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mark scott ricketts
writer / illustrator
SNAKE RANCH
Home of McCobb Studio, a subsidiary of Broken Yolk Productions.
Why Snake Ranch? Because there were snake wires running throughout the house and garage.
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Home is where
I hang my hat
Feed the cat
And watch T.V.
Home is where
I lock the doors
Drop my drawers
And sip on Wild Turkey
It’s the only place to be
When I’m with my friend
And she’s with me.
Simply Home © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Why Snake Ranch? Because there were snake wires running throughout the house and garage.
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Home is where
I hang my hat
Feed the cat
And watch T.V.
Home is where
I lock the doors
Drop my drawers
And sip on Wild Turkey
It’s the only place to be
When I’m with my friend
And she’s with me.
Simply Home © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Simple Love
When it pours from faucets
In every home
It holds the planets
In Heaven
It creates the poets
Need to roam
It fills
It spills
And fills again
Simple Love © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
In every home
It holds the planets
In Heaven
It creates the poets
Need to roam
It fills
It spills
And fills again
Simple Love © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Mark and Travis
Playback at the board
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Too many maps
So many map prints
On my mind
I never knew
It’s so easy to find
Lifeboat © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
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Too many maps
So many map prints
On my mind
I never knew
It’s so easy to find
Lifeboat © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Mark and JP
Mark Ricketts and John Paul Peregrin Jr
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How is New Mexico?
Is life there really slow?
Or just a slow burning jalapeno?
Come Back Alive © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
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How is New Mexico?
Is life there really slow?
Or just a slow burning jalapeno?
Come Back Alive © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Matt Barry
There is a static
Stirring inside of me
All balled up
Like a hurricane
And the fury in my eyes
chases thin white lines
running red lights
Wolf (Caged in my heart) © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Stirring inside of me
All balled up
Like a hurricane
And the fury in my eyes
chases thin white lines
running red lights
Wolf (Caged in my heart) © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Travis and Almis
We went out
to the country
All the local yokels
were there
We liked the pace
We breathed the air
But we sure
got a lot of stares
(Little beady evil eyes)
Sure got a lot
Of stares
Dead Eyes © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
to the country
All the local yokels
were there
We liked the pace
We breathed the air
But we sure
got a lot of stares
(Little beady evil eyes)
Sure got a lot
Of stares
Dead Eyes © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
John Paul Peregrin Jr
Cars covered the lawn
Lights stayed on past dawn
I wish I could remember
Exactly what went wrong
Lambs © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Lights stayed on past dawn
I wish I could remember
Exactly what went wrong
Lambs © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Mark Ricketts
My ticket to Heaven’s
Riding on Lucky Seven
My gray skies turn blue
I can feel it
I can feel it
Miracles
Pull me through
Little Miracles © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Riding on Lucky Seven
My gray skies turn blue
I can feel it
I can feel it
Miracles
Pull me through
Little Miracles © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Matt and Teresa
Teresa and Matt met at Snake Ranch. And got married.
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Talk to me
Do you speak?
Come for coffee
Stay all week
Arrector pili
On my skin
Feeling more
Than insulation
Take this invitation
Without all the words
If you’ll be happy
In this world
Happy In This World © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Talk to me
Do you speak?
