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Absinthe Party Feb 1st

2008-01-31T17:14:05Z

Come join us in welcoming the cast of the Edwardian Ball Weekend to Whisper.

Enjoy the music of Jill Tracy. Midnight Cabaret hosted by Paul Nathan, Dancing to DJ Smoove and much much more.

All the info is at:
http://www.absintheparty.com

This is a nice party so dress up pretty.

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Edward Gorey Tarot /Fortune Telling Cards

2008-01-30T20:00:21Z

I have a deck of limited addition Gorey "Tarot Cards" I bought about a year or so before he left this plane.

I am thinking of putting them up for sale .

I have seen one deck on ebay go for about 300.00 .

Does anyone have any ideas on what they might be worth?

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Movie based on Doubtful Guest

2007-12-27T07:51:47Z

Hey,

I'm a huge Gorey fan and first time on tribe. I just read this article about a movie being made based on The Doubtful Guest.

here is the article.
http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20070405/117577375500.html

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Elephant house

2007-08-02T20:11:22Z

Hello fellow gorey friends
I moved to boston last year and FINALLY was able to make it to Yarmouth to see his beautiful home yesterday....
it was something i will never forget- very lovely and not what I expected
its not overly marketed and something you
have to be on the watch out for. I was kind of expecting it to be more obvious and lines of people.
first off there is a MASSIVE magnolia tree on the rear side of his home, very rare and unseen in new england with
our frigid temps.
its scent and blooms were transcending.
my family has one on our farm in missouri and when i got out of the car and saw it, I felt so at home.
they have a sculpture of the doubtful guest in the backyard that made me smile.
the house was wonderful, and they have a huge fat cat there to roam the house they rescued, he fit right in.
its a small tour but to see his amazing big silver rings and pendants and his little sewn creatures and original
works was just amazing. the kitchen was great, lots of rocks on the counters and glass bottles as how he kept it.

going to his home is for the true gorey fan, i want to go back just to feel what i felt again. the visit took me somewhere
else outside of this realm if you know what i mean. his presence was felt there and it made me love him even more.
i will post some of the pics i took while there.

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pics from gorey house visit

2007-07-23T08:09:26Z

i put the pics from our visit to his house in my profile if you want to see them.
silly me i don't know how to post them to the tribe discussion.
pics have his name in the title.

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Social Sampler - a new social networking event

2007-05-12T17:41:07Z

Social Sampler

A new concept in social events: "Social Sampler". 28 activities in 7 rooms over 6 hours with 300 chairs using 50 tables. Conversation tables, dancing, games, sing-alongs, read-alongs costume club, toys, food sampler join, watch, or wander activities. several helpful hosts. waltz dancing, latin, swing dancing. 6pm to midnight

www.SocialSampler.com

All ages, Comfortable attire. No partner necessary. $12 general, $6 student with ID.

Oakland Veterans Hall, 200 Grand Avenue Oakland CA X Harrison.A beautiful dance hall, with 3,500 square foot hardwood floor, extra room for socializing and meeting new people, easy access, great parking.

CONVERSATION TABLES: Movies, Books, Relationships, Culture, Tech, Dining, Humor, Random Chat, Artists, Networking, Writers, Harry Potter, Pets, Weather, Vacations; DANCING: Waltz, Swing, Latin SOCIAL : Board games, Card games, Social games, Sing alongs, Script Read alouds, Costumers club, Toys, Food sampler

Conversation Tables
Each Conversation table has a different theme such as Movies, Books, Relationships, Culture, Tech, Dining, Humor, Random Chat, Artists, Networking, Writers, Harry Potter, Pets, Weather, and Vacations.

