My town transforms into a circus--trapeze artists, elephants, clowns. At first I loved it, but when I went home...
In my nightmare, TV ads push new, supposedly eco-friendly uses for pigs, until this alarming ad...
I meet Peter Pan grown up: a stark, fey prince in exile. Why do only I see him, and the Lost Children? Oh.
I love what dancers look like, seen over time, in strobe photos. Like weird undersea growths...
WARNING: NAKED CATS
A misty day in San Francisco's Presidio, where migrant pegasii graze on pine-tips and shadow witches nest...
Nerds built the blues. Rick Moranis, famous blues-nerd, makes a groupie suck his ice cream cone...
CAUTION: MOCKS MUSIC, RACE, VANILLA ICE (CREAM)...
Our Appalachian town revolts against fundamentalists, but brainwashing takes time to undo...
CAUTION: SEX AND INJUSTICE
I'm at a party in an air-lake. We fish for a girl who's gone invisible. But... what if we catch her?
In Surinam, a whole river falls 600 meters into the sea. I put on a birdsuit and fly into rainbows...
I think Yeats was wrong to use the Sphinx to symbolize the brutal post-Christian era he foresaw...
I'm a woman living in a space habitat. A new Napoleon invades us, and damages our life-support...
In a field in the Central Valley, I face the Terror of California...
CAUTION: FIENDISH LEFTIST PROPAGANDA
In old Egypt, a part of me sabotages my audience with Bast, the Cat Goddess. Why?
A wizard into spots and dots invites me into his beach house, hungry for advice on his peculiar fears...
Evangeline stood before the mysterious portal and shushed us...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
A cannibal friend of mine is shocked at our burial customs, and argues his case in court using crabs...
A confrontation between the top predators on this planet: Evangeline and her boot...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
I help a brilliant, starving composer turn his family curse into a profitable business...
Gryphon meets Dragon, mid-air, and they're both me--sometimes...
My take on IQ, racism, Murray and Herrnstein's notorious book, and the theory of multiple intelligence. As an (ex)child prodigy it's not theoretical for me: broken hearts, broken trust, broken ribs...
CAUTION: LONG WORDS, RAMPANT ELITISM, GENIUS SHOPTALK
My cold-sensitive dinosaur friend makes a find at our archeological dig by thinking like the Old Ones...
I suspect the pinball champion of Jupiter is cheating. I try to scare her psychic confederate out of hiding...
Rather than draw the model, I often sketch my classmates in life-drawing. They get so intent!
An artist I know dismisses her (gorgeous) art as just therapy... while the museums are full of trash. Why?
A model clowning--an ephemeral emotional flash
CAUTION: ART-SCHOOL NUDITY
Why am I an outsider? Can I change? Do I want to? Even my dreams don't know. Then I wake to find my meditation itself was a dream, and the answer; as much of an answer as I'm going to get.
Allied submarines attack the giant Nazi toddler who's hunting us with sonar, occupying my playroom...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND GUILT
Through wild jungles and over the Mattress Mountains, I lead a giant purple newt to love...
How exactly did I acquire a mother-in-law snooping on my phone calls, when I don't have a wife?
Just what it says.
CAUTION: CARTOON BUTT and GRRL BICEPS
Nina the model's weirdest pose yet; she has the original drawing but this copy is close...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
An elegant, sexy classmate of mine, a fastidious feline island in our sea of grubby manic sketchers...
A logging war in the northern forests is confused by subjective realities. Am I sure what I see is real?
The new smart beds stimulate your dreams--but how to program them? We can't even manage VCRs...
A naked angel came and perched on a rock, pointing at a vista that seemed both alpine and undersea...
Fighting vampire archers is risky enough WITH proper armor! And all I have is dream-journals...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Gaea dances the children's rhyme. I just hope we don't all fall down...
I explore a zone lost in Shroedinger probabilities, and meet time-ghosts who want to collapse into reality...
I wake amnesic in a cabin in Alaska, in a dress printed with self-putdowns. I track down who cursed me...
I always laughed at those silly superhero outfits. But when it's my turn to fly, I find out why...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
In our steamy future, after the cities drown, I'm hiking through Rainbow Tunnel, when I meet a holy man...
Just a startling moment when a woman with backlit hair turned incandescent...
After a workout, she looks at herself in the mirror, and for once, she LIKES herself...
CAUTION: SHE LIKES HERSELF, AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT!
