Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you’re a famous musician or actor, you can whore out the merchandise left, right and centre. The teenage market will consume most of the crap that various companies spit out on your behalf. Who wants to be bullied in the playground because they haven’t got the official sticker book, lunchbox, pencil case, fake tattoo set and poster collection? For the older market, fans of a certain...
Graphic Novels Challenge (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
#235. The Eternal Smile: Three Stories by Gene Luen Yang. illustrated by Derek Kirk Kim. 2009. 170 pgs. 15+ - This book of short stories is an adult title with crossover appeal to teens. Yang shows us here that he has a taste for the strange. In these three stories Yang has taken a person's reality and turned it into a fantasy or turned their fantasy into reality, making for stories that end with the...
Minstrel Boy (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe : "Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old- This knight so bold- And o'er his heart a shadow Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow- 'Shadow,' said he, 'Where can it be- This land of...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Cheap laser-cutting has come to the world's crafters, and Etsy is awash in lovely, precision-cut tchotchkes of all description. Case in point: Edgar Allan Poe in black stainless steel, $26 from FableAndFury. Edgar A. Poe Memento cameo necklace in black stainless steel (via Wonderland) Previously:Poe archive from UT Austin goes online - Boing Boing Gaiman on Poe: read him aloud! - Boing Boing Poe's...
Library Advocate (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Check it out! Alert from ALA Direct: Time to apply for The Big Read The Institute of Museum and Library Services, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts Midwest, announces the 2010 deadline for The Big Read, a program to revitalize the role of literature in American culture. Organizations may apply for grants ranging from $2,500 to $20,000 with the grant size determined by...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Filed under: Interviews , Hot Picks , Reviews , Fiction Most of us know Al Roker as the ebullient 10-time Emmy Award-winning weatherman on NBC's 'Today' show. But underneath that jovial exterior lurks a dark side -- a cold-blooded killer. Well, at least in character. In 'The Morning Show Murders,' co-written with Dick Lochte, an award-winning novelist, Roker weaves a fast-paced caper about his favorite...
The Spoons That Are My Ears! (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
My latest chapbook, Plutonian Parodies , has now been published by the Penny Dreadful Company . Things are being restructured over there, so the situation is now as follows -- it seems I will eventually have a total of five chapbooks available from them and all will have colour covers. There will be no more non-colour chapbooks. So in order of publication, the full list of my expected chapbooks is...
watch movies online for free full movie downloads (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
#1 YOUTUBE : Full Movie Directed by Jules Dassin Written by Doane R. Hoag Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe Starring Joseph Schildkraut Roman Bohnen Music by Sol Kaplan Cinematography Paul Vogel Editing by Adrienne Fazan Distributed by MGM Release date(s) October 25, 1941 Running time 20 minutes Country United States Language English
Feel my Bicep (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
“A Dream Within a Dream” is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The poem is 24 lines, divided into two stanzas. The poem questions the way one can distinguish... High quality download and some links hidden from RSS feed, click through to http://www.feelmybicep.com for full download
Arts Reader (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
If this email is not displayed correctly, please click on the following link or open your browser and paste the link into the address field: http://view.ed4.net/v/KC2844/H4A00/F6OKVB/L9EJY/ Energy Friday November 20 2009 FT.com - Energy GE's bid for Areva arm poses questions The sale of Areva's power transmission and distribution subsidiary sparks speculation about whether France really is ready to...
threedonia.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Back on November 8, three days after the Fort Hood massacre, Chicago Sun Times columnist Neil Steinberg wrote a little instructional column about how we enlightened Americans should – or rather should not – respond to the actions of Major Nidal Malik Hasan. As an intellectual/writing exercise, I thought it would be fun to go [...]
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
“Oh skylark Have you seen a valley green with spring? Where my heart can go a journeying Over the shadows and the rain To a blossom-covered lane.”—“Skylark,” lyrics by Johnny Mercer, music by Hoagy Carmichael (1942) Johnny Mercer , the incomparably lyricist whose centennial we celebrate today, might be the most unique and multi-faceted contributor to the Great American...
dbqp: visualizing poetics (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Roy Arenella, "O RA CULAR" (14 November 2009) Since I do not regularly post mailart I send or receive anymore (the requirements of time not allowing me to tend to all my desires), I sometimes allow striking pieces of work to pass under my eyes without remark, but I cannot do this today for this tiny visual essay I received today from Roy Arenella. Roy has lived less than an hour from me for...
Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Opera Chic had the pleasure of raging with Matt Poland of Splice Today (a motley crew of Baltimore-Oriole-loving, Edgar-Allan-Poe-grave-site-visiting online...
Night Shade Books (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
When a young writer finds himself cornered by a beautiful widow in the waning hours of a late-night cocktail party, he seeks at first to escape, to return to his wife and infant son. But the tale she weaves, of her missing husband, a renowned English professor, and her lost stepson, a soldier killed on [...]
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