Lovecraft / Doré / Ernst Mashup Illustrations

I just wandered across these illustrations for H.P. Lovecraft's literally awesome story At the Mountains of Madness from what I believe was a 1936 issue of Astounding Stories. Besides looking a little like Matt Diffee's New Yorker cartoons, they also reminded me of Gustave Doré's illustrations for Dante's Inferno. If no one does it soon I'm going to add making a collaged together Doré illustrated Lovecraft à la Ernst's Une Semaine de Bonté to my list of neverending art-projects!







Doré's illustrations of Dante and Virgil at the Gates of Hell:

Davy Rothbart on Letterman

Davy is on my top ten list of people I wish I was friends with (the first one doesn't get started until 2:30):

Epitaph

"But these meandering journeys across the Internet soundscape can be taxing. The medium too easily generates anxiety in place of fulfillment, an addictive cycle of craving and malaise. No sooner has one experience begun than the thought of what else is out there intrudes. Putting on an old-fashioned disk and letting it play to the end restores a measure of sanity."

Alex Ross / Infinite Playlist / The New Yorker

Potato Cock

Uprooted in a Greenpoint garden:

Bobby McFerrin

Just the other day someone (I don't remember who) told me they didn't like Bobby McFerrin. That person doesn't know what they're talking about:

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