Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Patrick Spencer Tekeli of San Francisco died June 27 he graduated from the University of California-Berkeley in 1980 After earning his medical degree at Vanderbilt in 1984 he began an internship at California Pacific Medical Center in his hometown which marked the beginning of a long affiliation with CPMC Tekeli joined the fledgling specialists known as “hospitalists”—doctors with broad skill sets who are able to oversee and manage hospitalized patients when surgeons and other specialists are away he was among a handful of local physicians to aggressively treat HIV/AIDS patients while mainstream medicine was still mired in confusion and denial over the disease Tekeli was known for his ability to explain complicated issues in easy-to-understand language was an essential and contagious element of his mastery of many subjects Tea” road bike won Best of Show at the North American Hand Made Bicycle Show His film about the history of bicycles is in postproduction Nashville, Tennessee 37240 615-322-7311 • Contact Us Vanderbilt University’s Online Privacy Notice The Great Old Ones are not ashamed – and neither should be – to be another band influenced by the peculiar works of author H.P waded and drowned in Lovecraftian nightmares since the spawning of 2012 debut platter Al Azif and with the six-track Tekeli-Li they have continued their esoteric cacophony Rather than just plod through six tracks of straightforward Lovecraftian tributes this rather mesmerising combo choose to create varying levels of eeriness which for the most part of their journey take on the form of dissonant black metal chimes revolving around sparse sprawling guitars and wretched vocal yelps and barks while one moment the band are rattling through fierce tundra in search of obscure emotion there are also those injections of the sweepings serene on wintry oddness which – once all compacted together – make for quite an intriguing listen That’s not to say that The Great Old Ones – despite their seemingly wide heads – are spectacularly original Their soundscapes – which range from the opening brief passage ‘Je ne suis pas fou’ to the bulbous monstrosity that is ‘Behind The Mountains’ – are a mesh of harsh cavernous noises which match the snapping vocals but it’s similar in slant to the more depressive moods of Xasthur A track such as ‘The Ascend’ opts for a more abrasive approach and remains nothing new within the black metal field yet offers a distant melody throughout its ferocity ‘The Ascend’ exists as one of the fleshiest tracks on the album particularly with its iron-clad drumming; in rapid-fire motions the drumming rattles through the track until we reach the slower droning mid-section bubble before once again we’re back to the pace the track is bereft of vocal and doesn’t benefit from this All can be forgiven when we reach the final epic rapture that is the near 18-minute ‘Behind The Mountains’ which begins with haunting tip-toe piano and then in full-blown bleak quality starts to rage like a coming storm haunting and also spiteful as it attempts to evoke images of the same bewildering tundra that Lovecraft manifested all those years ago I will admit that I expected this opus to harbour more of the mystical but it’s still a chilly black metal composition that tries its best to conjure up nightmarish images by way of tinkering with the usual formulas we’ve become accustomed to within the genre Somewhere between haunting soundtrack and grainy white noise Tekeli-Li should greet you with a frosty reception Something has sparked anew the wanderlust in fashion retail/wholesale executive Edi Tekeli Ensconced in Los Angeles for eight years now the Turkish trader has embarked on what he calls “a new and exciting project” that is perfect for the country that he will always call home “I believe this will initiate the next chapter in my life and will bring me back to Manila,” he says Tekeli arrived in the Philippines in the early ‘80s after meeting his Filipina wife in a fashion show in Europe He lived a significant chapter in his life in Manila “I was part of a group that introduced Guess to the Philippines in 1992 I’ve been on the look-out for a new clothing brand that had up-to-the-minute designs and was competitive with other mall labels,” Tekeli recalls The Spanish fashion label that debuted in Barcelona in 1984 and has grown to be a global brand is the brainchild of Isak Andic who moved from Turkey to Spain in the 1950s which Andic liked so much after discovering it during a visit to the Philippines “I met with Isak and his brother Nahman and opened the first Mango store in Manila in 1999,” Tekeli says Mango was enthusiastically accepted by Manila’s fashion market and now counts a dozen stores in several major cities in the country Tekeli closed the Manila chapter of his life to begin a new one in LA In 2006 he moved to Los Angeles to open several Mango retail stores in the United States “The first two opened in LA and in Chicago,” he says Fashion was not the only reason for Tekeli’s move: family played a big factor “My children were living in Los Angeles so I decided to reside here,” he says kindled and honed for 10 years in Milan where he moved from Turkey at age 18 Mango has been accepted by the US market as well And Tekeli has been kept busy as now his business has diversified to include e-commerce via Chic Shadow “LA has exceeded all of my expectations of what California is all about,” he says “It truly is a Hollywood type of town.” Although fashion has taken Tekeli from city to city around the world “I have always loved the fashion retail business,” Tekeli says fast-paced industry that is always changing I love the challenge of introducing new trends to different markets.” Tekeli adapts to the culture of the market that he is tapping difficulties and challenges are much easier to cope with,” he says So where will the next chapt er of his life take Tekeli “I believe my heart belongs to the Philippines,” he says See other individuals living the American dream in the City of Angels. Printed in the Philippine Tatler October 2014 LA Fashion issue. 