Rules: Match each of the lettered Poe-staches above with its numbered source video below. First person to match them all wins a custom Poe gifset of their choosing prepared by me.
One entry per user. Please submit your entry via a reply to this post or in a message or ask sent to me, @lies. In the event I can’t determine who won (because multiple winning entries arrive via different channels and aren’t timestamped), or just because I feel like it, I reserve the right to declare multiple winners.
“Hobbits give presents to other people on their own birthdays. Not very expensive ones, as a rule, and not so lavishly as on this occasion; but it was not a bad system.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 1, “A Long-Expected Party”
Haha; I know, right? I think “The Poe Diaries” is some sort of mashup reference to ATTV and Poe Party, possibly with an overly of confusion that sprinkled in a little LBD.
How cool would it be, though, if there were a whole expanded realm of Sean Persaud content called “The Poe Diaries” that no one had heard about before?
Personal Space: A Science Fiction Webseries – Astronauts aboard a generation ship have no idea their therapy sessions are broadcast on Earth as reality TV. – http://kck.st/21cKuiG
The page at http://ift.tt/269Gzqr has some interesting hints about where they’re planning to go story-wise. I’m getting a very cool transmedia/meta vibe. And, well, you know how I feel about that sort of thing.
Also, what exactly are The Poe Diaries, and how can I watch them? :-)
“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you. Till China and Africa meet”
Something I loved, even from the first time watching As I Walked Out One Evening, was how the spinny kiss came so early. It’s supposed to be the climax, like it was in Ode. But here it comes almost at the beginning, echoing the poem’s opening celebration of love that outlasts continents.
It creates a sense of expectation, even apprehension. The story has to go somewhere. If the speaker is already spinny-kissing and waxing rhapsodic about timeless love, where is there left to go?
And then it goes there. Auden, and Yulin and Mary Kate and Zack, go there. And Sean goes there, especially in the voiceover, which is my favorite favorite thing.
