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Monday, March 24, 2025

Lessons in laughter

Lessons in laughter:

Dozens of you have shared this lovely video with me over the past couple days. And I just love that it illustrates two baby lessons in one.

First, as I’ve shared many times in the past, there’s nothing funnier than the unexpected. And just as a standup… pic.twitter.com/htfWM3F6EY
— Dan Wuori (@DanWuori) March 24, 2025

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

WKRP bombs Cincinatti with turkeys [instant classic!]

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Like getting hit in the gut with a falling apple

So when Newton said this thing about playing on the seashore, was he being metaphorical? Or was he being [*clears throat*] littoral? pic.twitter.com/KSPH02soAJ

— Adam Roberts (@arrroberts) September 13, 2017

He was being figurative, Adam. He was, wait for it...you know it's coming... the original Fig Newton. https://t.co/96A3ImOcRq

— Bill Benzon (@bbenzon) September 13, 2017

His friends called him "Fig".

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Pro tip: Look at all the set-up that required. What's it doing? What's in doing in the mind, in the brain? And what was Germ's Choice doing with all those portmanteau's.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

A little over a week ago I had the notion that I should write a piece talking about what I’d learned about cartoons in the past few years. No sooner had the thought occurred to me than I realized that writing such a piece would be difficult. It’s not that I haven’t learned anything, but that what I’ve learned is difficult to summarize.

For the most part I’ve been concerned to analyze and describe cartoons. I’ve learned lots of specific things about specific cartoons, some of which I’ve written about, here and elsewhere, and some of which exists only in notes, or just ideas flitting about in my mind. But general conclusions? Well, cartoons are rich and complex.

Duh!

That’s hardly a conclusion. In fact, that’s why I started describing them in the first place. I already knew they were rich and complex, so much so that it’s hard to remember, accurately what happens, and how. But when you look, you see things, patterns. And they’re interesting.