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Turkish Neutrogena
Neutrogena hand cream (for dry or chapped hands), specifically. Which I’ve used as a moisturizer for dry skin and a healing cream for abraded skin, on various parts of my body (especially as an adjunct...
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16 will get you 3
In my comics feed for today, May 16th, three excellent strips: a Zits on learning how to use a computer (and coping with explanations for how to use it from the deeply tech-embedded, like the...
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Boy oh Boyu!
David Bowie seems to have a considerable following in Russia, to judge from the Pinterest materials about him, for instance this album: (#1) Дэвид Боуи: David Bowie in Cyrillic transiteration Боуи gets...
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Le retour des hiéroglyphes
From a recent chain of postings on Facebook, a 1/9/14 Bizarro strip rendered en français: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 5 in this strip — see...
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furūtsu sando
From the bon appétit magazine site on 7/19/18, “A Fruit Sando Is a Dessert Sandwich Filled with Joy and Whipped Cream: I’m obsessed with this Japanese dessert and was dying for a recipe. Now we have...
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What did the Cretan bull say to Hercules when the hero tamed him?
μ μ (but the bull was real butch about it, and anyway that’s the Greek Way) Meanwhile, the Greek letter mu is wide open for cow cartoons, like this recent one (from February 1st) by Scott Hilburn,...
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Cave painting
On Facebook, Tony Woodbury has passed on this favorite cartoon of his, from the old Saturday Review (of Literature): Cave painting is usually thought of as a precursor to a writing system: the telling...
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Atypical Seuss
Two atypical books by Dr. Seuss — one for children, but about alphabets (On Beyond Zebra!); and one for adults, though in Geisel’s usual children’s-book format (You’re Only Old Once! A Book for...
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Emoji are the hieroglyphs of the future
Today’s Bizarro: (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.) Another bash at the hieroglyph-emoji relationship. For discussion,...
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Emoji days
Emoji(s) are hot news these days. In the NYT yesterday, “Look Who’s Smiley Now: MoMA Acquires Original Emoji” by Amanda Hess. And just a bit earlier, two cartoons linking emoji to hieroglyphics, one by...
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Two word-play cartoons
.Yesterday’s Bizarro, and a Liam Walsh cartoon from the May 30th New Yorker: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbol in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there’s one in this strip — see this Page.) (#2)...
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Three morning names
(Some sexual topics to come.) They’ve been piling up while other things happen. But here’s the recent crop: Futhark, eructation, sex sling. Definitely a mixed bag. Futhark. From Wikipedia: The Elder...
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No vowels
In the April 13th New Yorker, a Talk of the Town piece “The Musical Life: New Translation” by Alec Wilkinson about Cassandra Wilson: The title of the Egyptian funerary papyrus “Book of the Dead” is...
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Set of three
A crop of three comics for today, on three very different topics: a One Big Happy with an inventive reinterpretation of an expression; a Zits on the evolution of writing systems; and a Zippy with...
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Two linguistics cartoons
… in the latest (9/29/14) New Yorker: a Zach Kanin on writing systems and a Joe Dator with a snow cone snowclone: (#1) (#2) In #1, we confront the expectation that examples of early writing are...
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Hangul Day
Today is Hangul Day, a holiday to celebrate the Korean writing system. Here’s a video from some years ago with the great linguist Jim McCawley explaining why this is an important day in the calendar:...
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Two Big Happies
A few weeks ago, from Benita Bendon Campbell, two cartoons from the strip One Big Happy (information on the strip here), with little kids coping with English. Ruthie plays with alphabetical ordering:...
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Ed Fisher cartoons
Passed on from the Archaeosoup site (via Facebook), this New Yorker cartoon (1/26/63) by Ed Fisher: This tickles archaeologists’ funny bones. And epigraphers’, of course. Another inscription cartoon...
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Wooden Hebrew magnets
My friend Max Vasilatos has been creating wooden fridge magnets for various alphabets. She’s a woodworker, and the project is an exercise in art and craft. Yes, you can get plastic fridge magnets for a...
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