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The Wavy Rule, a Daily Comic by Pollux: Gin a body meet a body comin thro' the scan
Filed under: The Wavy Rule Tagged: air travel, art, cartoons, comics, Lady Gaga, Pollux, The Wavy Rule
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The Wavy Rule, a Daily Comic by Pollux: Love in the Time of a Minor Cold
Filed under: The Wavy Rule Tagged: cartoons, comics, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Pollux, The Wavy Rule
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Sempé Fi: Old News
Filed under: Sempé Fi Tagged: art, Baby New Year, covers, economics, Father Time, Ivan Brunetti, New Year's, Pollux, Sisyphus
Pollux writes:
It’s not just out with the old and in with the new. The old are condemned to hard labor for all eternity, like Sisyphus rolling his boulder up a hill.
Ivan Brunetti’s trademark egg-headed, stick-legged little people appear as lab technicians on the January 4, 2010 cover of The New Yorker. The cover, called “Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New,” gives us a twist on the old iconography associated with New Year’s. (continued)
The Wavy Rule, a Daily Comic by Pollux: Relationship Cycles
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Notes on "Notes on Camp": The Persistence of an Aesthetic
Filed under: The Squib Report Tagged: Jane Austen, Jean Genet, John Waters, Pauline Kael, Richard Strauss, Susan Sontag
Martin Schneider writes:
A couple of weeks ago I caught the final show in John Waters' Christmas Tour, which ended at B.B. King's. He was vastly entertaining. Afterwards, he made his way to the bar area and greeted a few of the diehards who opted to hang around (it was after midnight), of which I was one. A fun experience.
In connection with this event, I was talking to my young companions (a good fifteen years younger, as it happens) about the concept of Camp, and mentioned Susan Sontag's famous 1964 essay. Not very surprisingly, neither of my friends had ever heard of it, a circumstance for which mere youth is not the full explanation. Now, in 2010, (continued)
The Wavy Rule, a Daily Comic by Pollux: Reform Stalls
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The Wavy Rule, a Daily Comic by Pollux: Philosophers Caught Without Make-Up!
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Cartoonists A - Z: Michael Maslin's Directory of New Yorker Cartoonists
Filed under: Looked Into Tagged: cartoonists, Michael Maslin, Pollux
Pollux writes:
It’s a work in progress, but Michael Maslin’s Directory of New Yorker Cartoonists serves as a very useful compendium of New Yorker cartoonists’ names and biographies.
Maslin includes useful information, such as when a cartoonist’s work began appearing in the magazine.
Maslin’s New Yorker Cartoonists A - Z also includes some photos and self-portraits, as well as some interesting biographical details about the diverse pantheon of people who have contributed their immortal cartoons to the magazine. Enjoy! (continued)
The Wavy Rule, a Daily Comic by Pollux: The Adamsian Epoch
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The U.S.'s Bygone Angostura Autarky
Filed under: Looked Into Tagged: Angostura Bitters, Jonathan Taylor, Talk of the Town
Jonathan Taylor writes:
Edge of the American West has helped us catch up with the Angostura Bitters shortage of 2009–10, since we've been taking a bit of a break from the cocktail-shaking scene.
If only Angostura, now a division of Bacardi, were still manufacturing its concentrate for U.S. distribution in Jersey City, as it was at the time of a 1934 Talk piece about the secret recipe, protected by the (continued)
