From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Pate de foie Manto

by Roy Blumenthal on December 16, 2009



Pate de foie Manto, originally uploaded by royblumenthal.

Liver as a main course. With a whole bunch of stuff to make a collapsed liver even worse. And some stuff to kill a nation.

A fifth of all South Africans have HIV or AIDS right now. And that’s just the cases that are known about.

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and her AIDS denialism are responsible for South Africa having such a big problem.

Now she’s dead. Can our country recover?

Made in ArtRage 3 on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.

If you’d like to use this pic for any reason whatsoever, go for it. It’s released under a Creative Commons ‘Attribution, Share-Alike’ license.

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Manto Tshabalala-Msimang Dead Dead Dead

by Roy Blumenthal on December 16, 2009

She’s dead and gone now.

Maybe it means South Africa has a chance to recover from the mistakes she made botching our ability to solve the AIDS crisis this country is sinking under.

Verbose? Hey. Not as verbose as Manto. The alcoholic, thieving, incompetent buffoon.

One liver transplant wasn’t good enough for her. She had to continue drinking. Just had to do it.

And the first liver transplant was a stolen liver. She jumped the queue.

And the second liver that was scheduled to be given to her? Stolen too. Another jumped queue.

Am I sad that she’s gone? Nah.

Am I worried that people will think ill of me for saying bad things about the dead? Nah.

Am I happy that the country might be able to get back on track? I truly don’t know. I think there’s a lot of evil going on in this place. Our politicians are as corrupt as it’s possible to be. I think we’re screwed, actually. But hey.

This pic was made in ArtRage 3 on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.

If you want to use this pic for any reason whatsoever, please go ahead. It’s released under a Creative Commons ‘Share-Alike, Attribution’ license.

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South African Santa

by Roy Blumenthal on December 14, 2009



South African Santa, originally uploaded by royblumenthal.

A while back I had a speaking engagement for a bunch of MENSA types.

One of them… John Hofmeyr… called me a week or so after, and asked me if I’d illustrate a poem of his for a charity publication.

I agreed to do that. And this is the resulting image.

If you have a need for a unique Santa pic, please feel free to use it. It’s released under a Creative Commons ‘Attribution, Share-Alike’ license.

I made this pic in ArtRage 2.5 and PhotoShop CS3 on my Rectron-sponsored Asus R1E tablet pc.

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