Thedario

It's no small task to be a Jovian moon sovereign, to govern the largely ungovernable Ionian citizenry amid sulphur glass eruptions, plasma dells and radiation storms. But Io's Thedario is up to it. He's the big cheese and he stands alone.

Milo 6

Milo's final reincarnation. Really.

The Honcho

Woe be unto him who crosses The Big Kahuna Honcho.
(Any resemblance to John Cain is purely coincidental.)

Thumbelina

A seed, a flower, and there's Thumbelina.
Shook toad, beetle, and mole.
Rode swallowback to garden, royalty, and wings of her own.

crafty

The spook gets crafty assessing the haunt.

Andy Warhol

Green Man 7

Soaking up the August sun.

lion icon

Pyritic lion icon in the process of demineralization.

Whose Toy?

The face isn't a mix, but a direct copy of one I don't recall taking the mold of. The original was less than a half inch tall. I wasn't going to share this one, since it's so far from being my own, but I like the Sculpey mix too much to hide it away.

Hanna

Currently the flapping of a pair of butterfly wings somewhere in Borneo.

Milo 5

Milo's final incarnation.

Milo 4

Milo morphs yet again.

Milo 3

Milo morphs again.

Milo 2

Milo morphs.

Milo

Milo prepares.

Augie

My own personal Monopoly piece.

Georgie Porgie

Georgie Porgie was a duke, of Buckingham, no less. And a pretty young duke was he. He went both ways; pudding and pie. King James, Queen Anne, and assorted others, we can presume. He kissed the girls, the boys, made them all cry, because, face it, Georgie was a bastard.

But what are we to make of "When the boys came out to play, Georgie Porgie ran away?" Are the boys Parliament? They did try to impeach Georgie for screwing up a piracy expedition, but he didn't have to run away - the King (Charles I by then) simply dissolved Parliament. Case dismissed.

Nor did he run away at war in France. Sent 4000 of his men to their maker, and would have sent more had not one of his officers done him in.

I have no idea where that running away stuff comes from.

Xaneth of Gog

To Whuptuals,
toasts Xaneth of Gog
in the time of Kali Yuga.

Hulk

Stan Lee and gamma rays produced the Incredible Hulk -
part Golem, part Hyde, part Frankenstein.

Malone

One of those guys who's always game for anything.

Joy

Joy in spite of it all.

Jayda

kid

Caught sight of him last night in the rear view.
May have been closer than he appeared.

Rolf eff amph

A debeaked vulture cork , snub arms and leatherbound body embossed with the face of Rolf Heinrichson, meadbrewer, grace the face of this ancient European effigy amphora.

Molly's Catharthis

Grief is exhausting, and so pain is purged.

George Washington

Surveyor hero king retires and can relax.

The hemp helps.

Domo Danko

Civil divinian deo,
often called upon.
You're welcome.

Life On Mars Proven To Exist

This is one among seven photographs released to the public early this week by NASA scientists analyzing soil sample data sent back to earth by the Phoenix Mars Lander. The evidence revealed in this and the other six photographs prove once and for all that highly evolved lifeforms existed on Mars in the not too distant past. Since it is believed the almost humanoid creatures - now turned to stone - dined on the plentiful perchlorate found in the immediate area, the scientists have unofficially dubbed the species "Perchlorian." It would appear Perchlorians were a lighthearted, if not downright jubilant lot. The hallucinatory effects perchlorates are known to produce here on earth among Chile's Atacameño shamans result in similar countenances.

Casper

the fiendly ghost

Gilberto Gil

Luminoso Tropicália pioneer,
and Brasil's open source ex-Minister of Culture.
Somebody, nominate him for a Nobel.

Governor Slugwell

Bam-bam, aroop bam-bam, aroop bam-bam,
aroopety, boopety, boop.
Pow!

kidney stone

Dirty, rotten concretion!
(for Adam)

Robin Hood

An insurgent if there ever was one. A trickster who targeted the gentry. Was he a real person? Perhaps, once. But the legend spawned the tales; no one man could do so much. Men dressed as him at Renaissance fairs - not our versions, but actual Fifteenth Century May Day festivals - were prosecuted for it, so potent was his trickster image still, centuries later, and sinister the notion of redistribution of wealth.