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Daily Comic: Eat Pray Love (Alternate Version)
Filed under: The Wavy Rule Tagged: cinema, comics, Elizabeth Gilbert, food, love, Pollux
Daily Comic: Sustained Passion
Filed under: The Wavy Rule Tagged: cartoons, comics, environment, Pollux, pornography, Styrofoam
American Psycho or NYT? (No, Not Thomas Friedman)
Filed under: Little Words Tagged: American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Taylor, kitchens, New York Times, physical fitness
Jonathan Taylor writes:
In the tradition of "Lesbian or German Lady?" comes "American Psycho or New York Times?" For example:
"Standing at the island in the kitchen I eat kiwifruit and a slice Japanese apple-pear (they cost four dollars each at Gristede's) out of aluminum storage boxes that were designed in West Germany. I take a bran muffin, a decaffeinated herbal tea bag and a box of oat-bran cereal from one of the large glass-front cabinets that make up most of an entire wall in the kitchen."(continued)
Daily Comic: Breaking the Pumpkin Spice Latte Monopoly
Filed under: The Wavy Rule Tagged: autumn, coffee, cow, fall, Pollux, Pumpkin Spice Latte, pumpking, Starbucks
The entire staff of Emdashes is excited to bring this year's New Yorker Festival schedule. It looks like another terrific year, and we hope to see you there! There are more details on all of the events here.
Tickets for The New Yorker Festival will go on sale at 12 noon E.T. on Friday, September 10th. Click here for details.
Schedule for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday after the jump. (continued)
Paul Conrad, 1924-2010
Filed under: In Memoriam Tagged: Bill Clinton, cartoonists, cartoons, comics, Frida Kahlo, George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Paul Conrad, Pollux, Richard Nixon, Ronald Regean, Ross Perot, Salvador DalÃ
Pollux writes:
One of the many books on my parents’ bookshelves was a volume of Paul Conrad’s collected work. Conrad’s book, which, to me, had always graced these shelves, stood amongst volumes on other artistic greats: Duchamp, DalÃ, Kahlo, Picasso. Conrad belonged there.
Conrad’s sharp and funny cartoons were both an inspiration and an historical record of several decades of American history, unflinchingly showing us at our worst. His drawings for The Los Angeles Times earned Conrad the enmity of Nixon and Nancy Reagan, as well as the Pulitzer Prize (three times). Conrad didn’t pull any punches. (continued)
Daily Comic: The Semicolon versus Lady Asterism: III
Filed under: The Wavy Rule Tagged: comics, Lady Asterism, National Punctuation Day, pharmacy, Pollux, punctuation, superhero, The Semicolon
When last we encountered The Semicolon, he had freed himself from Lady Asterism’s shackles with his special semicolon cufflinks. But he had remained blinded…
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Two Quick Hits: Orlean and Wright
Filed under: Looked Into Tagged: Elizabeth Gilbert, George Clooney, Josh Marshall, Julia Roberts, Kurt Andersen, Lawrence Wright, Martin Schneider, Meryl Streep, New Yorker Festival, Susan Orlean, Walter Kirn
Martin Schneider writes:
Over the past three weeks or so, I encountered two New Yorker contributors in unexpected venues, and in both cases the takeaway was that the person might be the best at what they do. I thought I'd pass those on.
On August 11, the vastly entertaining mostly-political discussion website bloggingheads.tv posted a "diavlog" with Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) and Susan Orlean (billed as "Julia Roberts" and "Meryl Streep," har har). It's the third dicussion for bloggingheads.tv Orlean has done—the first two were with Kurt Andersen and Walter Kirn ("George Clooney")—and she has a tremendous knack for "casual" conversation that is (continued)
Daily Comic: Cup Noodles
Filed under: The Wavy Rule Tagged: cartoons, comics, Cup of Noodles, food, Pollux
