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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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