Today’s Bizarro, with a novel (but not unreasonable) use of the verb anthropomorphize:
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(If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.)
Archive for August, 2017
-izing the dog
August 23, 2017Bluto says: join or else
August 23, 2017Aggressive days in the men’s underwear world, in my adaptation of a Daily Jocks ad from the 11th. There will be hot men in their underwear, suggestive captions, and a certain amount of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics; use your judgment.
Dipspreads in the 60s
August 22, 2017Food and its categories.
I’m slowly working my way through the books on food and coooking at my Staunton Court condo — off-loading tens of thousands of books is a long and difficult process, on-going for about a year and a half now — and today’s box of things to sort through contained the Gourmet magazine five-year indexes for 1961-1965 and 1966-1970. The magazines themselves went away years ago, so the indexes are no longer really useful, but they have some interesting features. Notably, they have entries for the food category DIP/SPREAD, which I invented the label dipspread for and Gourmet gets at under the coordinate header Dips and Spreads — conveying that not only are dips and spreads objectively similar, but that a great many foodstuffs can function as either one or the other.
The FaSoLa Cafe
August 22, 2017Through shapenote singing / Sacred Harp friends, pointers to the FaSoLa Cafe in Narita Airport (Tokyo):
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Our shapenote music is sometimes called fasola music, after the names of first three notes of the major scale in our singing tradition — fa so la fa so la mi fa. (And our fasola is related to the names of the fourth, fifth, and sixth notes in the standard solfège scheme: do re mi fa so la ti do.)
So: music and food, in particular Japanese-inflected Western food.
Future’s so bright
August 22, 2017(Mostly about my life, but there’s some medical vocabulary in there.)
At the dentist’s last Thursday, me wearing 😎protective eyeglasses😎:
(Photo by Kim Darnell)
After cleaning, just before setting up a long appointment for next week, to get two crowns, the day after an appointment with the nephrologist and not long before two months devoted to cataract surgery begin.
This week is the only one in months without a single medical, dental, or optical appointment. Whee! It’s vacation!
Angels in Palo Alto
August 21, 2017(Part One yesterday at the Aquarius Theatre, 11 to 3:30. A screening of the National Theatre Ensemble, London, production.)
Just stunning: remarkable staging, extraordinary performances, and of course the play. A poster for the NTE production:
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Nathan Lane, Andrew Garfield, Russell Tovey, Denise Gough, James McCardle
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Part One: Millennium Approaches & Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner, directed by Marianne Elliott. Original broadcasts to cinemas 20 and 27 July; Palo Alto screenings 14 and 21 August, and 20 and 27 August
HIH and his boys
August 21, 2017From Steven Levine on Facebook today, this vintage image he found in his explorations at flea markets, used book stores, estate auctions, and the like:
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An ad for two of the H. (for Harrie) Irving Hancock book series for boys. Yes, the hero of the two High School Boys series is named Dick, there’s “Hard as Nails” and “Laying Tracks”, but the books themselves seem to be earnest, innocent, and manly.
cut the bill in half
August 20, 2017Yesterday’s Mother Goose and Grimm:
An ambiguity in the verb cut, combined with two metonymically related uses of the noun bill.
Pouring it on
August 20, 2017Today’s Zippy:
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Well, about Bosco syrup, Vik Muniz, Hans Namuth, and Jackson Pollack. Zippy about art about art about art, with chocolate.