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Dream of a bus to Parnassus -- high Egyptian-looking columns I could not ascend to catch the departure. Rain falling in a sky out of John M...

More Oddities -- the very last issue I believe, from the zine's roughly six year life. Inventive display of fonts on the cover, and a d...

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Last weekend attended the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland again. Some of the very short films were missing (i.e. those around five...

Cycle of Death JF Turf, sunken long where the earth sheared off away into the brown creek, clouded pond. Blackened or molten eaves, peaked...

Been reading Ibsen's Peer Gynt -- ironically long after I visited Ibsen's childhood home. "In the Hall of the Mountain King...

to continue with the mixing of old and new stuff, this is a prose poem from some years back: Atmosphere and Clackamas JF Unwieldy passage of...

I have been perusing Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven. I was lukewarm toward the writing at first but am appreciating it more as...

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Insular JF Written in Herre Norway, June 7 2009 No, it's an einganggrillen, one time grill, paper leaping over coals, E-18 sausage -- na...

I don't recall seeing a single homeless person in Copenhagen (unless you consider Christiania) -- none of the shopping carts, the sh...

a couple more planarian pages, this will be the last selection from this issue of oddities i will post, although there were a few other smal...

The trip was excellent; had very different imagery and events than I anticipated. There were blunders, such as my search for the site of t...

Writing from the Western part of Berlin... After several days spent here, and a trip to Wroclaw Poland as well... I had some absurd idea I w...

haven't been able to keep these up as much as I would have liked, hard to find internet cafes and the like, but am now in Copenhagen, wi...

I still haveæn't completely gotten on my feet on this trip yet, has been taking longer than usual to adjust. Also coming down with a co...

over the past 24 hours R. and I went to Kragero and the island of Jomfruland. Got to walk up to a statue of Edvard Munch at a famous vantag...

still in Norway, yesterday R. and I walked across a perilous dam ledge over gurgling waters down past a telecommunications shed over twiligh...

and i am writing this entry from a village in norway... primordial woods dripping with boreal rain and diffuse light about me... neat as a...

ah ha... the elephantiasis grandma is dated 1982. Re-read Algernon Blackwood's The Glamour of the Snow -- top shelf writing. The theme...

more oddities -- two pages from issue 4, I believe, from the early 1980s. The non-traditional format had the pages shaped like flatworms; ...

a couple more photos from Japan -- the well-known Ryoanji garden and a wedding image I happened upon at Katsuga Shrine, Nara. They have an ...

More photos I took in Kyoto Japan in 1995... Again, taken with a point and shoot camera, they had an "out of time" texture. Some...

Poem, and a photo of myself at the Ryoanji rock garden in Kyoto, Japan from 1995 -- one of those photos where you give the camera over to a ...

The last installment of Oddities 6. I'm generally not one for suppressing the written word, but here is an exception that tests the rul...

I forgot to mention that the geographic range of the artists in Oddities 6 extended to the Midwest. Here is a work by the exalted Clark Dis...

"But Jung sees the unconscious as being, besides this container for personal repressions, at bottom collective -- containing the produ...

A couple more pages from Oddities 6. These works are, as with anything, collaborations -- the co-author is time. By this point the contribu...

my posting of oddities 6 will be delayed for a while until I can get my new scanner figured out... I watched that great show on Japanese bal...

The first three pages of Oddities 6, an homage to H.P. Lovcraft, from 1986. I will attempt to post all issues (eight or so, I believe) even...

Another poem from 1994 -- and a photo of myself from 1997, observation deck, South Tower, World Trade Center; and a very brief time lapse s...

G.W. is going to have to give back the keys to the car in a little more than a week -- wonder who he'll pardon? The vehicle's got a ...

I've posted this before online, but I'll rerun it -- a cut-up of words by Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Rogers, and a translation of the poe...

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...