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The deal is transpiring in a larger context—and that context is Amazon He learned that Random House intended to purchase the venerable publisher Alfred A Rogers began making calls to prod his antitrust division into blocking the sale monopoly loomed as a central concern of government—and a competitive book business was widely seen as essential to preserving both intellectual life and democracy Rogers discovered that the merger would yield a company that controlled a mere 1 percent of the book market Democratic and Republican administrations alike wouldn’t hesitate to block a merger like the one proposed today which intends to fold the giant publisher Simon & Schuster into the even more gigantic Penguin Random House it might publish a third of all books in the U.S This deal is so expansive that it’s hard to find an author to write about it who isn’t somehow implicated it’s not terribly surprising to reveal that I’m published by Penguin Random House Read: What the Penguin-Random House merger means to you, average reader this merger is deplorable and should be blocked With diminished competition to sign writers making it harder for authors to justify the time required to produce a lengthy work Publishing may lose its sense of higher purpose The bean counters who rule over sprawling businesses will tend to treat books as just another commodity Publishers will grow hesitant to take risks on new authors and new ideas they will prefer sequels and established stars a giant corporation starts to worry about the prospect of regulators messing with its well-being a condition that tends to induce political caution in deciding which writers to publish But this merger is not the gravest danger to the publishing business The rise of Amazon accelerated the demise of Borders and the diminishment of Barnes & Noble If it’s correct to worry about a merged company that publishes perhaps 33 percent of new books then surely it’s correct to worry more about the fact that Amazon now sells 49 percent of them book publishers have huddled together in search of safety Amazon’s size gives it terrifying leverage over the industry and its control of the search box on its site publishers have sought to increase their bargaining power They believe that they can match Amazon’s size only by growing their own When the government intervenes in a market, its actions are never neutral. One of the greatest mistakes of the Obama administration was the 2012 suit it brought against book publishers for working in concert to cut an e-book deal with Apple The issue is not that the publishers were acting virtuously: They behaved like a cartel It’s that the publishers were hardly the worst offenders The government flogged the publishers for a technical violation of antitrust laws rather than constraining the most egregious monopolist The arrival of a new administration represents a moment to finally address Amazon’s lock on the book business; it’s a moment to focus on the core of the problem publishers are oligopolistic and hardly sympathetic but their continued health is essential to the survival of the book business and thus the intellectual life of this country If the government constrains publishers without constraining Amazon then the government will merely accelerate the accumulation of untenable power in one single company From the November 2019 issue: Jeff Bezos’s master plan to create a business that owns the future of nearly every industry Books were Amazon’s initial enterprise; they were the seemingly innocuous starting point for its plan to secure the economy’s commanding heights The government’s treatment of the publishing industry is a signal that it sends to every other sector of the economy Nothing less than the survival of competitive capitalism is at stake who was released from a prison in Israel on Sunday interrogated incessantly for days and drugged during his almost one-month long torturous ordeal Israeli authorities detained Tekeli on Jan 15 just before he was due to board a plane at the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv The detention came after the assistant law professor from Istanbul Medeniyet University attended a program in Jerusalem on Jan The exact reason for his detention remains unclear since Israeli courts and authorities refrained from issuing any statements on the case while Israeli authorities also rejected Anadolu Agency correspondent’s demand to follow his trial Tekeli said he became hopeless during his days in captivity and thought he would never be released from prison after Israel accused him of spying He recalled that his first interrogation lasted for more than two hours following which “Israeli police said: ‘We will not let you go You are staying here with us.’ They started questioning me and then I do not remember the date His interrogations would continue for almost a month “They asked me thousands of questions they said ‘Tell us what you know’ “Then they showed me my pictures and other people they gathered from my Whatssapp Facebook account and some others places that I had not ever seen before in my life And then they said: ‘Tell us everything’ “They showed me the photos of our President [Recep Tayyip Erdogan] and then the photos linked to the International Justice Union of which I have been a member; the photos of my business trips and some meetings in some countries when I was appointed in the name of Turkish Republic were also shown to me.” The academic said the Israeli authorities kept him in handcuffs "You cannot even stand with your back against the wall because of bad plastered Your hands and feet are cuffed,” he recalled adding that his cuffs were tightened further whenever he requested to loosen them Tekeli said he was repeatedly asked the same questions “Almost 16-17 people came every day and asked me the same questions every time My eyes were sealed [blindfolded] and they were continuously taking me from one place to another It was as if they had been tortured.” He said he would face harsher conditions whenever he asked for a lawyer and or the Turkish ambassador I was all naked and they kept me waiting in handcuffs in freezing cold … Later they said they would take me to a room that they called VIP But that VIP room turned out to be like a fridge The prisoners there used to call it ‘sellace’ Tekeli said the Israeli police also drugged him I was really exhausted after they had interrogated me for hours…Then I saw them giving me an injection I tried to ask what they were doing and then I realized that there were two pills in my mouth I could not focus on anything after that.” He said later the Israeli officials claimed the drugs forcefully given to him were to prevent him from getting sick By , in which two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s original stories “They had crossed the icy peaks on whose templed slopes they had once