Adalbert

And today back in Providence, RI, for the first time since August, 1986. Today I walked by H.P. Lovecraft's last home , and also vi...

The Lincoln Memorial at sunset. Photo by JF, 9-20+16. I spent a few days in Washington, D.C., recently, on my first visit there.

  The Daly Mansion In the past three days, I've visited the Daly Mansion in Hamilton, Montana, along with Fort Missoula, Wallace,...

At Dry Falls State Park, Washington State, 9-11-16.  Location depicted: Umatilla Rock.

A photo of me at the grave of Farnsworth and Marjorie Wright,  Willamette National Cemetery , Happy Valley, Oregon, Labor Day, 2016.

A cutting, covering Robert Anton Wilson and his appearance in Portland in 1986 (I was at the lecture ).

  "A City on Mars," the back cover of  Amazing Stories , December 1940. Artwork by Frank R. Paul

Today marks eight years since I started this blog. I'll have Jimi Hendrix (with Curtis Knight) play a version of "Happy Birthd...

  The Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial, also known as The Black Angel , by the sculptor  Daniel Chester French . I visited the site in Augu...

In recent weeks, I watched, for the first time in its entirety  the deeply  accursed film of Nicholas Ray , Rebel Without a Cause . I sa...

    Someone termed chance, cryptic, often ironic, enclosures, such as this, in correspondence, goomjah . Photos courtesy of Marc My...

   Lately I've been absorbing It Can't Happen Here , by Sinclair Lewis. Noteworthy, among other elements, are the excerpts of t...

A few of my monster trading cards from the early 1970s.

Collage by JF, 2009

Roman Scott, NY, 1990s.Photo courtesy of Marc Myers.Photographer unknown.

Transient Wings, Western Half of the Columbia River Gorge I. Loneliness, it’s such a scraped affair. Hawk jewels flowed sigh...

Another photo of my great-uncle Bruce with his pet bear. Montana, 1930s? Previous   My grandfather (with beard), and his brothe...

Jacket from my well-utilized book club (!) edition of The Occult (1971), by Colin Wilson  

Emblem Away over down the floor, twilight. Brought and immense monument, closed eyes. Hedge, blue gathering, night and quiet. S...

Photo of me, February 1986, Oregon, by Marc Myers. And happy 157th anniversary of the founding of the state of  Oregon . 

From Roman Scott's Obitulog . "I wonder if that guy is still alive?" Dneprov looked intriguing.   After the l...

Collage: Guiteau/Garfield, by JF, 2016. This was inspired by my recently watching the Murder of a President documentary on PBS...

  On the Way to Reno

  Monument to one of my ancestors,  Adalbert Falk , in  Hamm , Germany, 2015.  Thanks to Axel Weiß for all three photos post...

for 2016 and the new year . Or maybe an early St. Patrick's Day.

  A pop-up Christmas card, which a former Japanese correspondent sent me years back. Note the  Shinkansen traveling before  Moun...

 This web page drew my notice to these outstanding lectures, from 1979, at the Naropa Institute. "Time is...

  I read Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy (1988), by Peter Lamborn Wilson , when the work was crisp off the shelf, around 1989. I unea...

I witnessed this  Enigma Cipher Machine at the  Oregon Historical Society Museum yesterday. In line before me to get in was a man, appea...

   Roman Scott collage/ airbrush/ink art. The back cover of the third issue of Poultry (1983).  

The cover and two interior pages, with a couple poems from me and a tiny Roman Scott painting snippet, from Poultry Number Three...

The description of a book as "high-spirited" is typically a good reason for me to read something else. Nonetheless, I was pl...

. Hollywood Theatre, Portland, Oregon   Scott Nicolay   Richard A. Lupoff "Sexuality and Lovecraft" panel Pho...

Ice City of the Gorgon , by  Richard S. Shaver and Chester S. Geier , in Amazing , June 1948. Cover painting by Robert Gibson Jones . ...

    Weirdo 1 , spring 1981, Weirdo 6 , summer 1982 (during the time of R. Crumb's editorship). Last Gasp , or "Last Gasp Eco-F...

    A letter from supernatural writer Algernon Blackwood , to an unknown recipient, on Savile Club stationery. The author mentione...