and they caused an uproar like no other TV event in the history of this State hospital...The psychiatric technician who wrote the letter appeared to be on the level when he said I was the FULL MOON to these people...the commotion was such that some docs' wanted the show banned in the rec room--but he said he insisted it would be his responsibility to keep it tame...thinking of this letter makes me feel like it has all been worthwhile...I had found my true audience but yet never knew it til the show was about to leave the air...here's to those patients...my children of the night ...what music they make !

Starship Incontinence

2008-07-07T11:16:00.000-07:00

The crew of the Starship Incontinence... 'going' where no man...has.. Oops.. ..

Due to condo board restrictions Ivan was forced to
smuggle his "Pet Tongue" in as a Hairdo

The Return Of Sinister Lunchmeat !

2008-06-15T15:16:00.000-07:00

I created the Name Thorndike Pickledish when a teenager--and recently I found 2 photos of my first paintings at 14 or 15 years old...yep ...my parents let me paint nekked ladies, as long as they were from my imagination, this one was obviously a figment of my imagination--and very handy for reaching for jars on the top shelf...
Why the nostalgic look back at Thorndike?? well recently I've noted that some young kids in California and beyond are adopting (stealing?) the name for their "My Space" pages...I even found some kid in Japan who was calling himself 'TP' for awhile...hell? am I mad? will I sue...nah...it's kinda like a pinch o' flattery...so just as long as people know where all the 'TP' stuff came from....and speaking of that...I've dug out my old 45 that Doctor Demento used to play on syndy radio called Sinister Lunchmeat...altho he preferred to call it "Stony Baloney" --and now I'll put it up for you to listen to...but note...Blogger doesn't seem to have a sound only upload place..so I had to make a 'slide show' of my art --er---toonz to keep you company..so as you listen you do not have to watch the screen--that is just there to keep you company and is NOT attempting to synch up...these are just some of my recent scribbles with mouse and a few programs I'm fond of...and if there are kids in the room (or you are at work) the visuals are about PG or so rated...

This is dated material--1976 was the year I made it...and I guess the Political references are self explanatory, Nixon, Hubert Humphrey

But one that might need explanation..."Apple in the garden of Ray" was NOT about Dixie Lee Ray. Govenor of Washington State at the time, but about Elizabeth Ray, who was the central figure in a much publicized sex scandal in 1976 that ended the career of U.S. Rep. Wayne Hays (D-Ohio).

That's bout all ya need, to now, relapse and enjoy in Bafoonaphonic Mono--my 'pasty resistance' of 70's vinyl !

'Ray for Rachael !!

2008-06-01T14:14:00.000-07:00

The other day I was pondering the fact that my DVD "Terrorist Donut" wasn't selling like...donuts...and I thought, "Hey let me 'Google' it"...to see if anyone is finding the original plug--
ORIGINAL BLURB AND TRAILER
And sure enough, there it was, the URL and a few notes on it's content...but the only OTHER thing listed was Rachael Ray's commercial for Dunkin donuts where they likened Ms. Ray’s scarf to the type typically worn by Muslim extremists. complaints said that the ads “casually promote the symbol of terrorism" and the intifada, the keffiyeh, via Rachael--well, hogwash, it was just all a misunderstanding --but Dunkin canceled that ad campaign rather than stir up any iced coffee..er..trouble...

So now, I can say I titled my dopey little video over this timely event!! and watch snails go thru the roof...er..sales...go...

oh well, at least NOW I have a good excuse for that goofy title ! However, I'm not taking any of my DVDs on my trip to Phoenix Friday...My luck, I'd be questioned just for having that WORD present in my luggage--ahh the joy of flight

"Mr Rescue Me"

2008-05-27T16:42:00.000-07:00

Warning --this is 'normal' in content -
and there is, forgive me... "cuteness"

-56 secs with SOUND--

Mandork The Magician !

2008-04-22T09:25:00.000-07:00

(no sound)

Mandork the Magician
He can steal your cookies with His Mind !!

Mrs. Mandork the Magician --who has been driven MAD
..by having to say TUH DAAH !!
after all of Mandorks tricks !!
--and is now is his arch enemy The Earth is Round--Save my face
The "Hairess"

Carl Nearkins was so close --yet so far when he recorded
his big 45 "Pink Suede Shoes" --

The Maroon Moron's Tip of the day !

