(”Pick a Card” by Ed Benes, from Upper Deck’s Vs. System)
1. Nina and I have been cooking up a short story/novel/screenplay for months, with the myth of The Joker as its focal point.
2. Yesterday Heath Ledger died tragically, and was quoted in multiple interviews saying his portrayal of the Clown Prince of Crime in The [...]
(Space Bears by Juvaun Kirby, from Upper Deck’s Vs. System)
I swear there are forces outside me that are guiding my shoes to step in EXACTLY the right piles. And then I figure that my self is probably big enough to absorb everything outside of me anyway. So I scamper off in my mind and discover a whole [...]
(My painting entitled “First Love”, illustrating #1 on the list.)
Okay, this idea is lifted from numerous sources. The search terms people use to find our little corners of the blogosphere are an endless source of delight for those of us with access to such an information saturated medium. Here are my favorites from Full. Body. Transplant. These came in [...]
This week’s Thursday Thirteen is especially dear to me, since I have the honor of writing weekly articles about humanity’s modern myths. Yes, I am talking about comic book superheroes and villains. When I took a stroll through this past year’s archives, I only got as far back as May before I had 13 favorites. I absolutely [...]
(The wild deuces of the Rider Waite traditional deck from http://facade.com/tarot/)
Tarot cards are a little set of symbols that have brought big fun to my life. Their origin is a bit hazy, and the controversy surrounding them is plain crazy, but they are undoubtedly one of the premiere sources for distilled archetypes of the human [...]
(Cindy glowing, by McFarlane Toys)
I was surfing around for inspiration this morning when I stumbled upon this:
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/18/the-whoville-register-whats-your-grinched-name/
If you love Cindy Lou Who as much as I do, click around in that link and discover what your name would be if you moved next door to her in Whoville. I translated thirteen people just for [...]
(Our neighbor the osprey, with mullet for lunch, from http://vivanickdrake.deviantart.com/)
Life is full of simple pleasures, and these are thirteen of mine.
A good hot bath. When I was a kid, on a very cold day, my body learned the bliss of total physical pleasure. All from a simple tub of hot water. I have spent the [...]
My second Thursday Thirteen revolves around one of the parts of life that Nina and I use most often to increase our glow: Cinematic Love Scenes. Some are pure romance and Eros, and some are different forms of the blissful bond between humans. Enjoy.
1. The climax of The Ninth Gate (1999), burning up with Johnny Depp [...]
(That is the first photo of my cardflipping career, by Craig Gibson, featuring a swarm of Wild Sentinels, of course.)
I like to click on random WordPress postings, and I stumbled upon a fabulous meme this morning. Thursday Thirteens are weekly lists on blogs that help us all connect and I want to play, especially since [...]
