The Picture Ranch

By Ewan

Hollywood, 1940. A boy disappears. There's a dame and a PI. Nothing new? You decide.

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  • 2995 reads
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The Picture Ranch 59

By Ewan on Tue, 28 Jun 2022

Long time no hear... Micawber Fisher P.I. is still in trouble. Re - "priest-brained fish", accompanying image is a fisherman's priest.
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Gold cherry

The Picture Ranch 1

By Ewan on Sun, 17 Jul 2016

How they always start...
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The Picture Ranch 10

By Ewan on Thu, 04 Aug 2016

Meeting over coffee and soda in Carlsbad, CA... So it's a slow burner, so what?
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The Picture Ranch 11

By Ewan on Sun, 07 Aug 2016

Hey! Slow is sometimes good... we've got 65,000 words to go yet. With luck...
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The Picture Ranch 12

By Ewan on Wed, 10 Aug 2016

Reader : Mail boxes? The man's obsessed with mail-boxes! Writer : No internet and smart phones in those days, Bud.
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The Picture Ranch 13

By Ewan on Mon, 15 Aug 2016

Looking for Miss G...
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The Picture Ranch 14

By Ewan on Wed, 17 Aug 2016

Where in the world is Eleanor Gräfenberg?
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The Picture Ranch 15

By Ewan on Sun, 21 Aug 2016

Moose? Really? ... Yes.
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The Picture Ranch 16

By Ewan on Mon, 22 Aug 2016

Trouble for Micawber Fisher P.I. Longer by 300 words than usual, make a cup of coffee first.
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The Picture Ranch 17

By Ewan on Tue, 23 Aug 2016

With friends like Fisher...
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The Picture Ranch 18

By Ewan on Thu, 01 Sep 2016

What? You thought I'd give up? I was looking for inspiration and something turned up...
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The Picture Ranch 19

By Ewan on Fri, 30 Sep 2016

Fisher seeks help... even someone called Micawber can't just wait for something to turn up...
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The Picture Ranch 2

By Ewan on Sun, 17 Jul 2016

At a Military Academy... (long)
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The Picture Ranch 20

By Ewan on Tue, 16 May 2017

"Ya wait long enough, sumthin' turns up" Micawber Fisher. Picture is from wikipedia commons.
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The Picture Ranch 21

By Ewan on Wed, 17 May 2017

A visit from Boethius... Image is from Wikipedia with commons licence.
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The Picture Ranch 22

By Ewan on Fri, 19 May 2017

Fisher gets his own back... Due to copyright concerns you have to imagine the image. Please attribute to the Coen Brothers inside your own head.
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The Picture Ranch 23

By Ewan on Thu, 25 May 2017

"How in hell will you get Micawber Fisher out of this one?" "umm..." Image is a still from the 1947 Republic Serial "The Black Widow" and copyright is believed to belong to the distributor of Republic Pictures, viz. Artisan Home Entertainment since 1998. The Black Widow is not available to buy.
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The Picture Ranch 24

By Ewan on Fri, 26 May 2017

Like Micawber says, something - or someone - always turns up... Picture is produced via photofunia.com and is free of copyright issues.
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The Picture Ranch 25

By Ewan on Fri, 26 May 2017

Fisher gets a change of clothes... Image produced via Photofunia. Edward G's image labelled for non-commercial use with modification.
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The Picture Ranch 26

By Ewan on Mon, 29 May 2017

Fisher's plans are complicated, huh? Picture source is Pinterest. No known copy-right issues. Text applied via Photofunia.com
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The Picture Ranch 27

By Ewan on Fri, 02 Jun 2017

Back to School. CC0 Public Domain Free for commercial use. No attribution required. Source: https://pixabay.com/p-1295442/?no_redirect
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The Picture Ranch 28

By Ewan on Mon, 05 Jun 2017

A shocking discovery... Image is copyright expired from a very old furniture catalogue of the 19th century, Image source Wikipedia commons Any chance of a genre/category "Noir"?
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The Picture Ranch 29

By Ewan on Tue, 06 Jun 2017

Tea and no sympathy... Image made by Alf Van Beem, 20 March 2016, 12:20:27 source Wikimedia commons.
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The Picture Ranch 3

