This week and next El Cabrero is officially furloughed. Goat Rope will appear regularly but the posts were prepared in advance and won't have links or comments about current events.
I'm filling up the time these days by blogging about the top 10 books that have influenced me from childhood through early adulthood in basically chronological order. What would be on your list?
Book #1 was the Bible and Book #2 was the Book of Common Prayer (it's an Episcopal thing). Book #3 is...
Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. I've mentioned before in this blog how my late father used to read those to me when I was a little kid--and how they scared the bejesus out of me. It didn't help that my older brother used to get on the phone and pretend to call the Plutonian shore and tell the Raven to come get his little brother Ricky...
It is fun to be a little scared when you're a kid and I ate that stuff up. Besides, where else will you find a phrase like this:
"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
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You have an EA Poe action figure??? WOW.
My third grade teacher used to play LPs of Vincent Price reading Poe short stories. We would all put our heads down on our desks, close our eyes, and just listen. She would even turn off the lights. I bet if you tried that now you would go to jail as a K-12 teacher in Kanawha County! But we loved it. VERY scary. The on that freaked me out the most was the Pit and the Pendulum.
Oh yes, we also listened to Bill Cosby's "Chicken Heart" routine. Which if you have never heard it, you MUST find it. It is an absolute classic, and truly one of the funniest things you will ever hear.
HERE IT IS!!! At least an excerpt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Hds19eAh4
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