I'm making a custom cat portrait for a customer in Japan. She runs a cat rescue with her husband, because Yokohama doesn't have sh...

I keep checking the news to see updates on the aftermath of the magnitude 8.9 event off Japan's Honshu Island last night (or afternoon ...

(image by Sophie Blackall from her 'Missed Connections' series) The connections I notice between the three first novels I read in 2...

{image 'Robot Reading' by CarlosNCT } The themes of my reading lately seem to be mass consumerism, war, environmental degradation (s...

(image Courtesan reading a love letter (Edo) via this site ) It occurs to me that this is not a well-advised post title, but, c'est la...

Black-lacquered kabuto (helmet) with the arm of a guardian deity wielding a Vajra Edo period, 17th century Iron, lacquer, wood, and papier-m...

...is clearly, an alien squid dancing next to a streetcar. No, there were no alien squid on or adjacent to my streetcar today.* {via Pink Te...

So Reynardin is worried about what the technocrats are up to. She worries about near-armaggedon when we destroy civilization as we know it, ...