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Adalbert is a forum for me, to post ephemera, photography, poetry, occasional travel notes, and various spontaneous motions. Cover photo: Parsonage where my great-grandfather spent his early years. Taken near Liegnitz, Silesia, ca. 1870. The "xothique" portion of the web address is a nod to Clark Ashton Smith's fictional continent of Zothique.

Saturday, February 23, 2019

California Hypnagogic

I've been revisiting Los Angeles and surroundings for a bit. Today: The La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. Below, spectral glyphs from comic actor Joe E. Brown, at Grauman's Chinese Theater (Joe E. Brown appeared often as a sort of totemic spirit in Oddities and other related zines); and a revenant jest from Humphrey Bogart.

I originally posted this on 2/20/19, but the text and photos manifested as an unintended work of glitch art (merging two posts), also below:









Thursday, February 14, 2019

Antarctica; or the Ambiguities

The first two pages from a paper, dated March 7, 1993, I composed for a seminar on Melville taught by Professor Michael Hollister, at Portland State University. The class involved some lively, intense discussions in our small group. Also: a collage piece I constructed in the far-off year of 2005.