2008 Complete Index

December, 2008


Wednesday, December 31, 2008 -- Night Songs And Whispers #1: Songs

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 -- Egyptian Queen, Grace Slick, Beyond Apollo

Monday, December 29, 2008 -- The Creature That Ate Britney


Friday, December 26, 2008 -- Cognitive Blur #4: Supergirl

Thursday, December 25, 2008 -- Cognitive Blur #3: Britney And The Crow’s Song

Wednesday, December 24, 2008 -- Cognitive Blur #2: Tea And Extinctions

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 -- Cognitive Blur #1: Librarian Bond Girl

Monday, December 22, 2008 -- “What Is It About You, Lana?”


Friday, December 19, 2008 -- The Year Winds Down #3: Shirt And Tie

Thursday, December 18, 2008 -- The Year Winds Down #2: Buying Junk

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 -- Amy Winehouse In The Sea Of Crises

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 -- Clana, Lexana: Loving Lana

Monday, December 15, 2008 -- Cheerleaders: They’re What’s For Dinner


Friday, December 12, 2008 -- Know

Thursday, December 11, 2008 -- Wabbit Twacks

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 -- The Year Winds Down #1: Michelle Wie

Tuesday, December 09, 2008 -- Souvenirs From Wisconsin

Monday, December 08, 2008 -- Young Belinda And The Old NFL Camelot


Friday, December 05, 2008 -- Muskie Light Switch

Thursday, December 04, 2008 -- Heaven From Hell

Wednesday, December 03, 2008 -- Unfinished Cartoon #1

Tuesday, December 02, 2008 -- Fluffy And The Three Stooges

Monday, December 01, 2008 -- Monster Lizards And A Young Woman’s Mind


November, 2008


Friday, November 28, 2008 -- Why Did Beethoven Cross The Road?

Thursday, November 27, 2008 -- “I Am The Villain Of The Story”

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 -- Lost In The Analog

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 -- Doris Day Day

Monday, November 24, 2008 -- Lindsay Lohan, Al Gore And World Peace


Friday, November 21, 2008 -- Paris Hilton And The Kennedy Assassination — 2

Thursday, November 20, 2008 -- Marginalia And The Kennedy Assassination — 1 & 2

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 -- Light Bulbs And The Kennedy Assassination — 1 & 2...

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 -- Paris Hilton And The Kennedy Assassination — 1

Monday, November 17, 2008 -- Hayden Panettiere And The Kennedy Assassination


Friday, November 14, 2008 -- Alchemical Suspicions Of Beauty Without Terror

Thursday, November 13, 2008 -- Defying Nature In The Parking Lot

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 -- Boys And Girls And David Hockney

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 -- Comics And Movies: Thoughts From Art Spiegelman

Monday, November 10, 2008 -- “Kari Loses An Underwire From Her Bra...”


Friday, November 07, 2008 -- A Few Moments With Owen And Dodger

Thursday, November 06, 2008 -- Through Trees And Clouds, Beauty Without Terror

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 -- Browsing Election Day

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 -- Dead Butterfly Flapping

Monday, November 03, 2008 -- This Is Lisa Randall. Not Lisa Randall


October, 2008


Friday, October 31, 2008 -- Halloween On An Inclined Plane

Thursday, October 30, 2008 -- The Darkness Inside The Wolf

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 -- Leptons, Quarks, Gauge Bosons And Britney Spears

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 -- Sharks From Beyond Space: Sky As Shoreline

Monday, October 27, 2008 -- The Hortense Lament


Friday, October 24, 2008 -- When We Meet Monsters

Thursday, October 23, 2008 -- Monster Snakes And Sexy Tee Shirts

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 -- Broken Windows From A Day In The Life

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 -- Stars. Clouds. Us.

Monday, October 20, 2008 -- How Pluto’s First Moon Got Its Name


Friday, October 17, 2008 -- Saving Lucy

Thursday, October 16, 2008 -- Wine And Cigarettes And Children’s Art

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 -- Water, Clouds And The Alchemy Of People