Each table has a deck of cards with a different topic on each card. Each card is turned over one at a time. People talk about the topic as they wish until everyone who wants to talk is finished. Then the next card is turned over. For example, for the Movie Table, topic cards include “Your favorite movie?” “Your favorite actor?” “Your worst movie experience?” “Your favorite theatre” “Your favorite movie snack?”. Similar topic cards decks are set on each conversation table. You may participate or just listen. You may join or leave any table at any time. There is a host at each table to answer questions.
Movies Table May 26 -a table each for Spiderman III, Shrek III, Pan's Labyrinth, movies in general.
Books Table Recent book discussion, writing, literature, business of authorship
Relationships Table Romance and Relationships discussion
Culture Table Symphony-dance-opera-ballet-theatre
Technology Table Technology, computers and science fiction
Dining Table cooking, fine dining, restaurant, food, cooking experiences
Humor Table Read Jokes, write cartoon captions
Random Chat Table There are 100 cards: "What was the oddest thing you have ever seen?""What is your worst hair day?" “What was your worst job experience?" "Most embarassing moment?"
Artists Exchange Table Exchange techniques, shows, art
Networking Table Business Networking: startups, marketing strategy, IPO, financing
The Writers Exchange Table mutual help for new writers and authors
Harry Potter Table movies, books and trivia
Pets Table cute pet stories, pet health
Vacations Table favorite vacations, budget vacations, dream vacations
Weather stories Table Everyone has interesting stories about weather. Blizzards, hurricanes, earthquakes, hail

Dancing
Waltz Dancing Dj music for Waltz, Polka, Congress of Vienna, Bohemian National Polka
Swing Dancing Dj music for Lindy, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Shag, Balboa, Blues dances
Latin Dancing Dj music for Salsa, cha cha, samba, mambo, bachata, cumbia dances

Games Room
Social games including charades, acronamatic, the question game, story time, WHAT IF? There are social board games in the room: pick up a social board game, select a table, and invite other to play with you. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games.

Board games including cranium, outburst, monopoly, Pictionary. There are social board games in the room: pick up a board game, select a table, and invite other to play with you. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games

Card games including Hearts, Holmes Card Game, Magic: Mamma Mia, other. There are many decks of cards and many specialty card decks. Pick out a game, select a table, invite others to join. You may leave any game at any time. All games stop after 30 minutes so that everyone can try other games.

Social Rooms

Toys
Legos, Tinker Toys, K’nex, Erector sets, modeling clay, group jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzle. You are welcome to play with the toys and invite others to join you.

Script read-alouds
reading aloud scripts from TV, plays, movies, such as the Simpsons, Seinfeld, Friends, Mash, All in the Family, Hamlet, Shakespeare in Love,Buffy, Coupling, American Beauty. There are many scripts on the table. Pick one that you would like to read aloud. Select a table, invite others to join in. Everyone selects a character, and start reading aloud.

Food Sampler There is a different food sampler each Social Sampler. Some food sampler themes are ice creams, chocolates, coffees, potato chips, cookies. Odd Ice Creams with be sampled for May 26: Avacado, Buko (Baby Coconut), Ginger, Green Tea, Halo Halo (Buko, Langka, Ube, Pineapple, Mongo &Sweet Beans), Langka (also known as Jackfruit, a relative of the Fig), Lychee, Mango, Thai Tea, Sweet Coconut, and Ube (purple Yam).

Costumers Club activities include swap or sell fabric, clothing, or costumes' sewing circle talk; or meet potential new clients about new costumes, tuxes, or gowns; or finish a costume in a 'stitch and bitch' session. This is a group for costumers and seamstresses who make costumes, gowns, wedding dresses, and clothing for such events as Renaissance Faire, Dickens Faire, Science Fiction costume masquerade balls, Halloween balls and events, Sea of Dreams NYE, Anon Salon events, Costume cons, Belly Dancers outfits, Greater Bay Area Costume Group events, Art Deco's Gatsby picnic, Newport Week, San Francisco Waltzing Society, Friday Night Waltz New Year's Eve formal Waltz Balls, Peers and Gaskells formal balls.

Sing alongs
Sea Shanteys are songs traditionally sung by sailors to accompany and set the rhythm for certain kinds of heavy, repetitive work on board ship—raising and trimming the sails, raising the anchor, and working the pumps.

