Neko Case

Neko Case is one of those rare hot redheads that you thought existed only in fairy tales. She's an indie songstress with a strong punk do-it-yourself ethos.


Plus I love her solo stuff. I actually got into her solo stuff, the country noir-flavoured singer-songwriter racket, before I ever heard her more power pop-oriented vocals that line The New Pornographers' oeuvre.

Weekly Wikipedia Find: Rat king

If I say rat king, you might be struck with noble, upstanding images of a regal rodent benevolently ruling masses of critters like clockwork. But forget your fairy tale naïveté because rat kings are the things of nightmares, scary as fuck.

Rat kings are born when a number of rats become unnaturally stuck together, their tails entangled, and grow as one to all our combined great horror. You've been warned.

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Week Six: Tomorrow
Week Five: Borscht Belt
Week Four: Swampman
Week Three: Chinese room
Week Two: Ambrose Burnside
Week One: Lolita fashion

Weekly Wikipedia Find: Gustave Doré

Back to legitimacy this week.

Gustave Doré was a badass engraver from the nineteenth century. So badass that H.P. Lovecraft praised him even, in prose: "There's something those fellows catch - beyond life - that they're able to make us catch for a second. Doré had it. Sime has it." (From "Pickman's Model"). Like most engravers, a lot of his subjects seem to be biblical (okay, by most I mean Blake; I was only thinking of Blake). Doré also illustrated some Poe, and Byron, as well as fairy tales and other non-biblical things.

The Wikipedia article is rather short, but it does contain a gallery.

Wikipedia by Week

Week Six: Tomorrow
Week Five: Borscht Belt
Week Four: Swampman
Week Three: Chinese room
Week Two: Ambrose Burnside
Week One: Lolita fashion