#imaginary book

There are several ways of performing name magic according to Jackalopian traditions. Name magic is when you use magic with or against a specific entity, whose name is used in the invocation or spell or ritual or whatever form is your preferred mode of casting.1 The Inultaru call this type of magic impantak yeldvoon, which is usually translated as “peculiar intent“. Continue reading Peculiar…

Eleven Years Of Pat’s Walking Photos!

September 17, 2009 - September 17, 2020

Today's Walking Photos: Wait, what's that in the neighborhood LittleFreeLibrary? Omigosh, that looks like a copy of the brand-new aspirational coffee table book Eleven Years of Walking Photos, by yours truly!

What are the chances?! Wow, some lucky passerby is going to snag a really exciting free book! I'm talking about the Harry Potter tome of course…

Every year on this day I try to commemmorate the start of my Walking Photos journey by going somewhere out of the ordinary for me, in hopes of snagging some especially eye-catching photos. With today's wildfire smoke levels still at a "Very Unhealthy" rating, though, and my poor unhappy left eye freshly laser-fried from yesterday, it just didn't feel like the right day for an ambitious walk. So I'm afraid we have to settle for this fanciful mockup of a coffee table book which will probably never exist.

At the top right of the first photo you can see some of the smoke in the air obscuring the trees. The second photo provides a detail of my wondrous not-bestselling book, and the third photo gives a view of the sun through the trees and smoke.

It's supposed to rain a little tonight and then more tomorrow, and that may really finally help with the smoke levels. I know everyone in this state hopes so. Honestly I wouldn't mind a nice rainy stroll after everything we've been dealing with.

Thank you to everyone who keeps following this Tumblr, dropping in to look, liking a post every once in a while, etc. I really appreciate your replies and feedback and I just love knowing that people are enjoying it, at least some of the time. Sorry things have been a tad uneven of late, but I'm hopeful things will level out somewhat and I can get back to my daily routine. Onward into Year 12!

Was this GLP comic published in newspapers? I do not remember it, and I cannot find evidence that it was part of the storyline in May 1993. The last day of Ghost Month is today, and even though the gates of hell close today, we suspect those infernal doors will not be secure, because tomorrow is the autumnal equinox, which begins the season’s quick slide into October – the Halloween Month. “The…

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…

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…

Digging through the mazy warren that is the Geranium Lake Properties archive, I have unearthed several files dedicated to GLP comics that appeared in various zines, amateur fanworks and DIY media. Most of them were printed in black and white, and the two illustrations in this post were from a chapter in Words and Word Balloons, a thick (216 pages!) book-sized zine from ZC Pictorials*, edited by…

Not only do we have more unpublished mask designs by Alice Aroumbeyski in this post, but we have two excerpts from an almost-unpublished book, which exists only as an illegal pirate edition from an unidentified source in Chile: “The Jackalopian tradition of two-faced masks, called ahnye akammaro, can be expressed in two forms: as a double-headed mask, ilma isseksee, with two masks attached to…