Tomorrow starts the (relatively recent) tradition of inktober, so today felt like a good day to do one last strictly pencil drawing before the ink starts flowing all next month long. I mean, we here at mixed media daily might not adhere totally to the drawing constraints of inktober every day next month, but we'll honor it when it's convenient, like the inktober equivalent of Xmas/Easter Catholics. Speaking of religion, today's brandisher of protest signs comes straight from the deep recesses of the Orthodox Russian Church. They are apparently upset because a movie was made that depicts one of their saints (Czar Nicholas II--that's right, he's saint and a king) boning some teenage ballerina, which is a thing that actually happened, but hey, how dare you, uh, Mr. Filmmaker, depict the truth about things. So they're doing what any rational person would do when confronted with uncomfortable truths about their revered figures--they're setting shit on fire and trying to hurt people. Clearly they're sensitive, which made me feel bad for maybe a second about co-opting one of their protestors to speak truth to American power, but then I remembered that the Russian Government basically co-opted our entire political system and its attendant media in the last election, so fuck them. And this is how we get Dirty Tom, a.k.a. self-important shitheel Tom Price, who spent close to a million dollars of taxpayer money to shuttle himself about in style on private and military planes, because he figured if an idiot like Trump could become president than surely he could abuse his access to military planes with no consequences whatsoever. Well, he's no longer HHS secretary, but not because he did the things he did, but because he got caught doing them.
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