By Ewan on Mon, 18 Jul 2016

Semper Fi? You can't trust anyone...
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The Picture Ranch 30

By Ewan on Fri, 09 Jun 2017

What's in the box? Gotta find somewhere to open it first... Picture source : http://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_LA_Buildings%20%281900%20-%201925%... No known copyright issues due to age of image (1923)
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The Picture Ranch 31

By Ewan on Sun, 11 Jun 2017

Okay, okay I'll tell ya what's in the box... Image source is Wikipedia PHGCOM : Own work , photographed at Japanese Currency Museum User does not endorse this writing or website. Commons Licence : Share-Alike 3.0 Unported
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The Picture Ranch 32

By Ewan on Mon, 10 Jul 2017

A visit to a morgue, but not the kind you're thinking of, anyway. Drink that Lye Berry Juice. Image is believed to be out of copyright and will be removed on request, should this not be the case.
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The Picture Ranch 33

By Ewan on Mon, 17 Jul 2017

Some holes there is no getting out of... image created by author, from PD photo.
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The Picture Ranch 34

By Ewan on Fri, 28 Jul 2017

What the hell is going on? Answers on a postcard or a key fob... Image By jwhalifax - Own work , Public Domain, Link
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The Picture Ranch 35

By Ewan on Fri, 28 Jul 2017

Miss G opens up... image licence: GNU Free Documentation License , Version 1.2
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The Picture Ranch 36

By Ewan on Thu, 03 Aug 2017

Fisher and Miss G converse pool-side... That's the real Ginger in the picture. Maybe Fred was hoping she'd drop by. The picture was PD and I put the lettering on it, so I could claim copyright, but I'm not.
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The Picture Ranch 37

By Ewan on Fri, 04 Aug 2017

Short and bitter... like most of these... Picture is in the public domain, an old movie still of Noble Johnson.
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The Picture Ranch 38

By Ewan on Tue, 08 Aug 2017

"Just Drive She Said" And just to be all "meta" check out the link at the end... Image created by author from PD elements and word art.
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The Picture Ranch 39

By Ewan on Wed, 09 Aug 2017

Up at Bill Hearst's place... Image was PD, treated with Photofunia...
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The Picture Ranch 4

By Ewan on Wed, 20 Jul 2016

Nothing much happens...
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The Picture Ranch 40

By Ewan on Mon, 14 Aug 2017

They say life begins at forty, will some kind of plot development begin here? Image source tumbler https://www.tumblr.com/search/rko%20logo
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The Picture Ranch 41

By Ewan on Wed, 06 Sep 2017

Something happens... almost... Image is in the Public Domain due to its advanced age. It has been modified at Photofunia.com
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The Picture Ranch 42

By Ewan on Fri, 08 Sep 2017

"I'm looking for a boy," she said. Just so you know where we are. Image is from Wiki Commons and is so old it is in the Public Domain. I fiddled with it on Photofunia.
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The Picture Ranch 43

By Ewan on Tue, 18 Jun 2019

Might as well get them into every famous Hotel in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area... Image was taken by Tony Hisgett ( https://www.flickr.com/people/37804979 @N00) and used in acc. w/ CCA 2.0
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The Picture Ranch 44

By Ewan on Wed, 19 Jun 2019

I bet at least 2 people laugh out loud. Image from maxpixel.com CC0 Public Domain
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The Picture Ranch 45

By Ewan on Fri, 16 Aug 2019

a little bit more... may even finish this soon... Image created by author.
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The Picture Ranch 46

By Ewan on Thu, 22 Aug 2019

In which something, but not so very much, happens. Image is lifted from a Northampton auctioneer's website, the box is long sold, but they still sell such things. I doubt they'll recognise the image after what I've done to it.
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The Picture Ranch 47

By Ewan on Tue, 27 Aug 2019

This Mulvaney's not a square guy... Image source is wikipedia commons.
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The Picture Ranch 48

By Ewan on Thu, 29 Aug 2019

One day Fisher will catch on to what's going on, but I doubt it... Image source wikipedia commons, in the Public Domain.
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The Picture Ranch 49

By Ewan on Fri, 30 Aug 2019