Okay, I guess it’s going to be cartoon Mondays from now on. We’ll move the jazz videos to Tuesday. For prize-winning captions from the New Yorker, unlike these, go here. “All right. This is a hostile takeover. But not an impossible one.” “Yes, I did claw my way to the top. Are there any more…
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This is not the New Yorker
Well, it isn’t. The New Yorker has a cartoon captioning contest, which I have never won, at least in part because I have never entered it. Anyway, if I ever did enter it, this is what I might come up with. “Which one of youse guys is called ‘Frenchie’?” “That is so gay.” “‘Cookie’ Lavegetto,…
The New York Times, Shamelessly Misspeaking
The NYT has a headline: “Political Cartoonist Whose Work Skewered Assad Is Brutally Beaten in Syria.” Um, guys, don’t you mean “Political Cartoonist Whose Work Skewered Assad Is Harshly Interrogated in Syria”?
Pimp my mansion—the continuing saga of Katy Weymouth
Is Wash Post publisher Katy Weymouth that much worse than the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and the Atlantic Monthly, not to mention the New Yorker? All Katy wanted to do was rent out her fancy mansion, her paper, and herself to corporate lobbyists anxious to meet government movers and shakers. In a fascinating follow-up…
Since the Sixties: What’s It All About, Merriam?
For more than forty years now, Americans have been engaged in a furious culture war, disputing the significance and worth of that fast-receding decade, the “Sixties.” What were the Sixties about and what did they mean? Fortunately, the good folks at Merriam-Webster have been keeping track. Back in 1961, Merriam-Webster created a mini-culture war of…
P.G. on the Web
Josh Frost has a terrific cartoon version of the first half of an early Bertie & Jeeves story here. For more Frost, check out the Adventures of Nathaniel Bright, here. If you want to know more about P.G. Wodehouse, the creator of B&J, go here. Like many writers, I’m a P.G. Wodehouse addict, though a…