The Vulgar Eclectic

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  • Sometimes a man stands up during supper

    Sometimes a man stands up during supperand walks outdoors, and keeps on walking,because of a church that stands somewhere in the East. And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead. And another man, who remains inside his own house,dies there, inside the dishes and in the glasses,so that his children have…

  • Basking

    Here is Pebble, getting some autumn sun!

  • Flowers in the morning

  • A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy

    I recently finished reading A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) by Thomas Hardy. It was his third published book and one of many “Wessex” novels he wrote, Wessex being his imagined region of England. I have heard Hardy’s writing referred to as an acquired taste…I’m not sure if this is true, but I find his…

  • Darkness and Light by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya R. Carter (Dragonlance Preludes #1)

    I just finished reading Darkness and Light by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya R. Carter. It is a Dragonlance fantasy novel and the first in the Preludes series. These books are set in the five years before the first of the Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. I loved the Chronicles as a kid and…

  • Rock Polishing

    Polishing rocks with a rock tumbler!

  • Ogre

    Battle Masters miniature war game!

  • Window

    Pebble loves to sit in the window and look out upon the world. He’ll spend hours doing this, and likes windows in both the bedroom and the kitchen.

  • A Few Comics

    I stopped at a comic shop in a little town during our family reunion. Picked up five issues:

  • Quick update

    For some reason, many of the images that previously loaded on this website are no longer working. I’m not sure if perhaps size limits were changed or if there is some other explanation. I have changed a few of them so that they still appear, but many, especially scans of postcards, are no longer working.…