No relation
Amusing? That’s what I thought, and that was all. I e-stumbled across the portrait of Clason while e-looking for something entirely unrelated and thought, “Hey, that looks like that actor who doesn’t know how to handle his drugs.” (One of them.)
Then I decided to find out who the hell Augustus Washington Clason was, and it appears that his biggest claim to fame was that he was once successfully sued for libel by Edgar Allen Poe. (Though I’m pretty sure that’s not the reason he got his picture painted.)
Eddie Poe by Charlie Emmert. Yikes.
I’m a fan of Poe when I’m my literary cups, so my little surfing accident appeared to be serendipitous. Here’s the story: See the rest.
