Mark Ryden Vids From the Game "9"

Quirky Mark Ryden clips from the now defunct & out-of-print "9" Play with Larva when you get to it. Disturbing.

LINKS at each letter
A B C D E F G H I J K = Larva L M N O P Q R S T

Ah done come up with a low-go

 
 
Hey I've been using the teeny-tiny barcode as an indiscriminate "home" link, sometimes back to here and sometimes to the Glyphjockey home page. But now I can differentiate & while the UPC was a rich-in-irony glyph, this is more directly a glyph as it is a mark left by a mason on one of the stones of St. Andrews cathedral ruins in Scotland. So, when you see the little "b" it's to back here, & without it it's to the Home Page

Peeni Walli

I debated doing this post, but being an avid cyclist and having fallen off a bicycle at 18-20 mph I can relate to, yet enjoy the song "Peeni Walli" by Eek-A-Mouse . But more importantly it taught me a new term : Peeni Walli. Jamaican for Firefly - I guess they look different than ours- but today when this one landed on the curtains in front of me, I took it as a sign to post. Special treat at the above photo link - sing along, Beddameng!

EEK A MOUSE lyrics

A Not Quite Web 2.0 Exercise - DECALS!

I was looking at Big Daddy Roth stuff on eBay and ran across some decals - so stream of conciousnessly I moved on to decals. I loved water decals - their tacky membrane activated by water sliding satisfyingly onto glass - becoming integrated with whatever it was applied to. Add to that the wrongness of design and you've got the key to adulthood (at least to my juvenile brain).

Since I use Firefox with tabbed browsing I had opened a bunch of pages with individual listings on them. Then it hit me - I asked myself, "What am I gonna put any of these decals on?" at that point I realized I could virtually have them by virtue of capturing the images and building a slide show. So I did, & here it is. It contains basically unedited images found on eBay under the search "Water Decal"
Picture's a link:

A "Trip" to Baltimore Library

Went to Baltimore Library at 400 Cathedral Street. When I saw the venerable edifice in the home of H.L. Mencken and John Waters I decided to whip out the old Samsung SGH T309 and phone cam it. As soon as I stepped inside, a Library Policewoman (?) informed that if I wanted to take pictures of the building I had to "check in at information and get cleared to do so".

Yeah right:


What am I: William Nuthead? (as shown in this shot of wall paintings honoring famous Marylanders inside the library)

Of course not- America is still free as are its libraries and I will continue to photograph them without "checking in". Indeed.....

New Zealand Birds

I bought this copy of New Zealand Birds and How to Identify Them in St. Andrews, Scotland 16 years ago. Given a as a gift to William Borg-Watson from sergeant J. R. Simonsen in November 1943. Wishing a peaceful New Year. The book's official dedication is to "The Children of New Zealand". The picture's a link to the color plates which compelled me to make this L1.80 purchase. Also I guess some wishful thinking about seeing NZ one day.

My Monkey Ends With a Tail - Er, I Mean, My Tale Ends With a Monkee

Went to L.A. for one day - got a room in Chinatown. Swam at Santa Monica and spent time at Little Tokyo - that was enough for me to want to move there.

On the way home Mickey Dolenz

of the Monkees offered me a blanket.

Sing with me now:

There he was;
Sittin' on the plane;
Offerin' me a Blan-ket;
It was quite insane!
Hey hey he's a Monkee,
With a sport coat and James Bond hat;
ridin to the Midwest;
What do you make of that?

Anyway, I put all my phonecam photos together as the below slideshow - it's short but groovy:

Evidence of My Semiotic Genius Personified in Zippy the Pinhead

Hey Looky!:


Matts made the bigtime - Zippy - on June 2nd. Enigmatic message, & expert renderings of the photos sent. Tip O' the Glyph back to Bill Griffith!!
Oh, yeah picture's a linque!!

How to drown during a water landing

I was flying on NWA this week and while reading the safety sheet I noticed that during a water landing a certain step was missing and it was so important that I felt the need to point it out with a comic strip style layout. Follow along - to panic & horror.

Now you can't blame NWA - Ice cube, Dr. Dre et al should not be held reponsible, but the company that makes these sheets up for them needs to re-work 'em. Huh? And - as always the picture' a link!!

Desmond Dekker 7/16/41 - 5/25/06

Take your time, take time for the king is back
Take your time, you've got to know that the king is back
Take your time, beware, for he's right on top
Take your time, you've got to know that the king is back


Don't rush it, man, you will surely lose it
I am going to burn your skin like a blazing fire

So take your time, take time for the king is back
Take your time, you've got to know that the king is back
Take your time, beware, for he's right on top
Take your time, you've got to know that the king is back

I want you to know who's the king of the ska
The king of the ska is right here on top

Gumboot Chiton - Creepy Reminiscence

30 years ago I hitched out west. You could do that then - without getting killed by a maniac before leaving the county. I went to California and while there I camped at Andrew Molera State Park, which was a walk-in park on the Pacific in Big Sur: astounding beauty - eucalyptus trees scenting the breeze - ocean waves crashing on the beach in the distance while I slept.
I was walking the beach and being a young rascal, jumped the fence that blocked off a - get this - farm that ran down to the beach. I figured "hey the cattle aren't using it, why shouldn't I?"

The beach looked like this:

....only facing the other way.
When I got there I saw hundred of creatures scattered on the beach off into the distance.

