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Poerody
Today’s Rhymes With Orange: Poe’s “The Raven” (second verse) parodied by substituting Eeyore for Lenore. Nothing else changed, but in combination with the visual, modeled on Winnie the Pooh, and the...
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Ziegler on toast
Two cartoons about toast from The Essential Jack Ziegler (ed. by Lee Lorenz, 2000): the Bureau of Missing Toast and The Scream in toast: Toast is so ordinary, so everyday, so uncomplicated, that making...
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Ducks
Back from Stanford Hospital since Saturday morning. Things move very slowly on weekends. so nothing much has happened. I sleep most of the day, attended by Ned and Elizabeth. Not yet able to move...
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Tiptoe
Today’s Zippy has our hero producing yet another burlesque of popular music (for a survey of burlesques, parodies, and playful allusions on this blog, look here): The song is “Tiptoe Through the...
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Being someone else
Claude and Griffy muse over identity and soft serve in today’s Zippy: (#1) According to my records, Zippy and soft serve came together last in December, when I wrote, here: In ZippyPopLand, redemption...
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On the Weiner watch
Commenting on Facebook on my Anthony Weiner posting of yesterday, Dennis Lewis alerts me to the gay porn parody flick Anthony’s Weener (Jet Set Men, 2011). I suppose it was inevitable. The front cover...
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Lavender and dill
Today’s Zippy has Zerbina strumming her version of death metal on the ukulele: (#1) Where to start? There’s Cannibal Corpse and the song “Evisceration Plague”; the source for Zerbina’s burlesque...
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Mashup: Mary Worth’s howl
Considering mashups of different artistic genres, Josh Millard offers Mary Worth’s Howl: Mary Worth’s Howl, by Al “Screwball” Ginsberg [8/15/13] So, Lauren LoPrete‘s Peanuts + Smiths Lyrics mashup...
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Family Circuses
From Mary Ballard on Facebook, a link to the Nietzsche Family Circus site, offering randomized pairings of Family Circus cartoons and Friedrich Nietzsche quotes, like this one: (#1) In every real man...
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More Family Circus parodies
On tumblr, the comic Time is a Flat Circus, with recaptioned Family Circus comics — most not deeply linguistic, but rather dark and pointed. Two examples, from 12 and 14 April, respectively: (#1) (#2)...
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Three for today
Three cartoons for today: a Dilbert, a Bizarro, and a Mother Goose and Grimm: (#1) (#2) (#3) #1 shows the pointy-headed boss failing to respect the Gricean maxim of Quantity, by saying considerably...
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For National Cartoonists Day
This morning I discovered that yesterday was not only Cinco de Mayo, but also National Cartoonists Day. In honor of the occasion, three cartoons for today. Then some account of Cartoonists Day, which...
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The song sparrow
Today’s revisiting of Calvin and Hobbes: The song sparrow segues into a bit of kidlore (beloved by campers and scout troops), and that gets Calvin thrown out of the house by his mother. A lot of...
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Mashup
Today’s Zippy, on musical mashups: The third panel veers into a Zippy favorite, Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL, in a parody version. The original: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,...
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Another Page: parodies etc.
Continuing my gradual accumulation of (publicly available) inventories of postings on various subjects (replacing my in-house files, in MS Word): AZBlog postings on parodies, burlesques, and playful...
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Ruthie (mis)interprets
Two recent One Big Happy cartoons with Ruthie’s misinterpretations of what she’s heard: a simple one today, and a very complex one a little while back: (#1) (#2) In #1, we have the simple...
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Visual burlesque
From Xopher Walker recently, this image from the American Postcard Co. in 1995; design by George Costaldo, photography by Michael Huhn. One of a set of political leather images — involving Hillary...
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Porn parody cartoons
In collecting material for a Page on this blog on webcomics (more Traugott & Zwicky research), I came across Leisure Town, which is not particularly language-oriented, but has had a series of...
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Two cartoons and a parody
Two cartoons from the latest (December 2014) Funny Times (by Jen Sorenson and L.J. Kopf), plus a Eurythmics parody passed along on Facebook. Globola. The first panel of a Sorensen cartoon, with a...
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Don’t go changin’!
Today’s Zippy brings us a Pinhead parody: Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are”, celebrated as an earworm. (from the 1977 album The Stranger) The song begins: Don’t go changing, to try and please me You...
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