Tag Archives: Edgar Allan Poe

lust in the shadows behind her: eternal remorse

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Dave

D.H. Lawrence once described Nathaniel Hawthorne as the man that “knew disagreeable things in his inner soul.” But does it really matter if he gave us The Scarlet Letter? … What gives The Scarlet Letter its bite and terror is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Anthony Trollope, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lillian Gish, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Ralph Waldo Emerson | Leave a comment

furious circumstances: reckless vaults of imagination

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Dave

In the middle of 1849, during a summer of torrid heat in Salem, Massachusetts, the contending forces in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s life were drawing into battle formation, as for a civil war ling in preparation. His mother lay dying in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Charles Osgood, Edgar Allan Poe, Franklin Pierce, Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson | Leave a comment

being one of the boys

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Dave

and so it is The Demise of the Guys is one of Philip Zimbardo’s latest crusades, another repainting of his early 1970′s masterpiece at Stanford known as the Prison Experiment which had to be halted when “ordinary” male behavior went … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged A Clockwork Orange movie, Anthony Burgess, Arthur Rackham, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, dr. alice eagly, Edgar Allan Poe, Edouard Manet, Philip Zimbardo, Philip Zimbardo Stanford Experiment, Stanley Kubrick, Walter Benjamin, zimbardo the demise of guys | Leave a comment

an illustrated poe: distraught and distrubing

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Art

by Art Chantry lit snobs abhor genre fiction. that’s why we all sniff at successful writers like stephen king and and john grisham and say things like, “yes, he’s good, but he’s “popular” ya know?” as if the idea that … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged american industrial merchant culture, art chantry, Arthur Rackham, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, john grisham, rackham poe illustrations, stephen king, The Beatles, the beatles records, The Monkees | Leave a comment

in gold we trust: bullions and bullions served

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Dave

Is it only a metal whose value comes from the useful goods for which it can be exchanged? The belief in gold does appear more mystical, touching on the psychological aspects of fantasy and ecstasy more so than its pragmatic … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged barrick gold africa, barrick gold north mara, Edgar Allan Poe, Humphrey Bogart, Jamie Dines, jason zweig, John Huston, keanu reeves sad, Paul Krugman, Ron Paul, ron paul stock portfolio, Will Wilkinson, william bernstein | Leave a comment

turkish chess : the invisible hand

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Dave

… a ghost in the machine that plays chess…Does God play chess with the universe? And how does one figure in the future’s future? Walter Benjamin called the future, “the small gate in time through which the messiah might enter.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged baron wolfgang von kempeler, Edgar Allan Poe, johann nepomuk maelzel, john gaughan, maelzel chess playing mechanical turk, osman hamdi bey, Slavoj Zizek, the mechanical turk, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

those furry little fellas

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Dave

As we conclude 2011, the story of the lemmings can serve as a cautionary tale… Fit for a cliff. Are you a lemming? Blindly, intoxicated with the herd mentality of following the lead of the crowd over the cliff. An … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Charles Baudelaire, disney white wilderness, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Piaf, Edouard Manet, Frederick Engels, John Sloan, lemmings, Walter Benjamin, William Powell Frith | Leave a comment

at the approach of madness the tide recedes

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Dave

Mercy. To be relieved of one’s own consciousness. Codifying surrealism into a vernacular language.Not like the mutuality of life and death, the proximity of opening a heavy dark door and entering the blackness to grab your attention.If you can’t leave … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, david wojnarowicz, Donald Kuspit, Edgar Allan Poe, Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, Martin Buber, morgan meis, Paul Verlaine, wyatt mason | Leave a comment

a second voice: whispers out of the dust

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Dave

Ventriloquy and horror. Those strange little creatures always seem to be up to no good. Yes. They are a lot like us. But who is the master and who pulls the strings….. “For Ventriloquy, or speaking from the bottom of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged charlie mcCarthy, david strassman, Edgar Allan Poe, h.g. wells dead of night, james wan, Jean Baudrillard, joseph wright of derby, Kurt Weill, leigh whannell, maxwell frere, michael redgrave, robert boyle, Theodor Adorno, ventriloquy, William Gaddis | Leave a comment

catching a falling knife

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Dave

Herman Cain. The dandy and the legacy of Amos n’ Andy. The Hermanator experience. The old black minstrel show adjusted for free market ideology. Another figure in a long tradition of American snake oil salesmen rising from the depths of … Continue reading →