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  • Machine Learning Sonnet No. 9

    Blackboard maintenance restart complete, And return predictability. Since day one, in historical perspective. Cyclamen is out. Laser-printed damask stripes are in. Join your local today! Administration Control Panel. Mostly surveillance, And power up to earn your day. A coded style package for the Most discerning gentlemen. Understand weed control. Brett was being kept busy at…

  • Place Sketch: Fauxpool

    A swampy heap that survives by the fame of its black markets. Fauxpool’s underdeveloped state offers advantages for a litany of illicit trades that other locations fall short of. One of these is the number of its districts that are accessible only by narrow-boat and require a strong familiarity with the city’s winding ways.  Fauxpool’s…

  • The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England

    by Antonia Fraser, originally published in 1975 and edited in 2000. This one is more valuable as a reference book than for entertainment. It’s especially useful for parsing out the various Henrys and Edwards that have sat on the English throne. There’s also a clear trace of the decline of British monarchial powers starting post-…

  • Cinen Von Catlien

    Contemporary artist living in Istanbul. An autodidactic surrealist artist who depicts esoteric themes of the psychic states and matters of spirit using elements of illustration, fine line, and portrait panels.  Her work can be viewed and supported on several platforms, but I found her on deviantart.com/selfregion

  • MIRI: Myst Island Recreation Initiative

    The Myst Island Recreation Initiative, shortened to MIRI, was a project launched in 2003 by a handful people who were active on the Myst Community forum. At the time the plan was to build it in a sea or large lake. It was not meant to be a commercial enterprise so much as a retreat…

  • Machine Learning Sonnet No. 8

    Remove the protector from the outlet port on the first visit. Each print engine may crank, but not the religious. It’s a great blend of upscale tranquility with affordable transportation For two. The parachute will save me. More than the common sleep Of the recording below. The scone mix is sure scary. It’s every day…

  • The French Revolution

    Ian Davidson, 2016 This one is a sweet middle ground between scholarly and easily digestible. There’s a brand of contemporary non-fiction that I call candy tales. It’s that poppy, junk food way of detailing the life of some vast historical figure in these already stale OMG Scandal Gossip or Totally Super Rad Bro tones. This…

  • Basil Gogos

    Basil Gogos was a painter best known for his work on horror-themed magazine covers in the 1960s. He was born in Egypt and immigrated to the United States as a teen with his parents. He studied at the Art Students League of New York and the School of Visual Arts. His work appeared on the…

  • Character: Paul Dion

    Paul Dion is the patriarch of the House of Dion. He is known most as the heir of the most ruined House in Palmetto. The “Good Revolution” was at its peak when Paul was only four years old. Once his family was incarcerated he was placed in the children’s holding facility on Rook Island. He…

  • Capetown Ranch, 1960s

    A vintage illustration of a ranch style home in Capetown, the legislative capitol of South Africa. Era is 1960s. I’ve been obsessed with homes that have middle courtyards since I was a child. The nicest houses I have ever been to in Louisiana all had them. With their lined bricks and contained explosions of flamboyant…

  • Les Miserables

    Victor Hugo, 1862 “It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.” Victor Hugo I knew little about this story before I read it. I enjoy musicals, but I never knew anything about the one based on this. I hadn’t seen the film flops. I knew little about France besides too much of…

  • Machine Learning Sonnet No. 7

    Why spend a while till we say Double fall line? Vegetarian cellulose capsule. Sweet and sturdy Sunday. German ski training and safe boarding From here. Come here. Create our Directory here. Running back a certain picture. Stealing it in my school bag. Reinforce a picture when many children were very cute. Philosophy of literature. Include…

  • Agim Sulaj, painter

    Agim Sulaj is an Albanian painter born in the late summer of 1960. His style has elements of surrealism, photorealism, and hyper-realism. Sulaj has lived in Rimini Italy since 1990 and continues to paint.

  • Children of Dune

    Frank Herbert, 1976 “Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class – whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires,…

  • Machine Learning Sonnet No. 6

    A terminal emulator library. A pointless masturbatory effort. Have you received an upgrade to my answer? Out From Under Player. Morning greeting from the reception staff. Tried to turn and give her a squeal. Check out my reaction below. Chemotherapy and radiation in our report Card to card from a specific site. Is there enough…

  • Machine Learning Sonnet No. 5

    The skull behind the Word.  I propose that this entire lousy outfit govern itself accordingly.  That does sound like a clue, people.  Prayer and intercession. Retreat out of operation.  Could technology advance facial reconstructive surgery? Low character mortality, Low effort hard lines. Consider a meeting, it’s in my pocket, One can assist in your personal…