Arnold Zwicky's Blog

*postings on parodies, burlesques, pastiches, playful allusions, etc.

☛ bawdlerize:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/09/25/bawdlerize/]
a parody of poetry anthologies

☛ The Komodo dragon:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/11/30/the-komodo-dragon/]
parodies by Bob and Ray

☛ Fronting:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/12/27/fronting/]
Wolcott Gibbs’s parody of Timespeak

☛ Words and music:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/06/29/words-and-music/]
Zippy: plays on formulas

☛ Golden State Rufskin tit:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/01/golden-state-rufskin-tit/]
AMZ riff on a Diane Wakoski poem

☛ The figs of fear:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/03/the-figs-of-fear/]
on playful allusions vs. snowclones

☛ Revolutionary music:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/04/revolutionary-music/]
and
☛ Star-spangled banners and my country:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/07/02/star-spangled-banners-and-my-country/]
references to Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s “The Union” (Op. 48), a concert paraphrase (for the piano) “on the national airs Star Spangled Banner, Yankee Doodle, and Hail Columbia” and Henri Vieuxtemps’s “Souvenir d’Amérique — Variations burlesques sur Yankee Doodle” (Op. 17)

☛ Varying formulas:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/08/varying-formulas/]
Zippy: variations on formulas

☛ The pig’s daughter:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/18/the-pigs-daughter/]
Zippy: beatnik poetry

☛ Oh X the flowers of spring:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/07/20/oh-x-the-flowers-of-spring/]
The Mikado: the people, setting, and language in Doyly Carte productions aren’t authentically Japanese, but fantastical burlesques of “Japanese”

☛ More Zippy names and things:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/08/26/more-zippy-names-and-things/]
Basil Wolverton’s grotesque images of people

☛ Somewhere over my poncho:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/10/31/somewhere-over-my-poncho/]
Zippy: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”

☛ Lady chow mein:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/11/01/lady-chow-mein/]
Zippy: “Lady of Spain”; Walt Kelly’s “Deck us all with Boston Charlie” (taking off on “Deck the halls with boughs of holly”)

☛ Back to the 50s:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/04/16/back-to-the-50s/]
Zippy: beatnik stuff

☛ Defective, damaged, etc.:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/05/12/defective-damaged-etc/]
Zippy: echo of Isaiah 53:3, as we hear it in Handel’s Messiah

☛ Riffing and ripping on poetry:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/05/13/riffing-and-ripping-on-poetry/]
Zippy: Ginsberg’s HOWL

☛ Boldly going:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/07/27/boldly-going/]
playful allusions (see “The Figs of Fear”)

☛ American Gothic:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/07/28/american-gothic/]
Walker Evans allusion to “American Gothic”

☛ Critical thinking:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/07/31/critical-thinking/]
The Flying Spaghetti Monster and other parodic creations

☛ From the puns desk:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/08/03/from-the-puns-desk/]
on a large class of puns that play on fixed expressions (idioms, catchphrases, quotations, titles, names, etc.) as models

☛ Munch up to date:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/08/20/munch-up-to-date/]
parodies of Munch’s “The Scream” (and other artistic parodies)

☛ Marisol:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/08/24/marisol/]
Marisol’s Last Supper: translation, reinterpretation, burlesque?

☛ limericist:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/08/30/limericist/]
with a parody limerick

☛ My funny serpentine:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/09/23/my-funny-serpentine/]
Zippy: “My Funny Valentine”

☛ More Zippy burlesque:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/09/26/more-zippy-burlesque/]
Zippy: “Everything Happens to Me”

☛ Allentown riff:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/11/22/allentown-riff/]
Zippy: riffing on Billy Joel’s song “Allentown”

☛ Product satire:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/11/24/product-satire/]
Zippy: a festival of mangled product names

☛ Christmas elves:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/12/22/christmas-elves/]
Rhymes: burlesque of “You Ain’t Nothin’ But a Hound Dog”

