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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Al Capp, Alexander Theroux, Audrey Hepburn, Bill Cosby, Bookworm, Colin Marshall, Darconville's Cat, Dumb and Dumber, Edward Gorey, Estonia, Laura Warholic, Marketplace of Ideas, Richard Simmons, Rush Limbaugh, Steven Moore, The Millions, The Primary Colors: Three Essays, The Secondary Colors: Three Essays, Three Wogs, Willard Scott on September 4, 2011 | 9 Comments »

“When people call up Rush Limbaugh and say, ‘It’s an honor to speak to you,’ I want to shoot myself.” – interview with Colin Marshall on The Marketplace of Ideas “Her only loyalty seemed to be what she compiled in her witchy journal, her daybook listing the crimes of others against her, forgetting her own [...]

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Art as Inheritance, part 1: That Lingering Smile

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 13 Ghosts, Batman, Conrad Veidt, Donald Barthelme, Edgar Allen Poe, Edward Gorey, Edward Scissorhands, German Expressionism, Gwynplaine, House on Haunted Hill, J.D. Salinger, James Whale, L'Homme qui rit, Mark Twain, Mr. Sardonicus, Ray Russell, Roger Corman, Roland West, Sardonicus, The Addams Family, The Bat, The Bat Whispers, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Joker, The Laughing Man, The Man Who Laughs, The Masque of the Red Death, The Old Dark House, Tim Burton, Victor Hugo, Vincent Price, William Castle on February 19, 2010 | 9 Comments »

This will be something of a long and meandering trip, only to wind up back where we started. But I can promise that along the way we’ll encounter secrets hidden behind locked doors, as well as deeds that will form the fabric of nightmares. Shall we? This is Conrad Veidt:

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Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baroque, Beat Happening, Beetlejuice, Belle Epoque, chamber pop, comics, Crash Test Dummies, David Lynch, Death of Superman, Edward Gorey, grunge, High School Musical, Joan Osborne, Nitsuh Abebe, nostalgia, Peter Greenaway, punk, Ranz des Vaches, Romanticism, Smashing Pumpkins, Stan Brakhage, superheroes, Television Personalities, Terry Gilliam, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Elephant Man, The Magnetic Fields, The Softies, The Vaselines, Tim Burton, Twee, Twee as Fuck on February 11, 2010 | 12 Comments »

In my last post in this series, I embedded and linked to every single music video I know that uses the concept of the video as a school musical. (Please let me know if I’ve missed any; I’m sure there are more.) Such videos became especially pronounced in the 2000s, especially between 2005 and 2007. [...]

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Art as Inheritance, part 1: That Lingering Smile

Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)

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