Musicals are the songs from musical plays and movies, such as Sound of Music, Grease, Singing in the Rain, Brigadoon, Hair, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls.

Folk songs are just that: traditional folk songs.

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Sam & Emma

2007-03-15T20:15:34Z

anyone else a fan of this children's book? i still have mine from the year i was born (... 1971)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sam-and-Emma-Nelsen-Edward-Gorey-1971_W0QQitemZ220029500891QQcmdZViewItem

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Edward Gorey's Birthday Party Ideas...?

2007-02-11T11:32:06Z

Hi -
Just found this tribe, and wanted to introduce myself.
I am the proprietoress of Gorey Details
http://www.goreydetails.net

We're having an intimate little soiree here in Portland, OR
in honor of Edward Gorey's birthday on Feb.22nd.
(If you're in the area and would like to be included, please contact me)

If you'd care to share any ideas to make this shindig as Gorey-esque as possible,
we'd really appreciate it!
Activities, food, decor, etc.
(I've got prizes and favors covered, I think :)

Thanks!

Julia @
gorey details

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PHOTOS ~ EDWARDIAN BALL

2007-02-02T17:25:45Z

http://www.pixievisionproductions.com/gallery/edwardianball07

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Edwardian Ball Jan 27

2007-01-31T07:01:26Z

Not exactly Edward Gorian ball, but close enough:

http://edwardianball.com/

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half and half costume?

2007-01-31T01:40:31Z

Does anyone know who the gorgeous half and half male/female costume was? The costume was equisitely made, as was the makeup and hair and attitude.

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Greetings

2007-01-29T19:38:03Z

Hi all,

Just found this tribe. You people are hilarious! Ok, you've got some great material to work with, but still. I sent my brother a Gorey-a-day calender for 2006. Imagine my pleasure when I visited him in October and saw that the date was current on it. I rarely have that kind of success getting him gifts.

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favorite gashlycrumb?

2007-01-29T18:26:20Z

N is for Neville who died of ennui

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Edward Gorey Cat

2006-12-20T21:14:41Z

i ordered an Edward Gorey Cat for my little dragonfly for yulemas. she loves cats and i love gorey. hey, gotta raise her right , dont i???
i got it today. it rocks!!!

Signals has a nice selection of Gorey stuff. i keep hinting at the huzzelband to buy me some, lol..

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A cute Gorey-style comic

2006-12-19T17:56:54Z

I don't know if anyone reads the PBF webcomics, but a while ago they did a one-time homage to Gorey that I thought was pretty great. See it here if you're interested.
http://pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF097AD-The_Throbblefoot_Aquarium.jpg

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Nice Gorey Link

2006-12-18T20:35:59Z

"The Gashlycrumb Tinies"

http://www.evilcripple.com/gashlycrumb/index.html

Enjoy !

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Did anyone go to this auction?

2006-11-03T01:17:38Z

The auction is past, but it looks like there was cool stuff for sale. I heard that Gorey's coat actually fetched a few thousand dollars.
http://edwardgoreyhouse.org/auction06.html

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Gorey Stories - Theater

2006-07-25T02:32:41Z

I haven't seen it yet but it's getting good reviews & hear tell art direction is Gorey-ous!
http://www.sacredfools.org/

Gorey Stories

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Hello!

2006-05-13T10:33:56Z

Hello there! just thought i'd jump in...i'm new to this Tribe whatsit, but there's a Gorey thingy here, so it must be wonderful!

xx

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Absinthe party Friday the 17th. In SF - with special guests Rosin Coven.

2006-02-14T23:10:54Z

In case you missed out on the Edwardian Ball this will be a lot of fun.

Midnight cabaret with Ricocco Risque, stars from Twisted Cabaret and Dark Kabaret. Music by Rosin Coven. Dancers, Magic, more.

Absinthe in abundance, rooftop garden, Hookah Lounge, art gallery, make out room. Dance floor.

