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Oct
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Posted by Christopher Waldrop
October 11, 2007 | 1 Comment
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Doris Lessing is this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It’s both good news for those of us who have read her work for a long time and also a surprise, coming forty-five years after what many consider her best work, The Golden Notebook.
Lessing has long been known as a feminist writer, and, […]
Unlike zombies, vampires have a powerful hold on our consciousness because, while, like zombies, they must feed off the living and are forever shut out of “normal” society, they have an appealing mystique. Thanks to the influence of Bram Stoker vampires have become figures of romance. They are as seductive as they are frightening, although […]
There’s something about zombies that, no pun intended, keeps them coming back. The classic zombie of contemporary cinema, appearing in low-budget classics like The Last Man On Earth with Vincent Price and, of course, George Romero’s original Night Of The Living Dead, with its vacant stare and shuffling walk is the stuff of our deepest […]
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Oct
3
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Posted by Christopher Waldrop
October 3, 2007 | 1 Comment
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There’s a down town fairy singing out “Proud Mary”
as she cruises Christopher Street,
And some Southern Queen is acting loud and mean
where the docks and the Badlands meet.
This Halloween is something to be sure
Especially to be here without you.
-Lou Reed
Don’t feed the plants!
I’ve always enjoyed costumes. In recent years I’ve been a gargoyle, Seymour […]
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Oct
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Posted by Christopher Waldrop
October 1, 2007 | 1 Comment
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As David Skal explains in his book Death Makes A Holiday, Halloween has been around a very long time, although its connections to pagan rituals have been greatly exaggerated and are still poorly misunderstood. He attempts, briefly, to trace the origins of Halloween and some of its rituals, but admits, several times, that source […]
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