I'm distrubed (though not surprised) not by your work, but by some of the inane posted responses to it. Art is SUPPOSED to have the power to evoke gut-level reaction. You may like it, you may hate it, but if it makes you react then it's art, otherwise, it's just calendar stuff -- "mighty mountains and happy little clouds." You clearly paint what you see, the way you see it, and I applaud you for that.
Joe <jbefumo@worldnet.att.net&g t;
vienna, va USA - Saturday, November 16, 1996 at 12:48:25 (MST

Your work reflects the truth, too much so at times. When we show the masses the horror of their self destruction, it moves us further from our goal of oblivion. Embrace the Vampire-loving gothlings, the glam-rockers singing happy songs of self destruction, and the conceited poets who sing the praises of death, all who hasten the coming end.
Daryl Schoneberg
Carollton, TX USA - Saturday, November 16, 1996 at 12:24:17 (MST

MORTACCI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MadMax
Roma, it Italia - Saturday, November 16, 1996 at 08:00:57 (MST

Somewhat surprising first time I popped in here, but I am not easily offended. Quite opposite in fact. The pictures is a good piece of work, but I did find a similarity in "CHUCKLES" and the horror-movie "HELLRAISER" (the idead of having fish-hooks attached to your body). Whatever...
Andy
USA - Friday, November 15, 1996 at 16:45:59 (MST

I THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD, BUT IN A DIFFERENT WAY. YOU HAVE AN INTERESTING WAY OF LOOKING AT THINGS AROUND YOU BUT I DO RESPECT YOUR POINT OF VIEW. I ADMIRE YOUR WORK. KEEP IT UP!!
CUNIKA
USA - Thursday, November 14, 1996 at 14:19:56 (MST

Your page contains things that everyone wants to see, but will never admit to anyone.
VLADIMIR
New Orleans, LA USA - Wednesday, November 13, 1996 at 19:23:32 (MST

Your page contains things that everyone wnats to see, but will never admit to anyone
VLADIMIR
New Orleans, LA USA - Wednesday, November 13, 1996 at 19:22:30 (MST

A TRULY GROTTY PAGE I'M IMPRESSED!!!!!!!!!!!!
freddy
perth, W.A Australia - Wednesday, November 13, 1996 at 18:01:58 (MST

I'm going fucking crazy
Deity
Philly , PA USA - Wednesday, November 13, 1996 at 13:26:24 (MST

Not bad, I didn't puke, but not bad.
Dave <flem0001.agonquin.on.ca>
Cancun, Mexico - Wednesday, November 13, 1996 at 11:45:09 (MST

I love it!
Jussi Eskola <s00115@vitech.fi>
vaasa, finland - Wednesday, November 13, 1996 at 01:41:47 (MST

Christian - noun - One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One whoe follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of gain. Christians - adj. - A powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites tribe, whose principle industries are murder and cheating, they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce". ...from the Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
Morticia Raven <morticia@nr.infi.net>
Morticia's Dungeon, USA - Tuesday, November 12, 1996 at 03:11:15 (MST

Greetings, fello dwellers of the underdark. Dwarf, I know you can read this! Watch your back!
Mandrake <none, dude!>
Menzoberranzen, sleeping USA - Monday, November 11, 1996 at 16:19:48 (MST

Not Bad. Don't know about all these comparisons with Geiger, Esher etc. I'd say it's a bit more like Gary Larson on acid.
Mike
Denmark - Monday, November 11, 1996 at 06:50:18 (MST

I am a 23 year old transexual trapped in a lesbians body. I need help, >and your work helps me realize the pleasure in torture, and death. Come >join or cult. We are the brothers of Sig Delt, and love gay sex.
xxxxx
USA - Sunday, November 10, 1996 at 23:14:37 (MST

You produce very good work, I wish there were more selections to choose from as far as T-Shirts with your work on them. Postcards and small reproductions. Keep it flowing"
Ripclaw 42 <ripclaw42@aol>
Haward, ca USA - Sunday, November 10, 1996 at 22:22:47 (MST