2008-02-11T19:25:00.000-08:00

23 seconds--sound on--

Please Play with your food !

2008-01-11T19:20:00.000-08:00

Here's a new Animation-crafted by my "inner monkey" in an afternoon with Amorphium+Cool Edit Pro
1 min 55 secs ! big file--19 MEGs

Maybe I AM still 13.....?....

December Brain poot !

2007-12-17T10:43:00.000-08:00

Head turning thoughts...after reading the News in the last few years--it is advisable to follow the "what's in a name?" guideline....if you are a woman and your name ends in "ACY or ACI" like Stacy, Tracy, Laci--etc. It might not be a good idea to marry anyone with the last name Peterson....and if you are expecting a boy child soon...consider not naming him "John Wayne" anything....
(look to Bobbit and Gacy) Try George Washington, something....and yes --the Penguin is mightier than the Swordfish--

Have a Merry Dike and a Happy New Pickle !!

The Planet Transvestron in the Lotus nebula
where large men chew gum like Judy Garland !

Two Blokes wait by the road for the bus to come and it never does
--because they thought it never would...

Creepy guy - you had her ...at "ferret"

2007-11-24T15:34:00.000-08:00

Miss?...May I have this dance??
Enh. Heh.. I've been SO lonely since my ferret died--
I break down sobbing when I smell traces of his
urine in the kitchen when I get up in the morning
--OHH--- how I long for a companion ..
do you have a boyfriend??--do you go online?--
I go online as Igor--The kids used to tease me and
Call me Igor..somehow most of them have left town
--or are buried under my lawn..you guess-huh hah
..What?... you say you dont want to dance anyways
--ANYWAYS?? there's no "S"in anyways
--it's ANYWAY you idiot...
Alas, Now who will come over to my house and comb
my back??--what's this world coming to when everyone owns
SUV's and wont dance with an Ax Murderer?? --oh no!
--I said that out loud didn't I?
-oh well the music is noisy -maybe no one heard
--Oh I like that Joe Jackson hit--
"Is she really going out with him?"
--wait --maybe the DJ is making fun of ME...I'll kill him !!!

Boop-a-lisa

2007-11-09T13:01:00.000-08:00

Boop-a-Lisa
by Leonardo Da Pickledinci
d'robo no so so con loco du hobo

The Wereowl thread !

2007-11-02T15:07:00.000-07:00

..Nonsense Bobby..You were not bitten by the 'Were-Owl'
on the field trip..there are no such things as
--whoo whoo whhoo AHHH WHOOOOO
..where was I ??.... Nonsense Bobby....

."Bobby If you're going to distract the class you'd
better go to the nurses office for some Wolfbane "

So, Ms.Talbot, if there's no such thing as Were-Owls
--why can we all- "WHOO" -scuse me'
..move our heads completely around in circles now??

I'm tellin you Laurentia Talbot--as I look into
the flickering Candle and these Tarot cards
--I know you gonna rot in Hell if you dont
cure those kids of the Were Owl curse!!! Come to the front of the class Children
Ms. Talbot is going to make this
'Were Owl' Nonsense Go away for good
...urrk--earwax..uurk

This was a thread I did originally at ZCentral July 24th 2002 or 3 --my friend EAC @ Burbank's Tomato likes the art..so here is a revival of it ...just in time to MISS Halloween...

images done In ZBrush when first learning-

Token Halloweiner

2007-10-30T09:51:00.000-07:00

FRANKULA !
Halloween WAS my favorite holiday for my entire life..but now I'm just 'faking it'
Here are some illustrations I did when the fire was still new !--

below, is "Hyde in the Mirror"

Rembrandt's Frankenstein

3D for ME too !

2007-10-27T11:04:00.000-07:00

EAC over at the Burbank's Tomato blog--did some very outstanding anaglyph's (3D with the red /blue glasses) when commenting on his --I was inspired to pull out one or 2 of mine....however his are superior....but mine wanted to come out and play so here goes!
Red lens left eye -blue lens right----

Today's silent ploppages !

2007-10-24T17:37:00.000-07:00

Playing 'Hi Ya' with yourself in the mirror !!!

Brothers Shrek and Shmecky Green..
Las Vegas comics get in shape
on the stairmaster

Draculina Hoped no one would notice her "trouble" with the
...spaghetti..yeah..that's it ...the Spaghetti !

