This is not a current events blog, so this particular column is NOT about the AI writing controversy. The magazines which regularly send me rejection slips (sneaking up on the magic number 7,500) are divided on the issue, some refusing stories which have been written using AI and others saying it’s okay as longContinue reading “Chatbott”
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Screen Scrooges: School Days
As the words were spoken, they passed through the wall, and stood upon an open country road, with fields on either hand. The city had entirely vanished. Not a vestige of it was to be seen, the darkness and the mist had vanished with it, for it was a clear, cold winter day, withContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: School Days”
Mockbeth
I was thinking of writing a column in this space about the use or misuse of Shakespearean lines on postcards, back in the day when Shakespeare mattered a whole lot more to the individual citizen of these United States. I may still do that, but in doing my research, I ran into a separateContinue reading “Mockbeth”
Hitting the Bottle
The recent addition to my inventory of a pile of postcards featuring babies made me wonder a little more specifically about a matter we have mentioned hereinbefore. Postcards of infants are filled with sociological observations, but most of those can be left to others, i.e., the proportion of mothers to fathers in baby-holding, theContinue reading “Hitting the Bottle”
Screen Scrooges: A Ghost’s Mission
“Are you the Spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to me?” asked Scrooge. “I am!” The voice was soft and gentle. Singularly low, as if instead of being so close beside him, it were at a distance. “Who, and what, are you?” Scrooge demanded. “I am the Ghost of ChristmasContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: A Ghost’s Mission”
Out On a Limb
We have been discussing stockings worn by ladies on postcards of the past. I mentioned that in this, as in so much of a cartoonist’s life, what is really important is knowing just where to draw the line. And so today, we are going to discuss stocking tops. Maybe this is what isContinue reading “Out On a Limb”
Allegations
I hate to whine, and I KNOW this is going to be a revolutionary thought that no one has ever expressed before. But I am going to be brave and stalwart and come right out with it and take the tidal wave of anger that comes from making such a bold statement. ThisContinue reading “Allegations”
Screen Scrooges: The Ghost of Christmas Past
The curtains of the bed were drawn aside, I tell you, by a hand. Not the curtains at his feet, nor the curtains at his back, but those to which his face was addressed. The curtains of his bed were drawn aside and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face toContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: The Ghost of Christmas Past”
How It Seams
Over the years, there have been numerous studies of the history and role in cultural themes of the various erogenous zones of the body: how they relate to the state of society when this or that spot is heavily featured in advertisement, and what it means in the mental processes of the individual viewer. Continue reading “How It Seams”
Late-Breaking News
I hardly know how to break this to you, but we are all grown-ups here, and we can get through it together. (Would anyone who is not grown up…no, skip it. I can’t afford to lose that much of my audience.) Once upon a time, a man named Kermit Shafer published a lineContinue reading “Late-Breaking News”