You produce very good work, I wish there were more selections to choose from as far as T-Shirts with your work on them. Postcards and small reproductions. Keep it flowing"
Ripclaw 42 <ripclaw42@aol>
Haward, ca USA - Sunday, November 10, 1996 at 22:22:43 (MST

You produce very good work, I wish there were more selections to choose from as far as T-Shirts with your work on them. Postcards and small reproductions. Keep it flowing"
Ripclaw 42 <ripclaw42@aol>
Haward, ca USA - Sunday, November 10, 1996 at 22:22:39 (MST

CHRIST IS JUST CORN --- POPULARITY IS A SOCIAL DISEASE--- JESUS WAS GOTHER THAN YOU--- THE DAMNED ASPIRE TO A HIGHER HELL--- HELL HAS SNOWCONES AND LAVA SIDE PROPERTY RESERVED FOR ME !!!!!!!!!!!!
Vampyra <abigail@hhs.net>
Uniontown, pa USA - Sunday, November 10, 1996 at 22:04:17 (MST

I find some of your art cute, some deep, some shallow, and some sick. A reflection of the artist, perhaps, or a vent to release many stale ideas conjured as a confused teen. I've been there myself, and used poetry as my channel. Since then, I found God, and the peace he offered me. If only I could find God for everyone else! It is a personal decision that you must make for yourself--God never turned his back on you, it was of your own choosing. Are you waiting for God to invite you back into his life? I can help you find the relationship you are looking for, but ultimately, you must decide. You and those you cause to stumble. When you are tired of the frustration and the unknown, come back home; God still loves you after all those years and all those sins!
Lunch <Lunchbucket@city-online.com >
Columbia, SC USA - Saturday, November 09, 1996 at 04:33:05 (MST

This is Art...hmmm well it sucks cock and so do you and your shitty page
Dirty Bunghole <Fuck-off@mydick>
USA - Friday, November 08, 1996 at 23:44:38 (MST

I am very fond of your artwork and I especially liked some of your commentary along side of each picture. Particularly those in which you have recognized the false values of human nature and the animal in us. It is too bad that people who fear themselves and probably sleep with boogey-men under their beds will be your worst critics. Keep it going. I'll bookmark this site and be watching over it often. Salutations.
Curtiis M. <Nkai@sprynet.com>
Newtown, CT USA - Thursday, November 07, 1996 at 17:05:10 (MST

That was quite a glorious experience. A wonderous nightmare reality. It¹s like seeing enlightenment through a dirty needle as its rammed deep into your eye. Exquisite.
Loser
USA - Wednesday, November 06, 1996 at 21:22:27 (MST

I was browsing through the internet at work and I fell upon the crap called The Vomitus Gift Shoppe. What a lot of garbage. I would like to know if this person does in fact have a life or does he/she merely exist as a lump of phlegm sitting in a chair all day finding exciting things to do with dead animals? Please enlighten this poor soul in the art of conversation with live mammals, it¹s actually okay.If you are really lucky maybe you¹ll find a fello sicko to get together with and swap bats eyeballs recipes!!!!!!!Yours, A very pissed off Scot.
Emma
USA - Wednesday, November 06, 1996 at 21:19:39 (MST

Hee heee hee. Ptuie. Hee hee ha hee.
Just Another Freak <roadv@onr.com>
USA - Wednesday, November 06, 1996 at 21:17:49 (MST

I am experiencing a mild sadistic pleasure in my belief that you are living a deeply unsatisfactory life. Art the selective re-creation of reality filtered through the aesthetic senses of the artist. Your aesthetic senses are powerful, masterful, and disgusting. I will not be back for another visit.
G. A. Esworthy <gae@interramp.com>
USA - Wednesday, November 06, 1996 at 21:06:02 (MST

Several of the pictures are exquisite and worth the price. The artist clearly holds individuality very dear. His many-headed, many-eyed figures contradict the notion of individuality.
Brian Miller<bnm@indica.bbt.com>
USA - Wednesday, November 06, 1996 at 21:04:26 (MST

