Speaking of al-Maliki, well – no, dropping his name, basically, as I was doing and really no more than that, but – the Iraqi football national team won the Asian Cup yesterday, in a 1:0-win over Saudi Arabia. The final was played in Jakarta (Indonesia). People in Iraq celebrated the triumph. Also, people in [...]
That’s when they chopped the mayor’s head off, back in ‘93
No, no – I don’t lapse into the age-blind nostalgia lingo of Lovecraft’s characters – that slangy, creepy way of telling things that happened 100s of years ago as if they’d had an active part in them. Not so. I meant this mayor here, Jean Sylvain Bailly, head of the first commune, in post-Revolution! [...]
No, actually these are vampire teeth on my tentacles, see?
A plush teddy to go with the most interesting incarnation of great and mighty Cthulhu? Here it is – tadaa! (via John Brownlee at ectoplasmosis)
As cute as it is – on a cuddling basis – I find the commercial line interesting that goes with it -
Now you can witness Cthulhu in his [...]
From the Dark
Before Hollywood moguls will have a chance to take Lovecraft moviedom from obscurity to glamor, Italian filmmaker Ivan Zuccon will have another celluloidal shot at the Lovecraft corpus, this time obviously at The Colour out of Space. Rather than exploiting the story’s hyper-realist explicitness (and note the occurence of the there is no need to [...]
Mirandized: Thou hast the right to refrain from Revolution
Two days late. Ah. There goes the revolution anniversary.
Uncelebrated. Naturally, Lovecraft’s conservative & conservating prose outlook conceived of revolution, if it did, in terms of science. Thus, At the Mountains of Madness -
Popular imagination, I judge, responded actively to our wireless bulletins of Lake’s start northwestward into regions never trodden by human foot or penetrated [...]
The Frontier as Apocalyptic Place: Melville’s Indian Hating Revisited (III)
This is not so much a romanticized introspection into a patron-customer-relation, but rather a justification of a territorial expansion that was still rolling on when Melville and Bird wrote their novel.
Lovecraft never saw the Mississippi. Of course Lovecraft saw the Mississippi, in New Orleans (thanks to Kenneth Hite for the hint!). He never saw [...]
The Life you save may be your own
— via the Constructivist…
When he quizzes his readers and simultaneously points to Flannery O’Connor (on my reading list, as well), I cannot help but think: this challenge demands mastery, my mastery? Who knows?
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Also, another apocalypse is dawning, this time of the nuclear type. The zombies are gone, but…
Which survivor of the impending nuclear apocalypse are [...]
The Frontier as Apocalyptic Place: Melville’s Indian Hating Revisited (II)
I find the idea of the Fidèle as a theatrical stage a little tricky to maintain when the novel moves into the topic of Indian hating & killing.
I find it tricky – what position would it provide to the extended chapters on Indian hating? Would it make them a tragic interplay in an otherwise comedic [...]
And I thought it was the end
Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
And I thought it was the 4th of July…
(Soundgarden: 4th of July)
Not one…say…more professional video clip of that song around, damn. But notice that nifty little NIN sticker on the guitar, that’s adding [...]
