Results tagged “rape revenge” from The Cultural Gutter
Alan Moore Knows The Score
“It's nice to hear all the old songs,
isn't it?”
--the Devil, The Black Rider
I was surprised to hear the old songs
in Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen Century: 1910 (Top
Shelf, 2009). I probably shouldn't have been. The chapter title, “What Keeps Mankind Alive”
distracted me, but I kept
reading my water-damaged copy and ran smack into, “Mack
the Knife.” Like the chapter title, it's a song from Bertolt
Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera.
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Lipstick
As some of you Ernest Hemingway fans may well remember, Margaux Hemingway was the fifth person in her family to commit suicide, her death ending a Hollywood career sullied by alcohol, epilepsy, an eating disorder and life in the shadow of a more famous sister, Mariel.
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Alan Moore Knows The Score
“It's nice to hear all the old songs,
isn't it?”
--the Devil, The Black Rider
I was surprised to hear the old songs in Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 1910 (Top Shelf, 2009). I probably shouldn't have been. The chapter title, “What Keeps Mankind Alive” distracted me, but I kept reading my water-damaged copy and ran smack into, “Mack the Knife.” Like the chapter title, it's a song from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera.
Continue reading...Lipstick
As some of you Ernest Hemingway fans may well remember, Margaux Hemingway was the fifth person in her family to commit suicide, her death ending a Hollywood career sullied by alcohol, epilepsy, an eating disorder and life in the shadow of a more famous sister, Mariel.

I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."