Dave the high quality Rave

Dave the Rave is wearing the eponymous pin that I found in my dad's high quality hoard after his death. Dad (David Bailey) had collected lots of things that were just too precious to use, but after a while I decided that they in fact too precious not to use. This pin is one of those things. Wearing it is the well-dressed skeleton bird figure topped off by the skull of a sad little cardinal that my BAD CAT Sunny brought me one day as a gift. His collar is my neighbor Mallory's pastry tin, and his cloak is a second hand bottle. Inside his tum-tum are some unsettled-looking buttons and beads. He is sporting birdie arms made of the tail feathers of our very own pet cockatiel, Kazuki, preserved in Modge Podge for longevity. And of course I wrapped him in pine needles as a nod to my home in East Texas, a proud part of the U.S. Pine Belt. Creepy? No. Cool? Yes. Creepy (revisiting the question)? Well, maybe.