worshipped and roamed among the tree-ferns They had found their dead city brooding under its curse and had read its carven latter days as we had done They had tried to reach their living fellows in fabled depths of blackness they had never seen—and what had they found All this flashed in unison through the thoughts of Danforth and me as we looked from those headless slime-coated shapes to the loathsome palimpsest sculptures and the diabolical dot-groups of fresh slime on the wall beside them—looked and understood what must have triumphed and survived down there in the Cyclopean water-city of that nighted whence even now a sinister curling mist had begun to belch pallidly as if in answer to Danforth’s hysterical scream.” Summary: Dyer and Danforth have learned from decadent murals that the Old Ones fled from the encroaching ice to a new city in a warm submontane sea They set out to find a passage to this wonder Along the way they smell an odor they associate with the buried Old Ones at Lake’s camp; more disturbing something has recently swept a swath through the debris and left parallel tracks like sledge runners they discover the remnants of a camp: spilled gasoline Maybe mad Gedney could have covered these pages with grouped dots and sketches but there’s no way he could have given drawings the assured technique of Old Ones who lived in the city’s glory days The explorers press on through their terror They want a glimpse of the submontane abyss and perhaps of what left the crumpled notes behind Their route brings them into the base of a vast cylindrical tower A ramp spirals up the cylinder toward open sky; from the heroic scale and assurance of the sculptures that spiral beside it this must be the most ancient edifice they’ve found yet Under the ramp are three sledges loaded with booty from Lake’s camp—and with the frozen bodies of young Gedney and the missing dog They stand bewildered over this somber discovery until the incongruous squawking of penguins draws them onward Wandering around the descent to the abyss are six-foot-high They pay little attention to Dyer and Danforth who proceed down the tunnel to what looks like a natural cavern with many side passages leading out of it The floor is weirdly smooth and debris-free The smell of Old One is joined by a more offensive stench The passage they take out of the cavern is also debris-free Danforth thinks the original band of carvings might have been effaced and replaced by these Both feel the lack of an Old One aesthetic—the new work seems almost like a crude parody they see obstructions that are not penguins What their torches reveal are four very recently dead Old Ones weltering in dark-green ichor and missing their star-shaped heads The penguins couldn’t have wreaked such damage nor would they have coated the dead with black slime Dyer and Danforth remember the ancient murals that depicted victims of the rebel shoggoths They goggle at fresh dot-writing on the wall Now they know what has survived in the underground sea and Dyer realizes that the Old Ones who destroyed Lake’s camp were not monsters or even savages men passed through aeons to the terrible twilight of their civilization they’d collected Gedney and the dog and the camp artifacts as specimens they’d sought their kind and met their kind’s horrific fate Gedney screamed at the sight of the decapitated bodies and now a curling mist roils up from the passage before them Something that pipes a musical cry of “Tekeli-li!” It must be a last surviving Old One he flees with Danforth the way they’ve come But just before they plunge into the passage back to the dead city they shine full-strength beams of light back at the pursuer What they see is no Old One but a fifteen-foot-wide column of black iridescence budding green-pustule eyes and piping in the only language it knows up the cylindrical tower to the frozen city But Dyer takes over for the overwrought student when they reach the treacherous pass because Danforth looks back at a line of needle-peaked mountains to the west Dyer keeps enough composure to get them through the pass and back to Lake’s camp where they tell the rest of their party nothing of the wonders and horrors they’ve seen Only the threat of more Antarctic expeditions makes Dyer speak now He witnessed the hideous danger that still lurks under the ice but even he can’t tell what Danforth saw at the last Danforth sometimes whispers of black pits and protoshoggoths from one of the few people ever to have read the Necronomicon cover to cover But all Danforth shrieked at the moment of his ultimate vision was “Tekeli-li What’s Cyclopean: Two final architectural “cyclopeans” in this segment plus a rather striking description of shoggoth-as-subway-train The Degenerate Dutch: The Victorian theory of civilization life cycles gets a lot of play and references to the Old One descent into degeneracy abound Because we all know art exists on a clear hierarchy of quality with the position of any given work on that ladder instantly recognizable even across species boundaries Libronomicon: The Necronomicon proves uniquely reticent on the subject of shoggothim And Danforth turns out to be one of the few people who’ve studied it cover to cover rather than treating the ancient tome as a bathroom reader Poe apparently spent some time in the Miskatonic library before writing Arthur Gordon Pym Madness Takes Its Toll: The sight of a shoggoth is pretty rough on human nerves The sight of whatever lies over the mountains around Kadath is worse everyone in this story is having such a horrible day Dyer and Danforth have lost colleagues and comfortable worldviews albeit the experience will make their careers… if they can ever bear to publish head out to warn everyone… and discover that there is no ‘everyone’ left to warn They’re surrounded by a landscape long post-apocalyptic they discover just how long—that’ll shake anyone’s confidence But there’s a glimmer of hope: their fellows may have retreated to the deep subterranean sea examination of the “alien tech” starts to suggest a far more disturbing truth to rise from the by-products of shoggoth production the Old Ones’ day is about to get even worse the shoggothim have made a home in that deep subterranean sea safe and hidden from any who might still survive in the outside world on patrol kept more from ancient habit than true need a guard discovers a party of Old Ones—the ancient oppressor disused skills coming back to an old soldier likely to warn their fellow oppressors and bring them down on