The Hangman's Noose and Nashville Comic Book Thing.
Just looking around the internet. I have seen a few incidents where hanged Halloween displays have been coming under fire in the aftermath of the Jena 6 controversy. Normally I would defend common sense, obviously the hangman display for Halloween is common. Hanged figures were an element in Gothic Horror. One such classic example is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (published 1818), where Justine is hanged for murder committed by the creature. Another mention of hanging as punishment for a crime in Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death (published 1842).
"Who dares,"--he demanded hoarsely of the courtiers who stood near him--"who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery? Seize him and unmask him--that we may know whom we have to hang, at sunrise, from the battlements!"
Sure, common sense says that a scary hanged person has nothing to do with racial hate, nor does it seek to invoke racially or hate based lynching.
But when I put up my skeleton in my yard last week, the one that I normally hang from a tree every year, I thought about it. I just undid the noose and used the rope to hold his limbs together better (the thing is falling apart, and I am too cheap to buy another 10 dollar cheap plastic skeleton!). So now he just hangs by the little string on the top of his head, floating mysteriously in the yard.
If it occurred to a dumbass like me, that someone might be pretty fucking offended by it this year. Then I can't really defend anyone for doing it this year.
Of course next year I will have to be offensive on purpose. Look for the headlines coming next year. I should make national news with my "Zombie Abortion Clinic" Halloween display.
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Nashville Horror and Comic Show (part 1)
The comic guest list was greatly improved from when I bitched about it a few months back. Eric Powell was only going to be there Sunday, but showed up today as well, which makes the guy really cool in my book.
Brian Hurtt (from Oni Press' Damned) did an awesome Grimjack sketch for me as well.
More Comic Show post stuff tomorrow.
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The great plus side of global warming?
We are now discovering evidence of polar dinosaurs!
I love the irony that as we increasingly help cause the destruction of our ecosystem. We find signs of animals that were wiped off the Earth due to a catastrophic failure of it's ecosystem. Maybe the Earth has a sense of humor in all this?
"Who dares,"--he demanded hoarsely of the courtiers who stood near him--"who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery? Seize him and unmask him--that we may know whom we have to hang, at sunrise, from the battlements!"
Sure, common sense says that a scary hanged person has nothing to do with racial hate, nor does it seek to invoke racially or hate based lynching.
But when I put up my skeleton in my yard last week, the one that I normally hang from a tree every year, I thought about it. I just undid the noose and used the rope to hold his limbs together better (the thing is falling apart, and I am too cheap to buy another 10 dollar cheap plastic skeleton!). So now he just hangs by the little string on the top of his head, floating mysteriously in the yard.
If it occurred to a dumbass like me, that someone might be pretty fucking offended by it this year. Then I can't really defend anyone for doing it this year.
Of course next year I will have to be offensive on purpose. Look for the headlines coming next year. I should make national news with my "Zombie Abortion Clinic" Halloween display.
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Nashville Horror and Comic Show (part 1)
The comic guest list was greatly improved from when I bitched about it a few months back. Eric Powell was only going to be there Sunday, but showed up today as well, which makes the guy really cool in my book.
Brian Hurtt (from Oni Press' Damned) did an awesome Grimjack sketch for me as well.
More Comic Show post stuff tomorrow.
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The great plus side of global warming?
We are now discovering evidence of polar dinosaurs!
I love the irony that as we increasingly help cause the destruction of our ecosystem. We find signs of animals that were wiped off the Earth due to a catastrophic failure of it's ecosystem. Maybe the Earth has a sense of humor in all this?