…will take you to more of Leah Saulnier’s artwork.
To me, even in her other series, she’s drawing the same thing over and over.
Her art is like a V.L.T., it doesn’t matter what “game” it is you’re playing because they all run back to the same base programming which is designed the way a taxi’s meter is designed: $Z for X time and/or Y spins of the wheel.
Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain—
Quaintest thoughts—queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.
The artist says, about this and her similar paintings of other famous people, that the hats, and their holes, represent their ideas flowing through their brains.
But I don’t recall Poe or Paw writing about fishing.
I’m no literary scholar though.. maybe I missed it.
I was wondering if perhaps the angel might refer to one of Poe’s short stories, “The Angel of the Odd”.
( The Angel of the Odd – Wikipedia )
Here’s an amusing animated adaptation of it that is quite well done, I think (only 19:53 long) :
Not being a student of Poe’s entire collection of writings, I am only guessing. And, I suppose there may also be other works that mention angels….but, I’d like to think it’s this one.
I pretty well could understand the lyrics in most songs…..that is, except in the
seventies, eighties , nineties , two thousands , two thousand tens, two thousand twenties…
Haven’t heard any tunes from the twenty thirties, but I’m not holding out any hope
Hah! Half the time, I didn’t even try to figure out the words and just enjoyed the music! Recently, I was surprised to learn some songs that I really liked years ago have a totally different meaning than what I had originally thought.
I have just finished reading “Over My Dead Body,” the fourth book in Jeffrey Archer’s William Warick series.
It was a really good read.
He wrapped up this particular story line in a “violently-humourous” (the villains got theirs) fashion. You’re brain has to be on hold as you enjoy the story, but the story is enjoyable.
I’m looking forward to October of next year when, all being well, the fifth book in the series will be out.
Again, this is an author you can read !
Yes, I know it’s now 03:44 hours as I wrap this up, but I get distracted as I look things up.
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Good evening Cleophiles, and Clevelanders…
October 28th… though it has barely begun… Four more full days, counting today (which I have to, because I haven’t gone to bed yet on the 27th) of… um… Halloweenity.
How many scares, frights, pumpkins, ghosts, and monsters fit into four days?
I guess we’ll find out!
…
Cool poster, StelBel… or more like a portrait, I guess, since it doesn’t appear to be advertising anything.
Fishing with a beetle… is she trying to catch EA Paw or JP Steve?
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 kindergarten age…
and they’re already learning about EA Poe (The human EA Paw imitator)??? I’m impressed.
…
But today’s offering isn’t scary.. Thanks Stel…. a little creepy…. but I can handle Edgar Allen Paw.
I started reading his work almost as soon as I could read, because my Dad had collected some books… wish I could remember more about them…
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, the two most famous Bronte sisters’ books…
….
One set was 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-tale Tail”… a psychological thriller… when those genres didn’t even exist.
His works were the blueprints, he established the conventions.
…
I memorized “The Raven” at about the same age that I was reading Mary Poppins and Dr. Doolittle books from the library and buying Nancy Drew with my allowance.
“Annabelle Leash ” was one of the first poems to ever make me cry.
At seven or eight years old, I didn’t know that the heroine could die!
Today’s post was just for you and your behind-the-couch buddies — not too scary, yet satisfying my need in keeping with the Halloween spookiness. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I did not over-interpret anything.
It’s just a posted list of things to look for in the panels, with the number of those things provided above the signature.
There is only one, the space ship, in your posting, and in the ones in the spoiler box there are three in today’s, and two in yesterday’s
Like Alexi mentioned, he was not over-interpreting anything. The items list is just that — a list of things you might possibly find in a Bizarro panel that are put there just for the fun of it to find (although they’re not intentionally well-hidden). The list has grown over the years and has become a tradition among fans. If you’re not a regular reader, then I could understand not being “clued in”. I certainly didn’t have a clue of what was going on when I first came across the strip.
BTW, the items list has nothing to do with the punchline/subject of the daily panel.
I don’t know what she’s mad at [ “…'(…because all cats are she; in the same way that all sluts and mares are called he, a peculiar beauty of the English language.)’… “] — Poe: “Desultory Notes on Cats” — but the poor thing’s walking with a limp.