How the hell do I summarize this? Lola, a werefox I'm hot for, becomes my feudal Japanese brother, and her fox-shape reappears as the truck-driving maid for a Han Dynasty lady. We counter the interdimensional energy vampires by importing ghost unicorns on sailing ships, who have an orgy...
Two weeks later it all comes true. Literally? No. But closer than you think....
From an ad. I recommend drawing photos as well as live models; some poses, models can't hold!
CAUTION: NUDITY
Her film about her teenage affair with a pedophile is troubling enough before the FBI steps in to blackmail her...
CAUTION: MOLESTATION/ABUSE ISSUES
Am I a punk dyke or a shy ballerina? Both! And they're complementary facets. Underwear never lies...
We play with worlds for balls, and gravity wells for goals. How do the worlds see it? Well... I find out.
Puzzled me why I (the girl on the left) was so outraged about the gift of a perfectly nice levitating flower...
CAUTION: NUDITY, INGRATITUDE, WITCHCRAFT, ELVIS
Girl peers out from a satin robe hiding only her face. Look at me! Hide! I know those contradictory feelings.
CAUTION: NUDITY
Girl in a red cap, half-asleep in bed, looking either sexy or she has the flu, like I did...
CAUTION: NUDITY
19th century horsebreeders crossbred more than they admit. One suggests I look hard in the mirror...
CAUTION: UNSEEMLY SENATORIAL DISCOURSE
In life-drawing class, the model was tired and settled into a pillow-nest. She looked so feline...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
A pensive leonine woman resting on a tilted rock. A life drawing with certain imaginary spots.
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
God's dance club, the Universe, is shutting down. God broke his promise that we staff could get on stage...
A magic lake where deer glide on water... so I try it. And start to realize I could build such a lake...
I dreamed I couldn't walk on water like Jesus, but I COULD crawl on it! A baby miracle.
CAUTION: NUDITY
I get sick from figure-sketching. Guilt? Pray to my dream-gods, and find I'm at a weird wedding--as the bride!
An Arabic traveler to China is shocked by toilet paper, which explains the origins of dualism. Really.
I wake up with my head swollen, full of vivid bewildering experiences, without a clue...
My sister Althea sets herself up as the judge of whether I can go to a wedding...
Clarisa Pinkola Estes (who runs with the wolves) was on the radio, and this popped out of my mouse...
Cartoonist Robert Crumb doesn't aim at taboos--he stalks his own feelings, ignoring rules! A learnable technique...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
I was walking in the Mission, in San Francisco, when two sisters came up to me who no one else could see...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
When bent, some dried noodles shatter. The strands have auras like mine! Parts of me? Or are they...
Alien abductions upset us--being studied, not greeted as people. But how do we treat animals? Do we create the gap we expect and then observe? That night, I dream one dog on a leash paralyzes a civilization...
I'll link this to its dream if I can find it, but so far, I'm bewildered--and curious. Who the hell IS that, in the...
Dream math often seems bad, but I think the discrepancies are a signal, not noise...
I project I'll make a lot more money soon. Good, now I can support all my lazy friends! Wait...
I meet a tragic heroine--great heart, rotten luck. But I open her magic sword and find a bad chip...
I'm on Mars. The terraforming is going well. Then saboteurs set off a laserbomb in the street near me...
CAUTION: TERRORISM
I'm a girl with a half-twin, in a world based on genetics and seniority. Can we learn to relax and be equals?
I'm a traveling Zen warrior talking to a circus girl in a barn. Four guys enter--and my life changes forever.
I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife...
CAUTION: SLAVE SOCIETY, SEX, SPOUSAL ABUSE/NEGLECT
Among aliens, humans are jokes. Fragile and blind, we can't fly starships. Unless we build our own...
A late-night conversation with the proud developer of a new concept in South Asian convenience dining...
I read Barbara Tuchman's history of the American Revolution and had to paint this portrait of George...
CAUTION: TRANSVESTITE PRESIDENTIAL ICONOGRAPHY
Studies confirm that prayer can heal. So can curses harm? Yet fearing curses leads back to witch-hunts...
CAUTION: DISTURBING IMPLICATIONS, IF TRUE
My job's to clarify people's deepest wishes. But when I meet two women who truly want to die...
CAUTION: SUICIDAL IMPULSES
God flames me for putting pagan stuff on the Net, and we end up suing each other. Then the riots begin...
CAUTION: HITMEN AND HERESY
I'm the daughter of a mortal doctor working in Faerie as it faces social upheaval (and I look for a decent date...)
