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This Isn’t My First Odio

I’ve finished Live a Live with two different endings. There are a few others, but I think I’m done with it for the time being. There are SPOILERS for the game in what follows. I wrote about the first four … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Final Fantasy, History, Middle Ages, Monsters, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Video Games | Tagged 2001 a space odyssey, akira tadokoro, alien, aliens, artificial intelligence, behemoth, captain square, cogito ergo sum, corporal darthe, cube, doc tobei, hasshe, hor bishop, kenichi lawless matsu, kingdom of lucerne, kirk wells, lei kugo, live a live, martial arts, masaru takahara, o. dio, oboromaru, od-10, odeo, odie o'bright, odio, oersted, pogo, princess alathea, robots, steel titan, streibough, sundown kid, taroimo, turtles, uranus, yoshiyuki kato |

When Humor and Anti-Humor Collide

I found this post by Amy to be interesting, as I think we have similar senses of humor in many respects, and I’m somewhat fascinated by the concept of anti-humor. I’ve never come across the “No soap, radio!” joke in … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Characters, Comics, Discworld, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Language, Lewis Carroll, Oz, Oz Authors, Television, Terry Pratchett, The Simpsons | Tagged absurdism, alice's adventures in wonderland, anti-humor, autism, feghoots, granny weatherwax, inside jokes, jokes, mari ness, no soap radio, pogo, practical jokes, puns, reginald bretnor, shaggy dog stories, the aristocrats, the marvelous land of oz, walt kelly, witches abroad, wordplay |

Let Me Finish

I checked out the third volume of Walt Kelly’s Pogo strips, Evidence to the Contrary, which runs from from 1953 to 1954. As acknowledged in the notes at the back of the volume, this is when the strip started getting … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Comics, History, Music, Politics, They Might Be Giants | Tagged albert the alligator, churchy lafemme, cold war, deacon mushrat, evidence to the contrary, howland owl, indian charlie, joseph mccarthy, mole maccarony, patrick mccarran, pogo, president richard nixon, simple j. malarkey, walt kelly |

My Old Daddy Isn’t Stirring Since My Momma’s Been in Stir

Pogo: Through the Wild Blue Wonder, by Walt Kelly – I’ve been on a bit of old comics kick recently, what with the Carl Barks volume I just read and the two Popeye collections I have checked out from the … Continue reading →