Thorny Humus and Other Stories

Thorny Humus: Today, or tonight, is Yifteyzoumaymy, the third holiday in the Three Nights celebration. We can suppose Wm. Yost had his own reasons for creating this...

Three for Kol-Koy: Two days after I included Icon Number Fifty-Seven in this post from February 20, I found the officially published1 image for Icon Number Sixty-one. This mask is a portrait of...

Reyat-suki’s Winter Heart: This winter, I have not been inspired, not particularly, not generally, to continue the tale of “The Green Man in Winter“, but I thought that perhaps, with the onset of spring, on the last day of...

Irreshkwilmat was the Correct Answer: Our best guesses were wrong. This mask was neither the demalion Ummusenyobi nor Annaistrem-teyniva of the Annsugamfe. She was a variation of...

Political Cartoon: The word “political” does not need to be followed by the word “bias”. Biases are intrinsic to politics – we cannot have a political view without being biased. Truly, basically, we cannot have any kind of view without...

Four to Vraicking

The Resemblance of Genuineness: The masks of Dpajor, the entity who provides her name to the holiday of Dpajormymy (which is today, February 6), demonstrate a wide range of variability. The education of the mask-maker, or vizardwright, can make a significant...

Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?: “A man may do both,” said Aragorn. “For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you...

Mourning the loss of what was never there: When I first found these mask portraits of Icon Number Thirty-One, I thought they were variations on the mask of Uruburza Yennildi. I assumed these two masks were unchosen alternatives to the mask that was printed by the Bureau of Yeltik Imbarrahju, much like...

Chisel Marks in Sandstone and Chalk: I am not especially familiar about growing up in other countries, but children in the United States are taught from a young age to believe that they can, and will, change the world for the better. And they will do it by doing nothing...

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Rainbow Gods

It was my mother who fostered my love of irises, and for the maximum sentimental effect I suppose the ideal date for publishing these iconic portraits would have been Mother’s Day. We are now at the bedraggled end of the iris blooming season, but that does...

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Landscapes & Shelter for Frogs, Part 2

After the release of The Empty Space album by Chansons de Geste, Teri Ainsworth and Ross Kerrinza jumped back on the bandwagon of Bury Me Standing for...

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The Unnamed Haddock

But why, you might ask, would the atheistic jackalopes of the Inultaru culture need a common prayer? Or any kind of prayer?...

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The Common Prayer

Once upon a time, there was a large faction of jackalopes who put a substantial amount of effort into trying out the Catholic religion for a century or...

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The Yellow Wallpaper

It is fair and partaking of no hyperbole to say that Yost was obsessed with the task of creating illustrations for “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The oft-told story is...

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They Come in Threes

According to the label, the three entities in the twenty-fourth issue of this series printed by the Bureau of Yeltik Imbarrahju (which began printing the Icons as...

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Arbor Day and a Giant Curlew

Tree Hoarding: For today’s post in the Cabinet of Curiosities that is this blog, I have chosen to showcase two pieces from the Geranium Lake Properties archive that have almost chirpy cracker barrel nothing to do with Arbor Day....

Down to Earth: On Monday April 21st a man took a long walk (reportedly 53 miles long) while wearing a giant curlew costume to raise awareness for World Curlew Day. It was Earth Day on...

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Sands Be Toast, Part 1

The mystery of the twenty-first demalion in the Icon series is not who she is – everyone knows who she is. The Wostimendiannut is the high priestess of...

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Peculiar Intent, Part 2

There are several ways of performing name magic according to Jackalopian traditions. Name magic is when you...

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Needful Exorcism

Today we have several variations of the mask worn by Jorjee Arrasho Dabbol Lu-Keya, who belongs to a group of demalions called the meyolla-Din, a name that is the accepted short...

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Dreams and Anguish - February 2025

I am God: The current President of the United States has declared (through an official White House social media account on Twitbox or...

She is God: The Inultaru do not have the problems with genders that bedevil Americans. They do have a question of genus that has been fiercely debated in their academic communities since...

Dreams of Krishna: I am full of thoughts, to the brim and ove...

Dreams and Anguish: “Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” – Eugene Ionesco...

Cleft and Fallen: This style of mask, which is pierced in places and carved all the way through the material of the mask, so that it incorporates several lacunae as...

Four Masks for Mercy Maybe

Yost wrote “5CB” on the back of these four unpublished masks, which means we know they depict one of the Five Carthaginian Bodhisattvas (aka the Silver...

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Creatures of Catastrophe

Today the screen doors are open for the second day in a row. Yesterday temperatures pushed confidently into the seventies (Fahrenheit) and today’s forecast is...

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Towhee and Junco

Wolf Moon

In 1993, the first full moon of that year, the Wolf Moon, brightened the night sky on the eighth of January, so it is a safe guess this unpublished Geranium Lake Properties comic illustrates...

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Rhymes With Nemesis

It was back in September when I first dug this Geranium Lake Properties panel out of the archive. It originally appeared in “A Feast of Eels is a Meal of Mystery and Mud”, a story in which Jack Loki witnessed the eerie phenomenon of the Greenrise Convergent Surge. I felt it would make a good post for October, suitable to the Halloween month. But then I encountered Yost’s artwork for some Pete Cafferata albums and I became distracted by the research for the Square to Gemini post.

I set this comic aside, along with the cover art of Pete Cafferata’s so-called Christmas album, and then forgot about it. Only to find it again when I started putting together the story behind Cafferata’s Rollicking the Latest Apocalypse, which I hope to post soon. Meanwhile, belatedly, please enjoy today’s offering.

2024 June

Three in June...

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