My trip to Phoenix, the complete take

Warhammer 40k books: Soul Drinker, Deus Encarnadine, Grey Knights. IIRC, Soul Drinker is out of print.

My gorgeous Folio Society edition of The Greek Myths.

Borrowed from Negativsteve, "Beer, Blood and Cornmeal" a true memoir of years in the surrealist wrestling league Incredibly Strange Wrestling. See Sasquatch wrestle Hassidic Jews!

Also, a book/CD set called Orbitones, Spoon Harps and Bellowphones: Experimental Musical Instruments.

Finally a CD of Khmer Jazz (jazz played on Vietnamese instruments) and Classic Blues from the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings line. I bought these at Hoodlum's Music, a Mesa landmark. I felt a moral imperative to support an indie record store.

PS: this Khmer Jazz Fusion is CRAZY. Really like it.

Somehow, this emerged from my fingertips

Look up.
Do you feel the pressure of a gaze on your back?
Look up and you might see him--no, don't bother standing,
You're just fine where you are.
Look up,
Raise your eyes to his, see
The one eye, bright blue, the other long-lost, covered by a worn felted patch.
His face a map of laugh lines, worry lines, weather lines.
He's smiling, he always is, it seems.
Are you wary? So is he,
Wanderer of the Nine Worlds, perpetual seeker of Wisdom
in the wild Scandinavian night.
Would you too seek Wisdom? Would you too pay its price?
It's not cheap, I will warn you, but you're before him already.
All it takes is one movement, one moment of truth.
Look up.