☛ My Favorite Things:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/01/01/my-favorite-things/]
Zippy: a riff on “My Favorite Things”

☛ Three deaths:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/01/05/three-deaths/]
Ronald Searle parodies and caricatures

☛ Disco Duck:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/03/08/burlesques-parodies-playful-allusions/]
Zippy with “Disco Duck”: “Not a burlesque, but a genuine novelty hit from the heyday of disco”

☛ Beatnik poetry. invented and found:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/01/20/beatnik-poetry-invented-and-found/]
Zippy: two pieces of invented beatnik poetry (on tv in the 60s), plus found poetry from Herman Cain back in November 2012

☛ Lunar matters:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/03/08/lunar-matters/]
Multiverse: parody of “That’s Amore”

☛ Burlesques, parodies, playful allusions:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/03/08/burlesques-parodies-playful-allusions/]
inventory of AZBlog postings, mostly about poetry and song lyrics, but also music and visual art (included in inventory above)

☛ The Pogo files:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/07/21/the-pogo-files/]
parodies of Christmas carols in Pogo

☛ The Mrowr and The Whine:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/07/28/the-mrowr-and-the-whine/]
art parodies: Munch’s “The Scream”

☛ Captain Obvious:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/08/29/captain-obvious/]
comic-book parody Captain Obvious

☛ Noodo:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/09/05/noodo/]
Zippy with parody of the folksong “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”

☛ Nighthawks:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/09/09/nighthawks/]
parodies of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks

☛ Mockbusters:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/09/11/mockbusters/]
mockumentaries

☛ Moocher words:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/09/20/moocher-words/]
parody of “I am the very model of a modern Major General”

☛ Nightmare stories:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/11/30/nightmare-stories/]
Rudolph Friedmann from Dwight Macdonald’s Parodies

☛ Verbing garbage:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/05/21/verbing-garbage/]
film Never Too Young To Die as parody of James-Bond-style spy movies

☛ The fourth wall:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/24/the-fourth-wall/]
parody comic strips

☛ On the Weiner watch:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/08/04/on-the-weiner-watch/]
gay porn parody flick Anthony’s Weener

☛ Share the rainbow:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/08/23/share-the-rainbow/]
#2: parody of Skittles ads

☛ Zippy on comic books:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/10/16/zippy-on-comic-books/]
#2: Wonder Wart-Hog, a parody of Superman

☛ Santa art:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/12/26/santa-art/]
Ed Wheeler parody of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks

☛ Bibliobimbo:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/02/08/bibliobimbo/]
parody pulp comic Bibliobimbo

☛ For National Cartoonists Day:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/05/06/for-national-cartoonists-day/]
#1: Rhymes cartoon with parody of The Cat in the Hat

☛ Three more diverse:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/05/24/three-more-diverse/]
#2: Multiverse cartoon as parody of PBS children’s series Arthur

☛ Mashup:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/08/16/mashup/]
Zippy; parodies of HOWL

☛ Ruthie misinterprets:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/08/18/ruthie-misinterprets/]
#2 One Big Happy on Gilligan’s Island: mondegreens + eggcorns, or parody?

☛ Visual burlesque:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/08/29/visual-burlesque/]
Costaldo and Huhn burlesques

☛ Porn parody cartoons:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/09/06/porn-parody-cartoons/]
Tristan Farnon’s Leisure Town, with parody of Dilbert

☛ Don’t go changin’!:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/04/dont-go-changin/]
Zippy parody of Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are”

☛ Snowy lanes:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/21/snowy-lanes/]
Zippy parody of Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

☛ Zippy Eve:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/26/zippy-eve/]
Zippy parody of “A Visit from St. Nicholas”

☛ Set of three:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/27/set-of-three/]
Zippy burlesque of “Jingle Bells”

☛ Ode to Almond Joy:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/02/24/ode-to-almond-joy/]
Zippy burlesque of the Ode to Joy

