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Basil Gogos' first of many covers for Forrest J. Ackerman's "Famous Monsters of Filmland" is this sickly portrait of Vincent Price as Roderick Usher from Roger Corman's Poe-inspired "House of Usher" that same year. Gogos was told the commissioned image was to be "something unusual, something colorful, something new."
(1) 2010 drought in the Amazon caused rainforest to produce more carbon dioxide than oxygen (via The Independent)
(2) Future of the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum uncertain as the city of Baltimore cuts funding (via The Washington Post)(3) Hacktivist collective Anonymous exacts epic, epic revenge on Washington D.C.-based security firm ... EPIC (via Forbes)(4) Tucson man arrested for alleged responsibility behind the 37-second interruption of hardcore pornography during the Tucson-area's broadcast of the 2009 Superbowl (via NDTV)(5) New TLC programs include "Cakes Whores," "Dwarf Hoarders" - all appropriate for "The Learning Channel" (via YouTube)