I had some technical difficulties tonight posting the “Edgar Allan Paw” animation up above. I posted it 10 times and it still wouldn’t continue to animate. I’ve pulled out half my hair! I’m hoping that maybe Nighthawks can fix it in the morning.
Sorry about this. Had I known early on, I would have switched posters…..
Time for bed. An hour and a half is enough time spent on this tonight.
I have been trying to post from my phone but i can’t because it wont let me type anything. I don’t have a post comment box. There is a post comment button, but no place to type a comment into.
Oh my Dog, there is so much scary, dark & evil music involving strings, piano, and every type of ensemble you can imagine. Just off the top of my head there’s Camille Saint Saens’s Danse Macabre, Paul Dukas’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Modeste Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain (both used in the Disney film Fantasia), several portraits from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Hector Berlioz’s March to the Scaffold movement from Symphonie Fantastique, Charles Gounod’s Funeral March of a Marionette (Alfred Hitchcock’s theme music), and numerous compositions called Teufelstanz (Devil’s dance) which is, typically, a waltz. My personal favorite version of the Gounod is the one for a set of bassoons, but I couldn’t find a recorded copy of it. Funeral marches by the score (no pun intended), written by Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert, and others.
My favorite version, and in fact the first version I ever read, was illustrated by Mad Magazine. It was so hysterical that I was sure they made up portions. It was actually Poe’s Raven, but the illustrations of brave words with craven images was too funny.
I hope tonight’s poster doesn’t mean Halloween is starting in August this year.
I mean, this one isn’t scary or anything, but there’s all that spooky music and the creepy crow…. I hope you’re not setting the mood for the season.
Holidays seem to have a way of expanding in recent years.
As a matter of fact there’s already some Halloween AND Christmas stuff at Costco… not much… and a whole Christmas section at Big Lots.
I’d be happy to keep Halloween all stuffed into the last week of October.
…..
Meanwhile, I want sure whether to call this a “poster”, but Stel did.
It’s more like a portrait, since it doesn’t appear to be advertising anything.
And yeah…. it’s a little creepy, sure…. but I can handle Edgar Allen Paw.
I do remember it moving before.
Maybe it’ll be moving again by the time you guys read this.
…..
Hmmm … fishing with a beetle? Is someone trying to catch EA Paw or JP Steve?
Yeah, I know, I know, it”s the Goldbug.
The scary thing is that pendulum.
Not a pit to be seen… in fact, it’s hanging in midair.
That’s actually the scary part. Look out, Edgar… it/s swinging awfully close to your eye!
The Raven’s got the Tell-tail Heart, I think.
…
I started reading Paw’s work almost as soon as I could read, because my Dad had collected some books.
Some sort of illustrated classics collection, half a dozen or so sets, each of one author or theme with a cardboard case into which to slide its 2 to 4 volumes.
4 volumes of (abridged, IIRC) Dickens, and the two most famous Bronte sisters’ books…
…
One of the sets was Edgar Allen Paw… with one volume of his poetry and one of prose.
It took me years and a lot more reading, to understand the scope of his endeavors, and see the huge pawprint he left on literature.
He wrote “The Purloined Kibble”, a real detective story, and the “Tell-Tail Heart”… a psychological thriller… before those genres even existed.
His works were the blueprints, he established the conventions, that are still followed today.
…
I memorized “The Raven” at about the same age that I read Mary Poppins and Dr. Doolittle books from the library… around eight.
My third grade teacher liked us to memorize poems and recite them for the class.
She was NOT expecting “The Raven.”
“Annabelle Leash ” was one of the first poems to ever make me cry.
At seven or eight years old, I had no idea that the heroine could die!
I’m glad there is no sound! No need to quoth the Raven.
Yikes.
I remember looking this one up before…
The three-eyed crow from Game of Thrones.
I never saw it so I don’t know if he’s a good guy or a bad guy (so to speak) but he’s creepy.
Rabbit hole!
Finishing up with Edgar Alan Poe, we move on to three blasts from the past.
Lucifer’s Waltz, is the name on the spooky music next to last.
Yes, it actually says that in a very faint font under the YouTube title in the upper left corner. I don’t know why they added another title.
I had some technical difficulties tonight posting the “Edgar Allan Paw” animation up above. I posted it 10 times and it still wouldn’t continue to animate. I’ve pulled out half my hair! I’m hoping that maybe Nighthawks can fix it in the morning.
Sorry about this. Had I known early on, I would have switched posters…..
Time for bed. An hour and a half is enough time spent on this tonight.
Get a
??
I agree, ?? Don’t recall what I was planning to post but I guess I got distracted.
Is that why it’s not on top?
I thought maybe the subject was so heavy it sank.
Have a glass of Amontilliado to help you unwind.
I have been trying to post from my phone but i can’t because it wont let me type anything. I don’t have a post comment box. There is a post comment button, but no place to type a comment into.
Um… I gotta say… no, ask.. well you see… what you’re saying there… it kinda appears to be a comment.