☛ Drag mashups:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/12/drag-mashups/]
Ryan Landry burlesque drag shows

☛ Earworms, snowmen, and parodies:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/30/earworms-snowmen-and-parodies/]
Bob Eckstein parody of Nighthawks

☛ 6/20/15: Screaming for ice cream:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/06/20/screaming-for-ice-cream/]
Mary Lawton parody of Munch’s “The Scream”

☛ 6/28/15: Claude Funston thought …:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/06/28/claude-funston-thought/]
Zippy parody of “The Walrus and the Carpenter”

☛ 9/21/15: Be upstanding:
[http://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/114656.html]

☛ 9/21/15: The angle of your erection:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/21/the-angle-of-your-erection/]
burlesque of “The Object of My Affection”

☛ 9/27/15: California squirrels:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/27/california-squirrels/]
Andy Singer parody of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”

☛ 10/3/15: Stark morning names:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/03/stark-morning-names/]
Cold Comfort Farm as parody

☛ 10/4/15: Joseph Gordon-Levitt:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/04/joseph-gordon-levitt/]
G-L in “Magic Joe” parody of film Magic Mike

☛ 10/17/15: That’s a moray:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/17/thats-a-moray/]
parodies of “That’s Amore”

☛ 11/5/15: Pastiche:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/05/pastiche/]
pastiches of Sherlock Holms; parody of Magritte Trahison

☛ 11/17/15: The House of the Writhing Pun:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/17/the-house-of-the-writhing-pun/]
Zippy burlesque of “The House of the Rising Sun”

☛ 11/18/15: Somewhere, looking like Bozo:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/18/somewhere-looking-like-bozo/]
Zippy burlesque of “Over the Rainbow”

☛ 12/13/15: The secret life of superheroes:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/13/the-secret-life-of-superheroes/]
Kerry Callen superhero parody cartoons

☛ 12/15/15: The news for cartoons:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/12/15/the-news-for-cartoons/]
Mads Eriksen gay parody of The Phantom

☛ 1/5/16: The news for penises, issue #1 of 2016:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/05/the-news-for-penises-issue-1-of-2016/]
burlesque of “The Jumblies”

☛ 1/7/16: Bilkpoe (and fractured Stein):
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/07/bilkpoe-and-fractured-stein/]
burlesques of Edgar Allan Poe and Gertrude Stein

☛ 1/9/16: More on the Bundy Bunch:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/09/more-on-the-bundy-bunch/]
No Snack Mountain, “Let’s All Go to the Standoff”, Snacksden flag

☛ 1/11/16: Fractured Didion:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/11/fractured-didion/]
burlesques of Joan Didion quotations

☛ 1/13/16: Fractured Proust:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/13/fractured-proust/]
burlesques of Marcel Proust quotations

☛ 1/13/16: Fractured Joyce:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/13/fractured-joyce/]
burlesques of passages from James Joyce’s Ulysses

☛ 1/14/16: Fractured Fitzgerald:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/14/fractured-fitzgerald/]
burlesques of passages from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s writings

☛ 1/24/16: More Ravening:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/24/more-ravening/]
burlesque of Poe’s “The Raven”

☛ 1/25/16: In the burlesque boat with Zippy:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/25/in-the-burlesque-boat-with-zippy/]
burlesque of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”

☛ 1/29/16: aussieBum, Shearing the Rams, and Slim Dusty:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/29/aussiebum-shearing-the-ram-and-slim-dusty/]
aussieBum take-off of Tom Roberts painting Shearing the Rams

☛ 2/19/16: Mid-February news for penises:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/19/mid-february-news-for-penises/]
“The Pickle Man” parody of “The Candy Man”

☛ 3/19/16: Cheese Barrel Polka:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/19/cheese-barrel-polka/]
Zippy burlesque of “Beer Barrel Polka”

