King Kong's skeleton

King Kong's skeleton sold for $218K.

Lots of blog crossover with this post. I originally posted this on Millions of Monkeys, but it seemed to fit within the criteria for my other blogs too. King Kong is one of my favorite movie characters (not to mention monsters) of all time [Kanye, stay out of this. I'm not letting you interupt].

This was the armature used in the stop-motion filming of the original King Kong from 1933.

Link to the Kong skeleton story at Australia's ABC.net.


This posted link can also be found at Abby Cadaver's Reveue de Jitters.
See more there about her appreciation for monster movies with movie reviews and comments.

This posted link can also be found at LilyBat's Bogey News.
See more there about her appreciation for weirdness and monsters in the news.

Monster Crush

Robert Berry has a one-eyed green octopus monster on his shoulder.

I've never officially met Robert Berry, the webmaster at Retrocrush, but we've connected through our sites, blogs and Facebook. He's got a lot of the same interests and appreciations as I do, so when I saw he changed his profile picture to this one it made sense to ask him if he would like to grace the face of Millions of Monsters… as the second post. We've come a long way, baby!

And, since we share a specific appreciation for the king of all monsters, here's a link to his article on The Censored Scenes of King Kong.

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Garbage monster

There's a monster collecting your trash.

I author a blog called Millions of Monkeys with a few other contributors. It's basically a way for me to log all the monkeys I run across in my daily life. A while back I thought it would be a good idea to do something similar (actually the same), but with monsters. So, there you have it. This is "Millions of Monsters." Starts with this first monster.

This garbage truck monster was wedged on a garbage truck outside one of the Sanitation buildings in Brooklyn, NYC. Sometimes you'll see a plush doll or teddy wired to the grill in the front. Today while walking my dog outside my art studio, I saw a monster. And, though I was already inclined to do this blog, props go to the Sanitation guys who did this, and inspired me to get it going.