Well it's September and Back 2 "Skool" for all you punks, juvenile delinquents and future white-collar criminals... Of course, for those kids in the Los Angeles Skool System, white-collar crime is probably a bit much to hope for -- you'll be fortunate if you get enough education to become a semi-competent mugger, or to be able to scribble out a poorly misspelled randsom note... When they say "No Child Left Behind" around here, they mean "Watch Your Back!"

But that aside... for September, some of you migh've been anticipating one final Beach Scene Calendar, a follow-up to last month's with Kelly discovering that her painted-on bikini was water-soluble in the surf...

Or, you migh've been hoping for a "Japanese Schoolgirl" special, with Kelly and Vicky in those cute li'l Japanese middy-blouse and short pleated skirt school uniforms, and a sudden breeze resulting in a gratuitous panty-shot...

You might even have been expecting a big Busby Berkely Musical scene, with fountains, velvet curtains, fireworks and a chorus line of 5,000 opulent Bunnies stuffed into skimpy ballroom gowns as Kelly and Vicky tap-dance their way down an enormous staircase to the strains of a 300-piece orchestra...

Well... In actuality, I Had intended on doing a different calendar for this month - somewhat inspired by Ray Bradbury's 88th birthday - and Mars exploration, but just ran out of time... (Sorry Ray and all)...

So as a quick patch together job, I pulled out this pix of Li'l Neolithic Red Riding Hood that I'd scribbled out some time ago, and matched it to a background from the old Iverson Movie Ranch, where innumerable B-Movies, Serials and TV shows were filmed... (Before it was sectioned off for Condos) ...many a B-Western Owlhoot bit the dust there... the Lone Ranger rode around his familiar big balanced rock there, John Wayne as a Fighting Seabee "Died" there - John Ford's Stagecoach found temporary refuge at a stage stop there and Buster Keaton once took a bath there -- To mention but a few of the greats...

While, back in the Neolithic, L'il Red seems about to commence her "skool" year there... although perhaps the Wolf is the one who's going to get "Educated"...

Mostly, If you watch a B-Western with wild rocky backgrounds, if it wasn't filmed at Lone Pine, it was probably filmed at Iverson... Being much closer to Hollywood, Iverson was convenient for even the poverty row studios. And though most of the rock outcrops are still there, they're no longer available for filming, due to the close proximity of housing... Perhaps someday some enterprising persons will recreate Iverson all in 3D and these locations will once again appear in CGI...

And, speaking of old movie fantasies, fake backgrounds, image manipulation, as well as muggings and predators and such, I trust you've been following the Political Con-Ventions... (with the emphasis on, "Con") The Repubs have just had an enormous stroke of good fortune... namely Katrina II, otherwise known as Hurricane Gustav, has given them a ready-made excuse to NOT have the Shrub and Cheney appear at their Con-vention, where they might have given Failure Cooties to any would be candidate who appeared on the same stage... Seems a lucky break for McCain... for the rest of us - I dunno...

Uh Huh... JQ