Today’s Zits:
From the far reaches of Emojiland.
Archive for January, 2017
Extreme emoji
January 15, 2017Mathematical Principles of Natural Fig Snacks
January 15, 2017
Two character actors in the morning
January 14, 2017Yesterday’s morning names, of two accomplished character actors, one who first made a name in the golden days of radio (Gale Gordon), one in the public eye these days on television (Tamara Tunie). Gordon displaying a characteristic facial expression and Tunie in character as a medical examiner:
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Sticks and stones
January 13, 2017Two Calvin and Hobbes strips from a series in recent re-runs. Background: Calvin has called Susie names, deriding and insulting her. Susie tries to take solace in a proverbial rhyme, sadly without success:
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And Calvin totally muffs an apology:
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Squirrel Girl
January 13, 2017From linguist friends on Facebook, this cartoon, of obvious linguistic interest:
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This is the strip Squirrel Girl, in the Marvel Comics universe.
It’s a miracle!
January 13, 2017… and a dirty joke. A ¡Toma Guasa! cartoon from October 2015:
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No one’s misspelled HALLOWEEN; the O is right there, it’s just that it’s an asshole.
Poplar Mechanics
January 12, 2017
Dolores del Rio and Erno Piffle
January 12, 2017Yesterday’s morning names: the stage name of a fabulous actress and a fictional young man who started life as a catchphrase.
Genuine mink jock
January 11, 2017A preposterous vintage 70s fashion ad that’s all over the net (though, as usual, without a verifiable source):
Characters
January 11, 2017Characters, most of them cute, from Japanese anime, manga, animated cartoons, computer games, books, and consumer goods of all sorts, in news that’s come my way recently: an Economist story about Mario; California license plates featuring Totoro; plus a note on perhaps the most famous of these characters in the U.S., Hello Kitty; a news story on a new character, Aggretsuko; a note on one of my favorites, Afro Ken; a look back at Tarepanda on this blog; and a glance at the character Pingu, who’s not Japanese.