All the info is at www.absintheparty.com

This is one of my favorite parties and this one looks like it will be the best yet.

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"No one would refuse me a kitten, would they?" from Mina Murray's Journal.

2006-02-01T23:07:51Z

So how many illustrated books, plays, calendars etc. of Dracula by Bram Stoker did Gorey actually do? I've got one of the B&N versions of the book, I believe they actually have several editions out featuring his work. Just thinking it might be fun to collect the various items. Whatcha got?

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Edgar and Ellen?

2006-01-30T23:24:32Z

http://www.edgarandellen.com/

This has to be Gorey inspired. I'd never heard of it until I saw an add just now.

Anyone well aquainted with the works?

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Edward pops his head in...

2006-01-20T19:58:32Z

Was sitting reading a Nevada Barr mystery 'Hunting Season' at work when I ran across the line:

"The undertaker's lanky angulated form followed them downstairs like Edward Gorey's uninvited guest, his dark work suit melting in and out of the shadows on the landing."

My co-workers must have thought me mad when I guffawed uncontrollably, but how could I explain? : )

Any other oblique references you’ve encountered while reading?

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Tee-hee

2006-01-15T22:06:21Z

I had a friend over to my apartment the other night. While flipping through the Pyramid Collection catalog, I had to point out the small silver pen of the Doubtful Guest.

She had never heard of Edward Gorey! So, first off, I had to show her my poster of the Gashleycrumb Tinies, and then the Amphigories!

She was definately shocked, and a little horrified I think; though either she was just being very polite, or she actually kind of liked the morbid humor.

I have to admit, in the past, my exposing friends to Edward Gorey has never gone over very well. I actually had my first roommate at college move out after I plastered the Gashleycrumb tinies on the wall. (Well, she wanted the room themed with Winnie the Pooh in pink and beige.)

Just curious if anyone else has any stories of introductions to Gorey gone awry.

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Starbucks Gorey-influenced holiday ad campaign

2006-01-13T01:21:12Z

hello everybody!
I need to get this off my chest ...

Starbucks has these execrable rip-offs of Gorey's inimitable illustrating style for their dumb-ass holiday marketing.
I have seen print and billboard versions.
anyone else seen these things ?
yeah, yeah, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. but puh-leeze... Starbucks co-opting our beloved subversive genius ???

anyone share my umbrage at this sacrilege ??

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Does anyone out there know?

2005-12-22T23:05:38Z

About twenty-five years ago I went past a book in a shop with a Gorey cover it that was on a rather large textbook that I've never seen or heard of since. It has several of the Gorey bearded men in the foreground leering at sheep in the background. It was hysterical and would love it in the collection, but alas it’s no where to be found. Anyone know just what the book title may have been?

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The Curious Sofa, Ogdred Weary

2005-12-21T19:11:57Z

Anyone read it? I just ordered it but haven't heard much about it.

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for the holidays....

2005-12-18T23:09:23Z

a Gorey gift bonanza:

http://www.goreyography.com/gift/gift.htm

love all-ways,
mem

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Gorey flip-books

2005-12-15T06:24:49Z

I've only ever seen a couple Gorey flip-books since starting collect and don't own any. I saw one where the grass blade grows slowly up and is chopped off in the end by a lawnmower, and the other was a flying elephant going from top to bottom and off the page doing loops.

Does any one own or know of any others he did?

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Cool cutouts

2005-11-28T23:49:27Z

A friend Found this.
They have these printable cut and fold skeletons , graveyard dioramas,
and other things....Free!
http://ravensblight.com/papertoys.html

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Edwardian Ball, San Francisco

2005-11-16T16:57:46Z

Information about the next Edwardian Ball is up! www.edwardianball.com

I am most pleased to see that they have booked a new venue. While the Cat Club has its charms, it was much too small for last year's event. It looks like the Great American Music Hall has quite a bit more space. Yay!

If last year was any indication, it will be a delightful evening. I'm very much looking forward to it.

