The Book of Srang Cover

This is the cover of a unique chapbook, The Book of Srang (a misspelling of "strange") drawn by a childhood friend of mine. As indicated by the instruction on the left, the book had an audio accompaniment
-- vocal effects imprinted on a cassette tape.  The tape long ago vanished, no doubt first unraveling.

When You are Away from Athens do You Have Another Girl

A century since the start of World War I

Written and mailed on July 30, 1914, two days shy of 100 years ago, and two days after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered World War I:  July 28, 1914.

Alexandrian's Surrealist Art (1970)

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 "(De Chirico's) father, a Sicilian engineer who lived in Greece, had an aristocratic temperament and had fought several pistol duels.  His mother was romantically enough inclined to have had one of the bullets which had wounded her husband mounted in gold." 

Pullulation

poem ca. 1991

My room, Boulder, Colorado 1984

 

Stares of Destiny

The Man-Fish, and Vigilante Justice

The Man-Fish, from Dewey Tidwell's Heller in the Oilfield, Westerner, November-December 1974

see a similar creature, Jake the Alligator Man, from a former post

from John H. Harrison's "Doc" Lincoln's Cantina Cut-Throats, Wild West, January 1972

January 21, 1943

On January 21, 1943, the Soviet army had only just opened a corridor to besieged Leningrad, the first actions leading to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began, and the Japanese fought in Guadalcanal to maintain their Pacific empire, among other events: January 1943.

Snow also coated the ground, in the view seen from someone's front porch.