Category Archives: arts

getting cosy with evil

Posted on Thursday, 2003 August 07 by Anton

I’ve just finished reading John Holbrook Vance’s novel Bad Ronald (1973), and it’s keeping me awake. I wonder how much of its creepiness is due to its being set in California rather than on the planet Cadwal, and how much … Continue reading →

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to paint the sky

Posted on Thursday, 2003 August 07 by Anton

Alexander Calder and Braniff Airways — a page about Calder’s airplane paintings. Here’s something I find odd: Four Models were painted, but before two of the models could be finished, Alexander Calder died in 1976. Out of respect to the … Continue reading →

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NINA not missed here

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 August 06 by Anton

With Al Hirschfeld gone, where will TV Guide turn for amazingly hideous portraits?

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new at ogre.nu

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 August 06 by Anton

My newest page is a list of links to my favorite comic strips.

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so near and so far

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 August 05 by Anton

Culture clash comics.

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Sunnydalish

Posted on Saturday, 2003 August 02 by Anton

Can you speak Buffy? Now the witty diction of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been accorded the academic respect that it deserves in Professor Michael Adams’s Slayer Slang (Oxford University Press). Under headings such as ‘The Attraction of Prefixes’ and … Continue reading →

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The Wrath of Servalan

Posted on Thursday, 2003 July 31 by Anton

Is it too good to be true? Is it too true to be good? Watch out for Blake’s 7: The Next Generation — well okay it’s really called A Rebellion Reborn.)

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