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    Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne

    Special Effects Artist Creates Fake Poe Corpse, So We Can Bury Him Properly

    Poe's 200th Birthday Is Just As Weird As You'd Expect

    Viggo Mortenson As The Father Of Science Fiction?
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    10/21/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    "Many were shocked when it was revealed that Falcon Heene's fictitious balloon ride was nothing more than a fame-grabbing hoax"

    Many? Really?
    -Kle. #edgarallanpoe
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    i also read all the poe stuff and the verne stuff when i was younger.
    poe did write some interesting stories. #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    Great post, Lauren, typo (FIXED already!) be damned. It's great that you connected this to the recent Balloon Boy scandal.

    The original Poe articles in The New York Sun probably suckered in more folks than Orson Welles' infamous War of the Worlds broadcast and were certainly an influence in the development of what would become Science Fiction.

    We should note that the fictional balloonist was based on the very real aeronautical pioneer Thomas Monck Mason. Also, that The Sun ran another notorious, but less believable hoax about life on the Moon back in 1835. [en.wikipedia.org]
    Aaaah, journalisim!
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    Image of tammygarrison tammygarrison
    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    Man, I love typos. This one's almost a Choose Your Own Adventure. Is Poe in the future, or is HG Wells involved? Or is Jules Vern off having Secret Adventures... #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of theDreamscapist theDreamscapist
    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    [www.harkavagrant.com] #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    I feel certain the author must actually mean 1944 BCE!

    1944 would have been pretty diificult since everyone knows Poe wrote exclusively in cuneiform. #edgarallanpoe
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    10/20/09

    For the record, this was a highly enjoyable post. Asshat comments aside. #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of jamesryan jamesryan
    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    Maybe it was supposed to be 1944; the typo's in the other author. It was actually H. G. Wells who gets influenced by Poe's ability to travel 100 years into the future, thus writing THE TIME MACHINE.

    Think about it: The Morlocks could just as easily have appeared in a Poe work, perhaps the extended cousins in the Usher family, and Weena bears more than a passing resemblence to Annabel Lee... #edgarallanpoe
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    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    It is in fact not a typo. Though Poe "died" in 1849 it certainly was not his last death. #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne
    tj

    I need an example of four different people using four different ways to say the exact same thing one right after the other for a class I'm teaching on insanity. Any suggestions?

    /tj #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of TheTheTheTheWhat TheTheTheTheWhat
    10/20/09

    In reply to Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne

    [www.harkavagrant.com]

    I'm sorry, I had to. #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of bookling bookling
    10/20/09

    @TheTheTheTheWhat: Oh my god, brilliant. :D #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/20/09

    @TheTheTheTheWhat: That was soooo sweet. #edgarallanpoe
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    Image of YoungWilliam YoungWilliam
    10/07/09

    In reply to Special Effects Artist Creates Fake Poe Corpse, So We Can Bury Him Properly
    Should I adore the "somebody call jeffrey combs" tag as much as I do?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    10/07/09

    @YoungWilliam: Yes you should. Must find other excuses to use it!
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    Image of Brisco_County_Jr Brisco_County_Jr
    10/08/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: The guy is too brilliant to waste. DS9 and Frighteners shows how good he is.
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    Image of Brisco_County_Jr Brisco_County_Jr
    10/08/09

    @Brisco_County_Jr: I meant he's being wasted currently, he'd be great at this!
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    Image of FrankN.Stein FrankN.Stein
    10/07/09

    In reply to Special Effects Artist Creates Fake Poe Corpse, So We Can Bury Him Properly
    I really hope they installed a bell in case of an alive burial, Mr. Poe would seriously hate even his avatar being burried without it!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/07/09

    In reply to Special Effects Artist Creates Fake Poe Corpse, So We Can Bury Him Properly
    DEAR MISTER POE:

    [www.harkavagrant.com]
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/07/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: BROS
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/07/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: I think that comic is historically accurate, and nobody can tell me otherwise. I WILL NOT HEAR OF IT.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/07/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I love the look on Poe's face while he and Verne are on the hot air balloon. "What the fuuu..."
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    Image of Lauren Davis Lauren Davis
    10/07/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: The world needs more Kate Beaton.
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    01/13/09

    In reply to Poe's 200th Birthday Is Just As Weird As You'd Expect
    I will be watching the Crow in honor of Poe tonight. Yes, I know Eric misquotes "the Raven," but still, its a good enough reason to watch the Crow again.


    I may even read "Usher's Passing" by Robert McCammon. Hell, I will just go ahead and read a few short stories by the man himself whilst I sit on the crapper.


    And the end of which, I will quote Ice Cube... "I'd have to day it was a good day."

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    Image of Plague Plague
    01/12/09

    In reply to Poe's 200th Birthday Is Just As Weird As You'd Expect
    In honor of this event, you can find me passed out in a gutter somewhere in Los Angeles.
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