Come for coffee
Stay all week
Arrector pili
On my skin
Feeling more
Than insulation
Take this invitation
Without all the words
If you’ll be happy
In this world
Happy In This World © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
wedding
Mark, John Paul, Almis and Beth at Matt and Teresa's wedding
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Here they are
Clicking their heels
In the sidewalk steam
Looking like a bad dream
Coming to get you
The Green Team
Green Team © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Here they are
Clicking their heels
In the sidewalk steam
Looking like a bad dream
Coming to get you
The Green Team
Green Team © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
wedding
That's Wild Taxi-s background vocalist Ruthie Thompson front and center
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Under a nose
The story can be told
Well, it’s a cure
For the common and cold
Cindy Rules © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Under a nose
The story can be told
Well, it’s a cure
For the common and cold
Cindy Rules © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
Matt Barry
I’ve been to Memphis, Tennis shoe
On my last dime
I may have lost
My socks
In a shuffle
But honey,
I had a good time
Coolin’ Heels © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
On my last dime
I may have lost
My socks
In a shuffle
But honey,
I had a good time
Coolin’ Heels © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Beth Sutton
It’s like a promise
(This elusive thing)
It’s like a good night kiss
(This elusive thing)
It’s the perfect twist
(This elusive thing)
This Elusive Thing © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
(This elusive thing)
It’s like a good night kiss
(This elusive thing)
It’s the perfect twist
(This elusive thing)
This Elusive Thing © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
Almis
Almis at the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas
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I’m the breath
Outside your door
I’m the wind
Whistling in
Lost my way
wound up here
Circles © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
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I’m the breath
Outside your door
I’m the wind
Whistling in
Lost my way
wound up here
Circles © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Broken Yolk Studio
Photographer: Beth Sutton
JP and Almis
I don’t want to live
in a beautiful world
With all its broken promises
I don’t want to live
In a beautiful world
Among the American waste
I don’t want to live
In a beautiful world
I want to taste
Something real
Beautiful World © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
in a beautiful world
With all its broken promises
I don’t want to live
In a beautiful world
Among the American waste
I don’t want to live
In a beautiful world
I want to taste
Something real
Beautiful World © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Mark and Chat
Mark rehearsing background vocals with Chat Hart for the song “Slang”
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In dreams
Faded jeans
Worn in Hollywood
By skinny girls
from the Homeland
Slang © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
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In dreams
Faded jeans
Worn in Hollywood
By skinny girls
from the Homeland
Slang © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Mark, JP and Chat
Just let me sit over here
over here by you
Over here, darling
And I’ll be coolin’ heels
On this beat-up
Four Wheel-Drive
Till it’s time
When you say it’s time
And I’ll be gone
Coolin’ Heels © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
over here by you
Over here, darling
And I’ll be coolin’ heels
On this beat-up
Four Wheel-Drive
Till it’s time
When you say it’s time
And I’ll be gone
Coolin’ Heels © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
JP
The Queen and the Pope
Were on the tube today
I never do remember
What they have to say
They both wore hats
What do you think about that?
What do you think about that?
What do you think…?
Think About That © Mark Ricketts, Almis Zdanius and John Paul Peregrin Jr
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Were on the tube today
I never do remember
What they have to say
They both wore hats
What do you think about that?
What do you think about that?
What do you think…?
Think About That © Mark Ricketts, Almis Zdanius and John Paul Peregrin Jr
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Broken Yolk Productions
Travis Garth
Went down to the place
Mix the breeze with some moves
Well the gin was too thin
The ceiling caving in
And when I looked down
My waitress had hooves
Young Lions © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Mix the breeze with some moves
Well the gin was too thin
The ceiling caving in
And when I looked down
My waitress had hooves
Young Lions © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Photographer: Beth Sutton
Lunt and Clark
This is the front of the building that housed the Lunt Avenue Tune Building Workshop. You can’t actually see the loft space. Or the Barber Shop underneath it, but it’s the best photo we could find. Lunt and Clark, Rogers Park, Illinois.
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I stole some fish from the market
Cats chased me down the alley
Shook ‘em on the way
To the Cafe
Where brother grill rats rally
Grill Rat © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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I stole some fish from the market
Cats chased me down the alley
Shook ‘em on the way
To the Cafe
Where brother grill rats rally
Grill Rat © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
Travis's loft
Which also served as Kate Kuper’s dance studio, the venue for a wedding, countless orphan Thanksgivings, the Lunt Avenue Tune Building Workshop, and the Rogers Park Men’s Club Stag Party.
Lunt and Clark, again
A glimpse of the barber shop and some windows from Travis's loft! Thanks Njara!
Dr. X
Mark's Cupid pajama top --Not for sleeping.
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Eyes transfixed on Dr. X
Her erotic eye chart
Parallax
The Dr. spread her legs apart
and prescribed a love laxative
for her constipated heart
Love Laxative © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
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Eyes transfixed on Dr. X
Her erotic eye chart
Parallax
The Dr. spread her legs apart
and prescribed a love laxative
for her constipated heart
Love Laxative © Mark Ricketts and Almis Zdanius
© Mark Scott Ricketts. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is strictly prohibited.
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