The Mind Parasites. (Another memorial, this one a little belated, but better late than never. I offer it to the lovely folks at Tom Dispatch for reminding my fuzzy mind of the exact dates. Cheers mates!) To the faceless masters of the universe and their meat puppets and the puppets’ minions and their minions’ minions. Continue Reading
Vortex. aka The Frog Spinner.  Meet the Delvaux twins, Maryse and Jean-Loup. Jean-Loup doesn’t do anything much; he’s a bit of a nogoodnik flâneur, really, but he’s very pretty, very clever and he throws the best tea parties in & around that neck of the woods. His sister Maryse is a professional frog spinner. She Continue Reading
Haghesa & Friends. aka El ídolo de las Cícladas. For Julio Cortázar, gone but not forgotten & all that. It is a little known (and even less publicized) fact that the Minoans inherited the essentials of taurokathapsia (or tauromaquia to you and me) from the earlier Cycladic civilization with this fundamental difference: that in the Continue Reading