Laura Garrison

@pickleboots.bsky.social

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chaotic swamp goblin Art https://www.lgarrison.com/

group of three anti-AI buttons
Three-panel page from “Something to Tide You Over” showing a man buried in sand from the neck down about to drown in the waves while a different man watches him on a television screen in a fancy modern beach house and laughs
A yellow button with the text RAGE! AGAINST THE MACHINES and a ridiculously tiny alligator chomping the cord of a computer box that says “AI”
construction-paper design of a baby alligator chomping the cord of a computer-ish box marked “AI”
Floofy gray cat with white socks zonked out on her back
a button made from a scan of cut construction-paper art; the text USE YOUR BRAIN with the AI in BRAIN encircled by a red NO symbol on a pale green background with a floral design
photo of A MEMORY OF MURDER by Ray Bradbury; the grim reaper is tying a woman up; behind them are carnival sideshow posters and a roller coaster
TNG title card: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ferengi”
a single piece of red candy-coated popcorn on stony pavement
close up of top section of cut-paper bookmark design showing a yellow and black amulet in the dark blue sky like an eclipse with three blue stars improbably visible in front of it; below are green hills and a bleeding brick mansion with a ghost and a spider
a red gummy bear on bumpy wet pavement
vintage card with two women in full-length profile in dresses, each with an absurdly tiny parasol that would offer no more protection from the weather than a single kleenex; text reads EVERY DAY I’M BUSTLE-IN’
forearm and hand with cherries drawn on the wrist in bright marker
Amelie reads in bed below framed prints of a dog and a duck. Two mismatched table lamps manage to make the bright red textured wallpaper look cheerful instead of horrifying.
A design cut out of construction paper; words say “Use Your BRAIN” with a red circle around and slash through the letters “AI.” Some decorative flowers and leaves against a pale green background.
Club Obi Wan from INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984)
parody drawing of Magritte’s “Treachery of Images” but with a marshmallow peep instead of a pipe (pronounced “peep” if you are bad at French accents, as I am)
pen drawing of a marshmallow chick captioned “Ceci n’est pas une peep”; silly joke based on the Treachery of Images
wretched olethreutes, a smudgy tan moth
a box of colored chalk on a fake wood desktop
a cardinal flying away from the top of a dogwood tree
screenshot of text chat; Justin’s message reads “I don’t know if you could hear me, but the clothes should be done in about 15 minutes. Would you be able to fold them?” My reply is a meme of the Swedish Chef from The Muppets captioned “NURT TE VURRY / I FURLDED DE CLURRS!”
construction-paper art of Mothra; green sky, pink full moon, night cityscape in the background
Danny DeVito, Anne Ramsey, and Billy Crystal in THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN (1987)
Once I knew a man who gave his wife two skunks for a valentine. He couldn't understand why she was crying. "I thought they had such beautiful eyes." And he was serious. He was a serious man who lived in a serious way. Nothing was ugly just because the world said so. He really liked those skunks. So, he re-invented them as valentines and they became beautiful. At least, to him. And the poems that had been hiding in the eyes of skunks for centuries crawled out and curled up at his feet.
A partially deflated snowman lawn decoration reclines among some green shrubs, stubby twig arms upraised imploringly, carrot nose pointed toward the heavens like a cathedral spire.
Slightly blurry selfie with a wax figure of Freddy Krueger. There’s a suggestion of a boiler room in the background. We are both smiling, but he is gazing off past me to something off camera.
cover of Edward Gorey (edited & illustrated) collection of ghost stories, The Haunted Looking Glass
Poster for Author Studies course with green-tinted photo of EAP in background with “enchanted garden enthusiast,” “mercurial languisher,” and “s-tier poet” in black bars across his face, with the letters spelling Edgar Allan Poe capitalized and the rest in lowercase.
navy travel mug with body-horror jellyfish creature sticker on it
five simple marker drawings of unicorns and unicorn-adjacent equine variants (moonicorn, spoonicorn, balloonicorn, cornicorn)
colorful postcards, sticky notes, and stickers arranged with some books on a desktop; many feature creepy-cute stylized cryptids, including Mothman and Bigfoot
Photo of a printed sentence study assignment with the improbable date of Octember 3, 2025 at the top.
