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[mastersoftheair]

[kylaym]

Rosie’s Riveters 🩵🩵🩵

[everestseal]

the spacers arrive!

this was an experiment in... a lot of things related to character design, i guess. i’m pleased with the variety of the species i’ve created, in any case!

[myhauntedsalem]

Truth or Legend: Faceless Specter Haunts Pennsylvania Highway

Legend has it a faceless specter roams State Route 351 in western Pennsylvania. Is there any truth to this disturbing tale or is it nothing more than a scary story?

The Legend

The tale of the faceless figure goes something like this. Long ago, a man was disfigured in a horrible accident. Some say lightning melted his face, some say it was a fire, still others claim it was acid or an explosion. Whatever the cause, the accident obliterated the man’s face and caused his skin to glow a ghastly green.

Now, the hideous figure roams Route 351 late at night. Locals call him the Green Man, or Charlie No-Face, and they say he chases broken-down motorists or those who dare park on the side of the road.

The Truth

Unlike many ghostly legends, the tale of Charlie No-Face is rooted in fact. In 1919, eight-year-old Ray Robinson was horrifically injured after he accidentally touched a power line carrying 22,000 volts of electricity. The voltage destroyed Ray’s eyes, nose, and right arm, leaving him blind and crippled, but miraculously alive.

Ray spent the rest of his life in seclusion, living with relatives and selling handmade items. He rarely ventured outside during the day, but at night, he took regular walks along Route 351 near Koppel, Pennsylvania. His appearance attracted a lot of attention, and locals often stopped to talk to Ray or take his photo in exchange for beer or cigarettes.

It’s these nocturnal walks that spawned the Charlie No-Face legend that was most prevalent in the 1950s and ’60s. Ray died in a nursing home in 1985. However, the eerie legend lives on. Even today, parents scare their children with tales of Charlie No-Face, and teens cruise Route 351 hoping for a look at the tragic figure.

[bacallbazaar]

People Will Say They're in Love (Hollywood, California) - Looking very happy indeed, Lauren Bacall, widow of Humphrey Bogart, and actor-singer Frank Sinatra are shown leaving the Hollywood Pantages Theatre after viewing the TV fight between Carmen Basilio and Ray Robinson. The two have been seen in each other's company frequently, giving rise to rumors that they contemplate marriage. Neither will make any comment (September 23, 1957).

[twixnmix]

Sugar Ray Robinson and family (1951)

(Original Caption) 1951: Welterweight boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson and his wife, Edna Mae, say hello to their son, one-year-old Ray Robinson Jr., as they arrive aboard the French liner Liberte. Sugar Ray is returning after a smashing tour of Paris, Brussels, Geneva and Frankfurt where he successfully defended his title in five bouts, four of which were won by knockouts.

[morbidology]

Ray Robinson was in Washington in 1963 for Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech. In 1964, he attended the funeral of three civil rights workers killed in Mississippi. And in 1968, Robinson was among the protestors who set up in resurrection city. Ray Robinson certainly had roots in the civil rights movement.

In April of 1973, Robinson travelled to Wounded Knee to stand alongside native Americans in their fight against injustice. While there, he called his wife back home and told her: “This could be the spark that lights the prairie fire.” Robinson never made it back home to Bogue Chitto, Alabama. He was declared legally dead but his body was never uncovered and very little is known about what happened to him while at Wounded Knee.

In 2014, the FBI said that Robinson was killed at Wounded Knee and that the American Indian movement were responsible. The documents released fall short of pinpointing where Robinson was as buried and do little to fulfil his family’s wishes to have his remains brought back home.

[thewolfofarcadia]

The Mating Habits of Stags (September 2019)

An early version of the story was released in 2016 as the short film Edith, starring Peter Mullan and Michelle Fairley, which was Bafta-longlisted for Best British Short Film.

Former farmhand Jake, now a widower in his seventies, goes on the run in the Yorkshire Dales after committing a crime. As he travels the countryside trying to avoid capture, we learn of the events of his past: the wife he loved and lost, their child that he knows cannot be his, and the deep-seated need for revenge that manifests itself in a moment of violence.

The Mating Habits of Stags reveals afresh the lyrical prose and mastery of character that distinguish Robinson’s fiction.

Source: Award-winning novelist Ray Robinson signs up with Lightning Books

Pre-Order: The Mating Habits of Stags