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Amazing grays
Well, yeah, a spoiler. But the title should make you wonder how Stephan Pastis manages to weave together the whole setup / payoff formula pun in today’s (9/13) Pearls Before Swine strip. Here it comes:...
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The server’s absurd attentions
Hey, there, server lad, Have you any wool? Yes, sir, yes, sir, One alpaca full! This Drew Dernavich cartoon in the 6/1/26 issue of the New Yorker: A wonderfully absurd riff on the custom of restaurant...
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Bring me the head of Vladimir Lenin
The linguist Bert Vaux (information below) has been playing with AI resources for some time; most recently he’s been using head shots of various people — the hot young Brad Pitt and the famously...
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The axolotl poem
1/6 it’s Epiphany and 2001 Insurrection Day, and there’s fresh news from the salamander hotline, a follow-up to my writing yesterday, in the posting “That’s a lotta axolotl”: I have known about...
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Bijlert, Leonardo, parody magnets, and the Priapic-Apollonian opposition
The July 26th opening ceremonies for the Paris Olympic games included a tableau — of drag queens posed as presiding over a banquet — that vaguely resembled Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper painting:...
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The Banana Bread Song
Day-old bread, an’ we wan’ go home, as this Dale Coverly Speed Bump cartoon of 3/1/24 has it: day-old as a pun on day-o, which then licenses the full-out substitution of day-old bread for daylight come...
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Let’s dance
From the annals of visual allusion (bordering on parody or burlesque), this David Sipress cartoon in the 2/12&19/24 New Yorker: (#1) A stripped-down, cartoonized, goofy reinterpretation of a key...
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Hello, Dalí!
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro plunges us into a double play on words, plus a visual parody — offered on a platter — as well: (#1) To understand the cartoon, you need to know about kosher delis (deli,...
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January 27th
Every so often the accidents of the calendar bring together remarkably contrasting occasions. This is a day of such cognitive dissonance. Weep with me. Gasp in pleasure and delight with me. First,...
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The news for wieners
(Phallic preoccupations abound in this posting, sometimes in street language — I mean, look at the title above — so some readers may want to skip over it) Passed on by a friend on Facebook yesterday,...
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Now serving at the Raven Cafe
Today’s Mother Goose and Grimm, with the POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) Edgar Allan Po’ Boy = Edgar Allan Poe (the American writer and poet) + po’ boy (the superb New Orleans submarine sandwich):...
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Thighland
(Racy talk and joking about men’s bodies, so probably not to everyone’s taste.) The background story is an error committed by the Imperator Grabpussy in reading from his text recently, with /θaj/ for...
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Three little digits
Today’s Wayno/Piraro collabo, another little exercise in cartoon understanding: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 2 in this strip — see this Page.)...
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Rent Spikes / Stoke Dread / By the Sea
That’s the head: Rent Spikes Stoke Dread By the Sea The subhead: Coney Island Businesses Fear Being Priced Out The story is that increases in rents have promoted anxiety on the part of seaside business...
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Wading with Vladimir and Estragon
That, at least, is where it started, with this bit of playfulness on Facebook: (#1) One among a great many available versions of Wading for Godot (like this one, hardly any have an identifiable origin,...
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Song of the season
It’s time for that moving, rousing carol that makes this time of the year so special. I refer of course to the great seasonal song of Okefenokee County, the Pogolicious, Kellytastic “Deck us all with...
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Amazing grease
A Scott Hilburn cartoon from some years back, a smileworthy garage-mechanic burlesque of John Newton’s “Amazing Grace” text: Puns on grace / grease, wretch / wrench, and all(eluia) / oil. Visually,...
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I sing the body elastic
(Men’s underwear, sexy song lyrics, nicknames, half-rhymes, and more. Some of it raunchy enough to have been banned in Malaysia, but then we’re not in Malaysia, are we?) (#1) His name is Mikey Bustos,...
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Pastiche
In the NYT Book Review on Sunday (November 1st), a review by James Parker of The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (edited by Otto Penzler) and Mycroft Holmes (by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna...
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That’s a moray
Yesterday I posted about (among other things) the song “That’s Amore”, as made famous by Dean Martin. Immediately friends began providing plays on the title: That’s a Moray”. Eels! It turns out that...
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