They were each about 9" to 11" long, 6" to 8" wide. Oval, dome-shaped, like the top of a white person's head - but shaved. They were hard like a shoe or cantaloupe. They had tiny maroon spots in clusters that were not really that prominent -you had to look hard to see them -the bodies looked caucasian-flesh colored. Some light ambient ridging that went across the 6" to 8" axis on a few isolated specimens, but really just undifferentiated, hard, flesh colored domes - no holes, no eyes - nuthin'.. When turned over, they had a plate that covered the entire underside, in the same caucasian flesh color with a fringe of 1/2" long or less (mostly less) of opaque skin colored tentacles. There were hundreds of them - all not moving, not responding, some turning gray from what appeared to be death.

I wrote to an invertebrate biologist once and he said it was probably a jellyfish. I though, "hmmmmm an opaque, hard, large jellyfish with an underplate and tiny useless tentacles .... nah"

I figured this was the stuff of dreams. I've never seen one in a book, on TV or on the web. I've told dozens of people and turned to experts - nothing. When I got there it looked like hundreds of bald men buried up to their crowns.

I've had dreams often where I'm at the water side and some invertebrate encroaches upon my space. Having been at times in my life infested with house centipedes, yellow jackets, & bats - well, you can see where a guy might get a little creeped out.

So I wrote to Jim Woodring, and either he or his wife knew instantly. I almost wasn't surprised. But I remember a piece he did where he went fishing and sank his inflatable raft in a school of Rays and had to stab one to death - very visceral. Not to mention he cooks up some splendid animals that I would not want to encounter.

And they wrote back and said it was a gumboot chiton



This had plagued me for 30 years. Now I know. Thanks, Woodrings, thanks.

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Andy Warhol - See Him Upon My Wall

Well, I told the Mrs. about my blog and instantly she reminded me that we had this book. The Best Children's Books - a 1958 collection by Doubleday. We bought it used (obviously) and when first leafing it through it years ago, I discovered that Warhol had done some of the illustrations. Check it out by clicking on the pic below:

Enjoy - early stuff - he made the right choice switching to soup cans. http://lex10.glyphjockey.com/2006/05/andy-warhol-see-him-upon-my-wall.html

Two Good Friends - Nihau !

Dr. Cow & Mr. Squid !

I know - I know - too many monkeys

Jason King's Starlight Meadows is a compelling series of photgraphs - chilling & funny at the same time. See them.

History of Architecture & Ornament

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I bought this book for 50 cents 15 years ago - I love the illustrations and have attempted a little archiving. They don't make books this nicely anymore: Marbled endpapers, red page edging, plate after plate in beautiful detail - and all for a correspondence course! Click on the Gargoyle to enter once you get there....
Enjoy

Neil Young - Living with War

What happened to us?

Chinese World Domination Game

The picture is always a link....
Scans of a Chinese battle game I had in my garage. Thumbs are links to hi-res. I know nothing about rules or why or what okay!?!

Monkey - Cheetah's 73rd Birthday

Cake- not face- as a birthday treat - I always loved Cheetah. Pic's a link to his site.
He paints, too.
monkeymonkeymonkey

Matts the Giant Viking Photos

Heeeeeere's MATTS!

New photos posted to TOWN

Super Heavy, Man
Originally uploaded by lex10.

Expansion? Yes.

Enuf sedd

Me grom dog

Stupid guinea hen

These birds are suicidal. They run right towards my car - even w/the horn blaring.


PROOF!!!!

You Frank Robinson - Me Cave Man

Whoa - look at this super genius' visualizations of physical phenomena in our universe.

Above, a still from a movie of a Boussinesq Rayleigh-Benard convection in a perfect gas. Whatever the hell that is.....This is really rich ambient imagery that is being used for science - they're huge files but gorgeous.

Kongo is Going to Air.........

Kongo is going to be on Turner Classic Movies on May 2nd at 4:30 AM EDT. There's a little link at the bottom of the page for it that says "Remind Me" click and they'll send you an e-mail - cool. Just follow the text or picture links to the same place.

It's brutal, a paralyzed madman works his deviltry in order to control or destroy all he meets. Cool jungle elevator and Lupe Velez is wild in it. From my movies - watch/DVR/tape !!!!

Pink 2

Double Plus Good!

Don't go here or here if you're American

Today's Monkey - Free Movie

Internet Archive has The Ape with Boris Karloff

Written by Curt Siodmak, who wrote a bunch of horror, most notably The Invisible Man Returns.
The ability to see &/or download this is indicative of a sort of Moore's Law of Internet coolness. Support it, & maybe the keepers of the network, who frequently make ~400% profit on selling you a high-speed connection and for the most part don't fully understand the implications of that coolness won't succeed at fiscally torturing us further over it.

and oh, yeah! Monkey, Monkey, Monkey!
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Spring Snow Pictures Added to TOWN

Shivering Grape Hyacinths
Originally uploaded by lex10.

A 3 minute blizzard & it's candy coating effect.

Pictsalinque

New Series - Monkey

I love monkeys - more importantly chimps best of all. Now that we know they'll eat your face when given the opportunity leads me to savor the danger that people in pictures with them are in - this chimp's thinking, "I'm soooo gonna get this guy! Look casual.....look casual, pretend to be intent on the next deep puff of tobacco these jerks insist on addicting me to - That's right, bend that delicious face a little lower, jackass!!".

Monkey! Monkey! Monkey! (Thanks, LOC.gov!)