the supposedly safe refuge scribble a warning on the wall in the oppressor’s own tongue then go back to confer with the rest of shoggoth-kind you can tell that from the tools and speech—but is it in league with the Old Ones It does kind of smell like them… better to be safe They’ll be coming back with molecular disruptors for sure They were designed to be big and strong and infinitely adaptable—congratulations now that they’re free they’re still big and strong and infinitely adaptable Doesn’t sound like a bad recipe for a civilization horrified by their “mocking” use of Old One language and “degraded” artistic techniques Lovecraft would have us believe that they make nothing of value on their own and that the “parodies” of Old One art were in fact intended as parodies people speak and write what they were raised on Time for the ancient cry of freedom to sound again: Tekeli-li I do have some sympathy for the late party of Old Ones pre-date the rise of shoggoth intelligence They may have been delighted to see one of their old tools/servants Dyers’s “scientists to the end” gets to me even more than “they were men.” The emergence of empathy is a powerful thing yet have a narrator come to see their undersea metropolis as a most compelling and delightful destination (so good thing he’s growing gills.) In Mountains Though the Antarctic fascinated him from childhood Lovecraft could never have joined the Miskatonic University expedition—apparently temperatures below freezing could make him pass out don’t even think about the South Pole I wonder if the shoggoth might not be the epitome of Lovecraft’s fears It’s perfectly happy in marine environments but it violently rebels against its masters destroys civilization and then mocks its annihilated betters because lubricious is a word that refers both to slimy-slipperiness and sexual arousal Shoggoths are sex, people! [RE: OMG Anne! *sighs and avoids thinking too hard about Rule 34*] No wonder they get a shout-out in “The Thing on the Doorstep.” No wonder Alhazred nervously insisted that shoggoths had never existed on Earth Its cousin is probably that awful white thing deep in the Louisiana woods pulsing to the drum-frenzies of the Cthulhu cultists there’s this thing about monsters—we fear them more or less consciously (often much less consciously) we envy them a dark side capable of dire destruction but also so crazily he wouldn’t have been afraid of cold or the ocean or seafood or caves or fungi or death or crazy/wild/procreating/evolving vitality He could have been the Swiss army knife of organisms what DID Danforth see beyond the jagged violet horizon and what was so “tekeli-li” about it What’s “tekeli-li” anyhow if it’s not just this rather euphonic utterance of Poe’s sea-birds and polar tribesmen of Lovecraft’s Old Ones and shoggoths don’t know about “tekeli-li,” but Danforth tries mightily to put his dark revelation into words the moon-ladder) and Mythos concepts and beings (a five-dimensioned solid Yog-Sothoth)—Danforth can speak (or gibber) in these terms because he knows his macabre literature He’s even read the whole damn Necronomicon is his last description of THE ULTIMATE HORROR one more parroted occultism the undying.” That doesn’t sound so bad Next week, join us for one of Lovecraft’s favorite horror pieces, as we read M. R. James’s “Count Magnus.” and offline in a mysterious manor house with her large chaotic household—mostly mammalian—outside Washington DC a Victorian trolley car suburb of Providence uncomfortably near Joseph Curwen’s underground laboratory Lovecraft’s Elder Things find themselves out of time but the worst horror is reserved for Danforth’s final glimpse Astounding Stories: April 1936 contains the last installment of At the Mountains of Madness along with Manly Wade Wellman’s “Outlaws on Callisto” (while F Orlin Tremaine didn’t do a great job with Lovecraft’s stories it should be noted that he much improved the quality of Astounding from the Harry Bates years with stories including Murray Leinster’s “Sideways in Time” and John W Shoggoth erotica: has been added to the list of things I refuse to Google Joanna Russ: wrote in “On the Fascination of Horror Stories “I once drove Damon Knight almost to tears by announcing that I had not only read At the Mountains of Madness straight through but also enjoyed it.“ A first visit to the Mountains of Madness: by Lord Dunsany. And finally: the World Fantasy Award trophy is being redesigned and got a kick out of the familiar subway-stop recitation as I was interning at the New England Aquarium So the penguins aren’t supposed to be terrifying I’m not sure why so many of us seem to have remembered them as being horrible or a part of the terror in some way it may be a general squick reaction to blind albino cave creatures in general Probably the most effective thing in the whole story is Danforth’s litany of Boston subway stations yet it clearly shows his mind desperately trying to cope and not really succeeding It also pairs nicely with the shoggoth/subway car analogy It might be an indication of what he was aiming for His babble of vague references sound more like potential titles from Howard’s commonplace book than anything else the “they were men” line might have made a better final line to the story but that would have necessitated moving what was ostensibly a horror story to purely science fiction It doesn’t fit with our modern sensibilities but I can’t see a way to make something like “they were sentient beings” into something with the same punch but that was 20-25 years ago and I remember nothing about it other than a vague sense of not being really satisfied with it I’m not a huge Copper fan in any case it’s probably because I assume that Lovecraft is terrified of everything Thurber in “Pickman’s Model” doesn’t like taking the Boston subway: he also recalls that one of Pickman’s paintings was “a study called “Subway Accident” in which a flock of the vile things were clambering up from some unknown catacomb through a crack in the floor of the Boylston Street subway and attacking a crowd of people on the platform.” Because Lovecraft was Lovecraft de Camp records him saying that the New York subways contained “slithering human vermin” The design change doesn’t surprise me: I’ve been expecting it since the BFA changed the name of their main fantasy trophy from the August Derleth Award to the Robert Holdstock Award: the Derleth name is now used for the companion horror award The Modern Library Classics edition of At the Mountains of