William Caxton Fan Club

I am honored when people want to get tattoos of my stuff. I have a whole schtick about “let your tattoo artist help with the idea,” I believe in that, but whatever the case it is an honor fo...

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I didn’t write that song! It’s by Trembling Blue Stars. 

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comicstoastonish : > Fantastic Four #240 (1982)  >  > Writer and Artist: John Byrne I’m stoked for everybody else who loves or loved comics if they’re excited to see stuff like ...

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Sometimes we mosh, sometimes we stretch, sometimes we dance sometimes we need some help getting dressed sometimes we put on our own pants sometimes we’re at 100% sometimes we need to re...

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thebestcomicbookpanels : > Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ ♩ ♫ ♪ ♩all ye who en-ter here / abandon hope 

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There’s a storied tradition of bands naming themselves after lyrics from other bands/songwriters so that’s obviously an honor. The more obscure the better imo, like in the ideal situation it�...

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My name is John Darnielle. I was born under the sign of the Water Sorcerer but am licensed to practice in the houses of the Earth Wizard, Cyclone Snake, and Flame Devourer. My band is the Mountain Goats, I wrote this book, and my next one, Wolf in White Van, was published by Farrar, Struass & Giroux in September of 2014 and got itself nominated for the National Book Award. i prefer working to sleeping and can make several different kinds of biscuits.

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oneterabyteofkilobyteage : > original url http://de.geocities.com/gehirntraining/ >   >  > last modified 2001-12-08 16:36:19 all memes are old memes and most of them can be traced to...

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I don’t have a ready answer for this, even though I’m sure I do have one - I think Lear has some of the most stunning poetry he wrote, and like all past-and-future goths I love Titus even tho...

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ronaldcmerchant : > DADDY LONG LEGS (1931)  >  > click to enlarge

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Well thank you so much! The way we usually work in the studio means that that wasn’t necessarily going to happen - I lost the ability to write musical notation (I could re-learn it I’m sure b...

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ronaldcmerchant : > the 3 STOOGES MEET HERCULES (1962) there is something profoundly lonely and sad about this still to me

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Wild! No, I haven’t read it. 

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http://www.sciencealert.com/a-fossilised-skull-has-revealed-when-the-last-siberian-unicorn-lived-on-earth

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No, when I was younger I was a three-chords-and-the-truth guy. It’s a great stance to take for a while and a great stance to reject when that while has passed. I don’t trust anybody who holds...

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You know, I didn’t know his stuff at all but I bought whichever one has “Hill Country Rain” on it at Zzzz Records in Des Moines....somewhere around the time I was writing AHWT & Tallahasse...

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This strikes me as a really good question, and I don’t know the answer to it. I feel like thinking about it for five minutes and then saying “I’ve got it!” would be exactly the kind of p...

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the lyric wasn’t written until, like, eight years after we made the album. there were bits and pieces of it in notebooks but it was a song that took its time coming together. 

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ronaldcmerchant : > Lon Chaney Jr. on a horse

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My name is John Darnielle. I was born under the sign of the Water Sorcerer but am licensed to practice in the houses of the Earth Wizard, Cyclone Snake, and Flame Devourer. My band is the Mountain Goats, I wrote this book, and my next one, Wolf in White Van, was published by Farrar, Struass & Giroux in September of 2014 and got itself nominated for the National Book Award. i prefer working to sleeping and can make several different kinds of biscuits.

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