In my pre-goofy/weird days, with Nanny Opal.
Prepare to be shocked, people!
I was a weird child. I grew up on Monty Python, Alfred Hitchcock (TV show and movies), Stephen King, William Shakespeare, and Edgar Allan Poe. Add that to my hereditary weirdness and of course I was gonna be a bit odd.
Poe was my first literary hero—“The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Telltale Heart,” “The Purloined Letter” and other works fascinated me and informed some of my own short-story writing.
Today marks 211 years since he was born. So yeah, it’s all about him today.
I have this on a mug. It brings together three of my great loves: “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Poe and puns.
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No, I will not nevermore speak of him, you dolt.
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He knew it was probably just that damn bird again.
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Pooh just got really dark. I like it.
Bizarro by Dan Piraro.
Kitteh, no burying him under the floorboards. That won’t work out.
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Ignore how awful animatronic Salem looks.
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Admittedly, I’ve thought of walling a few people up … I haven’t … but I thought about it.
Image found on The World of Edgar Allan Poe.
One more reason I don’t drink: drunk birds who can’t spell “quoth.”
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Serenity is a fuzzy belly 
Whew. Today is also Robert E. Lee’s birthday, which is even scarier.And for those predicting another Civil War, let’s say Nevermore.
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I agree! Poe is a better person to celebrate. And the editorial page did not do the usual paean to Lee today, so let’s hope that tradition has been duly buried.
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I remember reading Poe’s stories when I was a boy–both in their original printed versions and in the Classics Illustrated versions also. Did you ever read “The Gold Bug” by Poe? We read that in class in elementary school.
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I think I’ve read all his short stories, but it’s been a while. Too long.
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Speaking of William Shakespeare, my ex-wife and her crazy sister do not understand or read poetry such as the plays of Shakespeare. My ex-wife tried to read part of “Hamlet” and she said that “That’s crazy. Normal people don’t talk like that”. She refused to try to read anything else by Shakespeare. I enjoyed reading through his plays in class in both junior high and high school.
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Love his comedies. Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing are my favorites.
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My maternal grandmother never did understand why I preferred to watch The Addams Family and The Munsters as well as the cartoons on Saturday morning TV. She thought that since I was a boy, I should like Westerns and Disney. I thought Disney was Boring and Formulaic.
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And the original Star Trek series as well.
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I prefer Next Generation. Original was too campy for me.
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Disney is a good brain-clearer. I still watch some Disney when I need to relax.
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You like Disney? I will have to pray for you (he said jokingly).
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Hey, Disney owns the Marvel franchise!
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Thank you for the reminder Brenda. I am old enough to remember reading early issues of Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk and The Avengers and the Silver Surfer and Daredevil as well as Black Bolt and the Inhumans.
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