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..."
Results tagged “the Grail” from The Cultural Gutter
The Fine Art of Dreamthieving
Michael Moorcock’s latest, and last, fantasy trilogy winds different strands of his fiction together intointertwining, virtually meta-fictional narratives reflecting on mythic and heroic archetypes and the power of stories to create new realities. If you like Moorcock, you will enjoy these books. If you don’t like Moorcock, they probably won’t change your mind. And if you’ve never read Moorcock, these could be a magnificent introduction to his writing or they could completely turn you off; maybe both. Either way, they are heady stuff.
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The CanConspiracy
Ancient castle ruins on North American soil, secret societies scuttling Atlantic exploration, and a grail tradition in Canada stretching back seven centuries? Canada is at the heart of a North American grail conspiracy. Or so says Michael Bradley, author of the popular Holy Grail across the Atlantic: The Secret History of Canadian Discovery and Exploration (1989) and in two recently published sequels. Bradley draws heavily on the work of alleged experts who claim that the Grail—or San Graal—is not just a chalice or cup but a family lineage, a dynasty, protected for centuries and traced back to the tribes of Benjamin or the children of Jesus. He carries the reader from a now-familiar account of European Grail tradition, to our own purported entry into the mystery: the alleged founding of a New World royal refuge in Nova Scotia in 1244. Whether you are a cynical skeptic, railing against leaps of logic and lack of solid historical research, or you are a fan of grand conspiracies, Bradley offers a strangely compelling anti-establishment history lesson that alleges Grail followers founded a clandestine royal refuge in Nova Scotia in 1244, Samuel de Champlain was a Grail secret agent, and finally Tommy Douglas should be recast as our uncrowned once-and-future king.
Continue reading...
The Fine Art of Dreamthieving
Michael Moorcock’s latest, and last, fantasy trilogy winds different strands of his fiction together intointertwining, virtually meta-fictional narratives reflecting on mythic and heroic archetypes and the power of stories to create new realities. If you like Moorcock, you will enjoy these books. If you don’t like Moorcock, they probably won’t change your mind. And if you’ve never read Moorcock, these could be a magnificent introduction to his writing or they could completely turn you off; maybe both. Either way, they are heady stuff.
The CanConspiracy
Ancient castle ruins on North American soil, secret societies scuttling Atlantic exploration, and a grail tradition in Canada stretching back seven centuries? Canada is at the heart of a North American grail conspiracy. Or so says Michael Bradley, author of the popular Holy Grail across the Atlantic: The Secret History of Canadian Discovery and Exploration (1989) and in two recently published sequels. Bradley draws heavily on the work of alleged experts who claim that the Grail—or San Graal—is not just a chalice or cup but a family lineage, a dynasty, protected for centuries and traced back to the tribes of Benjamin or the children of Jesus. He carries the reader from a now-familiar account of European Grail tradition, to our own purported entry into the mystery: the alleged founding of a New World royal refuge in Nova Scotia in 1244. Whether you are a cynical skeptic, railing against leaps of logic and lack of solid historical research, or you are a fan of grand conspiracies, Bradley offers a strangely compelling anti-establishment history lesson that alleges Grail followers founded a clandestine royal refuge in Nova Scotia in 1244, Samuel de Champlain was a Grail secret agent, and finally Tommy Douglas should be recast as our uncrowned once-and-future king.
