The New York Times reports that Fruit Stripe gum is being discontinued.
Did you know that Fruit Stripe gum had several animal mascots? From the Times:
Yipes the Zebra emerged as the dominant mascot, with every gum wrapper doubling as a Yipes temporary tattoo. The tattoos depicted Yipes in active poses, such as skateboarding, playing baseball or eating grass.Yipes I hardly knew ye.
Bill Griffith has been invoking Jack Hamm’s Cartooning the Head and Figure in Zippy this week: on Wednesday, Thursday, and again today. And lo: the book is available at archive.org.
Fliqlo lives! Alas, this screensaver still uses — at least on my Mac — an enormous amount of memory.
“An effort to overhaul how children learn to read, known as the science of reading movement, is sweeping the country. Here’s where it stands”: “What to Know About the Science of Reading” (The New York Times, gift link).
I missed this article when it appeared earlier this month. Thanks, Joe.
Carrot thou never wert.
I think of the parsnip as the carrot’s quiet cousin. There’s the carrot, in the center of the room, doing a magic trick or telling a colorful (heh) story. And there’s the parsnip, over in a corner, looking at the titles on the bookshelf.
As you may have guessed, I like parsnips. I like carrots too. They both belong in the stew.
[Post title with apologies to Percy Bysshe Shelley and my friend and Shelley devotee Rob Zseleczky. Our household’s parsnips come from Ed Fields & Sons.]
[Hi and Lois, January 11, 2024. Click for a larger view.]
[Zippy, January 11, 2024. Click for a larger view.]
Intertextuality in today’s comics.
How did Lois know to use that enormous pot to make cocoa? She got hold of the script.
Venn reading
All OCA Hi and Lois posts : Hi and Lois and Zippy posts : Zippy posts (Pinboard)
Jean Stafford, Boston Adventure (1944).
The opening sentence of Boston Adventure announces the key signatures, so to speak, of the novel: D and P. The novel is Dickensian, beginning as the story of a girlhood spent in poverty, and Proustian, beginning with sleep. Proust: “Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure.” Or in Lydia Davis’s translation, “For a long time, I went to bed early.”
The moments of involuntary memory in the novel, the miniature essays that universalize the narrator’s experience into a “we” — so Proustian. But Proust’s narrator, unlike Sonie Marburg, never had to sleep on the floor.
Boston Adventure has been reissued by New York Review Books. My only relation to the link is that of a happy reader.
Ted Berrigan, in a 1962 journal:
Got rid of all my books (about 400) except for about 75. Sold them to pay Joe’s rent or gave them to Dick & Carol. Also gave up stealing entirely. We have money and it’s a joy to buy something, to save for it, then read it! Too many things make everything less.From Get the Money! Collected Prose (1961–1983) (San Francisco: City Lights, 2022).
From I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes (dir. William Nigh, 1948). A police detective (Rory Mallinson) has just told Tom Quinn (Don Castle) that he’s under arrest for murder:
“Now wait a minute, you guys aren’t serious. What are you, a couple of actors out of work? You don’t even look like detectives.”I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes is still streaming at the Criterion Channel.
