Parody postings
Postings on parodies, burlesques, and playful allusions
☛ bawdlerize:
a parody of poetry anthologies
☛ The Komodo dragon:
parodies by Bob and Ray
☛ Fronting:
Wolcott Gibbs’s parody of Timespeak
☛ Words and music:
Zippy: plays on formulas
☛ Golden State Rufskin tit:
AMZ riff on a Diane Wakoski poem
☛ The figs of fear:
on playful allusions vs. snowclones
☛ Revolutionary music:
and ☛ 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:
Zippy: variations on formulas
☛ The pig’s daughter:
Zippy: beatnik poetry
☛ 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:
Basil Wolverton’s grotesque images of people
☛ Somewhere over my poncho:
Zippy: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
☛ 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:
Zippy: beatnik stuff
☛ Defective, damaged, etc.:
Zippy: echo of Isaiah 53:3, as we hear it in Handel’s Messiah
☛ Riffing and ripping on poetry:
Zippy: Ginsberg’s HOWL
☛ Boldly going:
playful allusions (see “The Figs of Fear”)
☛ American Gothic:
Walker Evans allusion to “American Gothic”
☛ Critical thinking:
The Flying Spaghetti Monster and other parodic creations
☛ 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:
parodies of Munch’s “The Scream” (and other artistic parodies)
☛ Marisol:
Marisol’s Last Supper: translation, reinterpretation, burlesque?
☛ limericist:
with a parody limerick
☛ My funny serpentine:
Zippy: “My Funny Valentine”
☛ More Zippy burlesque:
Zippy: “Everything Happens to Me”
☛ Allentown riff:
Zippy: riffing on Billy Joel’s song “Allentown”
☛ Product satire:
Zippy: a festival of mangled product names
☛ Christmas elves:
Rhymes: burlesque of “You Ain’t Nothin’ But a Hound Dog”
☛ My Favorite Things:
Zippy: a riff on “My Favorite Things”
☛ Three deaths:
Ronald Searle parodies and caricatures
☛ Disco Duck:
Zippy with “Disco Duck”: “Not a burlesque, but a genuine novelty hit from the heyday of disco”
☛ 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:
Multiverse: parody of “That’s Amore”
☛ 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:
parodies of Christmas carols in Pogo
☛ The Mrowr and The Whine:
art parodies: Munch’s “The Scream”
☛ Captain Obvious:
comic-book parody Captain Obvious
☛ Noodo:
Zippy with parody of the folksong “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”
☛ Nighthawks:
parodies of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
☛ Mockbusters:
mockumentaries
☛ Moocher words:
parody of “I am the very model of a modern Major General”
☛ Nightmare stories:
Rudolph Friedmann from Dwight Macdonald’s Parodies
☛ Verbing garbage:
film Never Too Young To Die as parody of James-Bond-style spy movies
☛ The fourth wall:
parody comic strips
☛ On the Weiner watch:
gay porn parody flick Anthony’s Weener
☛ Share the rainbow:
#2: parody of Skittles ads
☛ Zippy on comic books:
#2: Wonder Wart-Hog, a parody of Superman
☛ Santa art:
Ed Wheeler parody of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks
☛ Bibliobimbo:
parody pulp comic Bibliobimbo
☛ For National Cartoonists Day:
#1: Rhymes cartoon with parody of The Cat in the Hat
☛ Three more diverse:
#2: Multiverse cartoon as parody of PBS children’s series Arthur
☛ Mashup:
Zippy; parodies of HOWL
☛ Ruthie misinterprets:
#2 One Big Happy on Gilligan’s Island: mondegreens + eggcorns, or parody?
