 It
will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a
poor
devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and
street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to
whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane.
Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the
higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these
extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the
ancient authors generally, as well as the poets her appearing, these
extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, as affording a glancing
bird’s eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied,
and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our
own.He had learned this just in time. During his last year in art school, he had begun to think that he might give up painting completely. The pleasures he received from the problems of composition and color had decreased as his facility had increased and he had realized that he was going the way of all his classmates, toward illustration or mere handsomeness. When the Hollywood job had come along, he had grabbed it despite the arguments of his friends who were certain that he was selling out and would never paint again.  ARTCORE: In which I examine the graphic
artists featured in the September 1984 issue of Maximum Rock 'n' Roll fanzine
article by Brian "Pushead" Schroeder. Some of them stuck with the art
life, some of them didn't, others might have tried and failed. Or tried
and died.
FLYERS: From
my collection, scanned ages ago. The originals are all stored under
semi-archival conditions, thankfully. Though they're tobacco-stained.
GAMMA WORLD: I was enthusiastically interested in this post-apocalyptic tabletop RPG for a period of about a year. It was a pivotal time. I never managed to play a single game with other human beings during that year, but that was no barrier. LINKS: Because any excuse to get out of here is welcomed. The little captions are what they all have to say about themselves...their words, not mine. NEWS: It's all there, whether you want it or not. NEW WAVE & NEGLECTED: Ten records that I walked past in the record shop for decades at a time, either unintenionally or otherwise. I'm correcing past oversights here. NEW WAVE REDUX: Ten
mass-popular new wave records that I did, in fact, listen to a lot.
Re-experienced from a modern and highly-developed point of view.
PUNK ROCK REDUX: Ten
punk or semi-punk records that I latched on to early and very
definitely took to heart. Are they still worth hearing? Why or why not?
  NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE ARTHUR TREACHER MEMORIAL SOCIETY  LAFF IN THE DARK  THE ASTOUNDING B-MONSTER |
