Tag Archives: Buster Keaton

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 4

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Bill Herbert

I am often nagged by epiphenomena, events sitting at the edge of How Things Should Be, though I don’t usually know what it is they are trying to tell me. Such things are, by definition, peripheral – or at least … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Broughty Ferry, Buster Keaton, Harry Secombe, Leonora Carrington, MacBeth, Michael Parkinson, One Week, Peter Sellars, Pink Floyd, Spike Milligan, Syd Barrett, The Electric House, The Goon Show, Wish You Were Here | Leave a comment

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 3

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Bill Herbert

(Warning, Will Robinson : this section seems to veer off at a tangent before returning to (what appears to be) the subject…) I was struck by a recent and very particular version of our impositions on the customary: the decision … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Bothie Nichts, Buster Keaton, Dundee, Hugh MacDiarmid, J.M. Barrie, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jimmy Shane, Leonora Carrington, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Naked Lunch, Oor Wullie, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Broons, The Courier, The Goon Show, The Guardian, The Hobbit, The Mighty Boosh, The People's Journal, The Sunday Post, The White Heather Club, VisitScotland, Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs | 2 Comments

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 2

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Bill Herbert

Keaton, Carrington, and Milligan all encounter a similar type of crisis in their ability to pursue their art. The effect on them as creative individuals, and their attempts at solutions, however, are very different. For Keaton, it’s the encroachment of … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Buster Keaton, Hector Boece, Historia Gentis Scotorum, Holinshed, John Bellenden, Leonora Carrington, MacBeth, Shakespeare, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Goon Show, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 1

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Bill Herbert

(I seem to have spent forever over this next set of posts, or, rather, not so much over as hovering – or havering – nearby. Many other duties, including a talk on one of the poets mentioned below, W.S. Graham, … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Arc Publications, Buster Keaton, DCA, Dundee, Ivor Cutler, Leonora Carrington, Little Nemo, Neil Brand, Poet & Critic, Reverend Thomas Dick, Rudi Blesh, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, Teresa Griffiths, The House of Fear, The Testament of the Reverend Thomas Dick, Verity Maidlow, W.S. Graham, Winsor McCoy | Leave a comment

The Great Moc Gonagall

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Bill Herbert

Norman Watson, Poet McGonagall: The Biography of William McGonagall (Birlinn) One of the first books of poetry I remember from my childhood is listed in the bibliography to this new life of William McGonagall, the enigmatic purveyor of bad verse … Continue reading →

Posted in reviews (some antique) | Tagged Alfred Jarry, Buster Keaton, Byron, D.C.Thomson, Douglas Dunn, Hamish Henderson, Lowden Macartney, Peter Quince, Reverend George Gilfillan, Robert Burns, Robert Tannahill, Shakespeare, T.S.Eliot, Thomas Moore, Walter Scott, Weekly News, William McGonagall | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Buster Keaton

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 4

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 3

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 2

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 1

The Great Moc Gonagall

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