Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons

The Mystic Order of the Koo-Koo-Ma-Hatcha!

Good morning. Let's turn on the time machine and watch an original nightmare cartoon from last century's Depression-era cultural dreamscape: "Bimbo's Initiation" (1931). This classic animation from the great Max Fleischer is a surrealist haunted house story as much as it is a edgy, pre-Hays Code, Betty Boop classic. Join the Mystic Order of the Koo-Koo-Ma-Hatcha! "Bimbo's Initiation" is currently featured on the Fleischer Studios front page -- or you can catch it on YouTube If you like this kind of thing, you'll also dig Fleischer's "Swing You Sinners," which transpires in an uncanny graveyard. Both films are detailed in…
October 20, 2012Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons1 Comment
Posted inArnzen News

DogCon is On

Raw Dog Screaming Press -- longtime publisher of many of my books -- like 100 Jolts, Play Dead, Audiovile and The Gorelets Omnibus -- are preparing for the launch of their -- gasp! -- TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, by hosting an exclusive (invite-only), limited engagement called "DogCon" in Bowie, MD. I won't be able to attend it this year (maybe next!), but I will be there in cyberspace for a reading over the internet on Saturday at 4 p.m. via FaceTime (followed by a reading by the great bizarro D. Harlan Wilson). The DogCon group will be hosting a Google+ Hangout…
October 17, 2012Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

Arnzen Coming to Neumann University on 10.26.12

[As announced on The Popular Uncanny webpage:] I will be giving a talk about "The Popular Uncanny", free and open to the public, at Neumann University (near Philadelphia, PA) on Oct 26th. Come join us at 4:30 p.m. in the Bruder Life Center. In the spirit of Halloween, there will be weirdness, laughter, and intriguing conversation, followed by a book signing for my new, massive poetry collection, The Gorelets Omnibus and other Arnzen titles. Read more details from Neumann University. Or check the event information on Facebook.
October 13, 2012Posted inArnzen News