☛ 4/10/16: Feckless, Gormless, and the bull, Lost Positive:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/10/feckless-gormless-and-the-bull-lost-positive/]
Cold Comfort Farm and a parody of the parody

☛ 4/10/16: Magnitude boys:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/10/magnitude-boys/]
parody of “Rocky Raccoon”

☛ 4/29/16: Meatmen, 1989-2004:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/29/meatmen-1989-2004/]
Come Wars burlesque of Star Wars

☛ 5/14/16: Brill me tomorrow, Zippy:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/14/brill-me-tomorrow-zippy/]
Zippy burlesque of “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”

☛ 5/26/16: Thurber the illustrator:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/26/thurber-the-illustrator/]
Thurber re-telling of “Little Red Riding Hood”

☛ 5/29/16: Kookie Zippy:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/29/kookie-zippy/]
unidentified parodies from Zippy

☛ 7/21/16: Michael Crawford:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/07/21/michael-crawford/]
parody of Hopper, homsge to Roz Chast

☛ 8/11/16: Sit right down:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/11/sit-right-down/]
Zippy parody of “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter”

☛ 8/18/16: If you wanna be Zippy…:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/18/if-you-wanna-be-zippy/]
Zippy burlesque of Jimmy Soul’s “If You Wanna Be Happy”

☛ 9/1/16: Skinflints and Accidents:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/01/skinflints-and-accidents/]
Zippy burlesque of the Strawberry Alarm Clock’s “Incense and Peppermint[s]”

☛ 9/9/16: Julian and Sandy:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/09/julian-and-sandy/]
AZ Polari burlesque of the “Valse” / “Waltz” from Façade

☛ 9/16/16: Going all the way gay with the X-Men:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/09/16/going-all-the-way-gay-with-the-x-men/]
men.com gay porn parody of the X-Men movies

☛ 10/16/16: … and his fruit was sweet to my taste:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/10/16/and-his-fruit-was-sweet-to-my-taste/]
burlesque of passage from the Song of Solomon; burlesque of “Lemon Tree”

☛ 11/7/16: November 7th, in the liminal zone:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/07/november-7th-in-the-liminal-zone/]
burlesque of 1st verse of Longfellow’s “The Children’s Hour”

☛ 11/7/16: Seward Johnson:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/07/seward-johnson/]
Johnson visual parody (“God Bless America”) of Grant Wood’s “American Gothic”

☛ 12/31/16: Surrealists, but especially Jess:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/31/surrealists-but-especially-jess/]
parody as criticism, esp. in Jess’s Tricky Cad

☛ 1/12/17: Poplar Mechanics:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/12/poplar-mechanics/]
parody cover of Popular Mechanics (and Men’s Health)

☛ 3/22/17: An outrageous but colorful pun:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/22/an-outrageous-but-colorful-pun/]
xkcd parody of “That’s Amore”

☛ 4/24/17: Is that a Paschal Peep in your pouch?:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/24/is-that-a-paschal-peep-in-your-pouch/]
Lewis Carroll parody of Isaac Watts; AMZ parody of both of these

☛ 6/3/17: This is not a President:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/03/this-is-not-a-president/]
Annette Müllender parody of Magritte

☛ 6/11/17: Making fun of Batman:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/11/making-fun-of-batman/]
parodies of Batman comics and tv; Batman parodies of Grant Wood’s American Gothic

☛ 6/30/17: In the dunes, in the dunes:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/30/in-the-dunes-in-the-dunes/]
AZ parody of “In the Pines”

☛ 7/18/17: POP with Poe:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/18/pop-with-poe/]
Rhymes With Orange parody of “The Raven”

☛ 7/26/17: I sing the body elastic:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/26/i-sing-the-body-elastic/]
Mikey Bustos parodies

☛ 8/17/17: Two cartoonists take on Charlottesville:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/17/two-cartoonists-take-on-charlottesville/]
#3 Jon Berkeley parody of Grant Wood’s American Gothic

