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DIDDLERS: SECRETS HIDDEN IN THE SHUFFLE
It’s what Griel Marcus termed “the old, weird America.”; a peculiar terrain, a strange yet familiar backdrop to a common cultural history of America : the “playground of God, Satan, tricksters, Puritans, confidence men, illuminati, braggarts, preachers, anonymous poets of … Continue reading
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Tagged Boardwalk Empire HBO, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Constance Rourke, David B. Kesterton, De Tocqueville, Edgar Allan Poe, Griel Marcus, Herman Melville, Jesse Bier, John Goodman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Larry Charles, Luc Sante, Matt Goldberg, Michael Moore, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Fulford, Ruth Schwartz, Sinclair Lewis, Stephanie Zacharek, Stephen Matterson, Van Dyke Parks, Virginia Heffernan, William E. Lenz
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THE DAMP HAND OF MELANCHOLY
Restaurant Utopia. Five miles high , then, when you come to the fork in the road, take it. The sign on the door stated ” Different Cultural Levels Eat Here”. On entering the host delivers a fortune cookie, in which … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged A Thurber Carnival, Damon Runyan, Danny kaye, Dorothy Parker, Freud, Henry James, Homer, J.D. Salinger, James Thurber, Jesse Bier, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Linda Hutcheon, Mark Twain, Nabokov, Nathaniel West, P.G. Wodehouse, Paul Auster, Peter Sellers, Ring Lardner, Salinger, Sherwood Anderson, Sigmund Freud, The Catbird seat, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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LAUGHING WITH THE SUB-LITERARIES IN DIXIE
Whether or not humor has been considered too elusive or trivial to warrant serious study on its own terms ,like the popular culture of which it is both part and a partaker, is unclear. Some scholars such as Jesse Bier, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alex Gross, Artemus Warde, Beverly Hillbillies, Bret Harte, Constance Rourke, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, George Washington Harris, Grouch Marx, Guy Owens, James Thurber, Jesse Bier, Joan Miro, Johnson J. Hooper, Mac Hyman, Mark Twain, Marx Brothers, Max Ernst, Nathaniel West, New Yorker, Otto Dix, Paul Newman, Ring Lardner, Thomas bangs Thorpe, Walker Percy, Walter Blair, William Faulkner, William Tappan Thompson
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