Madness has an introduction by China Miéville which (among other things) discusses the Shoggoths and their revolt in terms of Marxist class struggle mixed in with Lovecraft’s racism; he calls the Shoggoths “nothing less than the pulp-artistic pinnacle of class terror” And while stated that way it may sound a bit silly… it actually works rather well The Shoggothian qualities of the ethnically mixed working class are made absolutely overt in Lovecraft’s description of a visit he made to New York’s Lower East Side “The organic things inhabiting that awful cesspool… could not be call’d human… slithering and oozing… in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea unnamabilities… I thought of some avenue of Cyclopean and unwholesome vats crammed to the vomiting point with gangrenous vileness and about to burst and inundate the world.” Out of what but precisely such Cyclopean vats could the Shoggoths be fashioned “We are experiencing delays due to a disabled shoggoth at Harvard We apologize for the inconvenience.” As the terror of “not again” grips Red Line riders in Boston.  @3 DemetriosX:”It also pairs nicely with the shoggoth/subway car analogy It might be an indication of what he was aiming for.” Besides the already mentioned reference in “Pickman’s Model,” there’s also Richard Barbour Johnson’s quasi-sequel to “Pickman,” “Far Below”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barbour_Johnson Lehrer:You have ruined the climax of this story for me with your “Subway Song” Some random thoughts on the grand finale to “Mountains”: WestWorld meets Shoggoths: I just can’t quite get behind the slave revolt parallel; to my way of thinking the Shoggoths read more like a sermon on the dangers of technology that the Old Ones on Earth are a kind of quasi-Luddite colony one which eschews the full range of Old One tech: Evidently their scientific and mechanical knowledge far surpassed man’s today though they made use of its more widespread and elaborate forms only when obliged to Some of the sculptures suggested that they had passed through a stage of mechanised life on other planets but had receded upon finding its effects emotionally unsatisfying The Shoggoths were intended to function as biological robots protoplasmic substitutes for the mechanized servitors that they had abandoned the subway metaphor used in the conclusion drives home the “Shoggoths-as-runaway-machines” symbolism: “South Station Under—Washington Under—Park Street Under—Kendall—Central—Harvard. . . .” The poor fellow was chanting the familiar stations of the Boston-Cambridge tunnel that burrowed through our peaceful native soil thousands of miles away in New England yet to me the ritual had neither irrelevance nor home-feeling to see a terrible and incredibly moving entity if the mists were thin enough; but of that entity we had formed a clear idea What we did see—for the mists were indeed all too malignly thinned—was something altogether different and immeasurably more hideous and detestable objective embodiment of the fantastic novelist’s ‘thing that should not be’; and its nearest comprehensible analogue is a vast onrushing subway train as one sees it from a station platform—the great black front looming colossally out of infinite subterraneous distance constellated with strangely coloured lights and filling the prodigious burrow as a piston fills a cylinder Mercy Killing: I kinda feel that the Shoggoths’ genocide of the Old Ones actually saves us from witnessing the ultimate horror so far gone that they could not even seem to understand how far their art had degenerated Imagine what a further half-million years of cultural entropy might have wrought.Frankly I don’t think that HPL could have endured depicting the Old Ones reaching the ultimate nadir (cf THE MOUND for a parallel text one which depicts an even more extreme degree of decay) you’ve gotta feel for those revived Old Ones The closest human analogy that comes to mind is imagining Romans from the height of the Principate being transported forward to Poe apparently spent some time in the Miskatonic library before writing Arthur Gordon Pym.” I came across a curious black-leather book bearing the signature of Edgar Poe….” How to read HPL: After reading MOUNTAINS in the assigned chunks I went back and read it in one continuous session HPL is one of those authors who read best in the proverbial single sitting HPL’s latinate vocabulary and intricate syntax acquire an almost incantatory when read under straight through.Read it in chunks Ourselves: Hard not to see certain linkages between the Old Ones and HPL’s beloved New England Voyaging across great gulfs (space for the Old Ones Battles against rival colonial powers (the Yuggothians and Cthulhu spawn for the Old Ones the French in Quebec for the English in New England) A period of great cultural flowering (millions of years ago for the Old Ones less than a hundred years ago for New England And then decadence and decay….Cf HPL’s satire on Eliot’s WASTE LAND: Waste PaperA Poem of Profound InsignificanceBy H Πἀντα γἐλως καἱ πἀντα κὀνις καἱ πἀντα τὁ μηδἐν Out of the reaches of illimitable lightThe blazing planet grew and forc’d to lifeUnending cycles of progressive strifeAnd strange mutations of undying lightAnd boresome books than hell’s own self more triteAnd thoughts repeated and become a blight,And cheap rum-hounds with moonshine hootch made tight,And quite contrite to see the flight of fright so brightI used to ride my bicycle in the nightWith a dandy acetylene lantern that cost $3.00In the evening you can hear those darkies singingMeet me tonight in dreamland . .  BAHI used to sit on the stairs of the house where I was bornAfter we left it but before it was soldAnd play on a zobo with two other boys.We called ourselves the Blackstone Military BandWon’t you come home won’t you come home?In the spring of the year in the silver rainWhen petal by petal the blossoms fallAnd the mocking birds callAnd the whippoorwill sings Marguerite.The first cinema show in our town opened in 1906At the old Olympic which was then call’d Park,And moving beams shot weirdly thro’ the darkAnd spit tobacco seldom hit the mark.Have you read Dickens’ American Notes?My great-great-grandfather was born in a white houseUnder green trees in the countryAnd he used to believe in religion and the weather.“Shantih Shanty HouseWas the name of a novel by I forget whomPublished serially in the All-Story Weekly I’ve been told,And I take quinine to stop a coldBut it makes my ears ring . .  