Woke up this morning to the news that my favourite actor, art school hero - and the silver screens greatest Dracula - Udo Kier has died. Which is a wee bit rubbish for a Monday morning. Looks like a tribute viewing of Andy Warhol's Blood For Dracula tonight, reckon the kids'll love it. Udo Kier 14 October 1944 - 23 November 2025 And as a wee bonus (for those who like that sort of thing) here's the missing page from The Three Mothers comic I illustrated a few years back featuring a copyright skirting appearance by the man himself. Normal Autistic ranting will return as soon as.
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Delia Derbyshire: Audiological.
As well as being Doctor Who Day , the 23rd November is usually #deliaderbyshireday too (they moved it to Saturday this year in a kinda timey wimey way, figures) but let's celebrate all weekend instead with my tribute to the high priestess of British electronic music? Plus I'm dead sure she was one of our mob! Nuff said.
Ready, Steady, Draw!
Something to (hopefully) raise a smile this cold winter weekend. As some of you may - or may not - know young master Cassidy has always been slightly obsessed with Mark Mothersbaugh's Magic Pictures segment from that work of teevee genius that is Yo Gabba Gabba. To be honest I always assumed his love of Mark would be from an obsession with DEVO like me but hey ho, he'll get there eventually. And for those of you who've never experience the sheer and utter joy of Mark's drawings here a wee taste: Cass will spend hours drawing whilst explaining the pictures - just like Mark - and has also been known on occasion to paint on a wee beard and don an interesting hat to add to the effect, videoing his work and editing it together on his (overworked) laptop. This week tho' things change when he stumbled across Grok AI which much to his delight enabled him to animated his work much like Mark does each episode. Suffice to say no computer in the house is safe now from his a...
International Mens Day: Let's Hear It From The Dads!
Seeing as it's International Mens Day I thought I'd reshare the top Autism dad chat (featuring a fair few Actually Autistic peeps) we did for Scottish Autism a few years back.... Enjoy.
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Looking back...
On a brighter note, can't believe that's been a year since the opening of the Autism Through An Autistic Lens exhibition I was involved with. Time does indeed fly.
Aaaaarrrgggghhhh.
You know when you have one of those weeks/months where everything seems like shite but then, finally stuff starts coming together only for you to get hit by even more unexpected shite that even tho' it kinda gets sorted your Autistic brain goes "Yeah, I cannae do this anymore" and starts to slowly shut down leaving you feeling drunk, loose limbed and eyes that don't work properly whilst internally you don't know whether to laugh, scream, sleep or cry? Hello Saturday. Normal service will be resumed when I can actually properly reboot my entire brain. Probably.