Nope. – Don’t wanna. Stay dry, that is.
Just raising a glass to our dear deceased friend who had severe problems including his lungs, was extra careful – and presumably died from smoke or the exertion killing the smoke alarm to not wake the neighbors in the middle of the night…
What a great poster, today, Stel. The video collection was all great! Nothing scary about today. I guess that’s why the Guardian Angel is watching all over the scene Love it.
Like I said to Susan, I thought I would give you guys in ‘Scaredy Cat Row‘ a break today, yet still keep with the spookiness of the season. Glad you liked it, ML !!
(human poster)
This
…LINK…
…will take you to more of Leah Saulnier’s artwork.
To me, even in her other series, she’s drawing the same thing over and over.
Her art is like a V.L.T., it doesn’t matter what “game” it is you’re playing because they all run back to the same base programming which is designed the way a taxi’s meter is designed: $Z for X time and/or Y spins of the wheel.
Fourth on my list of favourite Poe Poems
Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain—
Quaintest thoughts—queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.
[November, 1848; written May, 1848]
…nothin’ wrong with doing a series.
What a strange poster!
The artist says, about this and her similar paintings of other famous people, that the hats, and their holes, represent their ideas flowing through their brains.
But I don’t recall Poe or Paw writing about fishing.
I’m no literary scholar though.. maybe I missed it.
“The Gold-Bug” and “The Pit and the Pendulum” both need strings…
The Gold-Bug, The Pit and the Pendulum , The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart.
Who is the angel? Annabel lee? House of usher?
I was wondering if perhaps the angel might refer to one of Poe’s short stories, “The Angel of the Odd”.
( The Angel of the Odd – Wikipedia )
Here’s an amusing animated adaptation of it that is quite well done, I think (only 19:53 long) :
Not being a student of Poe’s entire collection of writings, I am only guessing. And, I suppose there may also be other works that mention angels….but, I’d like to think it’s this one.
I didn’t expect to watch for 20 minutes, but it was very engaging.
“…i saw god…”
~Anonymous
This is from back in the day, when you could understand the words in heavy metal songs.
The what in what now?!?
Just wonderin’…..do you really not know or are you just being facetious?
(It’s not always easy to figure out which it might be. Verbal exchanges are clearer to decipher than in text.)
The latter.
Words and Heavy Metal just don’t seem to match nowadays…
Thanks for clarifying for me!
I pretty well could understand the lyrics in most songs…..that is, except in the
seventies, eighties , nineties , two thousands , two thousand tens, two thousand twenties…
Haven’t heard any tunes from the twenty thirties, but I’m not holding out any hope
The 40’s, 50’s and 60’s were great!
Indeed. I like even earlier eras, as well! YouTube is a treasure trove!!!
Hah! Half the time, I didn’t even try to figure out the words and just enjoyed the music! Recently, I was surprised to learn some songs that I really liked years ago have a totally different meaning than what I had originally thought.
That drum solo was a bish to play. My guys would go get a beer and stand in the front waving them at me.
Wow! You played that? Kudos! It’s certainly my very favorite drum solo!!
yeah, but you had a bishing good time
sonovabish……good one, NH !!
I wish ol’ Ed would just spit out that chaw of tabaccky and be done with it
LOL It’ll never happen.
Poe’s favorite song
…
This is all I could find in a short search for the sheet music;
Okay. I’m creeped out.
I love all Corvids, but that is too much! Wow.
What? The one up on top?
The combination of the three.
Worse than a Simpson frog.
Annabelle Lee 4 stars.
Well done, wasn’t it?
What a terrific likeness of EAP (Stel Bel‘s, of course).
Thanks so much!
As I start to write this, it is 03:18 hrs. E.D.T.
I have just finished reading “Over My Dead Body,” the fourth book in Jeffrey Archer’s William Warick series.
It was a really good read.
He wrapped up this particular story line in a “violently-humourous” (the villains got theirs) fashion. You’re brain has to be on hold as you enjoy the story, but the story is enjoyable.
I’m looking forward to October of next year when, all being well, the fifth book in the series will be out.
Again, this is an author you can read !
Yes, I know it’s now 03:44 hours as I wrap this up, but I get distracted as I look things up.
