Hal Johnson's Blog, page 17
October 24, 2024
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
(Tonight I’ll be at the Rocktober Bloodbath, signing & hawking! Worth a trip to Milford, CT! Flier at the bottom!)
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Al Milgrom!
Tonight!
October 22, 2024
A garland of quotations XCI
(Upcoming appearances: Oct. 25, 8 pm, Rocktober Bloodbath, Milford CT | Nov. 2, 10 am+, Norwalk Public Library Book & Author Festival, Norwalk, CT. | Nov. 17, 2 pm, Sunday Afternoon Talk, Stratford CT)
Suitable for children, this series!
If you are a teen-ager, I feel sorry for you,
•Oral Roberts, The Teen-Age Rebel: Oral Roberts Speaks to Youth (1968).
October 17, 2024
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
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Steve Muffatti!
October 15, 2024
A garland of quotations XC
Deep in the heart of old gray rocks we dwell,
We who were old a thousand years ago;
And we have played about the paths of man,
And in the twilight filled his heart with dreams.
•Elia M. Peattie, Edda and the Oak (1911).
A friend of mine being asked why his Grace of P. was likened to an old woman? replied, “he supposed it was because he was past bearing.”
•Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809).
The sole disgrace is to grow old, and we are shamed only by wrinkles.
•Pierre Lo...
October 10, 2024
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
[Tomorrow, Oct. 12, 1 pm, at Breakwater Books, Guilford, CT, will be me!]
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Bill Everett!
October 8, 2024
A garland of quotations LXXXIX
(Upcoming appearances: Oct. 12, 1 pm, Breakwater Books, Guilford, CT | Oct. 25, 8 pm, Rocktober Bloodbath, Milford CT | Nov 2, 10 am, Norwalk Public Library Book & Author Festival, Norwalk, CT.)
Remember when everyone was talking
Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.
•H.G. Wells, Mr. Belloc Objects to “The Outline of History” (1926).
I stand within Time’s crumbling walls and weave at Eternity’s looms the Circle-that-looks-lik...
October 6, 2024
Movie Explainer: What is Pulp Fiction about?
(The basic idea for this essay was spelled out to me decades ago by a guy I knew slightly named John Cho. Tip of the hat to him for that! If I have (as I hope I have) expanded on his basic idea, the additions are my responsibility alone. Hope you’re doing well, ungoogleable John, wherever you are!)
Indeed it’s said that the banality
Of evil is its greatest shock.
It jokes, it punches its time clock,
Plays with its kids.
•Vikram Seth, Golden Gate (1986).
In t...
Movie Explainer: What is Pulp Fiction about
(The basic idea for this essay was spelled out to me decades ago by a guy I knew slightly named John Cho. Tip of the hat to him for that! If I have (as I hope I have) expanded on his basic idea, the additions are my responsibility alone. Hope you’re doing well, ungoogleable John, wherever you are!)
Indeed it’s said that the banality
Of evil is its greatest shock.
It jokes, it punches its time clock,
Plays with its kids.
•Vikram Seth, Golden Gate (1986).
In t...
October 3, 2024
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
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Dario Brizuela!
October 1, 2024
A garland of quotations LXXXVIII
(Upcoming appearances: Oct. 12, 1 pm, Breakwater Books, Guilford, CT | Oct. 25, 8 pm, Rocktober Bloodbath, Milford CT | Nov 2, 10 am, Norwalk Public Library Book & Author Festival, Norwalk, CT.)
Could this whole page be nothing but
…deafening crash, shook lowermost sea, unfathomable earthquakes alarm antipodes; a pause unknown terrestrial, save chaos of old, when Deity on creative morn, roused the eternal stillness…
•Albion: In Twelve Books (1822).
I am the beginning of the world...
