Today’s Zippy brings on scary clowns in Laff in the Dark tunnels:
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— and, worse, threatens to unleash Tom Cruise (and his Outsider Art).
Archive for the ‘Movies and tv’ Category
Taking a dark ride
July 21, 2017Ovaltine mornings
July 20, 2017On Facebook, from several sources, these vintage ads for Ovaltine, notable (these days) for their use of the adjective gay ‘light-hearted, carefree’:
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Two things here: the lexical items gay; and the beverage Ovaltine. Along the way we’ll pick up some Los Angeles lesbian rap.
Surreal juxtaposition
July 15, 2017
Wonder Woman gets Milk Duds at the Charcoal Pit
July 14, 2017In today’s Zippy, Bert and Bob talk movies at the Charcoal Pit:
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The topic is the new movie Wonder Woman, the candy Milk Duds comes up in passing, and the locale is the Charcoal Pit in Wilmington DE.
The Treasure of the Singlet Padre
June 30, 2017Or: Happy Trails to You.
It starts with a Richard Oliva photo in Steathy Cam Men on the 28th, with the caption “Hello, sexy daddy man!”:
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In leather singlet, displaying his furry pecs and treasure trail.
The Ballad of Clark and Bruce: SuperBat of Pink Steel Forever
June 28, 2017Not a bit shy,
Their desire
Writes its name
In the sky.
Batman and Superman, locking together, man to man:
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Madrid wall art by Ze Carrión
More Magrittean disavowals
June 28, 2017Today’s Zippy:
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One in a long series of Zippy strips about Tod Browning’s film Freaks, the characters in it, and the actors who played them (only some of them posted about here). Also one in a long series of strips referring to the Magrittean disavowal, a contradiction between text and image: in this case, the title of this comic strip, This is not a comic strip.
Typo time
June 23, 2017In writing yesterday’s posting on MLB Pride logos, I intended to type the name Aric Olnes, but anticipated the S at the end of Olnes in typing Aric, and so typed
Aris Olnes
A very common sort of typo, in this case creating the name of a hermaphoditic deity of war,
Aris = Ares (Greek god of war) + Eris (Greek goddess of discord)
Rainbow TARDISwear
June 22, 2017From the BBC America on-line store, a hoodie ($49.98) and a baseball shirt ($24/98):
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A police box that will take you not only through space and time (though perhaps unreliably), but also through gender and sexuality.
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.