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 -- Some Outer System Notes

Monday, October 13, 2008 -- The Butcher Knife, The Pit Bull And The Shotgun


Friday, October 10, 2008 -- Galileo And Neptune

Thursday, October 09, 2008 -- Ode To The Concept Of Cotton Candy

Wednesday, October 08, 2008 -- Paint Brushes Have Nightmares And Sometimes Dance

Tuesday, October 07, 2008 -- Monster Bears And Knitting

Monday, October 06, 2008 -- The World And The Supervillain’s Nightclub


Friday, October 03, 2008 -- The Center For Backyard Astrophysics

Thursday, October 02, 2008 -- The False-Color Moons Of Filipe Alves

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 -- 2008 3rd Quarter Index


September, 2008


Tuesday, September 30, 2008 -- Never Having Kissed Amy

Monday, September 29, 2008 -- The Almost New Moon In Black And White


Friday, September 26, 2008 -- Sometimes The Stars Move Backward

Thursday, September 25, 2008 -- "The Ancient Art Of Knowing The Sky"

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 -- Frustrating Skies: Neptune At 50mm

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 -- And Now A Musical Interlude With Judas And Jesus

Monday, September 22, 2008 -- Ode To "Smallville"


Friday, September 19, 2008 -- Oh-Oh. If Cats Could Fly (The Poem)

Thursday, September 18, 2008 -- Oh-Oh. If Cats Could Fly...

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 -- The Tache And The Touche

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 -- "A Vaguely Fantastic Truth"

Monday, September 15, 2008 -- Rendering Golems


Friday, September 12, 2008 -- Hunting The Storsjoodjuret

Thursday, September 11, 2008 -- Petting Katydids

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 -- Endings And Beginnings

Tuesday, September 09, 2008 -- The Unfinished Image

Monday, September 08, 2008 -- Keeping A Vampire As A Pet Always Ends Badly


Friday, September 05, 2008 -- Ashes To Ashes

Thursday, September 04, 2008 -- The Word Monster

Wednesday, September 03, 2008 -- Primal Forces Of Nature

Tuesday, September 02, 2008 -- The Old Gypsy Woman Said Dirt Is Coming My Way

Monday, September 01, 2008 -- What Is Love? 5 -- Godzilla


August, 2008


Friday, August 29, 2008 -- Charles Moore Goes To Saturn!

Thursday, August 28, 2008 -- Never Once Harmed By Anyone

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 -- Avril, Yes; Beyonce, Christina, No

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 -- Twilight Language—Decapitations, Bigfoot And Psychopathic Movies

Monday, August 25, 2008 -- After Dark


Friday, August 22, 2008 -- A TV, A DVD Player And A Cloud Somewhere Above Me

Thursday, August 21, 2008 -- Hanny's Voorwerp

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 -- Bigfoot Update (Cops Lie?!)

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 -- Hollywood Makes Psychopathic Movies?!

Monday, August 18, 2008 -- Michelle Wie And Bigfoot


Friday, August 15, 2008 -- Deviations and Norms #1: Numbers

Thursday, August 14, 2008 -- Not Britney, Not Even Mischa

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 -- Wrinkled, Lined And Flabby (Reprise)

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 -- The Big Machine On The Table

Monday, August 11, 2008 -- Plum Island Monsters


Friday, August 08, 2008 -- The Picture Manifold

Thursday, August 07, 2008 -- Wrinkled, Lined And Flabby

Wednesday, August 06, 2008 -- Crying (A Loose End)

Tuesday, August 05, 2008 -- Petting Butterflies

Monday, August 04, 2008 -- Grim


Friday, August 01, 2008 -- Checking Out Mirror Neurons At The Grocery Store


July, 2008


Thursday, July 31, 2008 -- A Fluffy Update

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 -- Hell Is The Eclipse Of Art

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 -- Grousing And Werewolf Grousing

Monday, July 28, 2008 -- The Black Slip: A NASCAR Mystery


Friday, July 25, 2008 -- "The Fountainhead" Versus "The Phantom Of The Paradise"

Thursday, July 24, 2008 -- My "Year Of The Cat" Fantasy

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 -- Beethoven On Gilligan's Island

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 -- A Painting For The Pope

Monday, July 21, 2008 -- Devouring Memory


Friday, July 18, 2008 -- A Thirty Year Old Mushroom

Thursday, July 17, 2008 -- Fireflies (Not Synchronized) In My House

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 -- Frank Frazetta's Pencils

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 -- Vic Mizzy

Monday, July 14, 2008 -- Friday I Visited A Haunted House (A Befuddlement)


