Bing Image Creator's rendition of Zorro - one of 3 attempts that turned out tolerably well...

(from BlueSky)

One more terrifying party recipe from the 1960s...

Deeply disturbing culinary catastrophe (nipped from FB)...

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I rec'd an industry email touting the extraordinary new capabilities of AI generator Stable Diffusion XL - so, I tried it...
Simple prompt: A mime pulling an invisible rope (piece of cake, right?)
Voila! The result...

All eyes on Mercury...

A Halloween treat for me this week: due to the unavailability of a male actor I got to cold-read the vampire role in "Herr Von Klatka", an adaptation by Mary Benedict of The Mysterious Stranger (a19th century short story by an anonymous German author). I'm told the story pre-dates Dracula.

Heritage produce at my local farmers market...