always ring . . .Always ringing in my ears . . .It is the ghost of the Jew I murdered that Christmas dayBecause he played “Three O’Clock in the Morning” in the flat above me.Three O’Clock in the morning I’ve danc’d the whole night through,Dancing on the graves in the graveyardWhere life is buried; life and beautyLife and art and love and dutyAh sweet cutie.Stung!Out of the night that covers meBlack as the pit from pole to poleI never quote things straight except by accident.Sophistication Sophistication!You are the idol of our nationEach fellow hasFallen for jazzAnd we’ll give the past a merry razzThro’ the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumberAnd fellow-guestship with the glutless worm.Next stop is 57th St.—57th St to Greece the direful spring,And the Governor-General of Canada is Lord ByngWhose ancestor was shot or hung,I forget which the good die young.Here’s to your ripe old age,Copyright by Joseph Miller,Entered according to act of CongressIn the office of the librarian of CongressAmerica was discovered in 1492This way out.No to the Everett train.Out in the rain on the elevatedCrated all mismated.Twelve seats on this bench,How quaint.In a shady nook two lovers stroll along.Express to Park Ave. we had it cleaned with the sand blast.I know it ought to be torn down Before the bar of a saloon there stood a reckless crew,When one said to another this message came for you.”“It may be from a sweetheart boys,” said someone in the crowd,And here the words are missing . .  but Jack cried out aloud:“It’s only a message from home sweet home,From loved ones down on the farmFond wife and mother sister and brother. . . .”Bootleggers all and you’re anotherIn the shade of the old apple tree’Neath the old cherry tree sweet MarieThe Conchologist’s First BookBy Edgar Allan PoeStubbed his toeOn a broken brick that didn’t shewOr a banana peelIn the fifth reelBy George CreelIt is to laughAnd quaffIt makes you stout and hale,And all my days I’ll sing the praiseOf Ivory SoapHave you a little T Eliot in your home?The stag at eve had drunk his fillThe thirsty hart look’d up the hillAnd craned his neck just as a feelerTo advertise the Double-Dealer.William Congreve was a gentlemanO art what sins are committed in thy nameFor tawdry fame and fleeting flameAnd everything ah lubs yo’ well;Aroun’ mah heart you hab cast a spellBut I can’t learn to spell pseudocracyBecause there ain’t no such word.And I says to Lizzie if Joe was my fellerI’d teach him to go to dances with thatRat fat the fryYou’ll be a drug-store by and by.Get the hook Above the lines of brooding hillsRose spires that reeked of nameless ills,And ghastly shone upon the sightIn ev’ry flash of lurid lightTo be continued.No smoking.Smoking on four rear seats.Fare win return to 5¢ after August 1stExcept outside the Cleveland city limits.In the ghoul-haunted woodland of WeirStrangers pause to shed a tear;Henry Fielding wrote Tom Jones.And cursed be he that moves my bones.Good night the stars are brightI saw the Leonard-Tendler fightFarewell @9: I wonder whether Lovecraft’s depiction of the shoggoths was inspired by Frankenstein (Howard Waldrop and Steven Utley threw them into a grand melange with Arthur Gordon Pym and the entire Lost World genre in “Black as the Pit Agree that the things Danforth alludes to later on ought to be titles for new stories [if they aren’t already.] Denali could be seen clearly from Fairbanks eerie-colored arctic twilights and all.  It is about 20K feet high so a 40,000-footer ought to be easily visible from 300 miles especially if one is up on the foothills of another range So they don’t have to be any higher than that One wonders if the shoggoths turn out to be scared of what lies over those mountains and someone writes a sequel from their POV.  And if the things over the mountains in turn have something they are scared of…Infinite regress anyone?  But the finding of sympathy with these alien minds is part of what I read stories like that for I have “The Great White Space”.  Found it enjoyable (if with logical disjoints) though the early part with the human villages is skip-able.  You two might want to turn the spotlights of your analyses on it some day I was particularly taken with “the moon-ladder” and “the elder pharos” (which is almost certainly a Dreamlands story) one of the things he says is “the color out of space” which may have made me think of the whole title thing in the first place @13: Lovecraft used “The Elder Pharos” as the title for section XXVII of “Fungi from Yuggoth”: where rocky peaks climb bleak and bare Under cold stars obscure to human sight There shoots at dusk a single beam of light Whose far blue rays make shepherds whine in prayer They say (though none has been there) that it comes Out of a pharos in a tower of stone whose queer folds appear to hide A face not of this earth though none dares ask Just what those features are @10:”@9: I wonder whether Lovecraft’s depiction of the shoggoths was inspired by Frankenstein (Howard Waldrop and Steven Utley threw them into a grand melange withArthur Gordon Pym and the entire Lost World genre in “Black as the Pit FRANKENSTEIN does involve itself with the new science of the 18th century and the monster has  been interpreted as a harbinger of the technological age* Frankenstein’s monster encountering Pym and the Old Ones sounds like a fabulous idea frequently speculated on how humanity might be altered by science he was quite fascinated by Benjamin Franklin’s prophecies: Let us here return to the sublime conjecture of Franklin that “mind will one day become omnipotent over matter.” If over all other matter If over matter at ever so great a distance however ignorant we may be of the tie that connects it with the thinking principle and which is in all cases the medium of communication between that principle and the external universe having read all these comments with great relish I must say this is the MOST ENTERTAININGLY ERUDITE comment section in blogdom Re Shoggoths as technology run amok: Actually this reread has kind of convinced me that the whole “inevitable robot uprising” thing are really sublimations of the conversation about slavery and “the servant problem.” After all there’s a distinct relationship between advanced technology and the reduced need for Those People (women fill-in-the-blank) to be stuck with all the nastiest work Re the World Fantasy Awards: And about time but I think that’s better done through nuanced discussion than through forcing people who’ve written excellent fiction to stare at his ugly mug when they’re trying to concentrate Re Fungi From Yuggoth: I’m less alarmed by the High Priest Who Shall Not Be Named now that I know he’s just a lonely Old One @trajan23: I thought I was about the only person in the world who’s read “Waste Paper!”  *SQUEEE!!!*  While it kind of sucks as a poem dissertation to support my idea that Lovecraft was engaging with modernist ideologies as much as Eliot and Pound (yeah my reaction to the climax of AtMoM was pretty much “Meh.”  As I’ve posted earlier on this read other Lovecraft stories had the power to scare me so much they kept me up all night until my college roomate came home And the shoggoths being “black” in colour – has anyone seen my Sledgehammer of Symbolism  *looks around*  While it’s tempting to read Lovecraft’s extolling of the Old Ones as “men” (which basically meant “humans” in the parlance of his time) as enlightenment we can’t forget that these “men” kept black bestial creatures as slaves – as a U.S  Let’s also not forget that a lot of modernist female writers – like Rebecca West – called for equal rights for people of colour (1) women and (2) non-white people are *definitely* on the list of things of which Lovecraft was scared and I STILL got the “slave revolt” subtext  I am also kind of thinking of the establishment of Haiti as a nation here @18: I am far from an expert on Eliot’s poetry (or Lovecraft’s for that matter): the main thing I remember is a Peter Cannon essay which said that Lovecraft could mock Eliot but he couldn’t ignore him: something about the work of those “decadent modernists” must have resonated with him (A Lovecraft parody of shoggoth art would be … interesting Now I’m wondering whether the shoggoths have their own version of Wide Sargasso Sea…) from Pole to Pole”: is perhaps most readily found in Ellen Datlow’s anthology Lovecraft’s Monsters It also appeared in Jim Turner’s anthology Eternal Lovecraft more parodic Lovecraft story called “Cthu’lablanca and Other Lost Screenplays”: I am unfamiliar with it How did S. T. Joshi react to the decision to change the World Fantasy Award?: badly. Help requested: I have run the Greek line at the start of “Waste Paper” through Google translate and came up with “always laughing and always powder and zeros everywhere” I have no idea whether this is accurate or not and would appreciate a more faithful translation Armistice Day the Mythos Way: as it’s November the 11th I have been trying to think of authors and editors of Lovecraftian fiction who also served in the military Lin Carter was in Korea from 1951-3 with the 32nd Infantry Regiment 7th Infantry Division and tried to keep up with SF and fantasy while he was out there: a letter to the editor of Startling Stories from 1953 complains that for him the magazine  a “rarity equalled only by the Necronomicon.” Rather luckier in that aspect was Brian Lumley who read his first Lovecraft stories during long nights as a military policeman in Berlin If the definition of Lovecraftian author is extended to those who where inspired by him as well as those who worked extensively in the Mythos then authors such as David Drake can be included The theory that the shoggoth was Freudian as hell and a symbol of all things Lovecraft was afraid of has been analyzed in the book “Lovecraft’s Dark Arcadia” but I believe it’s worth checking despite the author’s excessive Freudianism – he seems ready to discuss many topics that usually are not discussed in Lovecraft studies Some fans treat it like it was some great way to honor Lovecraft but actually most people who got it didn’t care much for him or even didn’t know who it was (and why should they – HPL really isn’t suitable to represent fantasy even with the “horror is usually fantasy some big separate award for all things Lovecraftian would be way more fitting @18 jaimew:”my idea that Lovecraft was engaging with modernist ideologies as much as Eliot and Pound (yeah Marcel Proust was the modernist that Lovecraft really admired.Of course would revere   In Search of Lost Time/ Remembrance of Things Past as the greatest modern literary work but the intense psychological reactions to specific sensations and images Also HPL may have been squicked by the mantel of hermaphroditism that TSE deliberately dons in some of his poems What has Teiresias to do with Edward Pickman Derby after all This story is one of my favourites of HPL’s (and this comment thread is one of my favourites of the reread sequence) I’ve been reading William Hope Hodgson during the quarantine, and I’m wondering if I found the white proto-jelly: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Derelict_(Hodgson) but you can probably figure out the plot simply by me mentioning it here.  I wonder sometimes if the proto-jelly is an oblique shout-out to one of his inspirations The Reactor newsletter is the best way to catch up on the world of science fiction “A profound love between two people involves the power and chance of doing profound hurt.” For compliance with applicable privacy laws: who was released by Israeli authorities early Sunday Istanbul Medeniyet University's Assistant Law Professor arrived aboard a Turkish Airlines flight from Tel Aviv and was welcomed at Ataturk International Airport by his wife Meryem Tekeli his daughter Merve Canan Tekeli and others.  He left the airport without giving any statements while his relatives waiting for him at the exit chanted slogans including “murderer Israel will be held accountable”.  Tekeli was detained by Israeli police on Jan 15 at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport after he attended a program in Jerusalem that began on Jan 11.  The reason of his detention remains unclear as Israeli courts and authorities refrained from issuing any statements on Tekeli and authorities had rejected Anadolu Agency correspondent’s demand to follow his trial.  Tekeli’s wife said: "My husband was unlawfully arrested We only went to Jerusalem for travel reasons My husband is innocent… Israeli authorities are not giving us any information."  his detention had been extended for several times until he was released on Sunday.  