Filed under: Guest Artists, Valentines

Gallery of the Absurd is pleased to introduce our first guest artist, Rod Filbrandt. Rod and I share an appreciation of Ernest Borgnine, but only Rod would think to portray Borgnine as Cupid. Old Ernest has appeared in over 100 films, but my favorite was the classic 70’s disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure. Watch Ernest Borgnine bark out orders on a sinking ship while angry and wet….swoon, oh how I LOVE Ernest Borgnine. See more of Rod Filbrandt’s work at Chowderhead Bazoo.
Posted by 14 ♦ February 10, 2006




Anonymous
At 1:54 pm Anonymous said:
I loved Ernest in “Marty”. Great actor and great Valentines card!
February 10, 2006
At 4:14 pm Chansmom said:
Wow! A blast from the past! I can’t believe he’s still alive. Good work!
February 10, 2006
At 8:58 pm Long Island Irish said:
That is one ugly Cupid……
February 10, 2006
At 6:14 am Cathey said:
I love Ernest Borgnine. Hope no one is going to diss this man!
February 11, 2006
At 7:35 am Jacko said:
But let’s not forget Ethel Merman’s take on her marriage to Ernie. In her autobiography, she gives the chapter nothin’ but blank space.
Then again, Ethel was a bitch.
February 11, 2006
At 9:46 am Wee-Bone Talker said:
Yes, today’s celebrities could learn a thing or two about ugly, wrong-headed, short-term marriages from old-school screw-ups like Ernie & Ethel.
But they did it with such style! And bunions.
February 11, 2006
At 7:03 pm Betty Noir said:
Chicks dig Dutch Ovens. So I hear.
Congrats, Mr. Filbrandt, make way for piles of that internet money!
February 11, 2006
At 6:49 pm DonnaJEM said:
I love his hiney-chin and sock garters! Hilarious!
February 12, 2006
At 5:53 am midevil said:
Thanks for the intro to Rod. Nice works on his site, eh.
February 13, 2006
At 6:06 am NY Diva said:
I’m ashamed to say I had a boyfriend that looked exactly like him…his only redeeming quality was that he was great in bed.
February 13, 2006
At 3:43 pm Betty Noir said:
Good Lord, NY Diva, you say that like it’s a BAD thing. At least the guy had a redeeming quality!
(is that what the kids are calling it now?)
I dated a guy once whose redeeming quality was…uh…I’m totaly stumped. His obsession with Magnum P.I. reruns, Asian girls (which I ain’t) and his own ass kind of block any good things that might have happened.
February 14, 2006
Damien Morgan
At 1:49 pm Damien Morgan said:
I’ve always been uber impressed by this kind of work, in fact I’ve been looking really closely at the same stuff popping up on 7 Deadly Sinners, and drooling. Such classy, classy work.
February 15, 2006
At 3:09 pm Malice A. Forethought said:
No way man, that stuff on the 7 Deadly Sinners site is a rip off of your style, 14!
February 21, 2006
At 5:07 pm Paul said:
What was always so great about Borgnine was that he gave 110% to every role. Sometimes he chewed the scenery, but then there was a role like Marty, where he bled his feelings onto the screen.
June 26, 2006
At 6:10 pm Barry said:
This guy is a terrific actor, one of the best ever. There aren’t too many who can hold a candle to him today.
August 18, 2006