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Album: The Gorey End

2005-10-22T17:00:56Z

Album by The Tiger Lillies with Kronos Quartet called "The Gorey End".
The lyrics are from at-the-time unreleased Gorey material

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008XRSX/qid=1127728461/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/103-6203006-3639821?v=glance&s=music&n=507846#product-details
The tiger lillies are a strange band, you must hear to understand. They have another great album called "shockhead peter" based on morbid children's tales from the 19th century. I'm sure shockhead peter was one of Gorey's influences, right up there with miss mortimer's "the peep of day"

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Plagiarism

2005-09-22T08:52:24Z

I just received the most interesting little book for Christmas. It's called "The Macabre Alphabet" by Ben Wu. It's the most appalling example of plagiarism I've ever seen. Everything in it is a blatant ripoff of Edward Gorey. The most egregious example is the panel "The body festered Malodorously." It's an illustration of a dead woman lying face-down in the street - but the woman is _exactly_ like Mona from the last panel of Gorey's "The Loathsome Couple." Position, hair, hands, everything is the same. The only things Wu did to change it were to add some flowers to Mona's dress and change the background.

Further examples, unfortunately not including that one, are at www.ben-wu.com.

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Quiz2

2005-09-04T21:17:20Z

Which Edward Gorey Book Are You?

http://quizilla.com/users/kundavega/quizzes/Which%20Edward%20Gorey%20Book%20Are%20You%3F/

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Goreyfont

2005-09-04T20:58:25Z

This is my favorite font to use when I write poetry or stories. There is something very comforting in it. I sure wish we could utilize fonts like this on the tribe. Enjoy making your own Gorey verse or worse!

http://www.emeraldrain.com/fm/content/goreyttf.html

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Gorey WoftW

2005-06-28T11:48:13Z

A reprint of the 1960 edition of War of the Worlds, illustrated by celebrated artist Edward Gorey, is being released by New York Review Books ($16.95). "Startlingly up-to-date and is in touch with the most ancient of human fears," editorial director Edwin Franks says of Wells' masterpiece.

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Possible Gorey inspiration?

2005-06-15T03:53:23Z

Excerpt from a children's book in the 1800's.

"Here's a glimpse at Peep's terrifying opening chapter:

God has covered your bones with flesh. Your flesh is soft and warm.

In your flesh there is blood. God has put skin outside, and it covers your flesh and blood like a coat... How kind of God it was to give you a body! I hope that your body will not get hurt.... Will your bones break? -- Yes, they would, if you were to fall down from a high place, or if a cart were to go over them....

How easy it would be to hurt your poor little body!

If it were to fall into the fire, it would be burned up. If a great knife were run through your body, the blood would come out. If a great box were to fall on your head, your head would be crushed. If you were to fall out of the window, your neck would be broken. If you were not to eat some food for a few days, your little body would be very sick, your breath would stop, and you would grow cold, and you would soon be dead."

Reference: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4698196#email

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New Gorey Book

2005-05-09T00:34:41Z

I just saw this at Borders, a coffee table book of photographs all of different rooms in Edward Gorey's house. Walls full of books, records, colored glass bottles, chotchkes, nick nacks all photogrpahed in beautiful black and white. For the ultimate Gorey voyeuer.

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the gorey end - w/ tiger lillies

2005-04-26T23:58:17Z

http://www.tigerlillies.com/2003/index.php?main=recordings&pubId=5

does anyone have this album?

it's such a gorey story.

The Gorey End, Writer/Illustrator Edward Gorey enjoyed 'Banging in the Nails' so much he sent us a large box of his unpublished stories, some of which we adapted and turned into songs. Then, before he could hear them, Mr Gorey passed away. So sad. But here are those songs, with the Kronos Quartet providing strings and barks, on our new CD The Gorey End. We think he would have enjoyed them. If he hadn't passed away. Tragically.

