2007

Out with the brown..

Dr. Phineas Mungo

The esteemed father of cranial embellishment.

Vartouche Muktana

One does not quash nibblies this side of Pureck Thu without obtaining express blizale from Vartouche Muktana.
If one tries, one dies.

Shelley

Bust of Percy Bysshe Shelley sculpted in driftrock on that Tuscany shore, then cast to the sea as his pyre burned. Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! Speculation has it his doppelgänger, who had warned him of his death a month earlier, was the sculptor. Tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things.. and hear the sea breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.

Christmas Cookie

ummmmm

Candy

Yummy Christmas candy

Slim Fly Teeter

Byron Werner

Monick'd Space Age Bachelor Pad Music, spangles mandalas and is half of Rural War Room.

Pope Giuseppe I

Lesser known still is Pope Giuseppe I, whose papacy lasted only a day and a half in 1829. It took that long for the Council of Cardinals to realize the vicar they elected had been dead for six days. His reign, although brief, was noted for its equanimity.

Police Sketch

Here is an artists' rendition of the suspect,
based on eyewitness accounts of LSD purchasers.

Brownie

Take heed how you gift a brownie. If he feels it's a payoff for his favors, he'll be gone in a trice.
(And don't make fun of his nose, either.)

Thespian

Thus, the thespian thought the thunder theatrical.

Kyume Yoolow

All nimbus were the cirrostrats...

Nefertiti

For Nefertiti, all the old gods were so 17th Dynasty. Ra, the sun hawk, was dead. The sun disc, Aten, was the New God, the One Worthy God. Nefertiti and the Pharoah changed their names to represent the new order, accepted from all Egypt prayers on Aten's behalf.

Cthudoo

Barnacle Bill

Any port in the storm will come due.

Howard Anatidae

Trapped in a world he never made.

Whipsnade

This here's one a them Whipsnade boys.
Can't rightly tell which one as they all look alike.

Jungle Warrior

Aeolus

How a floating island can contain deep caverns, I sure as hell don't know - but Aeolia had them and they were jam-packed with gusts and gales and even a zephyr or two. Aeolus, a man of winds, dealt them out as need be at the bidding of Olympus.

Some such wind blew in Odysseus's ship and they bivouacked there awhile. When the time finally came to shove off, Aeolus presented to Odysseus a leather bag containing every breeze but the one that blows from the west. They sailed east.

One may wonder how they made it as far as they did, but eventually they came in sight of their home shores. It was then the crew got to wondering what sort of plunder the captain was hiding in the bag, so they opened it and released the winds. The sails filled and the ship was off again. When Aeolus heard, he wasn't amused, as the misuse of wind was a serious matter in those days. He refused to deal out anymore of the stuff, and so becalmed, the crew had to eat a lot of beans to get moving again. In the wrong direction, of course.

Gloria

Burrow Grub

100X anterior view of Sumatran Burrow Grub (nasutus unguiferous)

Tina

Tina thought often of her father and his flights of fancy. Her father thought of those flights as well, only to him there was nothing fancy about them. They were just the daily mail runs between Cardiff and Cherbourg. Tina hoped his turboprop reveries would keep him young.

Tommy Tupper Toy

Recalled due to excessive amounts of decomposition dust.

Morgue Arrival H

Subject was male between 30 and 60. Recovered from marshy fen. Ninety percent of skin devoured by flesh-eating bacteria; much of muscular system also eaten away. Able to determine that little of the damage occurred post mortem. Surmise final hours somewhat unpleasant.

Elmont Cruft

Norma Floy

Norma Floy, actress, dancer and victim of Decoflapperosis,
a side effect of the Lindy Hop.

Meth in the Madness