Uncle Envelope

Do you like paper? What about cool mail? C’mon! Everybody likes getting something cool in the mail. So go check out Uncle Envelope. It is an art project for children big and small conceived of and operated by everyone’s favorite joyful elephant (and friend o’ Thursday City) Kristin “Little Bear” Lindner. If you know any kids, or you are one, or you just like cool paper stuff in the mail you should buy a subscription or two. Hell, make it three.

I will be contributing for one edition. I am working on a series of cards illustrating the 12 Olympian gods. Below is a sneak peek at Zeus.

Check out his fey dancing moves!

Inevitability

Latin based language has poetry and romance. Greek has philosophy and epic. What does Germanic have? Guts and gloom. Nothing beats us Germanic based languages for guts and gloom. Viscera is a nice word and all, but does it say insides like guts. Does it? Ennui is a wonderful word that captures an epidemic psychosis perfectly well, but nothing hits the immediacy of the feeling like boredom. Ahh... boredom the land of the bore; what a horribly boring place to be. Zeus sounds really powerful and gloomy, but God, God sounds ALL powerful and gloomy. Lucifer sounds like a smooth and silky villain, but Grendel sounds like he will rip you limb from limb and grind your guts with his grimy grill. And what says doom better than doom? It just sounds so final, so inevitable. Other languages have poetry, and philosophy, and romance, and love, but by my hands you shall meet your doom!