So… I was just wondering…
From laptop. Like this one.
😁
Is it Paw’s birthday? Or better yet, the anniversary of his death?
Nope.
You made me look it up, though.
Born in January, died in October.
Oh my Dog, there is so much scary, dark & evil music involving strings, piano, and every type of ensemble you can imagine. Just off the top of my head there’s Camille Saint Saens’s Danse Macabre, Paul Dukas’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Modeste Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain (both used in the Disney film Fantasia), several portraits from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Hector Berlioz’s March to the Scaffold movement from Symphonie Fantastique, Charles Gounod’s Funeral March of a Marionette (Alfred Hitchcock’s theme music), and numerous compositions called Teufelstanz (Devil’s dance) which is, typically, a waltz. My personal favorite version of the Gounod is the one for a set of bassoons, but I couldn’t find a recorded copy of it. Funeral marches by the score (no pun intended), written by Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert, and others.
My favorite version of “The Raven”? – This one.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057449/
Yes! That one is much fun.
Talk about great – and distinctive – voices. Marvelous casting.
My favorite version, and in fact the first version I ever read, was illustrated by Mad Magazine. It was so hysterical that I was sure they made up portions. It was actually Poe’s Raven, but the illustrations of brave words with craven images was too funny.
MAD #9 Bill Elder.
I hope tonight’s poster doesn’t mean Halloween is starting in August this year.
I mean, this one isn’t scary or anything, but there’s all that spooky music and the creepy crow…. I hope you’re not setting the mood for the season.
Holidays seem to have a way of expanding in recent years.
As a matter of fact there’s already some Halloween AND Christmas stuff at Costco… not much… and a whole Christmas section at Big Lots.
I’d be happy to keep Halloween all stuffed into the last week of October.
…..
Meanwhile, I want sure whether to call this a “poster”, but Stel did.
It’s more like a portrait, since it doesn’t appear to be advertising anything.
And yeah…. it’s a little creepy, sure…. but I can handle Edgar Allen Paw.
I do remember it moving before.
Maybe it’ll be moving again by the time you guys read this.
…..
Hmmm … fishing with a beetle? Is someone trying to catch EA Paw or JP Steve?
Yeah, I know, I know, it”s the Goldbug.
The scary thing is that pendulum.
Not a pit to be seen… in fact, it’s hanging in midair.
That’s actually the scary part. Look out, Edgar… it/s swinging awfully close to your eye!
The Raven’s got the Tell-tail Heart, I think.
…
I started reading Paw’s work almost as soon as I could read, because my Dad had collected some books.
Some sort of illustrated classics collection, half a dozen or so sets, each of one author or theme with a cardboard case into which to slide its 2 to 4 volumes.
4 volumes of (abridged, IIRC) Dickens, and the two most famous Bronte sisters’ books…
…
One of the sets was Edgar Allen Paw… with one volume of his poetry and one of prose.
It took me years and a lot more reading, to understand the scope of his endeavors, and see the huge pawprint he left on literature.
He wrote “The Purloined Kibble”, a real detective story, and the “Tell-Tail Heart”… a psychological thriller… before those genres even existed.
His works were the blueprints, he established the conventions, that are still followed today.
…
I memorized “The Raven” at about the same age that I read Mary Poppins and Dr. Doolittle books from the library… around eight.
My third grade teacher liked us to memorize poems and recite them for the class.
She was NOT expecting “The Raven.”
“Annabelle Leash ” was one of the first poems to ever make me cry.
At seven or eight years old, I had no idea that the heroine could die!
No fair!
I, on the other hand, would like to see Halloween season start in mid–September and end mid November.
one month is not enough!
I don’t know about Halloween starting in August, but I’m already seeing ads for Pumpkin Spice everything.
That’s some school the Peanuts gang attends.
Charlie Brown and Lucy are in the same class as their younger siblings… in fact Sally is only in kindergarten, in the strips.
I don’t think the oldest ones are beyond third grade.
But they’re already learning details about this “Edgar Allen Poe”… who would seem to be the human Edgar Allen Paw imitator.
I’m not sure why they don’t learn about the basset original… but still, I’m impressed.
I don’t know if you still frequent Goat Comix but Number 3 posted today that Affie has passed.
Thank you, Craig!
That’s sad news… I think he was 78, unless he’d already turned 79 this year.
I haven’t been on GoComics for a month… I really want to get back there but my timing has been off.
I need to try harder!
Hope you’ll keep coming to Cleo.
i don’t do scary or dark movies at all !!! so i don’t know mr. poe’s work. sorry.
on a much happier note….. MMM and i are celebrating our 59th wedding anniversary today! hooray for us!!!
Congratulations to you both. That’s awesome.
Awesome! ♥
Congratulations!
Wow.
Wow! We will only be at 40 next month. Congratulations!
As will we. Being together, that is. Moved in together only a few weeks later.
Congrats!
May many more anniversaries follow!
a big THANK YOU to the C&C FAMILY!