photo of HOME TO STAY! THE COMPLETE RAY BRADBURY EC STORIES with color art of an astronaut and a woman and boy with a retro-futuristic cityscape in the background; also in frame are a candle, a bookmark, a notepad, and a pen
A small, pale pumpkin with two neat holes in the flesh at an angle, as would be made by a vampiric rabbit.
cut-paper art: purple background, bright letters reading MAKE ART, NOT SLOP with the letters of “slop” floating in a puddle of orange barf spewed from a robot
potatoes and other sentient vegetables on a cobblestone street with a two-story building on the corner
colorful cut-paper art with amulet/cup of stars in the night sky; Hill House with a ghost, a spider, and bricks dissolving into dripping blood; Loteria cards (la sandia, la pera, la maceta); a planchette; the key to Room 217; a wasp; a vine snapping like a topiary lion’s tail; an elk antler; a ceiling fan; yellow and orange mushrooms and green moss
A cluster of three white mushrooms with crackly tan tops and a human hand for scale; the smallest is about the size of a teacup; the largest, a dessert plate. The hand is not severed; the picture is cropped above the wrist.
A sweet goat with sort of a Black Phillip thing going on, facing the camera and eating grass.
construction-paper art of a ghost hovering in the night sky above a crooked mountain house
cover of Kenneth Grahame’s THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, illustrated by David Petersen; Toad is on the steps of Toad Hall looking dashing in a red jacket and yellow waistcoat while Badger, Rat, and Mole look on disapprovingly
close up of gray cat with green eyes and contemplative expression
Old-timey convertible red-orange car-truck vehicle parked on suburban street.
A smiling toddler with very little hair stands on a large tree stump in a clearing like an offering to some obscure woodland deity; she is dressed in a white shirt and high-waisted pink pants, but her feet are ominously bare, presumably to keep her from running away.
Construction paper art of Mothra flying over a city at night.
John Oliver holding a bat in the most adorably awkward way in front of a mock-up of the Erie Seawolves field and scoreboard.
six kinds of pringles organized according to the visible light spectrum
yellow leaf with brown markings that look like a cute bear face
Handmade sign taped to wall reading “speed limit 5 miles per hour” with creative spelling (p-u-r and l-i-m-b-e-t-t)
pan of brownies decorated like a mossy graveyard
The Oneders (later the Wonders) from THAT THING YOU DO! (1996, dir. Tom Hanks)
a magnet-pen erasable drawing board with “you will never be free and [or possibly ‘end’]” written on it
SCAMPERS What if I’m not in a chatty mood? FRIENDLY VOICE (on speaker) You don’t have to say a word! Just enjoy a home-cooked meal on the taxpayers’ dime and be on your way. As Scampers squeezes the lime wedge into the soup, something occurs to him. SCAMPERS What about the B and E you brought me in for? FRIENDLY VOICE (on speaker) Oh, Hubert’s Hot Tubs? According to the complainant, you and your buddies didn’t even steal anything, just sat around drinking wine coolers in the floor model all night. Scampers smiles at the memory. SCAMPERS Yeah. FRIENDLY VOICE (on speaker) If you eat up all your beans like a good little ruffian, I bet I can get those charges dropped. How’s that for a deal? Scampers raises his water glass to the mirror in a salute. SCAMPERS I don’t get it, but I’ll take it. FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER Scampers has almost finished the soup. He peers into the bowl and frowns. Glazed in bold black letters on the bottom is one word: “SOON.”
Side-view marker drawings of colorful bike racers; they are labeled Cobra, Heavy Blood, Firehawk, Yamahawk, Mantice, Green Fury, Dune, Mean Green, Exterminator, Fasty, Grim Rider, Mad Dog, Ray (or possibly Roy), Cool Guy, Dirty Joe, Chili Devil, Vroom, Thunder, Danger, and Worrier.
The Wonders (formerly the Oneders) from THAT THING YOU DO (1996), dir. Tom Hanks
production drawing from THE SIMPSONS with Chief Wiggum puppeting the raccoonskin-capped skull of the town’s founder
sunshine soup in a blue-brown glazed bowl
Tree trunk that has partially grown over a butterfly crossing sign attached to it.
73. Masters later strove to deal with his sexual conflict by creating two alter egos who were in continual opposition to one another. He called them ‘Dr. Lucius Atherton’ and ‘Elmer Chubb, L.L.D, PhD.’ Atherton was a rake whose interest in women was purely sexual, and Chubb was a religiously inspired smut-hound who strove to eliminate all reference to sexuality. Masters had business cards printed for Atherton and Chubb, which he handed out to friends, and he even had flyers printed, announcing lectures by them, which he also distributed. [more]