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Nothing to do but today

Nothing to do but today

It was more than a few months ago when I found these two images of album covers in the Geranium Lake Properties archives. I meant to post them earlier, but I became caught up in the search for all the masks in GLP (which is a project that is still ongoing without an end in sight). The title of today’s post is the title of a Stephen Stills song because there is an odd fact about these two albums.…

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The Return of Astanu Neforai

The Return of Astanu Neforai

Today is the first day of Whitsuntide, which jackalopes observe as the first day of menos penockrel nimbersoo. Which is actually a phrase of nonsense words, usually translated as “the general anarchy we hope to enjoy” in the summer season. The first week of summer celebrates the return of Astanu Neforai, the Mother of the Sun. During the eighties, people started playing “School’s Out” by Alice…

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We Go Round By

We Go Round By

The two Geranium Lake Properties comics in today’s post feature English translations of lines from a century-old Jackalopian carol, “Eb-oon Kreskudlang-a-Lang”, traditionally sung to invoke the spirit of the Yalsjee (singular: Yalsjiffoon), a group of demalions who are sometimes called pinecone imps. The refrain can be translated, partially, as: Thank you for the days and nightsflaunted with…

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The List of Ninety-Four

The List of Ninety-Four

The Inultaru call it togsanegua dortama. The To-inen-wa call it togsam anequadortif. The list of ninety-four. Gralie Bohe refers to the concept in her novel The Boy in the Yellow Leatherette Portmanteau: “The two men had left Ethan’s godmother at the Bookscape bookstore, caught up in an intense discussion with Ashtabula Littlehales about the Inultarumet doctrine of togsanegua dortama kleit…

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The Nine-Thirty Chorus, 2 variations

The Nine-Thirty Chorus, 2 variations

Yost made two variations for this Geranium Lake Properties comic, and I am not sure which one was published in 1989. I asked around but it seems nobody can remember which of the two versions appeared in newspapers, although three people told me they remember that it was published in July, not in August as the numbers suggest. I think I have mentioned before that the apparent dates on the GLP…

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Nous Tuerons Les Hommes Anciens

Nous Tuerons Les Hommes Anciens

Happy Threethreethree Day! Happy are we indeed, for the world did not end today. There is a faction among the Inultaru that believes the apocalypse has already happened, and we are now living in a post-apocalyptic society. I am inclined to hold that view myself. It seems to me, at my age, I have lived through the ending of several former worlds. Gralie Bohe created a sweet-natured incarnation…

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The Labyrinth of Suoja

The Labyrinth of Suoja

At the entrance to the Labyrinth of Suoja is a granite plinth engraved with a quote from the fifth chapter of The Conservation of Static by Kuoleman Vanderhau*: “The proverb of the double-edged sword is very much misused. Most of the time, the perception is that if you reach for it, whatever “it” is–fame, love, security, power, truth–you will cut yourself grievously. Because a double-edged sword…

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Amplify, Intensify, Billow

This could be your name, no. 190 Today is the fourth Tuesday of January, so that makes this day the first Larrikin Day of 2021. Utilizing the Five Ws or 5W1H is often suggested as a method of finding your larrikin name. You are supposed to ask yourself Who? What? When? Where? Why? And optionally, How? Answering these questions somehow leads you to an inspiration for your larrikin name. For…

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Lunch on Route 66

Jackalope children are given lessons in lucid dreaming from kindergarten to adulthood. As adults, they follow their own inclinations when the creation of their extravagant dream worlds. Jack Loki journeys on adventurous dream-quests through surreal landscapes, meeting with exotic creatures and fascinating characters. He built his dream house in a fantastic community that looks like something out…

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Mild Steel Recipe

This panel is the one most misprinted in the history of the Geranium Lake Properties color printing errors. It is accepted as common knowledge that no newspaper, out of the 17 that printed GLP in color, got it right. According to Ha Kim Ngoc, it is Yost’s least favorite misprint, an opinion she expressed to Michael Veerduer at the Strand bookstore, where they were both attending an event…

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The Black Scorpion Café is an imaginary coffeehouse in Whittlespear Beach, a fictional town, the setting for The Boy in the Yellow Leatherette Portmanteau, an imaginary novel by Gralie Bohe, in which Wm. Yost is one of two main protagonists. © 2017 lin tarczynski

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Minor Tripinnate Bliss

Sometimes, at the time of publishing these online versions of Geranium Lake Properties, I have no sense of connection to Yost’s universe, the universe of Jack Loki and the Jackalopian culture, or Gralie Bohe’s novel, The Boy in the Yellow Leatherette Portmanteau. The connection is there somewhere, maybe I will discover it later, maybe somebody else will figure it out, or receive an impression.…

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