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Till I see my Peter walking away
Swimming pool. Callipygian young man climbing out of it. David Hockney’s California dream. The painting: (#1) Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool About the painting. From Wikipedia: Peter Getting Out of...
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The ultimate topic here is my sleep patterns, which I will post about more systematically in a while. Here I’m trying to take some of the burden of background material off that posting by stashing it...
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Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Corn Dogs
Sing out, Louise! Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Corn Dogs, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Corn Dogs; it’s a mantra, in trochaic (Strong + Weak feet) tetrameter (4 feet per line ) — Strong Weak . Strong Rest | Strong Weak ....
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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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The cooties of kidlore in couples counseling
The Wayno / Piraro Bizarro of 5/26: A Wayno Psychiatrist cartoon, this time with couples therapy in which the couples’s conflicts are referred to the attitudes of their inner children, one of whom is...
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Barcelonian bathos
(a dip into the rhetorical organization of texts and into figurative language, but getting its raw material from gay porn and so it’s going to be entirely unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest)...
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Griffy grapples with Muffler Man on the masculinity mat
Yesterday, in my posting “Sir, I bring you a token of my subservience”, a Zippy strip in which Griffy addresses a Muffler Man, offering the fiberglass giant a phallic offering to his superior...
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Sir, I bring you a token of my subservience
The crucial moment of today’s (5/21) Zippy strip, in which Griffy addresses a Muffler Man, offering the fiberglass giant a phallic offering to his superior masculinity. It’s hard to know where to start...
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Kacey Musgraves, “Cardinal”
This is a complicated background to a mishearing posting that has itself turned out to be more complex than I first imagined — a mishearing of the title word in the song “Cardinal” as recorded in 2024...
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The fabulously successful idiot plot
I recently stumbled on the notion of an idiot plot on Facebook — a cultural category I had surely encountered before but must have forgotten about. In any case, I now had Wikipedia’s explanation, along...
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Two DEC-20 cartoons
I am reminded by Amanda Walker that today is DEC-20 Day — it’s the date, kids — causing me to recall times working at research labs that used DEC-20s as their shared workhorse machines. This DEC-20...
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Social value
rabbit rabbit rabbit to inaugurate the month of December and to begin a new work week Another lesson from a visit a little while back from an old friend and colleague in linguistics in which three...
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“As the Mind Spins”
The title (taking off on As the World Turns) of today’s (10/27/25) Zippy strip, in which Griffy and Zippy balance the pros against the cons for our planet: (#1) Griffy sez: what makes the world go...
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The duck drops down
Say the secret word, and a prop duck made in the image of Groucho Marx drops down, to riotous applause and blaring horns — and you get prize money. That was American tv’s You Bet Your Life from 1950 to...
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(entertaining, but totally not for kids or the sexually modest) The seminar was called to order on 9/21 on Facebook by Michael Thomas, who introduced the key background element, the internet fridge....
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Cartoons for 9/1/25
rabbit rabbit rabbit to bring September in (also to bring in the first fall month in the northern hemisphere) and, this year, to celebrate (US) Labor Day (recognizing the union movement and honoring...
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I’ve lost faith in these offers reaching an audience. But just in case, I have a variety of framed / mounted comic collages, free for the taking (at my downtown Palo Alto condo). In three sets. First...
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Lost in an uncrowd
rabbit rabbit rabbit for August — and Swiss National Day (I am of course wearing my Swiss flag gym shorts — with a bright red FAGGOT tank top, to be sure, but I am sporting the flag of my...
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Maybe it’s a plant thing
In my 7/14 posting “Making a mango crazy in bed”, a surprising mishearing on my part. The speaker said: What’s a bedroom move that makes a man go crazy? But what I heard was: What’s a bedroom move...
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Vito Corleone and Jimmy Hoffa walk into a formula pun joke
three rabbits to inaugurate the cruelest month; today is not only April Fools Day, but also noted linguist Leonard Bloomfield’s birthday (in 1897), to be celebrated by a look at his work on Menomini /...
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