These are some of my original works in ZBrush the first 3 are animated !
'Draculina' is a single frame...just in time for Halloween !

14.9 seconds of Whiz Dumb

2007-10-09T14:34:00.000-07:00

After a hard day of slaving over spoken words
(to make delicious commercials for you )...this is my only molecule of doodle wisdom!

My broken voice of Thorndike Pickledish was my imitation of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Rexroth in the Fantasy LP "Poetry in the Cellar" --when people first heard my voice...they said it was like a Muppet OR A Stan Freberg character...and altho I didn't set out to imitate those voices...I certainly can see where their 'ears' were coming from !

In today's bit--thanks to "Rootz" for the blue pipe cleaners idea !

Lost Charts and a new 21 sec movie

2007-10-02T15:45:00.000-07:00

My Friend ERIC sent me a long lost Radio chart from KDWB in 1966 with my long remembered song Walter Wart the freaky frog debuting at # 36 !
---man, I shared the charts with the best ever groups ! --and how can anyone be as old as I must be to be the real Thorndike Pickledish ??

THE BIG 6 PLUS 30WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1966
This Week Last Week
1. I'M A BELIEVER - THE MONKEES - COLGEM 1
2. SNOOPY VS. THE RED BARON - THE ROYAL GUARDSMEN - LAURIE 8
3. WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL - THE NEW VAUDEVILLE BAND - FONTANA 2
4. MELLOW YELLOW - DONOVAN - EPIC 4
5. SINGLE GIRL - SANDY POSEY - MGM 3
6. GOOD VIBRATIONS - KDW-BEACH BOYS - CAPITOL 6

7. Born Free - Roger Williams - Kapp 5
8. There's Got To Be A Word - The Innocence - Kama Sutra 12
9. Devil With The Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly - Mitch Ryder &
The Detroit Wheels - New Voice 7
10. East-West - Herman's Hermits - MGM 15
11. I Got The Feelin' - Neil Diamond - Bang 11
12. A Hazy Shade Of Winter - Simon & Garfunkel - Columbia 13
13. Sugar Town - Nancy Sinatra - Reprise 20
14. Mane - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - A & M 14
15. Good Thing - Paul Revere & The Raiders - Columbia 17
16. Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies - The Association - Valiant 22
17. Talk Talk - The Music Machine - Original Sound 18
18. Words Of Love - The Mamas & Papas - Dunhill 19
19. That's Life - Prank Sinatra - Reprise 26
20. Stop Stop Stop - The Hollies - Imperial 16
21. I Need Somebody - ? & The Mysterians - Cameo 21
22. Harlem Shuffle - The Fabulous Flippers - Cameo 10
23. Help Me Girl - The Outsiders - Capitol 27
24. Bar Do You Catch A Girl - Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - MGM 31
25. You Keep Me Hangin' On - The Supremes - Motown 24
26. Lady Godiva - Peter & Cordon - Capitol 9
27. Knight In Rusty Armour - Peter & Cordon - Capitol 35
28. Color My World - Petula Clark - Warner Brothers 32
29. Time After Time - Chris Montez - A & M 23
30. Please Don't Ever Leave Me - The Cyrkle - Columbia 25
31. Coning Home Soldier - Bobby Vinton - Epic Debut
32. (We Ain't Got)Nothin' Yet - Blues Magoos - Mercury 30
33. Georgy Girl - The Seekers - Capitol Debut
34. Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville - Parlo Debut
35. Where Will Words Come From - Gary Lewis & The Playboys - Liberty Debut
36. Ballad Of Walter Wart - Thorndike Pickledish Choir - MTA Debut

FAVORITE ALBUMS

1. The Monkees - The Monkees
2. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme - Simon & Garfunkel
3. Psychedelic Lollipop - Blues Magoos
4. The Spirit Of '67 - Paul Revere & The Raiders
5. Mamas & Papas - Mamas & Papas

Even Better today, my friend Ted sent me a KEED survey (Eugene Oregon)
with Walter at # 21 !!!--Thanks Ted !! Eugene is a COOL town !!

Then today--I made the 21 second movie in Amorphium3 (the modeling, animation)
it's top o' the headline stuff about Pigny Fears !
Enjoy (or not)

If there is nuttin...ya need a new fangled player...I think the "new" Flash

The art of table scraps !!

