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A letter attached to my copy of The Promise of Air.  Some time not long past, I found a copy of  Algernon Blackwood's novel, The Promis...

In September 2016, I took a car trip through parts of Oregon, Washington state, Idaho, and Montana. I followed this excursion with time spen...

 On June 27th, 2020, I set out to locate the grave of former child actor Stanley Fafara  (1949-2003). It marked the first time I had trod th...

Today marks 12 years since my first entry of this blog. 

In 1987, in Eugene, Oregon, I once met an individual, a poet, through friends in common. He mentioned Arthur Machen 's Hieroglyphic...

Vintage real photo postcard. The  Davidson  Monument,  Oregon Caves , Oregon.

Cover art by Hannes Bok; edition from Shasta Publishers, 1948. Digital Collage by JF   I recently perused  John W. Campbe...

Lately I've made a stew for these days, which I never formulate precisely the same way, each time I cook it. The emphasis is on nut...

Cover art by Audrey Johnson Donald Wandrei's  The Web of Easter Island was a curious novel, with a story of cosmic terror and reve...

Lately I finally absorbed Lovecraft at Last  (Cooper Square Press: 2002), by Willis Conover, decades after reading the other two Lovec...

Autumnal Empires is a film (made from combining two originally-untitled film reels), which had languished unviewed for decades. I only la...

The Twilight of the Narrators The willows wailed in the box office. The revenant hovered hierophant beak telepath since the facts preclud...

Two stills from The Howler (with Roman Scott, wearing the beret, and me, below, encountering a wall); a Super 8 movie we made in 1987...

Happy New Year, and return of the 20s! An instant I caught, from a  Chinese New Year   lion dance , Portland, Oregon, 1993. Note the ...

A photo I gathered, at nightfall, at the  Bismarck  Memorial, Berlin, April, 2015. I strolled about the monument, while visiting the near...

Real photo postcard,  Porterville , California. One can see the driver's hand, but where's the face?

Director Richard Stanley (with Brian Callahan), Q and A, after a showing of Color out of Space, closing night, H.P. Lovecraft Film Festiv...

Today I spent a couple hours meditating over the paintings, objects, and art in the Nicholas Roerich  Museum, in New York City; I had wante...

I am revisiting Colorado; after a long interval.

Here follows the (lightly edited) text of a letter I wrote, in October 1985, to family members; during my stay in Colorado, through parts o...

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The following is a letter to me, from Roman Scott , detailing a period in his life when he moved from Sandy, Oregon, to Portland (as things...

A painting I completed of late; Episodes Before 82: Algernon Blackwood .  (And July 27th marked the 11th year since I started this web lo...

A postcard, and photo (I have posted the portrait before), from Liège , Belgium. I bought the card in Amsterdam.

Digital collage by JF A poem I wrote around 1978-80, tangentially about actor Angelo Muscat: Angelo Muscat Film Festival The man-he...

My earliest calculator; mid 1970s.

Here's a study I did; based on my recollection of a photograph (or based on an amalgam of several photos) captured of Allen Ginsb...