Lin Tarczynski

Queen of Heaven Around the time Wm. Yost was devising the mask for Icon Number Fifty-Nine, Queen of Heaven was looking for an artist for the cover of their album In Elephantine Time. The band had hired Pete Cafferata as their producer for their third album (their previous two albums had been produced by Brigit Zapfeud's former husband). Cafferata suggested Yost as the artist for the cover.

Queen of Heaven

Around the time Wm. Yost was devising the mask for Icon Number Fifty-Nine, Queen of Heaven was looking for an artist for the cover of their album In Elephantine Time. The band had hired Pete Cafferata as their producer for their third album (their previous two albums had been…

Two Poems 12 The Fall of the White Elephant This first blooded rope—correctly silken,perfectly serpentine—this last patrician wire,polished and blue—twisted together in coilsof mistaken association.Mishmashed lines for chimesmade with chunky acrylic butterfliesand squat bisque bells markedin foreign ciphers.An amazing arcade of wings and balls—a monumental dilly—a foregone conceit now broken…

Two Poems 12

The Fall of the White Elephant This first blooded rope—correctly silken,perfectly serpentine—this last patrician wire,polished and blue—twisted together in coilsof mistaken association.Mishmashed lines for chimesmade with chunky acrylic butterfliesand squat bisque bells markedin…

Thorny Humus Today, or tonight, is Yifteyzoumaymy, the third holiday in the Three Nights celebration. We can suppose Wm. Yost had his own reasons for creating this variation of Yifteyzouma's mask as a suitable illustration for Icon Number Fifty-Nine. We are not privy to his reasons, but we are delighted to be able share this image in a timely manner, on the relevant occasion.

Thorny Humus

Today, or tonight, is Yifteyzoumaymy, the third holiday in the Three Nights celebration. We can suppose Wm. Yost had his own reasons for creating this variation of Yifteyzouma's mask as a suitable illustration for Icon Number Fifty-Nine. We are not privy to his reasons, but we are…

Saving Time I cannot explain the weird excitement I felt when Morrow Duston and Kaoru Motella, the owners of Dust Motes Books and Antiques1, announced the upcoming dates of Beantoss Mandala Time for the years of 2026 and 2027. Five years ago, while organizing one of the flat-file stacks2 in the Geranium Lake Properties archive, I came across the unpublished comic in today's post, a panel in which Yost commemorated the start of…

Saving Time

I cannot explain the weird excitement I felt when Morrow Duston and Kaoru Motella, the owners of Dust Motes Books and Antiques1, announced the upcoming dates of Beantoss Mandala Time for the years of 2026 and 2027. Five years ago, while organizing one of the flat-file stacks2 in the…

Three for Kol-Koy Two days after I included Icon Number Fifty-Seven in this post from February 20, I found the officially published1 image for Icon Number Sixty-one. This mask is a portrait of a demalion who often bunches up with the Ancient Dirt Mothers.2 Nekolhim Koyinna-Sil is the formal title of this demalion, but most of the time, jackalopes use the less complicated, more breezy nickname Kol-Koy.

Three for Kol-Koy

Two days after I included Icon Number Fifty-Seven in this post from February 20, I found the officially published1 image for Icon Number Sixty-one. This mask is a portrait of a demalion who often bunches up with the Ancient Dirt Mothers.2 Nekolhim Koyinna-Sil is the formal title…

Reyat-suki’s Winter Heart This winter, I have not been inspired, not particularly, not generally, to continue the tale of "The Green Man in Winter", but I thought that perhaps, with the onset of spring, on the last day of the shortest month of the year,1 I might feel inclined to finish the story. I think my trouble with this tale is that it does not have an authentic ending, and none of the endings I know are good ones.

Reyat-suki’s Winter Heart

This winter, I have not been inspired, not particularly, not generally, to continue the tale of "The Green Man in Winter", but I thought that perhaps, with the onset of spring, on the last day of the shortest month of the year,1 I might feel inclined to finish the story.…

Manliness Fair warning: The crone is ascendant; grumpy weariness ahead. The men in the Epstein Files are not an aberration. The legality of what men do is a game, an acceptable game, a normal game. It is normal for men to cheat at their games. (I hear that Bad Bunny won over Kid Rock in the Super Bowl Halftime Battle for Viewership.

Manliness

Fair warning: The crone is ascendant; grumpy weariness ahead. The men in the Epstein Files are not an aberration. The legality of what men do is a game, an acceptable game, a normal game. It is normal for men to cheat at their games. (I hear that Bad Bunny won over Kid Rock in the Super…

Holy Curiosity

"A man should be mourned at his birth, and his death celebrated with jubilation. Once he enters adulthood, he should live alone as soon as he is able to make his own choices. Only in this way will he have time enough for holy curiosity, for fostering and advancing his foraging…

Irreshkwilmat was the Correct Answer Our best guesses were wrong. This mask was neither the demalion Ummusenyobi nor Annaistrem-teyniva of the Annsugamfe. She was a variation of Irreshkwilmat, probably an earlier version of the mask, on its way to becoming Icon Number Fifty-Seven, Irreshkwilmat and Her Shadow.