☛ Visual burlesque:
Costaldo and Huhn burlesques
☛ Porn parody cartoons:
Tristan Farnon’s Leisure Town, with parody of Dilbert
☛ Don’t go changin’!:
Zippy parody of Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are”
☛ Snowy lanes:
Zippy parody of Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
☛ Zippy Eve:
Zippy parody of “A Visit from St. Nicholas”
☛ Set of three:
Zippy burlesque of “Jingle Bells”
☛ Ode to Almond Joy:
Zippy burlesque of the Ode to Joy
☛ Drag mashups:
Ryan Landry burlesque drag shows
☛ Earworms, snowmen, and parodies:
Bob Eckstein parody of Nighthawks
☛ 6/20/15: Screaming for ice cream:
Mary Lawton parody of Munch’s “The Scream”
☛ 6/28/15: 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:
burlesque of “The Object of My Affection”
☛ 9/27/15: California squirrels:
Andy Singer parody of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”
☛ 10/3/15: Stark morning names:
Cold Comfort Farm as parody
☛ 10/4/15: Joseph Gordon-Levitt:
G-L in “Magic Joe” parody of film Magic Mike
☛ 10/17/15: That’s a moray:
parodies of “That’s Amore”
☛ 11/5/15: Pastiche:
pastiches of Sherlock Holms; parody of Magritte Trahison
☛ 11/17/15: The House of the Writhing Pun:
Zippy burlesque of “The House of the Rising Sun”
☛ 11/18/15: Somewhere, looking like Bozo:
Zippy burlesque of “Over the Rainbow”
☛ 12/13/15: The secret life of superheroes:
Kerry Callen superhero parody cartoons
☛ 12/15/15: The news for cartoons:
Mads Eriksen gay parody of The Phantom
☛ 1/5/16: The news for penises, issue #1 of 2016:
burlesque of “The Jumblies”
☛ 1/7/16: Bilkpoe (and fractured Stein):
burlesques of Edgar Allan Poe and Gertrude Stein
☛ 1/9/16: More on the Bundy Bunch:
No Snack Mountain, “Let’s All Go to the Standoff”, Snacksden flag
☛ 1/11/16: Fractured Didion:
burlesques of Joan Didion quotations
☛ 1/13/16: Fractured Proust:
burlesques of Marcel Proust quotationa
☛ 1/13/16: Fractured Joyce:
burlesques of passages from James Joyce’s Ulysses
☛ 1/14/16: Fractured Fitzgerald:
burlesques of passages from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s writings
☛ 1/24/16: More Ravening:
burlesque of Poe’s “The Raven”
☛ 1/25/16: In the burlesque boat with Zippy:
burlesque of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
☛ 1/29/16: aussieBum, Shearing the Rams, and Slim Dusty:
aussieBum take-off of Tom Roberts painting Shearing the Rams
☛ 2/19/16: Mid-February news for penises:
“The Pickle Man” parody of “The Candy Man”
☛ 3/19/16: Cheese Barrel Polka:
Zippy burlesque of “Beer Barrel Polka”
☛ 4/10/16: Feckless, Gormless, and the bull, Lost Positive:
Cold Comfort Farm and a parody of the parody
☛ 4/10/16: Magnitude boys:
parody of “Rocky Raccoon”
☛ 4/29/16: Meatmen, 1989-2004:
Come Wars burlesque of Star Wars
☛ 5/14/16: Brill me tomorrow, Zippy:
Zippy burlesque of “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”
☛ 5/26/16: Thurber the illustrator:
Thurber re-telling of “Little Red Riding Hood”
☛ 5/29/16: Kookie Zippy:
unidentified parodies from Zippy
☛ 7/21/16: Michael Crawford:
parody of Hopper, homsge to Roz Chast
☛ 8/11/16: 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…:
Zippy burlesque of Jimmy Soul’s “If You Wanna Be Happy”
☛ 9/1/16: Skinflints and Accidents:
Zippy burlesque of the Strawberry Alarm Clock’s “Incense and Peppermint[s]”
☛ 9/9/16: Julian and Sandy:
AZ Polari burlesque of the “Valse” / “Waltz” from Façade
☛ 9/16/16: 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:
burlesque of passage from the Song of Solomon; burlesque of “Lemon Tree”
☛ 11/7/16: November 7th, in the liminal zone:
burlesque of 1st verse of Longfellow’s “The Children’s Hour”
☛ 11/7/16: Seward Johnson:
Johnson visual parody (“God Bless America”) of Grant Wood’s “American Gothic”
☛ 12/31/16: Surrealists, but especially Jess:
parody as criticism, esp. in Jess’s Tricky Cad
☛ 1/12/17: Poplar Mechanics:
parody cover of Popular Mechanics (and Men’s Health)
☛ 3/22/17: An outrageous but colorful pun:
xkcd parody of “That’s Amore”
☛ 4/24/17: 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:
Annette Müllender parody of Magritte
☛ 6/11/17: 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:
AZ parody of “In the Pines”
☛ 7/18/17: POP with Poe:
Rhymes With Orange parody of “The Raven”
☛ 7/26/17: I sing the body elastic:
Mikey Bustos parodies
☛ 8/17/17: Two cartoonists take on Charlottesville:
#3 Jon Berkeley parody of Grant Wood’s American Gothic
☛ 8/25/17: Revisiting 2: Despacito:
“Despacito” parody
☛ 9/24/17: Stuck in Folsom Prison:
parody of “Folsom Prison Blues”
☛ 10/3/17: The Pink Fellowship:
parody of “Nights in White Satin”
☛ 11/17/17: Singing in parts:
Zippy parody of “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire”