My uncle mocks the racehorse he rides! Smears lipstick on this stallion, calls him a wimp... Why?
There's power in dark memories--creatures of the deep strata. But the flowers of now are just as real...
It's the Vietnam era; my draft board tolerates only a secret quota of COs. I decide not to tolerate THEM...
A fan's in love with Michael Stipe of R.E.M. I see no hope for him, since his idol's straight...
I'm a kid again, gawking at the Space Needle. But a woman stands before it, who no one else can see:
CAUTION: NUDITY, A SEXUAL PERSPECTIVE
On a poster of a model who's around my weight, someone's scrawled STARVATION IMAGERY...
CAUTION: DEFENSE OF SKINNY PEOPLE
I'm in an alternate-history American Revolution with Silky, a black mare. We sail for Europe as diplomats...
Tarot with Dolly Parton. But I piss her off. "Men! You think I'm dumb, cuz of my tits!" She fixes THAT...
CAUTION: STUPID BREAST HUMOR BUT AT LEAST IT'S NOT GRUESOME
Half our religion-founders were just one guy coming back till he got it right. Well, practice makes perfect...
"I believe, O lord/ Help thou mine unbelief"--as a kid I thought this meant "God, keep me skeptical"...
I was an avian Mr Niceguy with sore knees, till I got some advice from my supposedly extinct big brother...
The size of ancient flying creatures implies that Earth may lose more atmosphere over time than we think...
This dream's not about a man whose dream lovers keep materializing till the bed overflows. This dream's about who those lovers are, and what the neighbors will think...
CAUTION: SEX
When I wake up, animals rule the earth. How do they cope with specism? Well, it's complex...
I'm just an ordinary guy, who beats his son so he'll grow faster, and sees tits on drinking fountains...
I feel a drag, and take off my safety belt. I find I've been towing an invisible buggy with two men in it...
A dream of a shaman named Fred who tried to use a bear as a lightbulb. Fred, Fred, Fred...
I'm a Lapp boy in northern Finland, studying shamanism. So why do I pour coffee down a driveway?
I can fly and breathe water. So I fly into art-rich mansions, though not to steal--I earn plenty from undersea massage...
In the Garden of the Gods, I sit through sun and rain. For the gods aren't the gardeners, but the crop...
You know angels feud over regional underfunding of Divine Grace. But you don't know how low they'll go...
After studying assertion in dreams, I find I'm a shaman in an African village, troubled by a young rival...
I was the first woman made High Commissioner of Baseball. One day a team of mutants begs a franchise...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, BAD TEAMWORK, HORNY BEES
I meet a sexy seal-girl. Being single and desperate, I overlook a slight values conflict...
CAUTION: DISGUSTING JOB
I'm the first man on Planet Cat, falling in love with my guide. And then I'm the Cat, falling for an alien ape...
CAUTION: NUDE CAT
A looming figure on the border of the new Lunar Republic, who told me it's time to turn from war to art...
Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat...
Night thoughts. Are they eggs? Dreams? Worlds? Phases of the moon?
CAUTION: NEGATIVE BREASTS
The unemployed angel with her resume is the Goddess of Freedom...
On the Night Train out of my small-town life, I meet the town rebel. But she's misplaced her tongue...
CAUTION: PETTING; UNNERVING TONGUE
Drew all night in a trance and only learned at dawn what this flirting otter and wolf were trying to tell me...
CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL THEME
A mysterious stranger offers free wishes to the kids of Hannibal, Missouri. Tom Sawyer wants to fly, but...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
When I see that grim museum shit I start giggling "Boy art!" The guards glare, so I go home and paint like this.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX TALK, LUST FAIRIES AND FLYING TEENY WEENIES
My first memory is of being a wild horse, and waking up to find I was now a human child...
Krishna, Orpheus, Kokopelli...why are the mythic musicians all guys? Where's Orphea, where's her head...?
Our physics project is top secret, but a stranger strolls into a meeting and opens a can of green light...
An art experiment--the only rule is DRAW--no models, no ideas, no plans, not even dreams. Drawing from the void!
Decision by decision, we made our way down immense rock crags. Below, I had to put out a deadly fire, a fire as solid as wood or stone, with a white staff. What am I really trying to calm?
A painting of mountains, manes, mermaids, moons, mattresses, mouths, maples, mohawks, mice and men...
CAUTION: NUDE M-THINGS
For me, the path to love is difficult, elusive, convoluted...
I dreamed I blinded myself because mere appearances lead to racism and sexism. Only the blind know truth...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY