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On 6 May, 2017, I visited my long-time barber, whom I knew variously as "Sonny" and "Jimmy," for a tonsorial trip. ...

This post marks nine years since my first entry in this blog. A day or two ago I grazed on some old posts, and surprised myself with a fe...

Oliver Stone signing a copy of his novel A Child's Night Dream . Portland Art Museum (in the former Masonic Temple building), Portla...

Published in Block's Poetry Collection , Beloit, Wisconsin, Issue 1, Winter 1993. The cover art is by Nancy E. Doyle. This was not...

I first became aware of Joseph W. Kittinger through a PBS documentary, Space Men . Some numbers from his life: He jumped from a balloon ...

  This postcard appears to be a modern creation, taken from a WWI-era card. But  Latourell is an evocative place, at once inhabited, b...

I wrote the poem around 1989, 90, 91. I'm not clear how the title related to the poem, but hey...  Photo by JF,  Nandaimon Gate,...

Since April, 1985 I have kept a sporadic, handwritten journal. The following is an lightly-edited entry selected from 24 March, 1995, as rep...

  Collage by JF, 1987 Cut-up (made with online cut-up machines, then lightly edited) from found sources, February 2017 I pri...

A drawing (1977) by Roman Scott, depicting a scene in H.P. Lovecraft's story 'The Dunwich Horror.'

Digital Collage by JF, 1-31-17

Photo by JF, 1994

A journal entry involving a dream about Henry Kissinger , from December 2, 1988, by Allen Ginsberg , from We magazine, issue 12, which a...

I'll mark the approach here of the new year and its uncertain potentiality with this fragment from The Pogues, featuring " Auld...

On the adhesive-gummed, torn bottom of the photo, I  can just make out the city name of Liege, in Belgium.

A month or two ago I took in an advance review copy of In the Mountains of Madness , a biography/cultural study of H.P. Lovecraft . I a...

Rest Stop, West of Boardman By Jonathan Falk Crickets screamed under the wind, blades of night query past. My stilts beyond the...

Stuart Gordon at a Q & A session following a screening of the unrated director's cut of From Beyond . One observation Gordon mad...

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...