☛ 8/25/17: Revisiting 2: Despacito:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/25/revisiting-2-despacito/]
“Despacito” parody

☛ 9/24/17: Stuck in Folsom Prison:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/24/stuck-in-folsom-prison/]
parody of “Folsom Prison Blues”

☛ 10/3/17: The Pink Fellowship:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/03/the-pink-fellowship/]
parody of “Nights in White Satin”

☛ 11/17/17: Singing in parts:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/17/singing-in-parts/]
Zippy parody of “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire”

☛ 11/22/17: Superhero supper:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/22/superhero-supper/]
2 parodies of the Last Supper; parody of Abbey Road cover; of the photo Lunch atop a Skyscraper

☛ 12/10/127: Son of Snowman:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/12/09/poach-egg/]
Rhymes With Orange parody of Magritte’s The Son of Man

☛ 1/2/18: Between Parody and Pastiche:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/01/02/between-parody-and-pastiche/]
Zippy pastiche of Raymond Chandler and other hard-boiled detective writers

☛ 3/9/18: The further adventures of Dick Danger:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/09/the-further-adventures-of-dick-danger/]
playful allusion to comic-book private eyes; parody of Firesign Theatre’s Nick Danger, itself a parody of Sam Spade novels

☛ 3/21/18: Fifty shades and Justice League:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/21/fifty-shades-and-the-justice-league/]
gay parodies of Fifty Shades of Grey, Justice League

☛ 3/28/18: Deviant Last Suppers:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/28/deviant-last-suppers/]
9 queer parodies of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper

☛ 4/14/18: Zombie animations in development:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/14/zombie-animations-in-development/]
Zippy burlesque of “Fly Me to the Moon”

☛ 4/24/18: POP POP:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/24/pop-pop/]
riff on Alexander Pope line, burlesque of Psalm 23:4-6

☛ 5/3/18: Green trunks in the desert:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/03/green-trunks-in-the-desert/]
parody of Edward Lea’s “The Jumblies”

☛ 5/24/18: Crude japery:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/24/crude-japery/]
burlesques of ads and book covers

☛ 5/29/18: The things that a Dingburger needs:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/29/the-things-that-a-dingburger-needs/]
Zippy burlesque of “My Favorite Things”

☛ 6/8/18: I love Moscow with chocolate syrup on top:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/08/i-love-moscow-with-chocolate-syrup-on-top/]
Zippy burlesque of Bosco jingle

☛ 6/12/18: Another moment between Parody and Pastiche with Raymond Zippandler:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/12/another-moment-between-parody-and-pastiche-with-raymond-zippandler/]
Zippy parody / pastiche of Raymond Chandler

☛ 6/25/18: Midsummer cartoons:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/06/25/midsummer-cartoons/]
#4 John Atkinson parodies of various artists’ styles

☛ 7/1/18: Photobombing Magritte:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/01/photobombing-magritte/]
#4 Apple Computer parody of “Son of Man”

☛ 8/1/18: Amazing grease:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/01/amazing-grease/]
Scott Hilburn burlesque of “Amazing Grace”

☛ 8/18/18: Grammarian Magazine:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/18/grammarian-magazine/]
Grammar Girl parody of Cosmopolitan cover

☛ 11/19/18: Revisiting 22: now berries and cherries:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/11/19/revisiting-22-now-with-berries-and-cherries/]
AZ parody of refrain from Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark”

☛ 12/12/18: Song of the season:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/12/song-of-the-season/]
Pogo parody/burlesque “Deck us all with Boston Charlie”

☛ 12/22/18: For the season: from fish to moose, penguin intervention:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/22/for-the-season-from-fish-to-moose-penguin-intervention/]
Boynton burlesque of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”

☛ 12/25/18: Beat Noel:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/25/beat-noel/]
Zippy burlesque of “Silent Night”

