Weird Al also parodied this song as “Here’s Johnny” about Ed McMahon. –Geoff
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It was fun arranging various quotes from all four poets into a kind of argument. Especially one that, more or less, supported the (somewhat skewed) views of Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism we are presenting as the cornerstone of the respective two-headed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some will say that American Transcendentalism is not actually diametrically opposed to the writings and thoughts of Melville and Hawthorne, that all of them share a fundamental concern for the maintenance of the individual’s status amongst the homogenizing influence of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love The Minister’s Black Veil by Hawthorne. And I will make no apology for this fact. (Of course, this will be more relevant when the actual inset panel and quote from Minister’s Black Veil gets added to this episode…) […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Is it possible that that is the last time I have drawn the head of Henry David Thoreau? The neck-hair veins of Emerson? Why, it was a mere 11 months ago to the day that they were born. But, in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ah! A tragic rift in the United States is finally healed through a largely bloodless transfer of power. We can only hope for so much to occur next week. –Geoff
The United States Army Regiments which became Napoleon’s Galactic Army which became the governing force of California which became Peter’s personal army which have now become Northern Regiments again probably didn’t do too badly from being with Peter. After all, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This video by Lore Sjoberg is worth a look for the various explanations (and grades) he gives to different theories of time travel. In today’s episode the Chapeau is clearly evincing its support in the “Bad Time” theory. We do […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh, you rascal, Poe. – Count Dolby von Luckner
Is it a coincidence that we are wrapping up our big Civil War arc, with all of its talk of being a friend to the Union and such, on the day of what is quite possibly one of the biggest […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…