Colors, Critters, Cats, and my Journey with MS

Friday, June 5, 2026

Colors - Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #2:

Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #2

This is the second in a series of portfolio showreels my husband, Jack Kost, made to promote my abstract acrylic painting.

Featured works are abstract acrylics using pour techniques.

Future work will include mixed acrylic ink abstracts.

Painting images are available from the Allegorical_Littera online Zazzle store at:

https://www.zazzle.com/

To view the image, type Abstract Color Study and the number into the Zazzle search field.

Example: Abstract Color Study 503

Images are available as cards, and can be transferred to posters, t-shirts, notebooks, magnets, mugs, and more.

A percentage of sales from Zazzle is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research.

Showreel design and development credit:

Jack Kost, Allegorical Littera

Music credit:

Ambiance#5 by Lilo Sound.

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Colors - Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #1:

Abstract Acrylic Portfolio Showreel #1

This is the first in a series of portfolio showreels my husband, Jack Kost, made to promote my abstract acrylic painting.

Featured works are abstract acrylics using pour techniques.

Future work will include mixed acrylic ink abstracts.

Painting images are available from the Allegorical_Littera online Zazzle store at:

https://www.zazzle.com/

To view the image, type Abstract Color Study and the number into the Zazzle search field.

Example: Abstract Color Study 503

Images are available as cards, and can be transferred to posters, t-shirts, notebooks, magnets, mugs, and more.

A percentage of sales from Zazzle is donated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research.

Themes:

art, artwork, poster, painting, acrylic, abstract, fluid painting, Kathleen Jane Kost, showreel, video, MP4

Showreel design and development credit:

Jack Kost, Allegorical Littera

Music credit:

Ambiance#5

by Lilo Sound.

Stephen King, on reading:

Few things are as lovely as having an uninterrupted hour with a good book.

- Stephen King.

The Big Book of Noir

Edited by Ed Gorman, Lee Server, and Martin H. Greenberg.

ISBN-10: 0786705744
ISBN-13: 978-0786705740

Description:

THE BIG BOOK OF NOIR

Noir is big. It was born in the hard-boiled detective story of Depression-era America. It flourished in the black-and-white B movies of the forties and fifties. And it’s been ingeniously reinvented in the film and fiction of the nineties.

Etched on our cultural memory by writers like Raymond Chandler, directors like Alfred Hitchcock, screen stars like Robert Mitchum and Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott and Gloria Graham, noir is big.

Noir is big, so The Big Book of Noir jam-packs its pages with articles, interviews, excerpts, opinion, and gossip that chronicle its history and explore noir in all its forms: movies, detective stories, television and radio shows, comic books, and graphic novels.

The Big Book of Noir pays homage to the big names in noir – John Huston, Fritz Lang, Mickey Spillane, John D. MacDonald, Ross MacDonald, Donald E. Westlake – as well as less familiar figures like Phil Karlson, Peter Rabe, Charles Williams, Harry Whittington, and Gil Brewer. It also includes two rare pieces: Stephen King writing about Jim Thompson in one and in the other Dulcy Brainard writing about Sara Paretsky, Marcia Muller, and Wendi Lee.

The evidence is in. The Big Book of Noir amasses fascinating and informative exhibits that amply illustrate one of America’s most significant cultural contributions.

Because noir is big.

Born on this day – Edmund Vance Cooke:

Edmund Vance Cooke

Writer

June 5, 1866 – December 18, 1932

Books:

A Morning's Mail (1907); A Patch of Pansies (1894); Basebology (1912); Brass Tacks Ballads (1924); Cheerful Children (1923); Chronicles of the Little Tot (1905); Companionable Poems (1924); From the Book of Extenuations (1926); I Rule the House (1910); Impertinent Poems (1903); Just Then Something Happened (1914); Little Songs for Two (1909); Rimes to be Read (1897); The Story Club (1912); The Uncommon Commoner (1913); Told to the Little Tot (1906).

Born on this day – Lil McClintock:

Lil McClintock

Blues singer

Guitarist

June 5, 1883 – 1930s or 1940s. Exact date of death unknown.

Credits:

Music:

Don't Think I'm Santa Claus / By The Watermelon Vine, Lindy Lou (78 record) (1930); Atlanta Blues 1927 - 30: The Complete Recordings In Chronological Order Of Julius Daniels And Lil McClintock (Compilation album) (1986).

Born on this day – Marjorie Woodworth:

Marjorie Woodworth

Actress

June 5, 1919 – August 23, 2000

Credits:

It Should Happen to You (1954); A Double Life (1947); Devil Ship (1947); Decoy (1946); In Fast Company (1946); You Came Along (1945); Salty O'Rourke (1945); A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (1944); Yanks Ahoy (1943); Taxi, Mister (1943); Prairie Chickens (1943); The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942); The Devil with Hitler (1942); Flying with Music (1942); Dudes Are Pretty People (1942); Brooklyn Orchid (1942); All-American Co-Ed (1941); Niagara Falls (1941); Broadway Limited (1941); Road Show (1941); Dance, Girl, Dance (1940); Balalaika (1939); Dancing Co-Ed (1939); Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938).