Clik here to view.
2012 Christmas music bulletin
Continuing a recent tradition on this blog, I bring readers up to date on developments in my collection of Christmas music (much of which is decidedly odd). The 2010 bulletin is here, the 2011 one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Famous models
Cartoon by Harry Bliss: A little joke on the Famous Artists School, in the tradition of parodies of famous artworks (several posted about on this blog: The Scream, Nighthawks, Starry Night, various...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Soft serve
Yesterday’s Zippy: In ZippyPopLand, redemption can be found in soft serve. (In particular, New England Soft Serve, which would appear to be the franchise in Colchester CT, though I haven’t been able to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Winter storms
The US cable channel The Weather Channel has taken upon itself assigning names to the winter storms during the year (similar to the naming of hurricanes and tropical storms by the National Hurricane...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Two Ronnies
Following my posting on “the Bayloo puzzle”, Nick Fitch reminded me on Facebook of a sketch by The Two Ronnies that turns on misunderstandings of English expressions: The sketch is known variously as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Listening
Today’s Zits, once again on male/female differences: The teenage predecessor to cartoon and sitcom husbands who don’t listen at all to what their wives are saying.
View ArticleClik here to view.
sugar daddy
From the Castro Biscuit site on 4/3/13: Only in the Castro Moment of the Day: Straight Dude Seeks Mentor Daddy (by Walyde Palmer) Making my way home through the Gayborhood I chanced upon a sight not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Four more obits
Just in the past two days, four more deaths of people who have given me pleasure through their work: Ed Fisher and Peter Workman in the NYT yesterday, Jonathan Winters and Maria Tallchief today....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Infant Spidey
… in a Bizarro from 2010 (posted on Facebook by Dean Galbreath): To appreciate the cartoon, you need to know about Spider-Man and be able to recognize him on sight; and to know the (children’s) folk...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Liz Climo
In snail mail from Chris Ambidge on Thursday, a print of this cartoon by Liz Climo: (#1) To get this cartoon, you need to know a good bit about the children’s book Charlotte’s Web — and then to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Legitimacy of comics
Today’s Zippy: Griffy and Mr. (the) Toad in a meta-comic, about comics. On the growing elevation of comics to the status of an art form — as has happened many times before with other pop cultural...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nick Danger: an appreciation
My iTunes woke me this morning with “The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye” (from Firesign Theatre’s How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All (1969)). It’s packed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mounties with guns
(About phallicity rather than language.) From Chris Ambidge, in Trawna, this entertaining movie poster: Guns as phallic symbols come up again and again on this blog and AZBlogX. On the movie, from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
clueless
Today’s Zippy has our pinhead hero looking for a clue: A play on the ambiguity of clue and clueless. And an allusion to the board game Clue. Zippy goes back and forth between the older meaning of clue...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Code 404
Today’s Rhymes With Orange, with a pun on page: A pun of a type that juxtaposes two strikingly different contexts (here, court life in a monarchy, on the one hand, and the internet, on the other) in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brief mention: punk band name news
Found by accident, the punk band Pissed Jeans: Pissed Jeans are an American noise rock/hardcore punk band from Allentown, Pennsylvania. [AZ side note: I was born in Allentown PA.] The band claims to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More band names
Commenting on Facebook on my note about the punk band Pissed Jeans, Chris Ambidge mischievously asked about the names Manly Panda and Bitch Bovine (half-rhyming and alliterative, respectively) —...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brief mention: Hairspray mass nouning
From the 1988 movie version of Hairspray (which I watched for Mothers Day): You better brace yourself for a whole lot of ugly coming from a never-ending parade of stupid. (with reference to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Grocery store semiotics
Today’s Zippy: Zippy’s been reading the texts on food products, finding deep messages there. Love the idea of “advanced socioeconomic degrees in … Manwich & Beefaroni Symbology”. On Manwich:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Idiomaticity
Today’s Pearls Before Swine: The idiom golden throat ‘a widely admired singing or speaking voice’ is both metonymic (throat for ‘voice’) and metaphorical (golden ‘like gold in value’), but it’s complex...
View Article
