Gallery of the Absurd

An Entertaining Twist For Mel Gibson's Movie, The Beaver

Mel Gibson is starring in a movie called The Beaver. It's a film about a "guy who walks around with a puppet of a beaver on his hand and treats it as a living creature."  Mel Gibson plays Walter Black, a depressed man who finds a beaver puppet in the trash and believes it's real and is able to give him advice.  When I saw the disconcerting photos of Mel running around yelling with the beaver puppet on his arm scattered across the internet, I was instantly hooked. 

However, I wondered if the film would become a tad more interesting if it was the Beaver who found the Mel Gibson puppet in the trash and once sliding his arm inside the filthy and threadbare puppet, he could never get it off. To make it more improbable, perhaps the Beaver could be a recently unemployed, but highly educated and distinguished butler from London. Since there's no way to remove the Mel Gibson puppet from his arm, he has no choice but to be in service to it. The film follows the life of the tortured Beaver as he gracefully endures the tequila-guzzling exploits of the trash talking Mel Gibson puppet as it wreaks havoc across Malibu. 

I even took a stab at revising the script, but apparently Kyle Killen's screenplay is brilliant and my version will never see the light of day. Oh well, back to the ole drawing board. Medium: Graphite on paper, digital color. An explanation of the artistic process is posted here.

Mel Gibson: Boozing With Beelzebub

Cranky old Mel Gibson was set loose one night after a vodka-fueled night of debauchery in a popular Malibu watering hole. Weaving recklessly around the hairpin curves of the Pacific Coast Highway, cops quickly pulled him over. Reeking of alcohol and wild-eyed, Mel stumbled out of his car and launched into one of those typical "do you know who I @%*&# am?!!?" tantrums so often witnessed in the Los Angeles area. He slurred on and began insulting the cops with hateful racial and sexual epithets and soon found himself in jail. Mel has since offered a public apology and is meeting with various Jewish communities to aid in his "journey to recovery". His sordid story combined with our obsession with vintage sci-fi and horror pulp fiction novels inspires today's post. Medium: Graphite and ink on paper, digital color/layout. Pulp title by Holly Aguirre. UPDATE: This image of Mel appeared on the E! Channel's Daily 10 on Nov. 1. Thanks E! SOLD

Celebrity Valentines: Love Comes in Many Forms

Although Tara Reid seems to have recently cleaned up her act, she still comes to mind whenever someone mentions the term "party girl". Hundreds of photos documenting Tara's boozy party antics exist on the Internet, and what strikes me is how she always looks so happy as she clings her cocktail close to her heart. This Tara Reid Valentine embodies the giddiness and rapid heartbeat we experience when we realize we have fallen hopelessly in LOVE. Medium: gouache and acrylic on paper.

Happy New Year

Tara Reid and her cast of Pink Dancing Elephants wish you a happy and prosperous 2006. Tara says "May your heart be filled with love, your spirit filled with joy, and your liver bloated with alcohol..PARTY!!  WOOOOOOO!"

Note to the nasty bloke in the U.K. who steals my Tara Reid images and then obscures my name and puts his own:  If you want to take them and add them to your collection of drunken Tara Reid photos, please link them back to Gallery of the Absurd. Besides, there's an infinite number of drunk Tara Reid photos out there, so no need for you to swipe my illustrations, k?

The Future of Tara Reid

I spent most of my weekend engaged in time travel. I always kick myself when I forget to bring my digital camera along, but this time I slipped it in my pocket.  Traveling through so many hyperdimensional wormholes can really wear a girl out, so I thought I'd stop and get some coffee. The only place open in Los Angeles in the year 2025 was a seedy bar on Sunset, so I walked in, sat at the bar and saw Tara Reid sitting at the other end.  I snapped her photo and figured I'd share it with you. Medium: ink on paper.