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Monsters

September 25, 2025

In the new issue of the New Yorker (9/29/25), two monsters stalk the cartoons in its pages: Joe Dator’s hysterically creepy Wine That Breathes (It’s alive!) and Michael Maslin’s Cyclops waiter at work in an intimate little urban restaurant otherwise located in the waiter’s home territory, the hills of ancient Greco-Roman mythology.

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Visual negations

July 3, 2025

This morning on Facebook, Otto Santa Ana added a temporary profile picture:


The X NO KINGS signage, taking us into the territory of  “double negation”, since both the X and the NO of NO KINGS convey a variety of negation, namely prohibition

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Bastille Day

July 13, 2011

Tomorrow is Bastille Day, and I spent a little time looking for images of hunky men wrapped in the Tricolor, like the images of such men wrapped in the Union Jack or the Stars and Stripes or the Maple Leaf (see here). So far nothing especially racy, but there are some symbolic photos.

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