Stalker

He waits in the woods where the two paths cross.

Gatsby

What foul dust floated in the dream wake formed by a green light at the end of a dock.

Botryoidalclast

Supercooled botryoidal pyroclast,
magmatically ejected as tephra.

Clown Aura

CAT scans measure much.

Fibh

Betwixt the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth,
Fife of Fothriff was the fifth of the seven realms of Pictavia.
Fibh was its king.

Morgue Arrival I

Arrived by parcel post from Milan, Italy, postage due. Torso and limbs absent. Barely legible placard tied around neck, reading "CRIMINALE." Partially mummified. Estimate death occurred in mid-1940's. Awaiting response from Italian Consulate.

Butlerbot

A. Hawty Distayne

Morphone

Lets one in when one wants out.

Whill

keeper of copious chronicles

Disneyland

Well, I contend this looks a little like Disneyland. Which is a cheap way to drop a shameless link to the Goldilocks remix I just recorded and posted to Audiolingo (which doesn't exist anymore so don't bother clicking on the links or.. whoops, too late. I told you it wasn't there.) The tenuous connection is the parent recording was on Disneyland Records. Stanley Unwin is there, too.

Nothing There

Narthal_Xynex_67 calling. Come in, Stephenville, Texas.

People of Stephenville: What you thought you saw in your skies last week was not, repeat: NOT what you think you saw. Your own armed forces have assured you that what you saw was an earth-based flying vessel designed to move human cargo and not, repeat: NOT a flying saucer, UFO or inter-galaxy police patrol of any kind. Please accept their story as the truth. The fact that at the time of the "sighting," your NASA Messenger probe was making Earth's first visual recordings of the dark side of the solar system's first planet, Mercury, has absolutely nothing to do with an imagined spacecraft supposedly being seen above NASA's home state, a state known to be plagued by swamp gas and methane clouds caused by cattle. I can assure you, the public was in no danger. You may continue to live your little lives. That is all.

Shrunken Porcelain Head Vase

It's not one. But if it were, it would have been made in the likeness of an elderly Mingo soothsayer, with convolutions to match her prophesies. I would have acquired it as part of an auction lot, tucked away in the corner of a cardboard box containing mostly household goods. I would have been overjoyed when I found it, knowing, as I do, several prominent florists who would eagerly vie for it. But I wouldn't have known about the curse.

Luckily, as I say, it's not one.

Churchy l'Homme

Macho tortoise à la Okefenokee

Raoul Duke

"I couldn't move. Total paralysis now. Every muscle in my body was contracted. I couldn't even move my eyeballs, much less turn my head or talk...
"Death. I was sure of it. Not even my lungs seemed to be functioning. I needed artificial respiration, but I couldn't open my mouth to say so. I was going to die. Just sitting there on the bed, unable to move . . . well at least there's no pain..."

Mephistopheles

The apparition summoned, Faustus turned his head in revulsion.
But his eyes were drawn back to the one he knew might help him.

Anfal Nikitin

Up and down the Ob, the Ushkuiniks plundered. This was considered Novgorodian trade. At the chevron helm stood Anfal Nikitin, Captain of Fear. On the Ob or Volga he drew no quarter, only the wrath of the Golden Horde. Even so, the 15th Century was Ushkuinik.

Harvey Blumenthal

Harvey Blumenthal was comfortable in his skin.
Nobody else was.

Mirthful Simian

Daunting are the armored mirthful simians.

Real ID

Unveiled today by Terror Czar Michael Chertoff was this prototype of the new Real ID chip. Such chips, subcutaneously implanted in all Americans, will provide the government with all the data they need to keep us safe.

My Pet Robot

I know they're to serve us, and not us, them. I know that's why it's illegal to own a pet robot. But what are you gonna do? It followed me home. And it's just so damned adorable.

Cochlea

This cast of a calcific cochlea reveals an ossified tympanic membrane and solidified perilymph.

Cousin Kevin

He's the school bully,
The classroom cheat.
The nastiest playfriend,
You ever could meet.

- The Who

R. Raygun

Goodbye Kitty

..or whatever you were..

Republicrat

exuder of confidence

L'il Lupe

Lucha Libre Legend L'il Lupe

Lamprey Tadpole

Cross section of a blood-sucking pollywog.
Frequents underside of toilet rims.

Green Man 3

In these short days, our belief in rebirth needs nurturing.

2008 in

..and in with the blue.