Speech is the twin of my vision…
02.13.2010
Welcome to the McLuhan Dome! Tonight: “hot” print vs. “cool” comic book.
02.04.2010
When did murder in a bookshop or library become a middlebrow meme?…
01.23.2010
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Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) studies Famous First Editions at the Hollywood Public…
01.12.2010
Ellen (Gene Tierney) reads to Richard (Cornel Wilde) from his own (middlebrow)…
01.11.2010
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Chess sets, and Scrabble, certainly. But not Battleship, Mastermind, Risk, Monopoly, Clue?
Bicycles,…
12.24.2009
Meta-commentary: Researching pulp cover illustrations in which books are featured is exceedingly…
12.16.2009
Chris Burden offers a distilled narrative in proto-Powerpoint.
It only has one bullet…
12.15.2009
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Scene from The 39 Steps (d. Hitchcock: 1935), in which Sheriff Watson…
12.07.2009
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This book-shaped object is a Tabloid-brand medicine box, manufactured by the British…
11.20.2009
House of Mystery #201 (April, 1972). Cover illustration by Michael Kaluta.
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Ninth in…
11.06.2009
Gregory Green’s Book Bomb #8 (1994).
From the artist’s gallery’s website:
Since the mid-1980’s…
10.30.2009
Title: “This is the enemy.”
Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. G.P.O. : Distributed…
10.23.2009
A Kindle just wouldn’t work as well in this propaganda poster, would…
10.17.2009
Sculpture by unknown artist — image found on Flickr and sent into…
10.13.2009
Artist: Broder, S.
Title: “Books are weapons in the war of ideas :…
10.06.2009
From John Holbo’s Pulp Mystery photostream on Flickr.
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