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Today’s truly terrible pun
(Not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) Ok, one more little posting before I tackle writing about the last week in my life, parts of which were spectacularly awful, but through most of which I...
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Doctor The Who
For today’s Bizarro, a portmanteau title — Doctor Who + The Who = Doctor The Who [with the overlapping material underlined] — for a hybrid cartoon character, who is simultaneously Mark Baker’s 4th...
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Tommy and the Doctor
Briefly noted. Previously on this blog. In my 12/18 posting “Doctor The Who”, a portmanteau title — Doctor Who + The Who = Doctor The Who — for a hybrid cartoon character, who is simultaneously Tom...
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The axolotl poem
1/6 it’s Epiphany and 2001 Insurrection Day, and there’s fresh news from the salamander hotline, a follow-up to my writing yesterday, in the posting “That’s a lotta axolotl”: I have known about...
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Bite my punmanteau!
Continuing Bizarro‘s theme from Monday through Wednesday, today’s Waynoratu Nosferamanteau — a Wayno punmanteau based on the film title Nosferatu — examines Transylvanian dentitions: (#1) In the...
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Fangs for the memories
Very briefly: in entry 5 in the Waynoratu Nosferamanteau marathon, today, two anti-establishment vampires greet one another: A 1960s-style hippie on the right (peace symbol, long hair, headband, etc.),...
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Tell a joke, go to jail
In the 1/17 Zippy strip, Z confronts a pair of clay wraiths, lifeless in body and dead in soul, and tries desperately to interject fun — levity — into the conversation; to counterpose silliness, play,...
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Hats off to the vampires!
For yesterday, 1/18, in Bizarro, the 6th and I suppose last Waynoratu Nosferamanteau: The male nosferatu (holding a wineglass of what is presumably blood, and chatting with his young female companion...
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The culinary artmanteau
rabbit rabbit rabbit to welcome the month of February, the month of Lincoln Darwin Day and of Valentine’s Day (this year, Mardi Gras doesn’t come until early in March) It’s Rabbit Day, and what...
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What is figure, what is ground?
A remarkable John O’Brien cartoon in the 2/3/25 New Yorker, in which a cowboy whips his lariat in pursuit of a cow, with a stark desert landscape of mesas and buttes outlined behind them: (#1) But...
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May I take your coat?
A Sandra Boynton turkey cartoon from 1980, showing a (polite) offer framed as a request in the form of a question, using the formula May I VP?: (#1) The exchange — with the offer made by a turkey who...
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The two ages of Interwoven sock ads
Bubbled up recently on Facebook and elsewhere, references to two chapters in the history of American advertising: Interwoven-brand stockings as icons of male sexiness, first in the 1920s and 30s, then...
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The knuckle nick
Or: who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? A report from Monday 2/17, when in the morning, while getting breakfast, I must have knocked my right hand against something...
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Slices of pi(e)
π π π for yesterday (mammoths lumber along majestically, and they are often regrettably late for appointments), 3/14, which was Pi Day in my country, and for some years now, also — delicious pun — Pie...
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Nosferatu en pointe
After six days of foolishness, back on 1/19, in my posting “Hats off to vampires!”, Bizarro produced what I supposed to be the last of the Waynoratu Nosferamanteaus. But yesterday (3/15), two months...
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Nosferatutu II
three shamrocks for St. Patrick’s Day On the WaynoBlog for 3/15/25, W commented on the Bizarro cartoon of his that I reported on in my posting yesterday, “Nosferatu en pointe”: I recently saw another...
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Hybrid portmanteaus
three tigers for ultimate March, the day on which the tigers eat the lambs that the month proverbially goes out as; my posting for this morning begins with tigers, but only so I can slide into the...
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Vito Corleone and Jimmy Hoffa walk into a formula pun joke
three rabbits to inaugurate the cruelest month; today is not only April Fools Day, but also noted linguist Leonard Bloomfield’s birthday (in 1897), to be celebrated by a look at his work on Menomini /...
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The light hand and the hammer
On Easter egg quotations — the light hand — vs. ostentatious allusions — the hammer — in the Economist. From the issue of 3/15/25 in the Culture section, a review of Righting Wrongs, by lawyer Kenneth...
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Today’s magnificent pun
[In the constant upheavals of my life and the world around me, I’m now just picking random stuff to post about, from the 60 or 70 items in my ever-expanding queue — whatever catches my fancy at the...
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