It does look like the analyst is talking here in this New Yorker cartoon. But why waste a centaur? I don’t understand. Go here to see the New Yorker cartoon contest. “Hell yes I blame my parents! Wouldn’t you?” “Recognition I get, but what I want is chicks.” “I shit on this guy’s rug once,…
Tag: humor
Look who’s talking, Part II
So who is talking? It seems like both of them are. So what are they saying? As the man says, you pays your money and you takes your choice. Rick: “Save it for the shower, girlfriend.” Rick: “Stop talking and pull my damn finger.” Rick: “That is so not high C.” Rick: “Do that one…
Look who’s talking!
The rats are doing all of the talking in this latest exercise in Harrisburg surrealism. More cartoons here. “I have no idea either, but if it will get us a flat-screen I’m for it.” “Because he has no life, that’s why.” “Yeah, the sign’s shitty, the cheese is shitty, everything is shitty, but I’m still…
Still totally not the New Yorker
Want award-winning New Yorker-style humor? Go here. If you’re lazy, read this: “Oh, I like Ramblin’ Mondays. It’s Flamenco Tuesdays I can’t stand.” “‘Dylanesque’? ‘Dylany’ would be more than generous.” “Well, I’m screwed. There’s no way I can handle ‘Melancholy Baby’ in b flat.” “He should have left this one entirely to Beyoncé.” “Yes, his…
Ronald Kessler, totally bending over forwards to be fair
In his book, The Bureau, The Secret History of the FBI, which is not terribly secret, Ronald Kessler tussles with the vexing issue of whether FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and FBI Associate Director Clyde Tolson were, you know, doing it. Tolson, “ruggedly handsome,” according to Ron, joined the FBI in 1928 and was assigned…
Totally not the New Yorker
This week’s cartoon is submitted by Ben, that bike-ridin’ fool from Harrisburg, PA. Ben “explains” that this is a surrealistic cartoon. Well, being literary tends to make one literal, so I assumed that that object in the foreground is a foot, belonging to someone who I’ll also assume is a guy and the dog’s owner….
Shakespeare yes, anatomy not so much
The NYT has a review by Dwight Garner of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which is probably better than its title. Greenblatt’s book tells the story of Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini, who found a manuscript copy of De Rerum Natura (“On the Nature of Things”), the Epicurean epic of the Roman…
Still not the New Yorker
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…
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”?