I was thrilled to get this in the mail. Vintagia is an oracle deck built for creativity and inspired by the I Ching, an ancient Chinese divination text. The design is part early VHS, part early Atari, with imagery from DOCUMERICA, a 1970s photography initiative by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which provides both nostalgia and … Continue reading Vintagia
Marginalia from the last week or two. Continue reading Marginalia #51: War by Candlelight, Plan 9 from Outer Space, and KOKOKO!
I discovered Weirdpunk Books last year while writing for Horror DNA. Something about their aesthetics and themes resonates with me. Sometimes it reminds me of the high/low friction in early David Cronenberg films (for example, ontology meets body horror). I feel like they are fulfilling some of the promises of the Dell/Abyss line that started … Continue reading Marginalia #45
…is available over at The Drunken Odyssey where you can get a haiku, list, and links to the playlist. Continue reading McClurg’s Musicalia #59: And the souls divided from themselves…
A new playlist awaits those interested over at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading McClurg’s Musicalia #58 Heat Death and Feral Architecture
Carrington exquisitely captures the moods of her paintings in her stories–disturbing, playful, strange. They read a little like Kafka’s parables or the dreams and nightmares of Angela Carter’s characters. With a symbolic density equal to poetry, well worth re-reading. If you liked Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, then I highly recommend The Cat (1992). Lam … Continue reading Marginalia #42
News was serious.He read the Ladies and Gentlemen bulletin.The mask was warm, luminous. Continue reading Little Billboards #86
When Kanopy sent an email celebrating their Joel Potrykus collection it didn’t mean anything to me until I scrolled down far enough to see that he had made a favorite of mine, The Alchemist Cookbook (2016). Ultimately, I fell for the promotion and decided to check out another one. Then I watched them all. “Coyote” … Continue reading Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the Party Zone: Recent Viewing
In one of the Shakespeare courses I took, we discussed The Great Chain of Being, a hierarchical organization of all life and matter that started with God at the top and went down through social classes to minerals. In many of the plays, particularly the tragedies, a disturbance to the order of things–which must be … Continue reading Cannot be ill, cannot be good: Bad Omens in Plutarch and Shakespeare
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