Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Saturday, May 16, 2026

Absconding With Empirical Evidence from the Hoosegow

Ghoul: Yost wrote the following paragraphs in a fragment of The Chalcedony Tablets, which is part of a book that appears to be a fictionalized autobiography Yost was writing before he disappeared in November 1999. Whether it was meant to be Yost’s autobiography or Jack Loki’s autobiography is not obvious in the first and only draft of...

The Martyr of Whereabouts: It is taking us more than a few days to write a short history (soon to published here in Vraicking) for Icon Number Sixty Four (the demalion of Presence and Vulnerability). In the course of our endeavor, we have discovered an artifact marked with an example of a kiGamnch design known as “Thistle Beetle on the Threshold”. This cipher (we have identified it as a cipher because it seems like...

Absconding With Empirical Evidence from the Hoosegow: She has been identified as a trickster god and a demalion of defiance, but she is neither. Knavery is one of her attributes but she is always an honest knave. The Inultaru will tell you disobedience is her most recognized characteristic, but only because jackalopes consider disobedience a virtue in those who were born, not by choice, into a society that demands obedience....

Sunday, March 29, 2026

Six of One or a Half-Dozen of Another from Vraicking

Queen of Heaven: Around the time Wm. Yost was devising the mask for Icon Number Fifty-Nine, Queen of Heaven was looking for an artist for the cover of their album In Elephantine Time. The band had hired Pete Cafferata as their producer for...

Reluctant Primordial Death: Of late, when I find myself browsing through the Geranium Lake Properties archives, I have been scrutinizing any materials related to Inultarumet concepts of death, with special attention given to...

Go Ask Alice: In the story “The Straighter Stronger Course to a Corner of the Light” Jack Loki and his traveling companions, Ivannahven Yurimlaudey and Skelty-the-Fourth, visit one of Alice Aroumbeyski’s studios. The location of the studio is not...

Rumors and Murmurs of Transfiguration: The truth is...

Five Open Doors: “We have been here for a very long time, yet there is not enough time, never enough time,” said the Fool to the Thief, to which the Thief replied: “Let us not talk falsely now. We will not...

Ravel and Unravel: It is a hard world out there among the Hahnoquimmish. Do not let anyone tell you differently. People will offer you sanctuary, but it will be a lie. They cannot offer you what they do not have for...

Friday, March 20, 2026

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...

Monday, February 27, 2023

Red is Gray and Yellow White

It was not until mid-December that I decided to put together a series of Geranium Lake Properties comics for Christmas. I wanted to continue with the masks and faces I have collected from the GLP archive, and my idea was to knock them together with an angel theme. A concept that almost immediately became problematical. Really not my most brilliant idea, but I persisted. It is not like I have a shortage of...


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