Irreshkwilmat was the Correct Answer

Our best guesses were wrong. This mask was neither the demalion Ummusenyobi nor Annaistrem-teyniva of the Annsugamfe. She was a variation of Irreshkwilmat, probably an earlier version of the mask, on its way to becoming Icon Number Fifty-Seven, Irreshkwilmat…

Two Poems 11 Burnt Who has lived a life interruptedby fire? Joining that company of saltwives, I cannot look back or step forward.Reconcile me, please, to this interim---soon enough, a life dividedby cataclysms will resume. All Posts in the Two Poems Series

Two Poems 11

Burnt Who has lived a life interruptedby fire? Joining that company of saltwives, I cannot look back or step forward.Reconcile me, please, to this interim---soon enough, a life dividedby cataclysms will resume. All Posts in the Two Poems Series

Political Cartoon The word "political" does not need to be followed by the word "bias". Biases are intrinsic to politics - we cannot have a political view without being biased. Truly, basically, we cannot have any kind of view without a bias. We are incapable of being objective because we are always the subject. Our pronoun is forever "I" or "me", or in the case of a certain plurality of the mind (and we are feeling plural, both editorially and royally, more often nowadays) we can reach for "we".

Political Cartoon

The word "political" does not need to be followed by the word "bias". Biases are intrinsic to politics - we cannot have a political view without being biased. Truly, basically, we cannot have any kind of view without a bias. We are incapable of being objective because we are…

Kill Your Darlings

If you asked Dr. Boromir Fandellacken, Professor of Anthropology, Historiography and Philology at Gurrackelleen College, what is the purpose or meaning of the holiday called Kill Your Darlings, he will probably tell you that February 13 is not so much a holiday as it is a…

A Samsara Variation

A Samsara Variation

Two Poems 10 The Painter She was earthen and outmost of speech,a tragicomic lummox due to the injuryof heritage, with a body meant onlyfor visiting that which is solid in man. She ignored the admonitions of her teacher,who would never go beyond the round surfaceof his nerves. His rim was not clear-cut, solvedinside a clouded patch, large-toothed and…

Two Poems 10

The Painter She was earthen and outmost of speech,a tragicomic lummox due to the injuryof heritage, with a body meant onlyfor visiting that which is solid in man. She ignored the admonitions of her teacher,who would never go beyond the round surfaceof his nerves. His rim was not…

The Resemblance of Genuineness "We all tell lies far more than we realize, to other people, and to ourselves. It is our way, the way we were taught as children, when we learned language; we were taught to tell stories. We were taught to pretend words were real, and as adults, we believe our reality is true, because it has always felt true."

The Resemblance of Genuineness

"We all tell lies far more than we realize, to other people, and to ourselves. It is our way, the way we were taught as children, when we learned language; we were taught to tell stories. We were taught to pretend words were real, and as adults, we believe our…

Sparrow Day The first day of February is the first day of Imbolc, which for jackalopes is Sparrow Day, or Day of the Sparrows. This holiday recognizes the gifts of sparrows, and any other small, gray, brown, gray-brown, or brown-speckled bird that does not flee to warmer climates. Today we can thank all the little wild birds for their presence, for staying beside us during the cold desolation of winter, making the season less lonely with their quick flight and bright song.

Sparrow Day

The first day of February is the first day of Imbolc, which for jackalopes is Sparrow Day, or Day of the Sparrows. This holiday recognizes the gifts of sparrows, and any other small, gray, brown, gray-brown, or brown-speckled bird that does not flee to warmer climates. Today we can…

Albert Camus and His Invincible Summer When searching for the source of the quotation regarding the invincible summer, which is an essay by Albert Camus, we became aware of the internet's belief that this sublime thought originated in a sentimental paragraph about love and happiness. A paragraph of excruciating sappiness that Camus would never have written. Sometimes, our disappointment in the human species teeters on the edge of despair.

Albert Camus and His Invincible Summer

When searching for the source of the quotation regarding the invincible summer, which is an essay by Albert Camus, we became aware of the internet's belief that this sublime thought originated in a sentimental paragraph about love and happiness. A paragraph…

A page of an abstract comic book

A page of an abstract comic book

Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight? “A man may do both,” said Aragorn. “For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!”

Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?

“A man may do both,” said Aragorn. “For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!”