Friday, July 11, 2008 -- Decades

Thursday, July 10, 2008 -- Trouble At Yerkes Observatory

Wednesday, July 09, 2008 -- Losing Cool

Tuesday, July 08, 2008 -- Rogue Blossoms

Monday, July 07, 2008 -- Monster Types


Thursday, July 03, 2008 -- The Harp-like Strings Inside The Piano

Tuesday, July 01, 2008 -- 2008 2nd Quarter Index


June, 2008


Monday, June 30, 2008 -- Rerun: In The Realms Of The Unreal Right Here


Friday, June 27, 2008 -- Pink Floyd Laughter

Thursday, June 26, 2008 -- Haunted

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 -- “A Concept That I Felt Was Right”

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 -- No SOB

Monday, June 23, 2008 -- Sparrow And Moon


Friday, June 20, 2008 -- Relentless

Thursday, June 19, 2008 -- Diagnosis

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 -- Doctors

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 -- The Underlying Theme

Monday, June 16, 2008 -- The Autographic Value Of Photographs


Friday, June 13, 2008 -- The Act Of Making Was The Prayer

Thursday, June 12, 2008 -- Unicorns

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 -- As Far Away As Can Be

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 -- The Cusp Of Chatting

Monday, June 09, 2008 -- Wildflowers Out Back


Friday, June 06, 2008 -- Half The Zodiac

Thursday, June 05, 2008 -- The Moon In The Evening Sky

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 -- Sheldrake: Orchestras To Planetary Systems

Tuesday, June 03, 2008 -- Sickness

Monday, June 02, 2008 -- Change


May, 2008


Friday, May 30, 2008 -- No Time, No distance

Thursday, May 29, 2008 -- Libra And The Light Polluted Sky

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 -- Libra And The Alchemical Sky

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 -- Cocos Keeling Is Calling

Monday, May 26, 2008 -- Brian May—Old News But Good News


Friday, May 23, 2008 -- Mars Almost In The Beehive

Thursday, May 22, 2008 -- Let’s Go To The Library And Scare Ourselves

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 -- Open Clusters And Colorful Doubles

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 -- The Season’s First Monarch

Monday, May 19, 2008 -- Spring Planting And A Beehive Update


Friday, May 16, 2008 -- Horoscopes Without Dates

Thursday, May 15, 2008 -- Whispering On The Moon

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 -- Pumpkin Mars In The New Myth Sky

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 -- Terre Battue

Monday, May 12, 2008 -- Bad Kites (Recruitment Literature)


Friday, May 09, 2008 -- I Am Here

Thursday, May 08, 2008 -- A Jamie Update

Wednesday, May 07, 2008 -- Orange Lindsay

Tuesday, May 06, 2008 -- Like A Monster

Monday, May 05, 2008 -- Astronomy And Impressionism


Friday, May 02, 2008 -- Break A Leg

Thursday, May 01, 2008 -- Dobsonian


April, 2008


Wednesday, April 30, 2008 -- Mainstream Violence And Women

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 -- A Short Ode To A Quick Sketch

Monday, April 28, 2008 -- Checking In With The Gods


Friday, April 25, 2008 -- “Boat Names” and Pilate’s Question

Thursday, April 24, 2008 -- My ‘Driving Miss Shelly’ Story

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 -- My Litter Box Story

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 -- My Eric Von Zipper Story

Monday, April 21, 2008 -- Just Got Back From Feverville, Kansas


Friday, April 18, 2008 -- If Beethoven Were A Fish

Thursday, April 17, 2008 -- One Degree Of Richard Brautigan

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 -- Something Strange Here, Something Almost Magical

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 -- Alone In The Dark

Monday, April 14, 2008 -- Three Recent Monster Movies (Plus One)


Friday, April 11, 2008 -- Where’s Polonius? — And ‘Trixie’

Thursday, April 10, 2008 -- Where’s Polonius? — And Jasper Johns

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 -- Memories As Sacred As Stained Glass

Tuesday, April 08, 2008 -- Beard Talk

Monday, April 07, 2008 -- Where’s Polonius — And The Real Emma Peel


Friday, April 04, 2008 -- Rocks And Mirrors: Scenes That Never Return

Thursday, April 03, 2008 -- Looking Back At Butterflies From Atlantis

Wednesday, April 02, 2008 -- Politics, Philosophy And Hillary Duff

Tuesday, April 01, 2008 -- 2008 1st Quarter Index


March Archive


Monday, March 31, 2008 -- My Alyson Michalka / Giant Clown Hammer Fantasy


Friday, March 28, 2008 -- Expeditions (500th post!)

