JJ Grandville

Struwwelpeter

When I was little, my grandma gave me this German book that terrified me. Its subtitle is "Merry Stories and Funny Pictures" but it's the farthest thing from that. Some of the stories were popular in America (The Little Match Girl) but others didn't catch on (The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb). They're basically all tales to scare kids into minding their manners, but they're incredibly frightening. It's all available on Project Gutenberg - worth taking a look.

Animals Appear as Plants

Asa Ames

Meghan and I went to the Dargerism exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum, but the only good stuff in it was from Henry Darger himself or Amy Cutler. The rest of the museum was great though, like the Asa Ames exhibit.

This would be so very funny if it wasn't so very scary

The Moor's Last Sigh - post one of one hundred

"in the beginning and unto the end was and is the lung: divine afflatus, baby's first yowl, shaped air of speech, staccato gusts of laughter, exalted airs of song, happy lover's groan, unhappy lover's lament, miser's whine, crone's croak, illness's stench, dying whisper, and beyond and beyond the airless, silent void.

"a sigh isnt just a sigh. we inhale the world and breathe out meaning. while we can. while we can.

"we breathe light, the trees pipe up. here at the journey's end in this place of olive-trees and tombstones the vegetation has decided to strike up a conversation. "we breathe light," indeed; most informative.....

"henceforth, ill turn a deaf ear to prattling foliage with its arboreal metaphysics, its cholorophyllosophy. my family tree says all i need to hear."

Salman Rushdie

The National Enquirer

Two things you didn't know about the founder of the National Enquirer, Generoso Pope, Jr.

- He attended Horace Mann and MIT
- He worked in psy-ops for the CIA

Drunk Monkeys

These monkeys will steal your drink.

Walton Ford

I think I may have put something up about Walton Ford before, but that's okay.


Necropolis - Walton Ford


Dirty Dick Burton's Aide de Camp

the book, not the movie

H.P. Lovecraft is a very good writer but I don't think he gets enough credit for it. The Call of Cthulhu is very creepy and has kind of a Borges structure. Since it's Lovecraft it's about cosmic, unspeakable horror, which is why it's interesting that some brilliant person turned it into this:



This website is a fun Borges puzzle.