So, send the tools forward to bring their sacrifice, and behold! Loss becomes the image of your culture, the Hell of the burden you obviously suffer from: Christ sits on your shoulder, Connett!
Frederik Okholm <X@primenet.com>
USA - Wednesday, November 06, 1996 at 21:01:21 (MST

I experienced your Sex in Hell picture once on 5 hits of LSD. I remember it quite well, and it looked just like that... Since I experinced the concept before you drew it, I want royalties dammit!
Da Gooseman
USA - Wednesday, November 06, 1996 at 20:56:20 (MST

satan will eat you all.. Be afraid... be very afraid.. You're gonna rot in hell... And by the way...Eat chicken because it's tasty..
Belzebuth
clocksville, UA. USA - Wednesday, November 06, 1996 at 20:54:40 (MST

What a bunch of sick and worthless pitures!! Helps enforce my opinion that there is little intelligent life left in this country!
T. Main
USA - Wednesday, November 06, 1996 at 20:52:47 (MST

This site just rocks. i love yer artwerk. especially the skeletal fish and the crucified satan...i will definitely visit often.
Tortilla grrl
Los Angeles, USA - Wednesday, November 06, 1996 at 20:51:13 (MST

Greetings. I have subjected many of my fellow classmates to your work. I found the art enjoyable, but not as enjoyable as the expressions of loathing and disgust which crossed their faces as they perused your museum. Thanks for making my day.
Thomas MacKenzie
Denver, colorodo USA - Wednesday, November 06, 1996 at 20:49:07 (MST

I appreciate Connetts Art. I understand how he feels. The Rage he feels, I feel too. Sometimes all I can think of is confrontations and annihilations... I want to smash the checkout girl with my bottle of wine for daring to ask me "How are you sir?" ... WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU CARE BITCH! ... SMASH! .... CRASH!. Blood, Glass, screams... and when the Fat ASS Security guard shows up I pull my 357m and BLOW his FUCKING FAT GUTZ all over the trembling customers.... my eyes are red hot coals ... smoke pours from my ears, my nostrils, my mouth, as I scream incomprehensible curses at them all ... my brain is on fire... I run out of the store ... the people make way. I wish I could draw pictures.
Rex
San Diego, ca USA - Wednesday, November 06, 1996 at 20:41:57 (MST

U asking for comments? I'll give condemns in lieu, this place sucks with bad portraits that r meaningless, & doesn't quite arouse vomit.
Lau Chok Sheak <flaire@usa.net>
SG, SG - Wednesday, November 06, 1996 at 10:01:22 (MST

Mmmmm, i think that this kind of "horror" pictures are not bIZARRE,this is the kind of shit that make me feel happy and proud of what i'm doing... You suck, like me.
Dago <dago@lvd.com.ar>
Buenos Aires, CF Argentina - Tuesday, November 05, 1996 at 17:25:09 (MST

It never ceases to amaze and astound me: whenever there is a public forum available, and especially when that forum can be anonymous, the self-styled critics, vampyres (puhLEEZE), those who would save us from ourselves and various & sundry KOOKS come out of the woodwork. I have one comment for all of you: hock, TOOEY.
Beano <beano@bean.com>
Schenechtedy, NY USA - Tuesday, November 05, 1996 at 15:06:36 (MST

You call yourself an artist? You suck my cock.
DANTE
Roscoe, IL USA - Tuesday, November 05, 1996 at 11:41:32 (MST

Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 10:44:47 -0700 From: “Lord Sebastian Christian Manfred and Lord’s Lady Mistress Astarte Perynth Tanar” (PirakLaru1@AOL.COM) An introduction from two very interested and intrigued Vampyre. We wish to commend you on your job of gathering images, but we are tame. It is often rare that we enjoy the macabre, but we do. Perhaps and explanation is in order? You see, we are of the Tremere, or otherwise known in this era as the Aristocracy. Therefore, we see this as splended art. I would like to do a bit of scanning of images at this time, so if you will excuse us, we will be off. Oh, one more little thing, as whom we are, watch around the corners day or night... For we are not bothered by the light...
Lord Sebastian Christian Manfred Lord’s Lady Mistress Astarte Perynth Tanar, 1995
Lord Sebastian Christian Manfred
USA - Monday, November 04, 1996 at 23:35:41 (MST

