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Shocked and Amazed! Volume 5
In volume 5 read about: The grand master of the gross-out, Jim Rose isn't happy unless limbs, lunches and libidos are lost during his stomach-churning, high-energy shows. Careful where you step as he invites you to STEP INTO MY PARLOUR! P.T. Barnum is revered as the creator of the modern circus, lauded as the lord of the modern museum, and saluted as the sultan of advertising. Of course, that doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the Big Apple, that CITY OF HUMBUG!
Pay attention my little modern primitives: There was a time when tattoos were taboo for everyone but sailors and bikers. Know then that today's flesh artists owe their livelihood to practitioners of yesteryear, and meet one of the forefathers, Stoney St. Clair, because STONEY KNOWS!
Pay attention my little modern primitives: There was a time when tattoos were taboo for everyone but sailors and bikers. Know then that today's flesh artists owe their livelihood to practitioners of yesteryear, and meet one of the forefathers, Stoney St. Clair, because STONEY KNOWS!
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James Taylor
12 booksJames[7spaces]Taylor
James Taylor is an American writer and publisher. He co-founded Dolphin-Moon Press in 1973, one of Baltimore's oldest small press publishing houses.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Taylor was literary chairman to the Baltimore Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Art and Culture and was a member of the Maryland governor’s panel choosing the state’s poet laureate.
In 1999, he co-founded, with Dick Horne, the American Dime Museum in Baltimore, a museum that was part Victorian recreation and part homage to circus, carnival and dime museum culture. Taylor dissolved his partnership with Horne in 2003 and began work on re-establishing his own museum attractions in Washington, D.C., inside of the Palace of Wonders, which opened in 2006.
Taylor has served as historical consultant to television productions in his capacity as variety arts historian.
He has three books of poetry and fiction to date: Tigerwolves, Tricks of Vision, and Artifacture (featuring illustrations by half a dozen artists). His Shocked and Amazed! - On & Off the Midway, published through Dolphin-Moon since 1995, is the world’s only journal devoted to novelty and variety exhibition and life in the sideshow; in 2002, Lyons/Globe Pequot Press published a “Best Of” Shocked and Amazed!
He has worked for the state government of Maryland since 1975.
For 25 years, beginning in 1984, he was an Associate Professor of English at the Dundalk, Maryland campus of the Community College of Baltimore County.
(Source: Wikipedia)
James Taylor is an American writer and publisher. He co-founded Dolphin-Moon Press in 1973, one of Baltimore's oldest small press publishing houses.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Taylor was literary chairman to the Baltimore Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Art and Culture and was a member of the Maryland governor’s panel choosing the state’s poet laureate.
In 1999, he co-founded, with Dick Horne, the American Dime Museum in Baltimore, a museum that was part Victorian recreation and part homage to circus, carnival and dime museum culture. Taylor dissolved his partnership with Horne in 2003 and began work on re-establishing his own museum attractions in Washington, D.C., inside of the Palace of Wonders, which opened in 2006.
Taylor has served as historical consultant to television productions in his capacity as variety arts historian.
He has three books of poetry and fiction to date: Tigerwolves, Tricks of Vision, and Artifacture (featuring illustrations by half a dozen artists). His Shocked and Amazed! - On & Off the Midway, published through Dolphin-Moon since 1995, is the world’s only journal devoted to novelty and variety exhibition and life in the sideshow; in 2002, Lyons/Globe Pequot Press published a “Best Of” Shocked and Amazed!
He has worked for the state government of Maryland since 1975.
For 25 years, beginning in 1984, he was an Associate Professor of English at the Dundalk, Maryland campus of the Community College of Baltimore County.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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