Perennial Preston Sturges stooge Julius Tannen, celebrated in a short piece over at The Chiseler, based — closely! — on a conversation with regular Shadowplayer Randy Cook.
Another Vincent Price limerick, co-authored with Hilary Barta.
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Reservoir of Doggerel
Posted in FILM with tags Hilary Barta, Limerwrecks, Masque of the Red Death, The Raven, Vincent Price on November 1, 2011 by dcairns
I’m back in Edinburgh, after some slight travel trouble. “We will shortly be flying you to Edinburgh… but not on this plane.”
It’s time to catch up on the latest at Limerwrecks, where I’ve been rhyming up a storm for the Vincentennial, celebrating the man with the velvet voice, Vincent Price.
THE RAVEN gets rhymed up in this piece, which may teach you a new word for “crow” (“Stick with me, kid, it’s not much fun but it’s educational”). And I turn my poetic fancy loose on MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH here and here.
You’ll also find lots of fine limericks by Surly Hack, the host of the site (AKA ace cartoonist Hilary Barta), some with titles by me. I flatter myself I’m quite good at titles — if you have a thing lying around the house that has no title, tell me about it below and I’ll craft one for it at no extra charge.
Wordplay
Posted in FILM, literature with tags Act of Violence, Hilary Barta, Limerwrecks on November 7, 2010 by dcairns
A second blog, you ask? Not quite. But I’m now a contributor to Limerwrecks, offering quality doggerel at used sonnet prices, generally on film noir related themes.
The joint is the brainchild of cartoonist Hilary Barta (Plastic Man, Splash Brannigan, Wasteland) whose work I’ve admired for years, and is the kind of goofy idea I can’t resist. My first official contribution is — no, no, ignore the pointing man, follow the link.
