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elvis’ golden caricatures volume 1 (rockin’ the 50s)

AS AN ART SCHOOL DROP-OUT, I enjoy many types of art, from the Old Mas­ters to Monet and Ma­tisse, Braque and Pi­casso, Duchamp and Arp, Rauschen­berg and Pol­lock, and that finest of art teachers, Robert Henri. I also love a good car­toonist, whether it’s teams that made the orig­inal Disney and Warner Brothers clas­sics, or those of the modern Ghibli Studio. [Read more] “elvis’ golden caricatures volume 1 (rockin’ the 50s)”

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ebay buyer scams and sending items internationally

EBAY IS THE PLACE TO SELL and has been for years and years! But sellers quickly learn that eBay goes out of its way to pro­tect and even pla­cate buyers—regardless of the patent ab­sur­dity of some of their claims against the seller! Every­thing from eBay’s flawed feed­back system to the al­most open-ended re­turn policy fa­vors the buyer. [Read more] “ebay buyer scams and sending items internationally”

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where were you when I needed you?

YOU MAY ASK YOUR­SELF, “Where were you when I needed you?” The “you” being me, and just where the hell have I been these past few weeks? Well, due to tac­tical er­rors at my end, cer­tain func­tions of my web­sites ceased func­tioning for that time! Said er­rors were caused by me somehow thinking that I could im­prove cer­tain as­pects of the func­tion­ality of said sites! [Read more] “where were you when I needed you?”

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elvis’ golden caricatures volume 7 (elvis by hirschfeld)

THE FIRST CAR­I­CA­TURE of Elvis Presley ap­peared in July 1956 in Col­lier’s mag­a­zine. The drawing was by the inim­itable Hirschfeld, and it was clean, simple, and ef­fec­tive. But it was a rather bland drawing, lacking the pizazz usu­ally as­so­ci­ated with his work—as if he wasn’t par­tic­u­larly in­ter­ested in his sub­ject. [Read more] “elvis’ golden caricatures volume 7 (elvis by hirschfeld)”

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elvis’ golden caricatures volume 5 (stuck on the 60s)

ELVIS IN THE ’60s has not cap­tured the at­ten­tion of car­i­ca­tur­ists as much as the Elvis of the ’50s and the ’70s. In the former, he was vi­brant, sexy, charis­matic, and at times a man-of-many-faces. In the latter, he was re­splen­dent, then pre­dictable, and fi­nally, tragic if not pa­thetic. [Read more] “elvis’ golden caricatures volume 5 (stuck on the 60s)”

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my first facebook meme was also my first elvis meme

BEING A DENIZEN OF FACE­BOOK WORLD—es­pe­cially as an es­cape from the writing of the posts re­quired for three blog and working on a first novel (fi­nally!)I run across count­less im­ages where someone has taken a photo and over­laid text. Most of these im­ages seem to be ei­ther hu­morous or po­lit­ical, and often both. [Read more] “my first facebook meme was also my first elvis meme”

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“if I can dream” album sales passes million mark in the uk

EVERY FEW YEARS the folks in charge of Elvis Pres­ley’s record­ings ei­ther get it right or just get lucky with their han­dling of the archival ma­te­rial. The big one was 30 #1 HITS, which hit #1 on the Bill­board LP chart in 2002. It sold over 5,000,000 units in the US and at least that many more world­wide, making it one of the best-selling Elvis Presley al­bums ever released! [Read more] ““if I can dream” album sales passes million mark in the uk”

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was “my way” really their way or someone else’s way?

HAVE WE MISSED THE OB­VIOUS? Look, I know that old-school rock & roll fans in gen­eral and Elvis fans specif­i­cally are sup­posed to re­ac­tionarily hate punk rock. But the punks of the ’70s were car­rying on some of the spirit of the ’50s that we love, es­pe­cially the un­tamed Elvis of the Dorsey Brother Shows! [Read more] “was “my way” really their way or someone else’s way?”