Reporting by Kenan Irtak:Writing by Mahmoud Barakat bringing them from the kitchen to homes outside Assam.Bamboo Rice Cakes or Sunga pitha served with curd and sura (Arundhati Nath)Arundhati Nath women in saris or cotton mekhela sadors start mixing rice flour with grated coconut or sugar at makeshift stalls near bus stops They pat down the mixture into a thick oval on a piece of muslin cloth and tie the ends of the muslin to the lid of a kettle filled with boiling water and placed over a hot stove piping hot ketli or tekeli pithas — referring to the kettle they are cooked with — are ready to be served pithas are an integral part of Assamese identity and culture The earliest mention of the word pitha is likely from children’s folk tales in Burhi Aair Sadhu Assam has birthed several varieties of pitha which also feature prominently in the state’s Bihu festivals and jolpan despite their ubiquity in Assam and their diversity in taste and texture you won’t find them on the menus of most restaurants even those featuring northeastern cuisines And Assamese restaurants serving dishes made at home or as street snacks are rare A new crop of entrepreneurs and restaurateurs are investing in making and serving pithas at scale — and moving the delicacy from the kitchen to the mainstream The first of three residential campuses for the University of Central Asia (UCA) is being inaugurated in Kyrgyzstan on October 19.  The Naryn Campus is the first phase of a larger vision for a 252-hectare site contributed by the Kyrgyz Government.  Phase I includes a 14,000 m² space for 150 students featuring state of the art classrooms modular student dormitories and faculty and staff residences.  Its international standard athletic facilities are open to the public and UCA’s Sports Dome offers indoor athletics year-round.  When the final phase is complete the campus will accommodate 1,200 students and span 125,000m² Tajikistan is scheduled to open in fall 2017 and Tekeli Khorog and Tekeli comprise one university in three countries.  Each of UCA’s campuses is deliberately located on the Silk Road the historic trade and transportation route that facilitated the global exchange of goods The legacy of the Silk Road guides UCA’s student-centered education and focus on entrepreneurship and problem solving.  Students at UCA will design and implement community initiatives in their area of study as part of service learning requirements and participate in projects that address real life challenges in the region UCA campuses are reportedly located amidst the backdrop of stunning mountain settings providing students the chance to learn from and engage with the environment and surrounding communities in a whole new way Kazakhstan offer culturally and ecologically rich environments and communities excursion opportunities and transportation connections to regional centers The UCA’s campuses are strategically located in mountain communities designed to become regional hubs of technology and innovation.  By providing students a view of the country that extends beyond the capital city the University aims to develop students into future leaders whose perspectives balance regional sophistication with global cosmopolitanism The University of Central Asia (UCA) was founded in 2000 the Kyrgyz Republic and Kazakhstan and His Highness the Aga Khan signed the International Treaty and Charter establishing this secular and private University which was ratified by the respective parliaments and registered with the United Nations.  The Presidents are the Patrons of UCA and His Highness is the Chancellor.  UCA’s mission is to promote the social and economic development of Central Asia by offering an internationally recognized standard of higher education and helping the different peoples of the region to preserve and draw upon their rich cultural traditions and heritages as assets for the future.  UCA brings with it the commitment and partnership of the Aga Khan Development Network.  UCA’s School of Professional and Continuing Education has been operating for a decade; more than 90,000 learners have attended the professional and vocational programs to date and new partnerships: Innovation Forum held in Dushanbe A Startup from Tajikistan ranked in the Top three at the Central Asian Startup Cup Somon Air in partnership with Antares LLC (fly.tj) launches direct flights to Sharm El-Sheikh By president’s order Tajik war veterans will receive 50,000 somonis each on the occasion of Victory Day The parents of journalist Rukhshona Hakimova ask President to help secure their daughter's release Dushanbe and Tehran vow to boost economic cooperation Iranian official proposes to launch an air route connecting Dushanbe and Shiraz ADB support for food security to reach US$40 billion by 2030 President orders more potatoes to be planted in Rasht and Tojikobod districts What consequences do Tajik citizens face for traveling to and working in occupied regions of Ukraine See the majestic view of the Makati Skyline while dining at an authentic Italian Restaurant Take a trip back to memory lane on the top floor of the luxury condominium in Century City where Paper Moon Manila is located Papermoon Manila holds 40 years of history a former franchisee of fashion brands “Guess” and “Mango” from Turkey opened the Philippine franchise Papermoon Manila serves Italian food and ensures quality by supervising their Italian Chefs service here is a fact on how to go to the restaurant; there’s an exclusive elevator to use you need to go to the highest floor by the regular elevator then you’ll find the exclusive elevator which takes you directly to the restaurant The interiors were personally picked by Mr decorating the restaurants with old photographs of past Hollywood celebrities as he wanted to create a signature style He has also incorporated elements of the Philippines such as walls made from coconut shells and rattan chairs “We use the kiln made from Italy; it’s the the best stone kiln in Italy,” says Tekeli Along with his business partner Joey Antonio they wanted an authentic Italian restaurant stationed in Manila The restaurant offers a cigar room for smokers and a VIP room for people who want privacy Their brick oven in the dining area is from North Milan that is seen in the dining room Apart from famous Italian fares such as pizza and pasta there are many to choose from at Papermoon  Salmone alle griglia con insalata mista / IMAGE from Philippine Primer Gambero su polenta croccante e funghi / IMAGE from Philippine Primer Gambero su polenta croccante e funghi and Salmone alle griglia con insalata mista These dishes are simple yet intricate by design and most of all packs up a ton of flavors Papermoon Manila is the perfect place to go enjoy the majestic view of Makati skyline and watch the sunset with your date Visit Paper Moon Manila at Unit KB-R G01 Roof-deck Garden Don’t forget to give them a call for reservations at 02-793-8630.