Batgirl Bitch!

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I remember my afternoons as a teenager.  As school ended and I'd walk home alone.  My younger brother went to another school and someone would go pick him up, an aunt, a cousin or a friend.  

 This let me have some much needed alone time.  It was always quiet when I got home.  A time when I was alone and could do what I wanted and be with my own thoughts.  It usually, and still does, mean watching TV. 

 I loved to sit with a PB&J and watch Batman.  I obsessed over the show and had almost every related toy you could think of.  I couldn't resist the colors, the music and the groovy way it was done.

 But the best thing to ever happen was "Batgirl".
She was fabulous.  I mean think about it, a bookworm by day and a crime fighter by night.  I could do that.  

 So began my love for Batgirl an my full on gay coming to the surface.  I remember wanting to be Batgirl, one year for Halloween and like that old Charlie Brown cartoon, got talked in to being a ghost.  Yep an old sheet and holes.  Now if that isn't a metaphor for covering up the strangeness of your "weird", I don't know what is :-)

 This postcard, part of the series, is a bit more adventurous. I made with tissue paper and Elmer's glue, I like how it came out.  The background is just Sharpie marker.

 !KICK!   !POW!   !SMASH!

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