Word of the Day: mesonoxian

"Mesonoxian" (adjective) is a word from my book, The Word I'm Thinking Of: A Devilish Dictionary of Difficult Words. TWITO is not a comic book; I'm just having some fun with stripcreator.com. The dialog, however, is from the book.

Word of the Day: obdormition

"Obdormition" (noun) is a word from my book, The Word I'm Thinking Of: A Devilish Dictionary of Difficult Words. TWITO is not a comic book; I'm just having some fun with stripcreator.com. The dialog, however, is from the book (slightly adapted).

Word of the Day: lamprophony

"Lamprophony" (noun) is a word from my book, The Word I'm Thinking Of: A Devilish Dictionary of Difficult Words. TWITO is not a comic book; I'm just having some fun with stripcreator.com. The dialog, however, is from the book (slightly adapted).

Word of the Day: loganamnosis

"Loganamnosis" [LAHG-an-um-NOH-sis] (noun) is a word from my book, The Word I'm Thinking Of: A Devilish Dictionary of Difficult Words. TWITO is not a comic book; I'm just having some fun with stripcreator.com. The dialog, however, is from the book.

Word of the Day: doolally

"Doolally" is a word from my book, The Word I'm Thinking Of: A Devilish Dictionary of Difficult Words, available here. TWITO is not a comic book; I'm just having some fun with stripcreator.com. The dialog, however, is from the book (slightly adapted).

Word of the Day: fissiparous

"Fissiparous" is a word from my book, The Word I'm Thinking Of: A Devilish Dictionary of Difficult Words, available here. TWITO is not a comic book, though. I'm just having some fun with stripcreator.com. The dialog, however, is from the book.

Word of the Day: honeyfuggle

Pronounced HUN-ee-FUG-uhl. TWITO, page 67!

This comic features a word from page 67 of my book The Word I'm Thinking Of: A Devilish Dictionary of Difficult Words, available here.

"I Have Words on the Brain"

The TWITO paperback now has a new cover, based on Narrator Jack's original design for the audiobook. Thanks to Bill Rood and Rachel Rood for the additional design and reformatting.

Random Acts of Poetry

Haiku 6135

I need batteries
But all the millionaires say
You can fly, buddy

Number 9, Number 9, Number 9

It's 9/9/09, and the remastered Beatles CDs have finally been released, about a dozen years after they should have been, but oh well. With them, it's almost always worth the wait. I'm looking forward to buying the "White Album" again (for the third time), my favorite album of all. I like every song on it (except maybe "Wild Honey Pie" and "Don't Pass Me By", sorry Ringo), including "Revolution 9". I like eclecticism. I like collage. Culturally, in the West at least, we live in a fragmented time (still), and this double album, more than anything I've heard, captures the essence of that while still being engaging, entertaining, and fun.

The illustration above is the rejected cover art for what eventually became known as the White Album. I wonder if, had they used it, we would be calling it the "Animal Album" today.

Postscript: It sounds great. The muddiness of the original CDs is gone, and it almost sounds like you're in the same room with them. This is especially evident on the quieter tracks, like "Julia" and "Blackbird".

Fish Food for Thought

More clip-art philosophy by me (and Aristotle).

Beatles video clips; rejected White Album cover art

Can Your Bird Sing?

Visit the Beatles Video Directory for new video/audio edits of "I Saw Her Standing There," "I'm Down," "I Should Have Known Better" and "And Your Bird Can Sing." The Mac-constructed site requires QuickTime, which I have installed, but for some reason I can hear the audio only for the latter song. I'm down.

Coda: Here is some rejected Revolver cover art. It's a sort of photographic mandala that actually fits the "revolver" theme better than the actual cover. It's not in the same league as Klaus Voorman's fantastic illustration/collage, but it would have been nice if they'd used this on the back of the album or the inside sleeve.

And here you can see some intriguing but rejected White Album cover art:


The Animal Album?

And if the White Album had been a single, not a double album, it might have looked like this. (Check out the track line up!)