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For Pete's Sake

I did not mean to leave you with the impression that an album called Square to Gemini was never made. An album with that name was released in 2015, and it became known as the Original Soundtrack for the movie More Than Four. It also became known as the Better Soundtrack. There was even a campaign to get it nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Score, despite the fact that Square to Gemini…

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New Calendar for 2025

Do they still say “hot off the press“?

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Travesty is a Verb: William Blake

The letters T I A V are not written on the back of the artwork for these masks, but we know that they were meant to be included in the unwritten stories from Travesty is a Verb, because we know that one is a mask for Urizen as the Patriarch, and the other is a mask for Ahania as the Crone. I am not quite sure how we know this, except that all the Yostian experts agree on this matter. Continue…

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It's Sunday

I found this comic in the archive earlier this month, but I missed two opportunities to post it on a Sunday, which seemed to me the most appropriate day. For two weeks I was slogging through a batch of much-needed contemplation, plus an extra day or two of pondering and mulling about. Then I totally forgot about it last week and posted something else. So today is the Sunday for it, and the day…

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The Day of All Fools

This one’s for all the artists out there. Today is our day!

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Springing Along

The equinox came and went a few days ago, but spring had been springing along for at least a month before that. We had a mild, wet winter, so the meadows (that were lawns long ago) are lush with grasses and weeds.

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