Oh yeah, and while I’m thinking about it, I wanted to say something about the 3 ghosts on my homepage (I’m the medium, natch)…
All three are “real” ghosts from Spiritualism’s freaky heyday.
On the left we have Bien Boa, from a photo taken by Charles Richet at a seance with the medium Eva C. […]

Amazon sent me a couple more books from the very short list of reasonably-priced, academic (as opposed to new age “how to contact the spirit world” type) books about the 19th Century Spritualist movement in the U.S. Currently ploughing through “Spiritualism in Antebellum America” by Bret E Carroll (1997 University of Indiana Press).
This is […]

Boingboing. I love Boingboing. I get so much vital information from my routine perusals of Boingboing. Like this compendium of old magician posters featuring whispering imps. Who knew it was such a…trope. Is that the word?

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and here are some other magician posters, many of which were printed by Goes Litho […]

I ordered a laptop yesterday.
The express motivation was so that Vernon would be fully mobile while looking for work out of state. The alterior motivation had to do with bringing myself, lurching and coughing, into the modern age as I try to build an illustration “business.” While I’d love to be a Gorey-esque […]

As usual, I am trying to do eighteen things at once (work work, get my website up and running, get the hell out of town for my niece’s birthday party tonight), and so my first word on my new website will be absolutely nothing special.
Having a place where people can see my illustrations […]