Good evening Cleophiles, and Clevelanders…
October 28th… though it has barely begun… Four more full days, counting today (which I have to, because I haven’t gone to bed yet on the 27th) of… um… Halloweenity.
How many scares, frights, pumpkins, ghosts, and monsters fit into four days?
I guess we’ll find out!
…
Cool poster, StelBel… or more like a portrait, I guess, since it doesn’t appear to be advertising anything.
Fishing with a beetle… is she trying to catch EA Paw or JP Steve?
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 kindergarten age…
and they’re already learning about EA Poe (The human EA Paw imitator)??? I’m impressed.
…
But today’s offering isn’t scary.. Thanks Stel…. a little creepy…. but I can handle Edgar Allen Paw.
I started reading his work almost as soon as I could read, because my Dad had collected some books… wish I could remember more about them…
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, the two most famous Bronte sisters’ books…
….
One set was 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-tale Tail”… a psychological thriller… when those genres didn’t even exist.
His works were the blueprints, he established the conventions.
…
I memorized “The Raven” at about the same age that I was reading Mary Poppins and Dr. Doolittle books from the library and buying Nancy Drew with my allowance.
“Annabelle Leash ” was one of the first poems to ever make me cry.
At seven or eight years old, I didn’t know that the heroine could die!
No fair!
Today’s post was just for you and your behind-the-couch buddies — not too scary, yet satisfying my need in keeping with the Halloween spookiness. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
The attachment comes from…
…HERE
…or just the power of puns (a swine and pearls or SusanSunshine) – just a possibility.
It’s funny – don’t over-interpret it!
I did not over-interpret anything.
It’s just a posted list of things to look for in the panels, with the number of those things provided above the signature.
There is only one, the space ship, in your posting, and in the ones in the spoiler box there are three in today’s, and two in yesterday’s
Like Alexi mentioned, he was not over-interpreting anything. The items list is just that — a list of things you might possibly find in a Bizarro panel that are put there just for the fun of it to find (although they’re not intentionally well-hidden). The list has grown over the years and has become a tradition among fans. If you’re not a regular reader, then I could understand not being “clued in”. I certainly didn’t have a clue of what was going on when I first came across the strip.
BTW, the items list has nothing to do with the punchline/subject of the daily panel.
Thanks for providing the list! I had forgotten a lot of them.
Funny and clever! Love the Bizarro comics!
Serious groanage.
chocolate
Yes, Yes it is!
mmm mmm….
..
great GIF!!
The candles are out. Does that make this a snuff film?
technically…
more chocolate cake
That’s just overwhelming!
can’t have too many black cats
Baghira?
I don’t know what she’s mad at [ “…'(…because all cats are she; in the same way that all sluts and mares are called he, a peculiar beauty of the English language.)’… “] — Poe: “Desultory Notes on Cats” — but the poor thing’s walking with a limp.
Heeere, kitty, kitty. Nice kitty.
E.A. – what a guy.
Good morning Paw phans!
Y’all stay dry… (((((HuGz!)))))
Nope. – Don’t wanna. Stay dry, that is.
Just raising a glass to our dear deceased friend who had severe problems including his lungs, was extra careful – and presumably died from smoke or the exertion killing the smoke alarm to not wake the neighbors in the middle of the night…
How sad. My condolences to you, his family and friends.
Really love this poster, Stel. I love the expression on Edgar Allan Paw’s face. I was mesmerized by some of his stories ~ he puts you right there.
I’m so glad that you liked it, PC !! Thanks!
What a great poster, today, Stel. The video collection was all great! Nothing scary about today. I guess that’s why the Guardian Angel is watching all over the scene Love it.
Like I said to Susan, I thought I would give you guys in ‘Scaredy Cat Row‘ a break today, yet still keep with the spookiness of the season. Glad you liked it, ML !!
BTW, see my comment up above regarding the “angel” and my theory about the reference. I think you’ll enjoy the animated video that I included.
I had a feeling that’s what you did in creating this poster. Oh, I did enjoy the angel video!
More Corvids. I love crows. 🙂
I figured you’d want more!
Perched on a dead tree. Could they BE any more blatant?
ha ha! OK, Chandler Bing!
The best one yet!