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Aunt Mary’s Kitchen
Mary K. Brown was one of the small group of renowned visual artists regularly contributing to National Lampoon back in the day (which also included cartoonists Roz Chast, Mark Alan Stamaty and Gahan...
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One Cow’s Opinion
A NOTE ON THE TEXT: While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, the limits of bovine verbal expression and the corresponding ethological and zoological challenges inherent in the tasks of...
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How Breaking Bad Will End
I dislike the “Mystery” genre (although I love “Crime” fiction) because I don’t like the implicit double-blind game with the author: of course it’s not the butler, not because the clues don’t point...
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Good and Evil, Law and Language
Jennifer Senior’s New York Magazine interview with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, wherein Scalia talks candidly about the Devil (whom he views from a strict, literal standpoint—”Jesus Christ...
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I dreamed I was talking to David Bowie
I dreamed I was talking to David Bowie through a doorway in an upstate house. We both sat on the floor. He had a Tilda Swinton mask that was only half the face and a young David Bowie mask and he wore...
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Top Ten Visual Designs in Cinematic Science Fiction
droids Star Wars (1977) monolith 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) metropolis Metropolis (1927) precognition interface Minority Report (2002) Enterprise Star Trek The Motion Picture (1979) space jockey...
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Perfection or Calcification?
“Peanuts” ran from October 1950 to January 2000 — nearly 50 years (“The longest continuous story ever told by a single author”). In all that time, there is not a single strip to which anyone but...
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The Art of Parody
Ubiquitous early-1970s magazine ad for Earth Shoes (directly below; click for full size), and, below that, a 1974 National Lampoon parody of the same ad (for “Earth Tires”): The “Earth Tires” ad was...
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Get Rid of the Guns
Get rid of the guns. Outlaw the handguns; forcibly take them away from all American citizens. I’m tired of everyone’s equivocation on this point. 4,350 Americans were killed with guns between January...
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