Area man patents punctuation mark
It’s the Rhetoricon™, for use “at the end of a sentence, phrase, statement or comment that is both rhetorical and sarcastic.”
Orange Crate Art
Pocket notebook sighting
In I See a Dark Stranger (dir. Frank Launder, 1946), Bridie Quilty (Deborah Kerr) pages through a mysterious notebook.
“Sardine Song”
Words and music by Charlie Chaplin.
The Millers in Esquire
Congresswoman Mary Miller has now made it into Esquire as a member of the Sedition Caucus. Also appearing in a supporting role: her husband (and Illinois state representative) Chris. The Millers’ ignominious appearance in Esquire joins previous appearances in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair.
News from New Hampshire
Colleen O’Neill, widow of J.D. Salinger, has offered to donate her defunct general store to the town of Cornish, New Hampshire, for use as a town library.
Another Mary Miller vote
Mary Miller (Illinois-15) was one of twenty-one Republican members of the House of Representatives who voted yesterday against awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to all police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6. The measure passed with 406 votes.
Bloomsday 2021
A 1904 recording of “Love’s Old Sweet Song.”
Separated at birth
The actor Edward Chapman and William Barr.
They and others
In The Atlantic, Michael Waters offers a short history of gender-neutral pronouns.
Bagels and ducks
A duck and her brood walk into a bagel store. No joke.
“I’m not Merv!”
The Late Show, back tonight, is lit.
Where the money goes
From Popular Information: “These twenty-five rainbow flag-waving corporations donated more than $10 million to anti-gay politicians in the last two years.”
Beautiful shoplifters
In the movies, that is.
Twelve movies
The October Man and eleven others.
Zippy Two Guys
I would like to think that today’s strip signifies that Bill Griffith remembers Two Guys discount department stores.
Some Family Circus rocks
As Billy runs with a mazy motion to bring Jeffy and PJ the news that lunch is ready, he touches upon “some rocks.”
Speech balloons FTW
In today’s Nancy, speech balloons effect a reverse jinx.
After a storm
Our backyard is looking rather painterly tonight.
Today’s Newsday Saturday
“Get on with it.”
ΠΙΚΣ
“Many Greeks were angered by the apparent misspelling of the name of the Greek goddess Nike on the newly launched sneakers by the American multinational of the same name.”
Answers
To the questions of the Colbert Questionert.
For avocado fans only
A toy avocado.
National Archives
The National Archives of Game Show History.
“Life apart”
Lucy Snowe insists on her selfhood.
78s
In waking life I own no 78s, rare or common.
Robert Hollander (1933-2021)
Dante scholar, and translator, with Jean Hollander, of The Divine Comedy.
Rewards
Any teacher of teachers who needs to illustrate the differences between intrinsic and extrinsic rewards now has unbeatable examples courtesy of the efforts to persuade United States residents to get vaccinated.
Kittens ’n’ fish
“The enticing smell of tinned sardines proved key to luring two tiny four-week-old kittens from a labyrinth of drains where they had been trapped for two days.”
What’s an inflection point?
Because they seem to be everywhere.
Hand and seal
A passage from Villette.