Three fine examples of the ability to Keep Calm and Carry On, letters to the editor in the November 1940 Musical Times (“Founded in 1844, published on the fifteenth of every month”). The German Blitz had begun on September 7, 1940. “Feste,” mentioned in the second letter, was the pen-name of a Musical Times columnist. …
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William Faulkner on peace
Reading page after page in Proust’s The Fugitive on remembering and forgetting made me recall this passage from William Faulkner, which has lurked in my mind since I first read it in college. It’s from a conversation with students at the University of Virginia, March 13, 1957: [M]aybe peace is only a condition in retrospect, …
But in the movie, as always in the movies, writing flows easily and life is hard, when in reality life is hard and writing is harder. :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Becoming Jane (xhtml)
Two Very Different Approaches to the 21st Century Baby
Designer names to come Warm, cozy and handmade or cold and clinical? How do you want your baby to be made? Two Very Different Approaches to the 21st Century Baby
This Day in Arf History: Etta Kett
The Etta Kett strip ended on this day in 1947 after running almost 50 years. Paul Robinson started the strip for the King Features Syndicate to teach good manners, grooming and fashion. Etta Kett=etiquette, get it? Har! Har! This etiquette angle was soon dropped and the strip became a typical teen-girl strip. “Teen-girl strip”, my, …
THE LOW NOTE IN THE HARMONY
In my youth, I was easily impressed by drawings with fine linework. It feels undeniably cool to make such lines. Artists like Norman Lindsay (above), Virgil Finlay, Frank Frazetta and Berni Wrightson enjoyed it so much, they sometimes got carried away drawing delicate little lines. As I matured, I noticed how some artists added a …
On actual Halloween night I didn’t even dress up, me and a group of friends just went to Keagan’s where my sister bartends. … Earlier that night I forgot to buy candy so all these little kids were coming to the door looking for candy. All I had handy were airplane bottles of Captain Morgan …
This Day in Arf History: Steve Ditko’s Birthday! Plus: When Kermie Met Spidey!
Steve Ditko is the reason I got into this biz, really. I loved Walt Disney Comics and Stories when I was in grade school, but for all I knew they were drawn by Walt Disney who was a god. And even at my young age I knew I could never obtain that stature. But when …
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No Cause for Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark
Designer name to come I first saw this a few months ago, when I did a little research on the Newark riots after reading Philip Roth’s American Pastoral. There’s a lot going on here: I love the tension between the explosion of the city and the circle holding the text. The circle is more than …
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Proust on jealousy
One parenthetical insight: (It is astonishing how jealousy, which spends its time inventing so many petty but false suppositions, lacks imagination when it comes to discovering the truth.) Marcel Proust, The Fugitive, translated by Peter Collier (London: Penguin, 2003), 402 All Proust posts (via del.icio.us) TagProust Proust on jealousy
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