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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 17:00:41 UTC Robert McNees

Writer and illustrator Edward Gorey was born #OTD in 1925.
Not in the drafty old rooms of an Edwardian manse somewhere out on the moors, but in Chicago, of all places!
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- Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 17:08:46 UTC Robert McNees
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  Gorey often published stories with tongue-in-cheek anagrammatic pen names, like “Ogdred Weary” or “Groeda Weyrd.”
  Perhaps my favorite Gorey-esque fact about Edward Gorey is this: "writer and artist Edward Gorey" is an anagram of "great weird story and weird art."
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  1. Black and white photo of Edward Gorey walking down the street in New York, wearing sunglasses, jeans, an enormous fur coat, a chunky knit scarf, and Converse high tops.
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- RedtheBean (redthebean@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 18:22:40 UTC RedtheBean
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  @mcnees I got an EG anthology for my birthday a few years back. This is my favorite panel:
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  1. an ink sketch of (top) a tall, bearded and caped fellow in a hat with a cane, with an infant clinging on to his sleeve with text "I was an infant who clung to his sleeve" and (bottom) the fellow now alone, looking at the kid who is walking away holding the jam jar, perfectly content.
    https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/976/512/036/215/979/original/040acfc7ca2e449b.jpg
- Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 05:11:19 UTC Robert McNees
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  @acm_redfox A thread!
  https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/109909173484369123
  
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- acm (acm_redfox@jawns.club)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 05:11:20 UTC acm
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  @mcnees He has some kind of house on Cape Cod that's preserved as a minimalist museum.
  
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- Steve Silberman (stevesilberman@newsie.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 05:13:30 UTC Steve Silberman
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  @mcnees I used to have lunch with Edward Gorey at his favorite diner, Jack's Outback. He was a gloriously funny sublime DL old queen who made his art with game shows and soap operas blaring on TV in an attic full of cats. I miss him. (Sorry, I don't know the photographer.)
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  1. Edward Gorey napping in his attic under a pile of cats.
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- Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 05:13:30 UTC Robert McNees
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  @stevesilberman In Yarmouth? My brother in law grew up around the corner; it was their family spot. He says Gorey was always there, and was always nice to the kids.
  
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- Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 05:14:12 UTC Robert McNees
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  @stevesilberman We happened upon his house once! https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/109909173484369123
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    Attached: 1 image Speaking of weird coincidences, here is the story of the time we (me and my wife) found Gorey’s house out on Cape Cod. Back in 2005-2006, we were living in Providence, RI. One fall weekend we took a trip out to the Cape. We were driving through a town with the Lovecraftian name “Port Yarmouth.” I turned to my wife and said “Edward Gorey lived here." Just a moment later she replied “There’s his house.” (It became a museum after he passed away, so there's a small sign. edwardgoreyhouse.org)
- Amanda (amanda@couch.beerriot.com)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 06:14:21 UTC Amanda
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  @mcnees If you ever have the opportunity, it was fun to visit Edward Gorey’s house on Cape Cod! There are cats as well as lots of ephemera!
  
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