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Leonora, Linares, and the Alebrijes, 2

Posted on November 1, 2017 by W N Herbert

4 The next day I had two new fixations: getting my jacket dry-cleaned, and having a ‘souvenir haircut’. (As I have almost no hair, the second of these is sometimes replaced by the souvenir shave.) Giovanni reckoned that a short … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Alebrije, Chaz Brenchley, Coconino County, Dia de los Muertos, Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo, George Herriman, Ignatz Mouse, Jorge Fondebrider, Julián Herbert, Krazy Kat, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Mexico City, Museo de Arte Popular, Nahuatl, Oaxaca, Orfeon, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Pedro Linares, Reverend Thomas Dick, Roboet, The Testament of the Reverend Thomas Dick, Tiffany Atkinson, Tona | 1 Comment

Leonora, Linares and the Alebrijes, 1

Posted on October 31, 2017 by W N Herbert

(I’ve been meaning and indeed longing to get back to this account of my non-encounter with Leonora Carrington two years ago in Mexico City, and to describe what I met instead. Revisiting my drafts within a month of the earthquake … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged André Breton, Brendan Riley, Carlos López Beltran, Claudio Lomnitz, Daniel Garza Usabiaga, David Cronenberg, Elena Poniatawska, eXistenZ, Julián Herbert, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Liverpool Tate, Mama Leukaemia, Max Ernst, Mexico, Mexico City, Museo Arts Moderno, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Ome Tochtli, Pedro Linares, Pedro Serrano, Remedios Varo, Rene Magritte, Richard Gwyn, The Generation of the Lamb, William Burroughs, Wolfgang Paalen, Xochipilli | Leave a comment

Dial the New Unsettlement!

Posted on June 1, 2016 by W N Herbert

3 It is as an opposition to this mindset that I welcome, rejoice in, and kick myself for missing, the construction and demolition of the cardboard Royal Arch by Claire Dow and Olivier Grossetete. Such fond, culturally-informed and – yes … Continue reading →

Posted in dundee makar | Tagged Claire Dow, Dadaism, Dundee, Dundee University, Erin Catriona Farley, Geddes Institute, George Wyllie, Grayson Perry, Ivor Cutler, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Mark Waldron, Monty Python, Olivier Grossetete, Sir Patrick Geddes, Situationism, The Overgate, Whitfield, William McGonagall | Leave a comment

From the Miniature to the Virtual: Informationist Dundee

Posted on April 18, 2016 by W N Herbert

Like several Scottish and Northern cities which have struggled with their changing identity – are they, as formerly, principally provincial conglomerations, or can they become something more, something capable of rebalancing the stacked centre/region dichotomy? – Dundee has performed and … Continue reading →

Posted in dundee makar | Tagged Alice, Cox's Stack, Czech Republic, D.M. Brown's, Darlington, Draffens, Dundee, Dundee Doldrums, Dundee Makar, Durham, Edinburgh, Edwin Morgan, Elgin, Flann O'Brien, Frieda Kahlo, Gairfish, General Monck, Groucho's, Grove Academy, Hugh MacDiarmid, Hull, Informationist Dundee, Jackie Kay, John Davidson, Kolkata, Lewis Carroll, Liz Lochhead, Mennie's, Mexico City, Michael Marra, Monty Python, Newcaslte, Noctes Ambrosianae, Pedro Serrano, Richard Price, Royal Arch, Royal Society of Literature, Scots language, Shanghai, Situationism, Speedwell Tavern, Stirling, Tay Whale, Taybridge Bar, The Goons, The McManus, The Overgate, The Pillars, The Ruin, The White Knight, Through the Looking Glass, Trades Kirk, Virtual Scotland, W.S. Graham, Whaleback City, William McGonagall, Wordsworth Trust | 1 Comment

Psychogeoferric Footnotes

Posted on January 21, 2016 by W N Herbert

(This is the last of the plunder from Tumblr: displacement activity for not finishing off the Mexico City post, which I have now no excuse not to return to apart from the full time job. And my accounts. I’m adding … Continue reading →

