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by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: MONSTER UNLEASHED: Happy Birthday Mary Shelley 1797-1851 It was a “wet, ungenial summer” in Switzerland when Mary Godwin (traveling as “Mrs. Shelley”) went to Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley and their son, and Claire Clairmont … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Quint, Boris Karloff, Claire Clairmont, Dmitri Kessel, Erasmus Darwin, forrest j. ackerman, Jacques Faria, James Whale, James Whale Frankenstein, jesse marinoff reyes, jim warren, John William Polidori, Ken Russell Gothic, Lord Byron, Luigi Galvani, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mary Godwin, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ray Bradbury, robert bloch, Verne Tossey
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the odd couple: birds of a leather
Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle…. …Jane whose character included a certain touch of masochism, held a certain profound relish for the domestic drama. She had thought of writing a novel, she admitted, about the “mysteries” of Number 6, her … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomsbury Group, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens John Forster, giuseppi mazzini, Godefroy Cavaignac, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Jeremy Bentham, John Forster biographer, John Stuart Mill, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, madame pckwick art blog, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marianne Hunt, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Greaves
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a-roving on the wane and sane
The cup is full and sometimes it runneth over. The moon has always been, since the dawn of the human being, a symbol of love, and a pervasive theme among artists such as poets, novelists and writers and painters within … Continue reading
park it on the parthenon: bonds & byzantium
Its an object of blame for a crisis that it is not to be blamed for. This idea of north and south is an excuse for invidious comparison: the industrious, virtuous, thrifty north and their slightly darker Mediterranean neighbors to … Continue reading
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Tagged European Central Bank, greece exit eurozone, Greek debt crisis, james rickards, James rickards greece, katerina kitidi, lol creme, Lord Byron, Lord Byron greece, lord frederick leighton, mark blyth, mark blyth brown university, megan greene greece, Roubini global economics, trevor horn, yiannis kotsiras
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charisma of the radiant but broken
Soul under the spell of the moon. The thrill. The construction of empty form. Kitsch before there was kitsch. It meant using high art to express low life, the underworld and it was the beginning of sensationalism that the reign … Continue reading
prisoner of love: escaping the gatekeeper
Attacking the bourgeois values, but the greater the assault the more apparent that the author, in his own particular way, was part of the elite, canonized as cultural commodity himself, like Burroughs and Ginsberg, an icon, a spokesman for articulating … Continue reading
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Tagged Caravaggio, Donald Kuspit, Jasper Johns, Jean Genet, Jerry Saltz, lari pittman, Lord Byron, nigel williams BBC, Oscar Wilde, pierre bourdieu, Robert Crumb, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg, the maids 1974, William Burroughs
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haywain: pulling at straws of pessimism
The Haywain by Hieronymus Bosch is almost as complex as the Garden of Earthly Delights. It carries a similar message; that of desperate pessimism. Even in the darkest of the Christian books of the Bible Hell exists for the damned, … Continue reading
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Tagged bill stover solyndra, bosch the haywain, brian harrison solyndra, Charles de Tolnay, christopher jesus ferguson, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Guy Debord, Hieronymous Bosch, howard lederer full tilt poker, joseph heath, Lord Byron, meir margalit, Michael Moore, occupy wall street, Pieter Bruegel, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen
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Clouds of celebrity:A fiction somewhere drunk with passion
Dancing with the stars. Celebrity. What price? ……..Celebrity is not the same as being celebrated , but celebrity is often a precondition of being famous.The concept of celebrity as study in itself, as in being a celebrity,is a modern invention, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew McConnell Stott, Bob Dylan, Calvin Klein, Cintra Wilson, J.C. Hobhouse, Janet Whitman, Johanna Schneller, John Cam Hobhouse, John Lennon, Joseph-Denis Odevaere, Lawrence Taylor, Leah McLaren, Lord Byron, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Michael jackson, Pablo Picasso, Pauline Kael, Ralph Lauren, Sophia Coppola, Tiger Woods
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those a-ha! moments: fetish for the pathologically creative
There is an element of intentional controversy. He just happened to have a infant’s skull tucked away in the corner of the workshop and bingo! he found the right context to use it. It was one of those a-ha moments, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew McConnell Stott, Damien Hirst, E.J. Trelawny, Edward Prescott, For Heaven's Sake Damien Hirst, Hans Holbein the younger, John William Waterhouse, Joshua Glenn, Jude Tyrrell, Koestler, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Eden, Roya Nikkhah, Sally Russell, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Subodh Gupta, Terence Corcoran, William Hanley
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