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John Bellairs books

2005-04-21T23:13:44Z

I hope I'm not posting a rather obvious message here, couldn't find anything about it in any recent posts, but did anyone else read those books when they were kids? Illustrated by Edward Gorey (only the first several I think) beginning with The House with the Clock in its Walls. Cool books! Creepy and weird - I started reading em in fifth grade, thus beginning my obsession with Mr. Gorey.

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hilarious

2005-03-27T02:29:15Z

http://www.gregr.org/.Bunny%20suicides_files/Bunny%20suicides.htm

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Edward Gorey Edwardian Ball

2005-02-08T00:53:44Z

I know this event next year will be on the 22nd of January, and probably at the Cat's Cub in San Francisco, but I can't find a listing for it! Any help?

Pics from last years:

http://www.samsphotography.net/EdwardGoreyBall/

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stuffed bat

2005-01-25T01:28:18Z

My wife used to have one of those stuffed edward gorey bats, but it was stolen when her car got broken into recently. I would love to find her a replacement, but I can't seem to find them anywhere. Google turns up lots of pages that talk about them, or from people who have them, but I couldn't find any place selling them. Anybody have a good pointer?

Thanks.

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Gorey Tattoo

2004-12-21T01:45:58Z

Who has one? My sister is getting me one for Xmas and I have been trying to narrow down to what I want.....

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favourite?

2004-12-16T15:53:46Z

whats everyones fav Gorey book, Or line, Or sketch?

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New image...

2004-12-16T00:18:14Z

Just posted a scan of the cover of "Things", a 1964 paperback published by Belmont...cover illustration by Edward Gorey!

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Quiz

2004-11-28T07:13:14Z

Apparently my parents made a mistake... My name should be Leo.
http://quizilla.com/users/redshoecult/quizzes/What%20horrible%20Edward%20Gorey%20Death%20will%20you%20die%3F/

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Edward Gorey night at Bricktops

2004-11-06T19:20:23Z

On Friday December 17, 2004, Vaginal Davis' 1920s speaky easy club Bricktops will be hosting Ed Gorey night featuring Mr. Uncertain and friends.

The location is The Parlour club located at 7702 Santa Monica Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA. Admissiom is $5.

Come on down if you're in the SoCal area!

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Bay Area spooky places

2004-10-05T03:04:44Z

Hey, anyone have recommendations for Bay Area haunted houses? (commercial or otherwise)

For that matter any recommendations for especially spooky graveyards or otherwise macabre locations?

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Gorey inspired? "Gloom" by Keith Baker

2004-10-03T18:58:12Z

Has anyone seen or heard of this card game?
<Major Geek Alert ahead>
I saw an ad in this month's Dragon mag (yes, that's right, D&D) for a card game that looks JUST like Edward Gorey art...and SOUNDS just like something he would have written.
The card game, Gloom, from Atlas Games, is a "Game of Inconspicuous Incidents and Grave Consequences." The object is to be MISERABLE, while making your fellow players happy, in which case they lose the game.
Anyone?

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praise

2004-09-10T23:55:24Z

The singular career of Edward Gorey is impossible to adequately characterize, in part because his work articulates the tension between exaggerated opposites at every step. The style of his work and the simplicity of his verse superficially resemble books for children, but the intense macabre of his stories and their relentless existential interrogations bely our every tendency to treat him lightly. Likewise, though there is an unmistakeable cartoonish-quality to his illustation, close examination reveals an astonishing precision, care, and attention to detail.

I think this explains in part the curious power and profundity that his images convey. Like myth, his stories present and in some way mediate the deep paradoxes of our experience. His stories are short, much as the poems of the Modernist poets are short. It is not that Gorey has little to say; rather, he speaks so well that precious few words are required.

Complementing Gorey's stylistic precision and excellence, the images that surface from his best tales are unmistakeably illuminating in the curious way that parable is illuminating. Something is communicated, but it is difficult to say exactly what it is.

Gorey is a singular emmisary of the Dream Works, wholely and unmistakeably himself in each stroke of the pen.

