Archive for the 'Humor' Category
Roz Chast – Cartoons and Memoire
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022Her 2014 graphic memoir “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” won the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award. Chast combined cartoons, text, and photos to tell the story of how she helped her elderly parents navigate the end of their lives. In her memoir she frankly talks about what it was like to parent one’s parents, as well as how it led her to examine her own mortality.
Her New Yorker cartoons began as small black-and-white panels, but increasingly used more color and often appear over several pages. Her first cover for The New Yorker was the August 4, 1986 issue
Celebrate Our Greatest Talk Show Host Dick Cavett – 2022
Saturday, November 19th, 2022“I do remember Nebraska idyllic images. Playing guns with my friends, or kick-the-can, or ditch, watching airplanes drone overhead on lazy Sunday afternoons, collecting June bugs in a jar on summer nights, playing statues, making mud slippers. … I know there are people who can’t dredge up a single pleasant memory of their childhood, and I can come up with a hundred from mine, some of them right off a calendar or out of ‘Tom Sawyer,’ ” wrote Dick Cavett in his autobiography, “Cavett,” in 1974.
Happy birthday Dick Cavett (wiki)
Anagram Brando Conversation (Previous Post)
Why Dick Cavett was the greatest talk show host of all time
Ingmar Bergman, Bibi Andersson & Dick Cavett on youtube here.
Dick Cavett’s Top 10 at Criterion
Mel Brooks, Frank Captra Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Altman on Dick Cavett Show
(Orson Welles Interviews Dick Cavett.)
Assorted hijinks an interview with Dick Cavett (Paris View)
Happy Halloween 2022
Monday, October 31st, 2022Anton Sikharulidze & Elena Berezhnaya Skating to Chaplin & Chaplin’s Roller Skating.
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022Cars Without Men – Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
(それ お 送る – Send it)
(Photo by Fung Lin Hall)
(Photo by Fung Lin Hall – Dec 31,2021)
Happy birthday Haruki Murakami (Jan 12, 1949)
My Poverty Shaped like a Cheescake (A short story by Murakami translated by PeterCat)
A Memoir, The History of Bones – by John Lurie
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(Happy birthday John Lurie – December 14)
John Lurie’s father used to take him to fishing. John Lurie is a hard working, self taught artist in music, acting and in painting. Basquiat painted and slept at his place. Basquiat was a close friend that Lurie wrote a lot about in this memoir.
John Lurie is a world traveller.
He wrote about Africa, one of many places Lurie visited. He wrote.
“I had been depressed for a long, long time. I could not get out of it. Africa saved me. You can feel life started there.
More paintings at his Gallery with great soundtrack from John Lurie’s Strange and Beautiful homepage
Strange and Beautiful John Lurie (previous post)
Listen to his playing here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_864xjMQY8)
John Lurie: ‘I wanted to break into Martha Stewart’s house and change the curtains. My lawyer said no’
(He’s hung out with Warhol and gone ice fishing with Willem Dafoe, but the Fishing With John man’s new series stars just him and his canvas)
(A man, a bull and of course, the Soldier Bunnies. – John Lurie)
Themes and Variations – Brick, Bottles and Chipmunk
Sunday, May 16th, 2021George Carlin, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Florence Nightingale, were born on May 12
Wednesday, May 12th, 2021George Carlin (See three videos here)
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. George Carlin)
Dorothy Hodgkin (Previous post – Dorothy was born on May 12, 1910
Florence Nightingale click to see large
Florence Nightingale 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910 was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.
Photos of Three Chairs Unfolding
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021Maria Callas and the red Chair
See Elegant chairs (scroll down)
Happy Chinese Lunar Year of the Ox 2021- Moo Moo
Friday, February 12th, 2021Celebrations around the world in pictures (The Guardian)
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My Own Private “Traveling Bernie Sanders Selections”,
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
Aloha Bernie Sanders. He was in Honolulu.
About the Mittens.
The mittens were created by Vermont teacher Jane Ellis. Ellis made the mittens from repurposed wool sweaters and lined them with fleece from recycled plastic bottles.
The Meaning of the Mittens: Five Possibilities
(Bernie levitating at Guggenheim Museum in New York)
See more Bernie Sanders art history memes here
Bernie was in Japan directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Ikiru
Thanks to Sachin Shrijith
Bernie Sanders in Burlington (see more photos and links from here)
Bernie and Allen