It`s the best site of pics I`ve ever seen.Tell all your friends to come and take a fuckin`look at these pics!
Mathieu...a great death metal listener<mats@microtec.net>
montréal, qc Canada - Monday, November 04, 1996 at 18:06:23 (MST

That one painting of yours remindes me of my uncle. I was made to spend summers with him and his wife. He was a big fat bald mean son of a bitch. His teeth were green and knurled. He weighed in at a good 250 lbs. if he was an ounce. Had huge hands like fucking callused fat sausages. Hands that must have had the nerve endings buried so deep under the hardened flesh that I can not imagine him actually ever feeling anything with them. They were just good for grabbing and pounding, like fucking hammers. He made me brush my teeth until I spit blood. To him, this was the only way to properly verify that I had brushed hard enough. One time, out in the woods, he made me cross a slimy fallen tree across a river. I was scared of heights, scarred shitless and sobbing but that fat fuck made me try to cross over anyway. When I fell in and nearly drowned he almost died laughing. I remember as I fell I looked into the water below and saw innumerable red crayfish. To me they were horrible snapping monsters, waiting to devour me piece by piece ... and it seemed to me that they were friends with my uncle, like this was all planned ahead of time. I saw and thought all that in the seconds that it took me to hit the water. They were all around me. He was also the cheapest asshole on the face of the earth, that guy was the "King of the Hicks." A Farting, Belching, giant ugly stupid smelly cheapskate... FUCK HIM!
Bob
Olympia, WA. USA - Sunday, November 03, 1996 at 22:08:17 (MST

Connett should be castrated. Send me his Penis.
Roxanne Finger
Los Angeles, Ca USA - Sunday, November 03, 1996 at 21:56:05 (MST

I had seen BLACK HEROIN once before .... It was a fucking warning that I did not heed! Now I am the Pig wallowing in my cesspool of self-pity and degraded further than I had ever dreamed possible. The demons and devils swirl around me and emerge from me ... they have taken over, laughing as I scream, jabbing me with needles and poking me with poison pins. They pound me with hammers and nails. My torment is their business, and they are professionals indeed. Thousands of years of experience, since the first man-junkie realized his folly. They know their job well and counter all I can come up with to fight them. The only real weapon is time. And this is a race against time ... because I know that one fix away is purgatory, a place far preferable to this Hell. Maybe I can get drunk. Maybe I can sleep forever. There's a loaded 12 gauge shotgun under my bed
Richard Kirk Wright
BANGKOK, THAILAND - Sunday, November 03, 1996 at 21:48:21 (MST

>You are a fucking faggat, who is sick beyond his mind! AHHH! Thank you kind sir! BTW: Can I see your wee-wee?
wee-wee
USA - Sunday, November 03, 1996 at 21:27:24 (MST

>Your art work reminds me of childhood nightmares and fantasies. People tend to forget that the creative imagination of a child can be filled with a lustful violence and grusome thoughts of death, hell and perversions. As we get older death draws closer, these morbid childhood fantasies lose some appeal. Oh sure we like the occasional horror film but very rarely does pop culture horror touch the true power of imagination. Your art work touches that source, it must be difficult to stare reality in the face, there is no coming to terms with your own destruction. Most people hide from that fact, your art work does not hide, it looks at death from the child's eye, death is death, our worst nightmare.
Richard Guide
USA - Sunday, November 03, 1996 at 21:24:39 (MST

>I have become a fan of the painter R.S. Connett. His style is sometimes Picasso, somtimes Escher, Dali, or Giger, but always morbid and sarcastic. Some people would take what he says literally and use it as an excuse to do what they please. I don't see it this way. His works are satirical, reflecting a world that has become desensitized to violence, crime, and dispair. They show the failure of the Christian faith. The apathy that people feel towards life when they have nothing to turn to but the comfort of a needle. Connett is a man who tastes mortality, and feels the touch of death as a part of every day life. He has been tortured by the wrenching of his conflicted soul, finding a release in his art.By the way, where can you get prints?
Carnil
USA - Sunday, November 03, 1996 at 21:22:14 (MST