☛ 11/22/17: 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:
Rhymes With Orange parody of Magritte’s The Son of Man
☛ 1/2/18: Between Parody and Pastiche:
Zippy pastiche of Raymond Chandler and other hard-boiled detective writers
☛ 3/9/18: 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:
gay parodies of Fifty Shades of Grey, Justice League
☛ 3/28/18: Deviant Last Suppers:
9 queer parodies of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper
☛ 4/14/18: Zombie animations in development:
Zippy burlesque of “Fly Me to the Moon”
☛ 4/24/18: POP POP:
riff on Alexander Pope line, burlesque of Psalm 23:4-6
☛ 5/3/18: Green trunks in the desert:
parody of Edward Lea’s “The Jumblies”
☛ 5/24/18: Crude japery:
burlesques of ads and book covers
☛ 5/29/18: The things that a Dingburger needs:
Zippy burlesque of “My Favorite Things”
☛ 6/8/18: 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:
Another moment between Parody and Pastiche with Raymond Zippandler
Zippy parody / pastiche of Raymond Chandler
☛ 6/25/18: Midsummer cartoons:
#4 John Atkinson parodies of various artists’ styles
☛ 7/1/18: Photobombing Magritte:
#4 Apple Computer parody of “Son of Man”
☛ 8/1/18: Amazing grease:
Scott Hilburn burlesque of “Amazing Grace”
☛ 8/18/18: Grammarian Magazine:
Grammar Girl parody of Cosmopolitan cover
☛ 11/19/18: Revisiting 22: now berries and cherries:
AZ parody of refrain from Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark”
☛ 12/12/18: 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:
Boynton burlesque of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”
☛ 12/25/18: Beat Noel:
Zippy burlesque of “Silent Night”
☛ 12/29/18: Nighthawks in search of an artist:
Whitehead cartoon parody of Nighthawks
☛ 1/2/19: Nighthawks on New Year’s:
Owen Smith parody of Nighthawks
☛ 1/25/19: Blue roses:
AZ take-off on “Heaven Is a Place on Earth”
☛ 2/17/19: 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:
R. Sikoryak parody of Waiting for Godot
☛ 2/20/19: 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!:
parody of Johnson Smith Co. magazine ads; parodies of political language
☛ 3/8/19: Vasodilation:
gay parody of “A Spoonful of Sugar”
☛ 3/11/19: Roland B. McRiver:
One Big Happy with burlesque of Tina Turner’s cover of “Proud Mary”
☛ 3/26/19: Through a glass penis, darkly:
parody (“Glass Penis”) of the Beatles song “Glass Onion”
☛ 4/9/19: 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:
parody of Beatles’ “Taxman”
☛ 4/17/17: The last Peepshow:
Peeps parody dioramas of The Scream, Nighthawks
☛ 4/27/19: 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:
reworkings of Lunch Atop a Skyscraper photo
☛ 7/11/19: Three Pride moments:
#1 reworking of Iwo Jima photograph as a Pride composition
☛ 7/14/19: The Skylunch of the American economy:
Andrea Ucini reworking of Skylunch for an Economist cover
☛ 7/22/19: The boys of Boris Beauville:
take-off on Boris Johnson rant and on “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”
☛ 8/20/19: Theophilus:
parody of the Eagles’ “Hotel California”
☛ 8/27/19: Greek eggs and lamb:
parody of Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham”
☛ 12/14/19: Xmas beefcake for a god cause:
ad parody of “Let It Snow”: “Get Enrolled” (in Obamacare)
☛ 1/19/20: Rent Spikes / Stoke Dread / By the Sea:
AZ travesty of “By the Beautiful Sea”
☛ 1/22/20: Three little digits:
AZ parody of Ogden Nash’s “The Lama”
☛ 2/19/20: Trough Pride:
AZ parody of “Piggies”
☛ 3/4/20: In purple hexadecimal:
AZ burlesque of Lewis Carroll’s “Father William”
☛ 4/3/20: 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:
regular blog version of the preceding
☛ 5/31/20: The death of images:
burlesque of Sine Nomine (“For all the saints”)
☛ 6/4/20: Gender presentations in Oz:
#1: visual parody “Mermazing” of the Grande Odalisque by Ingres
☛ 6/12/20: Bad Chico:
AZ parody of “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”
☛ 6/21/20: Gay hedgehog:
parodies of Tom Lehrer’s “We Are the Folk Song Army”
☛ 7/3/20: Nighthawks in a time of coronavirus:
parodies of Hopper’s Nighthawks
☛ 7/5/20: Budgies on the radside:
#2 Zippy burlesque of Kerouac’s On the Road
☛ 7/12/20: 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:
AZ riff on “Three-Five-Zero-Zero” from the musical Hair
☛ 8/8/20: Thighland:
parodies of “Toyland, Toyland” and “Nights in Bangkok”
☛ 9/15/20: Cocktail music:
Bernard DeVoto’s “Cocktail Hour” parody of Longfellow’s “Children’s Hour”
☛ 10/14/20: Homage to Magritte:
Temkin parody of Magritte 1937 painting
☛ 10/16/20: One more Magritte homage:
Temkin parody of The Lovers
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