(Look at lucky bugger James with Mr. Moore at the London Lip event). What better way to spend your birthday than with a guest shot on the Simpsons? It worked for Moore, who appeared tonight along side fellow cartoonists Art Spiegelman and Dan Clowes. It was great to see the Lost Girls poster behind him…
Category: popular culture
Opening: LitGraphic
[I’m working backward from today which is the first day I’ve had any time to write.] We headed out bright and early (well, for a Friday, i.e. my non-teaching day) to hit the road for Massachusetts and the LitGraphic exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum. We had our press credentials in hand and a wide…
A Blast from the Past
Last night we joined our friends Maryann and Dee for a jaunt to The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Palace theater (and first stopped by the Pump Station — yum!). I don’t know how many years it has been since I last saw it — hate to count ’em. It may have been back…
Publication: Folklore/Cinema
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=magicwombat-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0874216737&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrHurrah! First off, there’s no department meeting today as it counts as a holiday (silly as that may be). Better yet, I just ran across the street to check my mailbox. Rather than the student papers I was expecting (hmmm, wonder where they are?) I found my latest publication, “The Virgin Victim: Reimagining a Medieval…
Medievalism Round-up
My paper went okay — it got a few laughs, I got to say rude words because they’re in the text and it was fun. The conference was very enjoyable and brought together a wide variety of folks, mostly (but not all) medievalists. Topics touched on books, films, video games and of course, opera (my…
Who: Are You?
Over at the Guardian blog there’s wild speculation about the next Doctor Who. In their usual style, there’s a breezy, written-on-the-tube-on-the-way-to-the-office starter and then the barrage of comments varying from the rabid fan to the surreal humorist. Well worth a read if only for the catty in-fighting.
Promoting Beowulf
I’ve signed up to help promote the Beowulf film via my website. This is the Roger Avery/Neil Gaiman version with Angelina Jolie in a golden bikini as Grendel’s mother. Yes. Click on this link to learn more about the film. It’s come along at a convenient time while I am teaching the medieval texts on…
Getting Lowe
Yes, it’s true — Nick Lowe will be on a Prairie Home Companion September 29th. “Goin’ to see the Rollers, going to see the Bay City Rollers…”
Publication: Imagineer
According to McFarland’s page anyway, the book is “available for immediate shipment.” Amazon yesterday said it was “available special order only”; today it says “only 1 left in stock!” Who knows? http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=magicwombat-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0786430141&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr At least the table of contents is up at the publisher’s site, so we can see my essay “Imagineer: Clive Barker’s Queering of…
Beer and Loathing at PCA
We were somewhere around Boylston on the edge of the deserted streets when the doubts began to take hold. There were no huge bats swooping and screeching and diving around us, but we had definitely taken a wrong turn. We knew for sure when our pints of Guinness arrived in 12 oz plastic cups. The…