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H.P. Lovecraft in Shinjiku Fresh haircut, valise, split shoes, knees turning by truck of sweet potato vendor. ...

Back in the previous century I had a class entitled " Glasnost and Perestroika in East European and Soviet Cinema;" during the ...

Photo of my paternal great-grandparents Ludwig and Margaret Falk, and two of their children, my grandfather and great aunt. Ludwig had a ...

Recently Gary Coleman, Peter Orlovsky, Kazuo Ohno (a famous Butoh performer), and Dennis Hopper died closely together. I still fall on the...

Recently I read Solzhenitsyn's Prussian Nights , his long poem rendering the brutal Russian advance through Northern Prussia in 1945......

May 18 2010 I attended a talk by Ursula K. Le Guin, Gary Snyder, and Jerry Franklin, presenting their thoughts on (and some poems about) the...

Next pages -- the first two pages of a comic strip from Clark Dissmeyer. Twenty-four years after this work was done, he is still prolifical...

Ah yes.. found the copy of Oddities 7 I misplaced and will continue posting it, delayed and out of sequence. Unique work by Todd Mecklem, B...

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated." Ernest Hemingway

the him who was so Buddha nature rain white on Moon locking pond, a rabbit, a hunchback, furious unmet foxfire Appalachian not even close to...

Some years back I read Troublemaker and other Saints , by New York author Christina Chiu -- one can purchase the book online. I recall the ...

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...