Haunted Prosthetic Limb Rescued From the Dumpster Near the Produce Stand
What happened to the post-modernist lamp idea? Where had all that artistic fire gone to? The truth was, I couldn’t get past the fact this leg represented another man’s tragedy. My spooked imagination ran wild at the story behind this leg, and I couldn’t bring myself to manipulate it to my creative will, or throw it away, or even touch it. You may have heard of this condition called phantom limb, where someone loses a leg, an arm, a hand, a finger, and they can still feel it as if it were attached. Instead of phantom limb, I had a case of phantom man.
By Gregory Frye.
The Funnies
Elliott Earls on Dan Clowes‘s Art School Confidential + Gothamist interview Clowes [via Journalista!] + From Hell, a ripping yarn turned into a yawn + The scoop on Damon Albarn & Alan Moore‘s John Dee Opera [via @gdwessel] + “A bewitching story set against an epic score,” Alan Moore’s collaboration with Mike Patton + Pádraig […]
Idle days
Tom Hodgkinson launches The Idler 43: Back to the Land tomorrow night at Rough Trade East: “The music and talk will go from six to eight pm. Your DJ will be Tim Burgess of the Charlatans, and on stage there’ll be Zodiac Mindwarp, Youth, Louis Eliot, Ian Bone with Ray Roughler-Jones, Asbo Kid and if […]