January 19, 2010
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Happy Birthday Edgar!
I’m not sure how many of you are familiar with the Poe Toaster, but I’ll give you a quick summary. Basically, every year on January 19th, early in the morning, someone dressed in all black (black cape, black top hat, black silver tipped cane, the works) shows up at Edgar Allen Poe’s gravesite in Baltimore. This “Poe Toaster” leaves three red roses, and a half empty bottle cognac, and sometimes a note. The significance of the date is that it’s Poe’s birthday. His notes sometimes say how he misses Poe, that he was a great poet, blah, blah, blah.
The thing is, no one really has any pictures of the guy. He’s been doing it since 1949, and he shows up in plan view of the crowd who gather to watch, but I’ve only been able to find one pic:
Naturally I find this fascinating in a macabre kind of way. So I begged Brian last night to drive with me to Baltimore around midnight so we could wait for the Poe Toaster. Well boy am I glad we didn’t go, because he didn’t show up! This is the first time in 60 years that he hasn’t shown! I would have been PISSED OFF if I drove all the way to Baltimore and this nut job didn’t show. I mean, he could have at least sent the curator of the gravesite a note ahead of time saying he wasn’t going to come. People came from all over! Oh well. Brian’s really happy because he promised we would go next year. But I’m not taking any chances. F U Poe Toaster!
Comments (3)
What if he died? How will we ever know?
When you first mentined the Poe toaster to me I thought it was a new type of sandwhich. Oh yeah can you stop singing Boogie Nights?
my guess is he died… love how you were able to make the poe toaster about you! skills!