>TO: whomever receives this I should very much like it if Connet himself were to read this, but I know it's a bit delusional to think that he will. First of all, I'd like to say that I myself am an artist, poet, and a musician, and I am a sophomore in high-school. Sometimes I myself am called "dark" and "sick" but I think Connet is a fake. I know people like him, they do art for the shock value instead of for what they see as beautiful, they're the same ones who act like their psychologically disturbed so that people will think that they are a dark genius. There are very few who deserve that title and I hope one day I could be one known by that title, Connet is not worthy of this name. Demonology is a form of art that should not be disgraced in this way, it is a beautiful and difficult art. The only place I can think of Connet's work fitting in would be on a deck of "Magic" cards, (a game which I do not play). I do not find this man's art shocking or disturbing, and the only way in which I find this work perverse, (as I belive Connet wants), is that it is a perversion of art! very fucking sincerely, J. J. Duncan
J.
USA - Sunday, November 03, 1996 at 21:19:24 (MST

>I find your work to be most intrigueing and demented. I myself am always looking for something hideous to find comfort in, and it is a pleasure to have seen before me a man who is not afraid to vent his inner disgusts to the world. I applaud you, sir, and those who have no shame in accepting what they really are: morbid, tangled pieces of meat whose only purpose on this world is to be nothing, feel nothing, and to live like nothing. My congratulations to you and your fine pieces of work. Keep your mind alive and never let anyone tell you who they think you are. Always be true to yourself. Fuck everyone else. Forever in your Dominion, John
John
USA - Sunday, November 03, 1996 at 21:16:40 (MST

This is ARt? This is the biggist load of smellyshit I've ever had the mispleasure to have beeen x-posed too.. YOU CALL THIS ART???? HA ... HA ..... HA ..... This isn't Art! This isn'T truth! This isn't anything!!! ....You arn"t even really alive... JUNKIE! This is the rantings and ravings of a small, small , small.... little ... tiny ....stinking turd that is masquerading as a mind...! Connett should be put out of his misery. He is a blight on the human race and is doing the Devils work! KILL HIM! KILL Him!... If you won't, I WILL. This Blood sucking Maggot HAS NO RIGHT TO LIVE!... CONNETT... Go to the house of GOD and ask the forgiveness that you dare to spread such blastfemy! ZOG will take vengence on you! Your days are numbered... Connett.
Rule of the New ....Saviors of AMERICA
USA - Sunday, November 03, 1996 at 21:04:23 (MST

this shit is the best and most insane i have ever seen. I have sent many of the pics here to all of my friends, and they nearly jizzed over the insanity of them all. Keep up the psycho pics.
JJ <eaglnest@ai2a.net>
Zionsville, IN USA - Sunday, November 03, 1996 at 20:08:00 (MST

Well... I've looked at the entire site and I have to say "Job Well Done"! My art is not far removed from yours here and I Love it. Very creative and full of expression and imagination I hope to see more and more. Further more, who love a poster of some of these 'coversation pieces' you have here Thanks for an hour and a half of great intertainment! -Lisa Featherston Graveyard Graphix
Lisa <Animator@cris.com>
Raleigh, NC USA - Sunday, November 03, 1996 at 13:18:39 (MST

i love you. i miss you. and i am praying for you. i have called you and m and i have gotten no response. i am concerned. hopefully you still play with your computer. dog gone it i wish you would just listen to your heart and have faith and feel all the love you have from us.this is weird,cause i have to almost talk in code. you know we care, but we are being starved out here. are you ok? at least email me.smell some rose and get some Bach Flower Rescue Remedy smell some lavender oil , only the real flowers will do. please let me know something. lovs already lost. But, it added to my ever-expanding insanity Thank you. It's reasuring to know that there are others who are quite insane and different and express it with pride.
Mike Lunsford <mikeboo@lex.infi.net>
Lexington, Ky USA - Saturday, November 02, 1996 at 22:36:14 (MST

beautiful art
marco porsia <mporsia@dotcomcafe.com> toronto, canada - Saturday, November 02, 1996 at 14:17:26 (MST