☛ 12/29/18: Nighthawks in search of an artist:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/29/nighthawks-in-search-of-an-artist/]
Whitehead cartoon parody of Nighthawks

☛ 1/2/19: Nighthawks on New Year’s:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/01/02/nighthawks-on-new-years/]
Owen Smith parody of Nighthawks

☛ 1/25/19: Blue roses:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/01/25/blue-roses/]
AZ take-off on “Heaven Is a Place on Earth”

☛ 2/17/19: Eat it! The oral humiliation you deserve:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/17/eat-it-the-oral-humiliation-you-deserve/]
“Weird Al” Yankovic parody of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”

☛ 2/19/19: Wading with Vladimir and Estragon:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/19/wading-with-vladimir-and-estragon/]
R. Sikoryak parody of Waiting for Godot

☛ 2/20/19: News for penises: notes on phallophilia:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/20/news-for-penises-notes-on-phallophilia/]
burlesque of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese; parody/burlesque of Monty Python Anne Elk sketch

☛ 2/21/19: For gay penguins, science, and Canada!:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/21/for-gay-penguins-science-and-canada/]
parody of Johnson Smith Co. magazine ads; parodies of political language

☛ 3/8/19: Vasodilation:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/03/08/vasodilation/]
gay parody of “A Spoonful of Sugar”

☛ 3/11/19: Roland B. McRiver:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/03/11/roland-b-mcriver/]
One Big Happy with burlesque of Tina Turner’s cover of “Proud Mary”

☛ 3/26/19: Through a glass penis, darkly:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/03/26/through-a-glass-penis-darkly/]
parody (“Glass Penis”) of the Beatles song “Glass Onion”

☛ 4/9/19: Athletica Sport Dick, how I admire thee:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/04/09/athletica-sport-dick-how-i-admire-thee/]
parodies of Donovan’s “I Love My Shirt”; of Stephen Foster’s “Beautiful Dreamer”

☛ 4/14/19: The TaXXXman will come for you:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/04/14/the-taxxxman-will-come-for-you/]
parody of Beatles’ “Taxman”

☛ 4/17/17: The last Peepshow:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/04/17/the-last-peepshow/]
Peeps parody dioramas of The Scream, Nighthawks

☛ 4/27/19: A standout in his shorts:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/04/27/a-standout-in-his-shorts/]
play on “Very Soft Shoes” (as “Varsity Mesh Shorts”)

☛ 5/1/19: Here we come a-frankerin’:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/05/01/here-we-come-a-frankerin/]
Cris Shapan burlesques of ads and book jackets; AZ plays on “Here We Come A-Wassailing” and “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?”

☛ 7/2/19: The fiberglass men of Skylunchland:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/07/02/the-fiberglass-men-of-skylunchland/]
reworkings of Lunch Atop a Skyscraper photo

☛ 7/11/19: Three Pride moments:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/07/11/three-pride-moments/]
#1 reworking of Iwo Jima photograph as a Pride composition

☛ 7/14/19: The Skylunch of the American economy:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/07/14/the-skylunch-of-the-american-economy/]
Andrea Ucini reworking of Skylunch for an Economist cover

☛ 7/22/19: The boys of Boris Beauville:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/07/22/the-boys-of-boris-beauville/]
take-off on Boris Johnson rant and on “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”

☛ 8/20/19: Theophilus:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/08/20/theophilus/]
parody of the Eagles’ “Hotel California”

☛ 8/27/19: Greek eggs and lamb:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/08/27/greek-eggs-and-lamb/]
parody of Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham”

☛ 12/14/19: Xmas beefcake for a god cause:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/12/14/xmas-beefcake-for-a-good-cause/]
ad parody of “Let It Snow”: “Get Enrolled” (in Obamacare)

☛ 1/19/20: Rent Spikes / Stoke Dread / By the Sea:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/01/19/rent-spikes-stoke-dread-by-the-sea/]
AZ travesty of “By the Beautiful Sea”