Two Poems 9 Emergency Survival Kit For the duration of this catastropheI will choose armor made of grass,lace painted green,a catalog of cowries,ghost stories,and laugh at weedy reptiles in curt fablesof dry fog and falling mirrors. All Posts in the Two Poems Series

Two Poems 9

Emergency Survival Kit For the duration of this catastropheI will choose armor made of grass,lace painted green,a catalog of cowries,ghost stories,and laugh at weedy reptiles in curt fablesof dry fog and falling mirrors. All Posts in the Two Poems Series

Geranium Lake Properties, “Lahdagaiyo”

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A Fool Dreaming of Summer "In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." Albert Camus, "Return to Tipasa"

A Fool Dreaming of Summer

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." Albert Camus, "Return to Tipasa"

The First Seventeenth Today is the First Seventeenth of the new year, which is as good an excuse as any to celebrate Buzma-vannu-vudurrol, the demalion for the number 17. Yost made this portrait mask back in 1985, but it was never intended for publication during the usual course of events in the Geranium Lake Properties comic. I believe this mask made its way onto a greeting card for the January 17th holiday.

The First Seventeenth

Today is the First Seventeenth of the new year, which is as good an excuse as any to celebrate Buzma-vannu-vudurrol, the demalion for the number 17. Yost made this portrait mask back in 1985, but it was never intended for publication during the usual course of events in the…

Two Poems 8 Nothing Infinite Your children neverdreamed or deserved this hissing skyof vast aluminum overlookingscarps engulfed in squall-streaked smoke,or the tiny chalk stars burned blackin their hands and againsteach shark-colored eyelid. Water swathes and illuminatesacid-stained stones in the thick ancient bellyof the river—thirsts are drenched,desires evaporate,fears twist and narrow—all are blind as ossified fortune.Flesh clings briefly to porcelain frames,then falls into the delicate sleep of ash. All Posts in the Two Poems Series

Two Poems 8

Nothing Infinite Your children neverdreamed or deserved this hissing skyof vast aluminum overlookingscarps engulfed in squall-streaked smoke,or the tiny chalk stars burned blackin their hands and againsteach shark-colored eyelid. Water swathes and illuminatesacid-stained stones in the…

Needful Magic, Nos. 75, 76 and 77

Needful Magic, Nos. 75, 76 and 77

It Was Thirty Years Ago Today… At the bottom, at the beginning, it is all black and white. Black ink on white paper. The line. The mark. The tip of the pen touches the surface of the world.

It Was Thirty Years Ago Today…

At the bottom, at the beginning, it is all black and white. Black ink on white paper. The line. The mark. The tip of the pen touches the surface of the world.

Mourning the loss of what was never there When I first found these mask portraits of Icon Number Thirty-One, I thought they were variations on the mask of Uruburza Yennildi. I assumed these two masks were unchosen alternatives to the mask that was printed by the Bureau of Yeltik Imbarrahju, much like the other candidates for Icon Number Fifty-Six, a mask of the demalion for absinthe. The Bureau of Yeltik Imbarrahju, under the editorial guidance of Haarukka Yazimyek and Upfield Airman (with less input than you might assume from the…

Mourning the loss of what was never there

When I first found these mask portraits of Icon Number Thirty-One, I thought they were variations on the mask of Uruburza Yennildi. I assumed these two masks were unchosen alternatives to the mask that was printed by the Bureau of Yeltik Imbarrahju, much…

Two Poems 7 God is a Metaphor Verethragna is Verethragna. Victory and its personification have the aluminum sheen of aggressive triumph. God of gray birds and black frosts, ghosts in the Vrahran fire, the most sacred round song above woods without wheeled suns, the oversound of all fires of conquest. Each old song now stands before a heart-stamping sea, and the manifestation of aggressive light pours blazingly on their words.

Two Poems 7

God is a Metaphor Verethragna is Verethragna. Victory and its personification have the aluminum sheen of aggressive triumph. God of gray birds and black frosts, ghosts in the Vrahran fire, the most sacred round song above woods without wheeled suns, the oversound of all fires of…

Chisel Marks in Sandstone and Chalk

First, do no harm. Don't be evil. Those two statements, and others like them, come from a place of complacency, arrogance and ego that is the grandiose culture of American individualism. I am not especially familiar about growing up in other countries but…

Typical Jackalopian Capriciousity Class is in session for Uncommon Inultarumek 1.1A to 1.8D. Let's eavesdrop for a few minutes on a lecture given by Professor Boromir Fandellacken1 as he begins his introduction to the Six Naming Languages of the Inultaru: "The languages commonly used by the cultures of the Inultaru - by the jackalopes of the Second House, by the Toh-inen-wa, by the Moss Folk, and others - are held together under the umbrella of Inultarumek, a linguistic designation proposed in 1931 by Arnolda Inley and Peter Housmire, which was accepted within the general academic population by 1954.

Typical Jackalopian Capriciousity

Class is in session for Uncommon Inultarumek 1.1A to 1.8D. Let's eavesdrop for a few minutes on a lecture given by Professor Boromir Fandellacken1 as he begins his introduction to the Six Naming Languages of the Inultaru: "The languages commonly used by the…