MISSED OPPORTUNITY OF SADNESS: ALIENS GATEWAY STATION MATTE PAINTING

Hey, remember that auction I posted about that had the Dish from Alien 3? Well that same auction also had the original MATTE PAINTING of GATEWAY STATION by ROBERT SKOTAK seen at the beginning of ALIENS! It went for $4,000 and yes I totally would have bought it. I told Mrs Smash about it and even she agreed there would have been no stopping me so she would have "allowed" it (I wear the pants, damnit!). I know she wouldn't have let me spend 4-grand we don't have on it, but it sure was supportive of her to say so wasn't it? Anyway, that fucking sucks.... I really really really would have liked to have owned that. *sniffle*

Here's a pic of Skotak creating it:

*thanks, Andrew!