Tag Archives: H.G. Wells

valor and horrors

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Dave

This hardly a chicken soup story. Sometimes you come across things that confirms that bone in the throat sensation when we doubt the platitudes and rhetoric that the West values the sanctity of human life. Its a Fabian nightmare where … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Brian and Terrence McKenna, Denman Ross, Fred Burton, fred burton chasing shadows, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, israel yom kippur war, jack levine art, Jackson Pollock, joe alon, John Updike, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Moshe Dayan Yom Kippur War, Seldon Rodman, The Fabian Society, The Valor and the Horror documentary | Leave a comment

distrusting the utopian prophets

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Dave

Its an odd way to define oneself: a tory anarchist. Maybe for max Beerbohm it was a reaction to the times; a refuge in this tidal wave of elitist white racist socialism that was so popularized by the likes of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Beatrice Webb, Charles Dickens, David Cecil, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Epstein, Kipling, Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

revolution on the cutting room floor

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Dave

Definitely a precursor to today’s political re-mix videos. Passionate agit-pop that incarnated all the hopes and dreams that the socialist project promised. Alvarez’s videos are intense projections that sear the conservative canons of capitalist ideology; the whole market system and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ben Shahn, Dziga Vertov, Fabian Society, Fidel Castro, H.G. Wells, John Heartfield, John Steinbeck, lena horne, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Now! Santiago Alvarez, Santiago Alvarez | Leave a comment

by another name

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Dave

Attacking the enfranchised “unfit.” Purging society of those who do not measure up to the required standards of national efficiency, ( Henry Kissinger’s “useless eaters” ) or whatever euphemisms we may have to couch the theory of euthanasia, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Bloomsbury Group, colin odell, D.H. Lawrence, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Henry Ford, Henry Kissinger, j.m. coetzee, Julian Huxley, robert w. chambers, Theodor Adorno, Tod Browning, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, virginia wolf | Leave a comment

shapes of things

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Dave

Toward the middle of the 1890′s H.G. Wells began writing reviews, articles and stories. But he was not consciously starting a literary career. After all, he was a science instructor. But, an illness forced him out of teaching, and he … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Fabian Society, G.K. Chesterton, H.G. Wells, Julian Huxley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Orson Welles, Oscar Wilde, science fiction history, society for psychical research, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

mid life crisis: faulty time machine

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Dave

Shapes of things. Fabian socialism. Martians sucking blood from humans for nourishment. H.G. Wells emergence as a novelist proper belongs to the period between the turn of the century and the end of its first decade, when he was able … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged arnold white, eugencis, Fabian Society, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Julian Huxley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Orson Welles | Leave a comment

writhing six feet deep

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J) From the Introduction (reprinted from the 1947 Dell edition): “This business of selecting stories for a Dell Book anthology is getting to be a habit with me, though not … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, dell book anthology, H.G. Wells, jesse marinoff reyes, Norman Mailer, stories to turn in your grave by, walter d. edmonds | Leave a comment

wobbly aliens and the chill of the cold warriors

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i assume almost all of you have seen the classic 1953 movie version by george pal of H.G. Wells’ “war of the worlds”, right? remember that scene in the movie when they decide to nuke … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged art chantry, b2 stealth bomber, dan forbes pilot, dan forbes yb-49, Frank Lloyd Wright, frank lloyd wright space ship, george pal, george pal h.g. wells, glen edwards pilot, H.G. Wells, h.g. wells war of the worlds, kenneth arnold sighting, northrop yb-49, roswell crash, UFO's | Leave a comment

happiness is a warm bun

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Dave

Utopias have been around since The Fall, animating messianic visions of going back to the garden. There seems to be a seat-seated urge to look back and be captured by the past to borrow the Satchel Paige quote; to go … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, David Teniers, George Orwell, George Woodcock, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, H.G. Wells, Nicolas Poussin, Sir Thomas More, William Morris | Leave a comment

smelly little orthodoxies

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Dave

Probably the best piece yet on Hitchens since it places him within a wider context than the sniping and nitpicking that has been the norm on the left, or better yet the left-left,that endless recess of bourgeois values, the browned-out … Continue reading →