Posted in dundee makar | Tagged Andy Jackson, Beijing, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Crete, Dome on the Rock, Donegal, Dundee, Hagia Sophia, James Joyce, Kilometre Zero, Lewis Carroll, Madrid, Magdalen Green, Mexico City, Newcastle, Portmanteau Word, The Discovery, The Forbidden City, The Wailing Wall, Whaleback City | 1 Comment

Daft Globe: Syd Barrett and Dark Whimsy

Posted on December 31, 2015 by W N Herbert

(I’ve been vaguely attempting to push on with my next post about Leonora Carrington, which focuses on Mexico City, but in fact have been obsessing about Syd Barrett instead. Somehow, not only are these two subjects related, but Barrett seems … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged A.A. Milne, Billy Mackenzie, Captain Beefheart, Chuang Tzu, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Dickens, Edinburgh, Edward Lear, Eno, G. Gregory Smith, Hogmanay, Humble Pie, Jeff Shirley, Keats, Leonora Carringtom, Lewis Carroll, Malcolm Jones, Mark E. Smith, Mexico City, Pink Floyd, Richard Dadd, Robert Fergusson, Robert Wyatt, Roger Waters, Scrooge, Shakespeare, Spike Milligan, Syd Barrett, The Daft Days | Leave a comment

Carry On, Leonora: 1

Posted on October 3, 2015 by W N Herbert

(This is the first of five sections of a piece I’ve been puzzling over all summer about the great British Surrealist painter and writer, Leonora Carrington. Puzzling because I don’t quite know where I’m going with this, though it clearly … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Alastair Reid, André Breton, Barry MacSweeney, Basil Bunting, Braque, Crete, Cubism, Da Vinci, Dalí, Dark whimsy, David Jones, De Chirico, Dotor Who, Edward Lear, Edwin Muir, Elena Poniatowska, Eric Mottram, Flann O'Brien, Frank O'Hara, Geoffrey Hill, Harry Tawb, Hugh MacDiarmid, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Iggy Pop, John Ashbery, John Fuller, Jon Pertwee, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Kenneth White, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Liverpool, Lyn Hejinian, Lynne Roberts, Max Ernst, Mick Imlah, Miró, Monty Python, Paul McCartney, Peggy Guggenheim, Peter Blake, Prynne, Richard Dadd, Robert Duncan, Roger Delgado, Ron Silliman, Sir Arthur Evans, Spike Milligan, Surrealism, Susannah Clarke, Ted Berrigan, Terry Gilliam, The Autons, The House of Fear, The Labyrinth, The Ruin, The Tate, Tristram Shandy, Victor Brauner, W.S. Graham | 3 Comments

Dark Whimsy

Posted on February 15, 2015 by W N Herbert

(A post that started months ago as I realised my creative attention had moved for the time being toward something between the poem and the prose poem. These pieces arose from my engagement with social media rather than the conventional … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Bruno Schulz, Charlie Kaufman, Clark Ashton Smith, David Bowie, Edward Lear, Franz Kafka, George Herriman, H.P. Lovecraft, Haruki Murakami, Hayao Miyazaki, Ivor Cutler, James Finlayson, Jan Svankmajer, Jim Woodring, John Ashbery, Krazy Kat, Lewis Carroll, Michal Ajvaz, Michel Gondry, Monty Python and The Goodies, Mood Indigo, Morrissey, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Pete and Dud (and Derek and Clive), Philip Guston, Robert Crumb, Spike Milligan, The Flaming Carrot, The Goons, The Simpsons, The Wipers Times, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson | Leave a comment

The Osborne and the Cameron

Posted on October 25, 2010 by W N Herbert

The Osborne and the Cameron disturbed the oysters’ sleep: by saving sandgrains from the strand they made the oysters weep. ‘Should seven widows give their mites to us for seven years, do you think, dear Ozzie, that … Continue reading →

Posted in sparrow mumbling | Tagged David Cameron, George Osborne, Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Lewis Carroll

Leonora, Linares, and the Alebrijes, 2

Leonora, Linares and the Alebrijes, 1

Dial the New Unsettlement!

From the Miniature to the Virtual: Informationist Dundee

Psychogeoferric Footnotes

Daft Globe: Syd Barrett and Dark Whimsy

Carry On, Leonora: 1

Dark Whimsy

The Osborne and the Cameron

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