Someone kind soul set one of my favorite EAP poems to Tim Burton's animation.
How cool is that?
Poe died, drunk, on election night, dressed in someone else's clothes, under very bizarre circumstances that no one has ever explained.
I'm sure there's a lesson there.
I wrote a whole story about it once. Science fiction, in the style of Poe, explaining his death. Nice little story that everyone I dragooned into reading it liked quite a lot and that was rejected by every editor I ever sent it to.
Saw the headline, and while the page was loading I wondered, "Rice Burroughs, Cayce, or Allan Poe"?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, he completed "The Raven" while living on what's now West 84th Street.
Happy Birthday, Edgar.
Saw this http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34935288/ns/today-today_books/?GT1=43001
ReplyDeleteIt is my birthday as well. May I have an autographed photo of DG?
Damn, I saw today that for the first time in sixty years, a mystery fan failed to leave a dozen roses on his grave.
ReplyDeleteMany doctors now think Poe died not of liquor, but of rabies.
ReplyDeleteWe know why, dear.
ReplyDeleteBecause they couldn't recognize genius.
Wish I could read it.
Will you publish it sometime?
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I'm sure there's a lesson there too.
P.S. I used to visit all the Poe haunts when I lived in Baltimore, and saw the dark figure one dark, stormy night.
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Sooo....I'd read that story. Post it.
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