… in the New Yorker. By Tom Toro (cartoon meme and self-referential as well) and Sara Lautman (pun!):
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Archive for the ‘Reading’ Category
August 21st: two cartoons
August 17, 2017Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit: three cartoons for the 1st
May 1, 2017It’s May Day, an ancient spring festival — think maypoles and all that — so, the beginning of the cycle of the seasons. (Everybody knows the Vivaldi. Try listening instead to the Haydn, here.) And it’s the first of the month, an occasion for still other rituals, including one that calls for everyone to greet the new month, upon awakening, by saying “rabbit, rabbit, rabbit” (or some variant thereof). There’s even a Rabbit Rabbit Day Facebook community, with this page art (not attributed to an artist):
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The three-rabbit variant is the one I’m familiar with. (I got it as an adult from Ann Daingerfield Zwicky. Since she was from the South, I thought it was a specifically Southern thing. But today I learned, from an astonishingly detailed Wikipedia page, that that is very much not so.)
Today also brought a Facebook posting from my friend Mary Ballard, to whom the whole inaugural-rabbit thing was news, and, by good fortune, three cartoons from various sources: a Bizarro I’ve already posted about; a Mother Goose and Grimm with an outrageous bit of language play; and a Calvin and Hobbes reflection on the meaning of the verb read.
Reading new names
March 9, 2015Well, names that are new to you. In today’s One Big Happy:
Apparently unfamiliar with Spanish personal names, Ruthie treats FIDEL as the closest word she can read: FIDDLE. And then sticks to that.
The Wikipedia page tells us that
The strip takes place on Buena Vista Avenue and in an unspecified city based on Baltimore, Maryland, where the creator grew up.
Apparently in a very Anglo neighborhood of near-Baltimore.