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just wish

2004-09-10T01:56:05Z

just wish: my life is just like a Edward Gorey Painting;
dark, sinister somewhat off center oh wait......
that is my life.
What do ya all think, life would be more grand if we were all a EG painting?!

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CREEPFEST 2004 SEKING SHORT FILMS, ANIMATION, SCI FI, FANTASY, ART, SCRIPTS.....

2004-08-27T17:11:35Z

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Ascending Peculiarity

2004-08-23T17:36:15Z

I just got it at the discount bin at Barnes and Noble for only $1!!!
If any of you guys have a B&N close check it out. they also had Amphigorey and Dracula ilustrated by Gorey for $9.99 but I already had those.

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the Gilded Bat

2004-07-03T02:34:50Z

I've seen the sketch, but does anyone know the story behind it? Is there a story there?

as an aside, the sketch has inspired me to do a short film.

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newbie

2004-06-03T18:05:39Z

hi all! i'm new to the tribe, but a long time gorey fan. i have two limited edition lithos and a couple of signed books. there are great places here in nyc to get everything gorey. ain't he the best?

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new

2004-05-19T23:40:13Z

I just bought Ascending Peculiarity, anyone read it? What did you think...Haven't started it yet

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A is for Amy

2004-04-22T00:39:44Z

Who fell down the stairs.

Amy Robsart, Lady Dudley, wife of Sir Robert Dudley, Master of Horse to Queen Elizabeth I, ( and some say her lover). found dead at the bottom of the stairs Sept 8,1560.

Does anyone iknow if the rest of the Ghashleycrumb Tinies are based on historical reality?

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Online Gashlycrumb Tinies

2004-04-18T21:08:29Z

http://www.evilcripple.com./gashlycrumb/

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Museum?

2004-04-18T04:33:56Z

Hey,

Just joined the tribe, I've been a fan of Gorey for years. I'm wondering if anyone has been to the Edward Gorey house museum on Cape Cod, and what they thought of it. I'm planning a road trip one of these Spring weekends.

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Lollipop Trollops?

2004-04-14T01:16:48Z

Can anyone fill me in on what the heck this is? Ages ago I found a great drawing on the webernet by EG that was a cover for this book, but the site I found that on was shut down by the EG Estate, I think, and now when I try to do a search for "lollipop trollops," I get distracted by confectionary porn. I'm not complaining, exactly, but I still want to know what the Lollipop Trollops is, as opposed to what they are.

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how old?

2004-04-10T17:37:45Z

How old is thee Edward Gorey? I saw a picture of him and I was just wondering how old he was

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Abner Dean ?

2004-04-08T19:42:33Z

has anyone hear heard of Abner Dean? He was another one of thise great cartoon illistrators from the 40's that did some great social commentary, The best book was called "what am I doing here" most of his stuff is rather dark , and critical.

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Love EG

2004-02-20T18:59:07Z

Love Edward Gorey artwork, he is one of a kind. His warped and dark sense of humor doesn't apply to everyone,yet you always have to think deep about his subjects and what he is portraying.

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Monks Of Doom

2004-02-17T11:25:56Z

The Monks Of Doom, an early 90's post-punk band, have an ep out called The Insect God. The title track is a musical version of the Edward Gorey classic. They are the perfect band for the job. Talented and a little creepy. They also do a cover of Zappa's "Who Are The Brain Police".

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Anyone there?

2004-01-24T02:26:23Z

I dunno what's the point of this tribe. No-one (myself included) bothered to post last Friday's Edwardian Ball at the Cat Club as an event. How lame is that?

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calendars

2003-11-10T16:59:20Z

i'm a sucker for cool black and white wall calendars. i save them and cut them apart and use the pictures over again. my best find so far?
forgotten murderesses, by who else but my man E G.

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Pictures

2003-10-22T07:32:28Z

Make one of them the main photo, or I shall become distressed and melancholic!

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curious sofas and whiskers on kittens

2003-10-22T07:25:55Z

dying of ennui in warm woolen mittens.

< twang >

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