Today’s Zippy crosses the subjects of Vermeer’s paintings with the Three Stooges:
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Curly the silly one, the Geographer. Larry the unruly one, the Astronomer. And Moe the leader and guide, the Milk Maid. Ego, Id, and Superego.
Archive for June, 2017
The three Delfts
June 22, 2017Fixing things
June 21, 2017A Pearls Before Swine strip that’s been sitting in my queue since, omigod, 2/14/16:
All about fixing things.
It was ever thus
June 21, 2017Yesterday’s Rhymes With Orange, set in ancient Egypt:
It was ever thus: work was gendered then — women’s work is domestic, men’s work is in the public sphere — and it hasn’t been ungendered yet.
News for cacti and succulents 6/20/17
June 20, 2017Two reports on the cactus and succulent front: two photos from a visit to the Stanford garden yesterday (a foxtail and an assortment of columnar cactuses), plus edible miniature cactus and succulent gardens (cakes and cupcakes!).
The terrible truth about bubble wrap
June 20, 2017A Joe Dator cartoon in the June 19th New Yorker:
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which will lead us to today’s Mother Goose and Grimm:
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Along the way we’ll visit the naugas and their hides.
The thumbnail image, rainbows, and Pride
June 19, 2017The thumbnail image:
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which is the image I’m currently using as my identifying portrait on my WordPress blog, on Facebook, and on Google+. It’s my alter ego Alex, now a graybeard, but still flaunting his gayness symbolically (rainbow flag, lavender triangle), and gesturing one or more of the following: “Yo!” – “Yay!” – “Fuck yeah!” – “Hi, Honey!”.
The image came to me in a set of Facebook rainbow Pride stickers, and yes, Alex Gaybeard is a B guy, black or brown, so what?
More on the race/ethnicity theme, on the stickers, on a bit of familial rainbow art, and some notes on Pride marches over the years, leading to the amazing vision of 500,000 of Us on the streets of Columbus OH recently.
Don Coleman
June 19, 2017Family stuff.
From my cousin Eleaner Severin Houck, this death notice from the Reading (PA) Eagle:
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Disinformation
June 19, 2017Today’s Dilbert, in which an unnamed employee goes to the pointy-haired boss to tell him that Dilbert’s project is in total chaos:
There are two ways to spread distinformation: through a source that the target audience takes to be authoritative — this is the scheme of official propaganda sources, and of some public figures, and of some other sources, like Fox News — or through deliberately spreading stories by word of mouth, as above.
Sales talk
June 19, 2017
Briefly: a demented p.r. pitch, an off-the-rails headline
June 18, 2017In the past few days, some tidbits from Facebook friends: from Margalit Fox, another demented p.r. pitch in her mail; from Jean Berko Gleason, an unfortunately ambiguous headline.