2007-09-20T16:55:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures that I've drawn...and a voice track to keep them company..I do it because other bloggers don't go away for so long, without at least a written note from the head nurse or warden...so here I am --just to show I care--in Mumblophonic sound and GruesomeScope

not for kids-
artwork done by me in ZBrush + Amorphium &
Ulead Cool 3D

I'll come back with more drivel-tastic content...as soon as I start having 'those
dreams' again !

Meanwhile, I'd like you to bask in the Brilliance of my Friend EAC in his new artistic blog called Burbank's Tomato http://burbankstomato.blogspot.com/
please have a team of artists, scientists, scholars and philosophers handy when reading and watching ! Seize you all soon !
Dickdike Picklethorn

CBC SUCCESS !

2007-08-13T15:36:00.000-07:00

Or was it SUCK-CESS ?? On the Canada wide show EXPOSURE on CBC TV Last night,my full video of The Blimp showed...the Host and Hostess "made faces" and said 'they didn't get it?'--well hell,nothing to get ...it's a minimal style animation I did on the lunacy of wrestler rhetoric ! it was nearly all ad libbed and meant to just be a note to let me remember a brain bubble I had..

so far it has over 8000 views and a rating that usually has it in the the top 10 or so,plus or minus...good news...they gave ME Money !! so twice CBC has bought stuff from me--and twice they have snatched it gratis !

Remember, scroll below, to find out to have your very OWN Terrorist Donut...DVD !

And thanks to Tim Thomas of KNRY in Monterey,ca. for the great Thorndike Pickledish/Walter Wart/KMBY reunion he did on his show,last week !

Mischief runs rampant !

2007-08-08T14:38:00.000-07:00

Recent Pickledish propaganda !!---

A clip of my dastardly video "WET" made the CBC TV air Canada wide Sunday night in a sampler set of varied animation...remember,it's the video you WONT have to look at, if you test drive my "Terrorist Donut" DVD (see post below )--anyway, it seems to have some viewers and votes and the EXPOSURE site is asking for critiques of various online submissions--so I did one,humorously defaming my own work,talking as StormpipeTinkledink--here is that put on !

Meanwhile there have been MAJOR SALES of the "Donut" DVD.....

actually,it's Majer Sales---A fan of the old ZinGRR show Richard Majer of Edmonds Washington recently ordered the disc...I'm not sure his wife Donna has allowed him to watch it yet...after all it takes Noodles Places they've never been before !

Pickledish ! you're incorrigible !!

From Walter Wart to Terrorist Donuts !

2007-07-28T13:36:00.000-07:00

I thought I'd finally get back to you...yes, it's been 41 years and I'm fine, how are you?
GOOD !!
Wanna buy a DVD? ...actually, test drive a DVD !?
You remember when I made novelty discs like Walter Wart the freaky Frog? back in 1966
WALTER WART BOTH SIDES CLICK
Now I do Bizarre animations that have much the same weird and wack flavor of my early work...now,don't expect smooth professional animation...expect chaotic and hopefully fun experimental art ( I put the "Mental" in Experimental)

here is a sample !

And in even a more commercial vein here is the "trailer"

So, now my FABULOUS Business plan (What Genius this is) you determine that you are weird enough to stand the entire Thorndike experience...then send the man who claims to be me... robotalk@shaw.ca ...an email with YOUR correct MAILING address, like Joe Blough 2323 Nottathru Street, Sillytown USA --and I will mail you the Homemade masterpiece that is
"A terrorist Donut in your Fruit of the loom"---then when you watch it and like it....YOU send ME $15.00 (12 for the dvd 3 for postage) Sorry we dont have the PAL format--IF you don't like it--I'm out 15.00 bux, cuz no way will you pay for sumpin you dont like...of course if you give it to someone who DOES like it ..have HIM send me $12 bucks (9 for a USED dvd and 3 for postage) remember, if this sucker ever 'takes off' you'll have the original version...worth bunches on Ebay

As a special bonus !!! If you send your address today (and your intent to pay IF ya like it)
I'll promise NOT to send THIS one to you !! --yes,don't delay and you'll never have to see this one !!

More cartoons and Thorndike updates....in a few days !

All Hail !! Thorndick Pickledike !

While you're at it...HAIL Dr ZinGRR Too ! click this