Thursday, March 27, 2008 -- Today, Tomorrow And Yesterday

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 -- Jeffery Camp On Gwen John

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 -- My Two Favorite Monster Snake Movies

Monday, March 24, 2008 -- Me As A Supervillain Without A Supervillain Fortune


Friday, March 21, 2008 -- The Abandonment Of Meaning

Thursday, March 20, 2008 -- Fine Art, Pop Art And Andy Warhol

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 -- Big Reductions At The MCA’s Karen Kilimnik Exhibit

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 -- Closed Until Further Notice

Monday, March 17, 2008 -- Thoughtful, Troubled, Terrified Of Myself


Friday, March 14, 2008 -- Diane And The Can Of Squid (5 of 5)

Thursday, March 13, 2008 -- Diane And The Can Of Squid (4 of 5)

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 -- Diane And The Can Of Squid (3 of 5)

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 -- Diane And The Can Of Squid (2 of 5)

Monday, March 10, 2008 -- Diane And The Can Of Squid (1 of 5)


Friday, March 07, 2008 -- Water Soluble Oils On Plain Unprimed Paper

Thursday, March 06, 2008 -- “Lizard Man” Returns?

Wednesday, March 05, 2008 -- A Typical Day On The Road To Utopia

Tuesday, March 04, 2008 -- I The Titanic Strike A Neon Iceberg

Monday, March 03, 2008 -- How To Tally A Sorted List


February Archive


Friday, February 29, 2008 -- I’m Looking At A Photo On A Page

Thursday, February 28, 2008 -- If I Could

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 -- Confused And Weary

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 -- Rose Serf

Monday, February 25, 2008 -- The Difference Between Flowers And People


Friday, February 22, 2008 -- Three Oldies But Goodies (Annotated)

Thursday, February 21, 2008 -- Marisa Pretended She Didn’t Notice The Cartoonist

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 -- A Woman Always Knows

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 -- Stacy Wanted To Cry

Monday, February 18, 2008 -- Keira Knightley Is Hiring


Friday, February 15, 2008 -- A Paddy Chayefsky Valentine (Part 3 of 3)

Thursday, February 14, 2008 -- A Paddy Chayefsky Valentine (Part 2 of 3)

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 -- A Paddy Chayefsky Valentine (Part 1 of 3)

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 -- Goblin Universe Love (2 of 2): Christians

Monday, February 11, 2008 -- Goblin Universe Love (1 of 2): Clouds


Friday, February 08, 2008 -- The Muse Ship

Thursday, February 07, 2008 -- There’s Nothing Beethoven Could Do To Help

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 -- Ellison’s “Shattered Like A Glass Goblin”

Tuesday, February 05, 2008 -- Polaris In The News And Out

Monday, February 04, 2008 -- Susan Always Tries (Pencil Cartoon & Bonus Cartoon!)


Friday, February 01, 2008 -- Snow Day!


January Archive


Thursday, January 31, 2008 -- Pluto And Beyond #3: The Golden Age of Outer Solar System Studies

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 -- Pluto And Beyond #2: The Ecliptic

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 -- Pluto And Beyond #1: Clyde Tombaugh

Monday, January 28, 2008 -- Lost Pieces


Friday, January 25, 2008 -- The Landscapes With Figures Of Berthe Morisot #5

Thursday, January 24, 2008 -- The Landscapes With Figures Of Berthe Morisot #4

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 -- The Landscapes With Figures Of Berthe Morisot #3

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 -- The Landscapes With Figures Of Berthe Morisot #2

Monday, January 21, 2008 -- The Landscapes With Figures Of Berthe Morisot #1


Friday, January 18, 2008 -- “Liefde Baart Kunst”

Thursday, January 17, 2008 -- The Curse Of Loch Ness #2 — Heidi

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 -- The Curse Of Loch Ness #1 — Tess

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 -- My Five Celebrity Pencil Cartoons (Annotated)

Monday, January 14, 2008 -- Women And Captions


Friday, January 11, 2008 -- Why I’d Make A Terrible Rock Star

Thursday, January 10, 2008 -- Eagle Inn: Top Ten Nonsense Anagrams

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 -- Chiaroscuro Poses

Tuesday, January 08, 2008 -- Something Magic, Unknown, Daring Me To Know

Monday, January 07, 2008 -- Faux Mischa Dreams


Friday, January 04, 2008 -- He Drew Her, Then . . .

Thursday, January 03, 2008 -- Noli Me Tangere

Wednesday, January 02, 2008 -- 2007 Complete Index