Weird domain name sells some cool (official?) Lost art
Check out this very sweet screenprint of Smokey (the smoke monster) from Lost. Amazingly detailed by artist Ken Taylor, and sold through IamTryingToBuySomeJerkeyAndASlushy.com which appears to be a sub-site of DamonCarltonAndaPolarBear.com . Oops I wrote “sold” but actually it looks like the print is sold out. Wow. So $50 times 300. Who’s got a calculator app. Oh wait, my brain did the math by accident. Thats $15,000 !! With that kind of
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