Adalbert

I have been reading a biography of the Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland, by Ragna Stang. The anecdote about he had to boil a book cover ...

Cabin fever, snow like broccoli brains hiding outside the double pane. Had a UFO dream, in which I saw a vaguely airplane-shaped formation ...

Photo I took in Multnomah Cemetery in Portland, of the grave of a Russian (or possibly Ukrainian, or some other nationality) woman... I obs...

Here is an H.P. Lovecraft parody, another light piece. Lovecraft has inspired a large number of parodies, both written and cinematic. The re...

Been re-reading the Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood... potent atmosphere of the silent, menacing Canadian wilderness there... Last read it man...

Two more poems, inspired by, or written during my Norwegian trip of five years ago: Memories of Father, Lyngor Island, Norway By Jonathan Fa...

Photo of my great, great, great- grandparents' parsonage in Waldau, East Prussia (now near or in Legnica, Poland) -- and apparently the...

A collage which Roman Scott and I made over a period of two years or so in the late 1970s (or at least part of it, given the limits of this ...

A record of a talk/reading with poet Gary Snyder and others from a few years ago -- it was a practice in recording observations. The event ...

Dad Unites States Marine Corps, 1946 He has a slightly apprehensive, ambiguous expression here.

Recently completed Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, translated by Ivan Morris: Tremendous stuff, the interlacing of creepy ...

An article about the death of Lafcadio Hearn, the great interpreter of Japan (and New Orleans, Martinique, and other places) from 1904 -- ap...

The rest of Oddities 3 from 1982, with some more dithyrambic contributions by various people. All of the contributors in this issue were hi...

one more Oddities page

Here is about half of the contents of Oddities 3, which included a fascination with morbid malformation, decay, and arcane nostalgia. Also ...

I recently finished a translation (by Douglas Parmee) of Bel- Ami by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), kind of a departure from what I've b...

The front cover of Oddities 3 (1982), a magazine published by Roman Scott through the 1980s (and I played a certain role in the zine as well...

Occultation written after seeing a lunar eclipse, February 2008 By Jonathan Falk Train frame sudden horizon gloam clucking – engi...

The front and back covers from a book I read at the age of fourteen, fifteen or so, (more than once) -- the bloom high way by Asa Elliot. Th...

Here are two journals from two trips, each a fortnight, taken a while back. The journeys occured in dissimilar places, and they were taken...

Gurdjieff country over there in the Caucasus is certainly cooking... August 6: the date on which Hiroshima was bombed. I once read a diary m...

of course, the Laurence Olivier character in Marathon Man is a thinly veiled version of Dr. Josef Mengele, the death camp doctor. Read a bio...

Just re-watched Marathon Man last night... Is it safe? Dim memories of seeing clips from it in 1976 on television...