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FARMVILLE GOTH: PATRIOTS WITH PITCHFORKS
It does require a bit of inspiration to gain a full perspective on how Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” evolved from iconoclasm to icon and then off the edge into parody. Some have even asserted that ”American Gothic” ranks in importance … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bruce Thiher, Carl Van Vechten, Christopher Morley, Gertrude Stein, Gordon Parks, Grant Wood, Grant Wood American Gothic, Jan van Eyck, Janet Haven, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Melissa Gray, Mia Fineman, Paris Hilton, R. Tripp Evans, Sherwood Anderson, Sinnclair Lewis, Susan Stamberg, Terry Pitts, Thomas Hart Benton
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ITS A MAN’S WORLD:Fighting Over Creature Features
Elmer Wheeler was the greatest salesman of his time. He took a wise crack: “Don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle” and turned it into an imposing, profit-making, money-sucking business philosophy. Wheeler emphasised that people are not interested in “the steak”, the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alan Caillou, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Brett McKay, Bruce Jay Friedman, Charles Darwin, Elmer Wheeler, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H.G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, Hugh Hirtle, Josh Alan Friedman, Mario Puzo, Martin Goodman, Mickey Spillane, Mrio Puzo, Sherwood Anderson, Stuart Friedman, Will Hulsey
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THE DAMP HAND OF MELANCHOLY
Restaurant Utopia. Five miles high , then, when you come to the fork in the road, take it. The sign on the door stated ” Different Cultural Levels Eat Here”. On entering the host delivers a fortune cookie, in which … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged A Thurber Carnival, Damon Runyan, Danny kaye, Dorothy Parker, Freud, Henry James, Homer, J.D. Salinger, James Thurber, Jesse Bier, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Linda Hutcheon, Mark Twain, Nabokov, Nathaniel West, P.G. Wodehouse, Paul Auster, Peter Sellers, Ring Lardner, Salinger, Sherwood Anderson, Sigmund Freud, The Catbird seat, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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