Flares into Darkness

 Click any image to enlarge These are illustrations used in the...

This is impressive work cleaning, painting, and fabrication parts as needed to restore an 1871 machine that makes candy drops. A large amou...

Get ready for a throbbing weekend with Madison Cunningham and Joey Ryan.  

Everything stinks: creosote, bleach, disinfectant, soil, blood, gangrene. The military authorities say uniforms must be preserved at all co...

It's odd to think how many iterations of life there have been on the earth. From the Cambian Explosion to today, which I'll call t...

Get ready for an observant weekend with World Order.  

Click any image to enlarge Walter Crane is 19th century illustrator who is most remembered today for his illustrations of nursery rhymes an...

Above an Aberjhani grandmother gathers cucumbers and then preserves them. When she's done she prepares a simple lunch. I'm always f...

Get ready for a subsisting weekend with Say Lou Lou.  

I fail to see why you did not understand that groceryman, he did not call it "ground ground nuts," he called it ...

Four Horsemen of Apocalypse by Viktor Vasnetsov Tune your ...

  (Note: this was first posted on November 17, 2009. I'm reposting it for today's anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing) A few years ...

Get ready for an intransigent weekend with Gutter Rose.  

Click any image to enlarge In my earlier post  Popadanets -- Russian pulp propaganda about a genre of current Russian pulp fiction I ended ...

I find these two guys to be entertaining and informative. They lived in China for several years and speak fluent Chinese. After sensing thi...

Get ready for a prescient weekend with Judy Roderick.  

OK, this is weird. Earlier I posted about a visit to a Japanese Girls Bar . I probably should have known better than to do it, but I decide...

Click any image to enlarge Henry Bosak is an American illustrator and painter, originally from Nebraska, but now based in Arizona. His stil...

Get ready for a persistent weekend with Reina del Cid and Toni Lindgren.  

Aztec human sacrifice Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. - Rita Mae Brown It is time for...