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05 Nov 2025
Understanding the Art of Adoxography - The Skill of Writing Eloquently About Trivial Topics.

Understanding the Art of Adoxography: The Skill of Writing Eloquently About Trivial Topics

Discover the fascinating art of adoxography — writing eloquently about trivial topics. Learn its history, techniques, modern relevance, and why it remains a powerful skill for writers and thinkers alike.

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22 Oct 2025
Eliphas Plunk - The Inconvenience of Being Mildly Alive.

Eliphas Plunk – The Inconvenience of Being Mildly Alive

(A Tragedy in the Key of Bourbon Minor) There are bureaucratic errors that get corrected, and then there are people like Eliphas Plunk — clerical oddities of existence on which somebody, somewhere, stamped approved out of blind fatigue. He was the human equivalent of a form filed in triplicate and lost in the mail; a man who arrived at life without a manual and kept insisting the missing pages were art. He looked like a person who had once been […]

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07 Oct 2025
Syliva Shichman's Absurdist comedy of 1970's Television.

The Unlikely Odyssey of Sylvia Shichman

In the annals of television history there are names that echo through the corridors of time, their contributions immortalized in the chronicles of pop culture. Then, there are names like Sylvia Shichman — a footnote, a whisper, a fleeting moment in the grand tapestry of entertainment. Yet, within that fleeting moment lies a story of absurdity, influence, and the kind of offbeat brilliance that only the truly unconventional can appreciate. Eight years ago I wrote a short blog post here […]

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21 Jun 2017
Derek R. Audette

Am I not a Pretty, Pretty Man?

I have no new artwork to post this week. So, I thought I’d post a picture of myself that was taken recently. Aren’t I a pretty man? (…and, by “pretty man”, I actually mean “giant, shaggy ogre”.)

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29 Mar 2017
Derek R. Audette's graphic design artwork on Face Off spell book props.

My Design Work on Face Off Season 11

Some of my graphic design work was used on last night’s episode of SyFy channel’s show Face Off. The imagery that the show’s prop creators used to create the spell books are my designs. They appeared on episode 10 of season 11, entitled “Cursed Covens“.

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