☛ 1/22/20: Three little digits:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/01/22/three-little-digits/]
AZ parody of Ogden Nash’s “The Lama”

☛ 2/19/20: Trough Pride:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/02/19/trough-pride/]
AZ parody of “Piggies”

☛ 3/4/20: In purple hexadecimal:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/03/04/in-purple-hexadecimal/]
AZ burlesque of Lewis Carroll’s “Father William”

☛ 4/3/20: Keep lettin’ him snooze:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/04/03/keep-lettin-him-snooze/]
One Big Happy burlesque of “New York, New York”

☛ 5/10/20: VT’s Banksy’s Magritte:
[https://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/158307.html]
two Vadim Temkin take-offs on a Banksy take-off on a Magritte — one, in the negative, like the Magritte original; the other, in the positive, as in the Banksy take-off

☛ 5/10/20: Conceptually artistic dicks:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/05/10/conceptually-artistic-dicks/]
regular blog version of the preceding

☛ 5/31/20: The death of images:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/05/31/the-death-of-images/]
burlesque of Sine Nomine (“For all the saints”)

☛ 6/4/20: Gender presentations in Oz:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/06/04/gender-presentations-in-oz/]
#1: visual parody “Mermazing” of the Grande Odalisque by Ingres

☛ 6/12/20: Bad Chico:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/06/12/bad-chico/]
AZ parody of “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”

☛ 6/21/20: Gay hedgehog:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/06/21/gay-hedgehog/]
parodies of Tom Lehrer’s “We Are the Folk Song Army”

☛ 7/3/20: Nighthawks in a time of coronavirus:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/07/03/nighthawks-in-a-time-of-coronavirus/]
parodies of Hopper’s Nighthawks

☛ 7/5/20: Budgies on the radside:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/07/05/budgies-on-the-roadside/]
#2 Zippy burlesque of Kerouac’s On the Road

☛ 7/12/20: Hot wings on a paper plate:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/07/12/hot-wings-on-a-paper-plate/]
OBH burlesque of Joyce Kilmer’s “Trees”; Ogden Nash’s famous parody

☛ 7/14/20: His banana Ana and his avocados Arnold:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/07/14/his-banana-ana-and-his-avocados-arnold/]
AZ riff on “Three-Five-Zero-Zero” from the musical Hair

☛ 8/8/20: Thighland:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/08/08/thighland/]
parodies of “Toyland, Toyland” and “Nights in Bangkok”

☛ 9/15/20: Cocktail music:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/09/15/cocktail-music/]
Bernard DeVoto’s “Cocktail Hour” parody of Longfellow’s “Children’s Hour”

☛ 10/14/20: Homage to Magritte:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/10/14/homage-to-magritte/]
Temkin parody of Magritte 1937 painting

☛ 10/16/20: One more Magritte homage:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/10/16/one-more-magritte-homage/]
Temkin parody of The Lovers

☛ 12/28/20: Hornydays:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/12/28/hornydays/]
AZ raunchy parody of “Home for the Holidays”

☛ 5/13/21: One more time: Magritte and Schrödinger:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/05/13/one-more-time-magritte-and-schrodinger/]
#1 Bizarro parody of Magritte; #4 Zippy parody of Magritte; parody vs. meme

☛ 6/30/21: Hopper, Woodstock, & LaBelle:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/06/30/hopper-woodstock-labelle/]
Peanuts parody of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks

☛ 8/15/21: Jock Robin:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/08/15/jock-robin/]
comment by Mike McManus on the novelty song “Harry’s Jockstrap”, a burlesque of “Frère Jacques”

☛ 8/19/21: Harry’s Jockstrap:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/08/19/harrys-jockstrap/]
burlesque of “Frère Jacques”

☛ 8/31/21: A stone solid pro:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/08/31/a-stone-solid-pro/]
“Street Hustling Boy” parody of “Street Fighting Man”