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Word Begets Image
[Originally published on I Have That On Vinyl] “Word Begets Image, and Image Is Virus.” I first heard those words on a CD called The Elvis of Letters, which I snatched for ten bucks from the old Amoeba Music on Sunset. I had made a habit of buying cheap discs in the hopes of jolting myself…
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Parasitic Obelysk
Emergent from mist, megalith comes into hue. Like a coral column stretching impossibly high in to the planet’s thermosphere, the monster dominates the view. Discerning shapes fluttering a long its exterior, I close in un til the monumen tum makes clearer: Monumen tal structure subsumes all vision, still miles a way. Spot no top. Light gray porous…
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Graphic Novel Review: Polygondwanaland
Check out my review of Hellmouth Comics‘ adaptation of the psychedelic rock album Polygondwanaland by King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard. It’s live on kglw.net. The author and illustrator were kind enough to answer questions for an interview, which will be posted later. Keep thy three eyes open wide. In the meantime, here’s a primer…
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I Call Them The Orgentry
They come from the primordial depths of cytoplasmic seas: Paracystic spores devour our hosts’ cell, Pataphysical flora deflowers our souls in odious fluoride, Pharmakonical megafauna lumbers invisibly overhead and under hill. If you are the blood, they quell the stream. Screaming from darkest corners of nowhere to become something, they will have their fill and…