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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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