absurdeist's galerij

by Hipgnosis

Her Wan Embrace:…

MEFISTO IN ONYX 1993, lettered, death cell edition —Harlan ELLISON…

-by Joe Petagno

artwork used to promote the adaptation of The Quiet Earth

by Ben Upham

first ed., circa 1936

Ventura, 2014
photobombed ~ Bernie Austin

illustration ~ Christoph Niemann

SUBTERRANEAN PRESS 2012

by electrokardiogram128
~ 2018

DJ
by Patrick Bremer

Burning Room by Matthew Albanese

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Sofia, Bulgaria, by Ivan Dimitrov

Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin (1880)

Days Between Stations was is will be the Bomb

The Subway (1950) by George Tooker

Seal Beach, CA, Dec. 2015

Bodie

North of Joshua Tree

Alice Tye

What Remains by Wayne Barlowe

Delirious at The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, 09.06.2015

"Balloon" ~ shot taken at Megan's one year memorial

Joan being Joan.

My grandfather's family, taken in 1923, in St. Louis, MO. My grandfather was the youngest (bottom middle) eight years old at the time.

01.14.2013

October, 2012, near "The Champion Lodgepole Pine" south of Big Bear

Autumn, 2011

Eichenberg's cover art for 1947 ed. of Jane Eyre

by John Hollander

East Fork, San Gabriel River, Summer '96

Jordy & Megs, Easter 2006

On Big Bear Lake, summer '05, Megs & Me

Megs & Me, Lake Fulmor, Fall 2000

WELCOME

Hey, Joan. You are smokin'.

"Every bookseller in town had been in her library"

Jordy, 2011

Ancient Bristlecone, White Mountains

"Edith Sitwell" by Wyndham Lewis

Jane & Paul

"Hillside Houses" (Jerome, AZ) by Clare Vanderveen

A.M. Homes, by Heather Conley

"I'm going to be a star!"
"No you're not."

Fernando Pessoa

Dark den of dreams

... Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino ...

@ the "Wedge" (photo by Chaz Curry)

"Travis Bickle" by Tom Deacon

Tyro ("The Enemy") ~ Wyndham Lewis

"Froanna" ~ Wyndham Lewis

by Hayden Nortje

Stretched

Digs

Solitude in a dry meadow near Big Bear Lake, CA: ... R.I.P., Megan Hope, my daughter (08.11.98 ~ 12.27.13).

~ Tim Hawkinson

Rosy Finch perched on the ledge, scoping out the High Sierra scene ... Shot at Trail Crest on the way to the summit of Mt. Whitney (Oct. 1992).

Only the Shadow Knows the summit of Mt. Baldy (a.k.a., "Mount San Antonio," elev. 10,064 feet), in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern CA.

Mt. Baldy (10,064 ft.) in the distance, from the summit of Cucamonga Peak (8,859 ft.), SoCal

My home away from home. Icehouse Canyon, San Gabriel Mtns., CA (July, 1998).

Headwaters on a hike in Southern CA in Spring

My grandfather's 1934 championship basketball team, from Eldon, Missouri. He's standing in the back row, third from…