SCENES FROM HACIENDA HOGAN

 

Our dog, Lovey, often lounges in front of the throne of Mistress Moo.

We have a thing about masks.

A giant spider and Anubis watch over Em as she works on her new novel.

Did I mention that we like masks?

I really have to devote more time to drawing.

And it's a nice neighborhood. Those rumors of cannibalism and human sacrifice have been greatly exaggerated.

CHICANONAUTICA REPORTS FROM ALTERMUNDOS

 

I report on reading Altermundos, in Chicanonautica, over at La Bloga.

And it ain't all just sci-fi anymore:

It's art and stuff:

With political implications:

Can you dig it?

THE STRANGE ART OF FREDERICK RUYSCH

It started with a tweet from Public Domain Review that really snagged my eyeballs.

I retweeted, got curious, and did some Googling—I mean investigating.

Turns out it's not an obscure proto-surrealist, but Frederick Ruysch, a 17^th century Dutch anatomist who pioneered the preservation of bodies and parts by injecting them with liquid wax.

He made actual dioramas, and others drew them.

Ain't the social media wonderful?

CHICANONAUTICA MAMBOS WITH ALEX HERNANDEZ

 

That's Alex Hernandez, author of Transhuman Mambo and Tooth and Talon, in Chicanonautica, over at La Bloga.

There's mambo:

And transhumanism in the mix:

Maybe it can help as the waters rise:

And create new, improved mambos: