Here's a finished song from a few months ago, written on the heels of this post. (How the hell was that all the way back in July? Time has roared past me. Well, it's still important.) First sung in public in December 2016 ( Read more... )

First seen on Tumblr earlier today: Utsuro-bune, the urban legend/folktale of a "hollow ship" that washed ashore in 1803 on the coast of Hitachi province in Japan. Illustrations here. There are several different versions reported by historians and ethnologists of the 1800s; the details that remain constant are these ( Read more... )

Animal body parts ahoy:

Life ambitions now include owning this: Cervine Skull Mask II by artist Eric Strother. It's all the more appropriate right now, because I fell asleep in the last few minutes of a yoga class today and dreamed that there was a deer skull buried in the compost pile, and that I discovered it was growing itself into a whole new ( Read more... )