- NAME: WILLIAM MORRIS
- D/O/B: 3/24/1834
- MEMBER SINCE: 1870
- STATUS: CHARTER MEMBER
- IMPORTANT ROLE: CONSULTING DESIGNER
- HOBBIES: POETRY; PAINTING; SOCIALISM
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The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Walter Bagehot
- Name: Walter Bagehot
- D/O/B: 3 February 1826
- Member Since: 1866
- Status: Charter Member
- Important Role: Economics Adviser
- Hobbies: Philosophy; Mathematics; staring wistfully into space
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The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Sir Henry Taylor
- Name: Sir Henry Taylor
- D/O/B: 18 October 1800
- Member Since: 1864
- Status: Charter Member
- Important Role: Chief adviser on beard grooming techniques and trends
- Hobbies: Modeling; being friendly with literary giants; clerking; looking intensely soulful
His beard is so awe-inspiring as to deserve a second look:
The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Vincent van Gogh*
- Name: Vincent van Gogh
- D/O/B: 3/30/1853
- Member Since: 1886
- Status: Active Member
- Important Role: Giving art lessons to fellow members
- Hobbies: Going on long walks through the countryside; living intensely; being misunderstood; transforming the art world
*Vincent van Gogh was an exceptionally talented letter writer, at a time when correspondence was an art form. His letters are vivid, intelligent, and beautiful word paintings.
The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Name: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1st Baron Tennyson)
- D/O/B: 8/6/1809
- Member Since: 1862
- Status: Charter Member
- Important Role: Coordinator of club poetry workshops
- Hobbies: Carrying out duties as the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom; coining now-famous phrases; sitting for intense portraits
The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Herman Melville
- Name: Herman Melville
- D/O/B: 8/1/1819
- Member Since: 1860
- Status: Charter Member
- Important Role: Chief teller of rousing sea-born tales, some of them even true
- Hobbies: Whale-watching; dreaming of mystifying high-school students for generations to come; maintaining his luxurious head of model-worthy hair
The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Henry David Thoreau
- Name: Henry David Thoreau
- D/O/B: 07/12/1817
- Member Since: 1856
- Status: Charter Member
- Important Role: Chief lecturer and rabble-rouser at all meetings
- Hobbies: Pondering; thinking; philosophizing; protesting; communing with nature; intensely staring at all and sundry
Oh, Spambots! You’re So Funny!
A Small Press Life is being hit hard by spambots this week (99% of which is caught by the spam filter, fortunately). These are my 3 faves from today, and my responses to them:
- Hello,My name is Job and I’m a professional fraenelce writer with 3 years of experience. ( (Nice to meet you, Job. Perhaps you could give me some tips on fraenelcing?)
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- I much prefer inrfamotive articles like this to that high brow literature. (I think you are on the wrong site, dude. 90% of what I write about is high brow literature, although I try to be as inrfamotive as possible).