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It All Went Pfft

July 31st, 2011 · Comments Off on It All Went Pfft

2006 was a bad year for me.  I commented on it in this piano piece, in which a melancholy theme deteriorates.

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It’s Fortean

July 24th, 2011 · 1 Comment

The comic strip “It’s Fortean” ran in the children’s paper Zuzu from 1992 to 1995. The editor was Beck Underwood; it was her idea. Some of them were also reprinted in the INFO Journal. Here are a few samples.

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Im Hinterland

July 21st, 2011 · Comments Off on Im Hinterland

A song to a verse by H. L. Mencken, from his “Knocks and Jollies” column, in the Baltimore Herald, January 20, 1901:  “You cannot civilize a jay, or from his belfry pluck the hay, im hinterland…”

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The INFO Journal

June 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments

I drew Charles Fort for the cover of the 72nd issue of the INFO Journal, published by the International Fortean Organization. The drawing has also been reproduced on a tee-shirt, and a few other places. Whenever it’s reprinted, I add a few more scraps of paper.

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