Featured on This American Life . Composed by Sara Bareilles, sung by Leslie Odom Jr., “Seriously”:
Sunday, October 30, 2016
“Seriously”
Interagriculturaltextuality
[Zippy , October 30, 2016.]
If you look at today’s strip, you’ll see an additional Nancy bonus feature.
Related reading
All OCA Nancy posts, Nancy and Zippy posts, Zippy posts (Pinboard)
Adventures in molded plywood
The Charles and Ray Eames leg splint, a Cooper Hewitt Object of the Day.
I saw such a splint at a 2011 Eames exhibition. So beautiful that it’s easy to forget the practical purpose.
Related reading
All OCA Eames posts (Pinboard)
Saturday, October 29, 2016
An anecdote from Mark Shields
Mark Shields, in his most recent column, on what WikiLeaks e-mails suggest about the workings of the Clinton Foundation:
Unhappily, what comes to mind is an anecdote author Kurt Vonnegut told about fellow author Joseph Heller, a close friend of his. At a lavish party hosted by a billionaire on New York’s Shelter Island, Vonnegut asked Heller, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel Catch-22 has earned in its entire history?” Heller responded, “I’ve got something he can never have.” Vonnegut asked, “What on earth could that be, Joe?” And Heller answered, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.” Wading through WikiLeaks makes you doubt whether Bill Clinton ever knew Joseph Heller.
Usage tip of the day
Friday, October 28, 2016
From an old notebook
“The things that you cannot do are the things that you should do”: Eleanor Roosevelt, as quoted by the tenor saxophonist David Murray, Downbeat , January 1993.
Also from an old notebook
Alfalfa, Ted Berrigan, Jack Kerouac, metaphors : Alfred Appel Jr. on twentieth-century art and literature : Barney : Beauty and the Beast and kid talk : John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch : Plato, Shirley Temple, vulgarity, wisdom, Stan Laurel
[What Roosevelt wrote: “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” From You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life (New York: Harper & Row, 1960).]
From an old notebook
“All the better for smiling and eating healthy snacks!”
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“Would you like to feel me with your hands and make a picture of me in your mind?”
Both from the PBS children’s show Barney , March 1993.
Also from an old notebook
Alfalfa, Ted Berrigan, Jack Kerouac, metaphors : Alfred Appel Jr. on twentieth-century art and literature : Beauty and the Beast and kid talk : John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch : Plato, Shirley Temple, vulgarity, wisdom, Stan Laurel
Hem and haw and Lois
[Hi and Lois , October 28, 2016. Click for a larger view.]
I like the way the perspective changes to match the dialogue (left to right). I like, too, the way Lois’s frontal curl shifts from the right side of her head to the left. Magic? Not really. The image, I’m almost certain, has been flipped, curl and all.
But what first caught my attention in today’s strip is “hemming and hawing.” Jeepers, maybe Chip will find his way to an Orange Crate Art post about that very expression. Is his connection strong enough to break the fourth wall?
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11:25 a.m.: I played around with the Mac Preview app’s Flip Horizontal and the Alpha tool. Yes, Lois has been flipped.
Related reading
All OCA Hi and Lois posts (Pinboard)
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Domestic comedy
[In the car, taking turns reading the back of a National Carriers semi-trailer .]
“‘Liberal, Kansas.’ Which is probably anything but.”
“‘Irving, Texas.’ Which is probably anything but.”
Related reading
All OCA domestic comedy posts (Pinboard)
Smells like teen spinach
[As seen in the produce section.]
Teen spinach is for real. The Classic Salads website explains the difference between baby spinach and teen spinach: “a week of additional maturity.” Yeah, right — like that’s gonna make you mature? One week? I’m sure.
Teen spinach is at times awkward, at times moody. It would just like to be left alone, in its bag, until it is time for dinner.
[Post title with apologies to Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl.]
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