Archive for the ‘Humor’ Category
Entry 1151 — Grumman Cartoon
Sunday, July 14th, 2013
I have not done much cartooning during the past twenty years, and I was never too ept at it, hence the cartoonic poorness of the following:
The text is from my first cryptographic poem. It was about a boy writing a coded message.
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Entry 1137 — 2 More Shrigley Cartoons
Sunday, June 30th, 2013
Entry 1136 — Something for New Yorker Cartoon Fans
Saturday, June 29th, 2013
I’m trying to get an essay done, so want this entry out of the way as fast as possible. Ergo, I’m just posting the following link. I probably shouldn’t, because I’m sure it will make this entry my most popular one ever, but . . . I’m no big fan of the New Yorker, either. Nonetheless, here’s the link: the New Yorker. If you have any kind of sense of humor, you’ll be glad you did.
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Entry 1134 — David Shrigley Cartoons
Thursday, June 27th, 2013
2 cartoons by David Shrigley from the October 2012 issue of ARTnews (because I’m in my null zone again):
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Entry 1104 — Footnote Humor
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
Oops, I suddenly seem to be succumbing to the politicodementia I suffer fiercely from from time to time but do my best to conceal, so please excuse the long, large ellipsis I’ll need to recover
(The above was deleted from the entry to my Scientific American blog I just finished. I was afraid the ellipsis would be too difficult to reproduce the way I wanted it–and proved to be here. It was supposed to be right next to “recover”–with this to its immediate right: 1 Consequently, I had to delete the following footnotes, as well.)2
1 Thanks to Marton Koppany, my ellipsis-trainer, for the success of the above: it gave me all the time I needed to recover.2
2 I just remembered that footnotes also indicate exponents. Result: I’m suddenly taken with the question of what “)” cubed would equal. Would it take one to the apeiron?3
3 See Irving’s “Where?”4
4 Warning: I’m now seriously considering an entry consisting of nothing but footnotes. They are too much fun! (Blame Knit Witted, whose Very Funny footnotes are an important influence on me.)5
5 This footnote was not among them. I’m adding it to explain that my lapse into politicodementia had to do with a joke about “gerontophobia: that’s still in the entry, although as dumb as the jokes above–which I nonetheless think funny enough to put here.
As for the apeiron, you can read about that in my Scientific American blog.
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Entry 1085 — Desecration, Twice
Friday, April 26th, 2013
Entry 467 — Pushing the Asemic Envelope
Friday, July 15th, 2011
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Noteless Asemic Opera
Verbal Asemic Poem for Geof Huth
Standard Asemic Poem
Clearly, if a poem can be asemic, an asemic poem can be verbal. The point remains: to create forward-going art requires only that you seriously misname what you are doing. And that’s it for this lesson in automotive mechanics, folks. Come back tomorrow for something more entertaining by Ed Baker.
Entry 466 — Basho Makes the Funnies
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
I’m surprised Geof hasn’t posted this at his blog already, but since he hasn’t, I’ll post it here:
It’s a desecration, hence hilarious. It’s also interesting evidence of the apparent popularity of Basho, although I doubt too many who see this strip will understand it. Although they may still find it amusing.
Meanwhile, I was not feeling too good earlier–tired from running an errand, trying only partly successfully to mow my lawn–because of a malfunctioning mower–and doing my exercises, as well as my usual lack-of-sleep and blahness. Then I noticed an ad I’ve seen before for a poetry contest with a first prize of $5000 in the latest issue of Poetry, which I have a review copy of. I had been disgusted with a poem by David Ferry, winner of the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry prize given by the foundation running Poetry, and featured in this issue of the magazine. Result, I suddenly had a yen to enter the poetry contest–with a poem that could be paraphrased as “mathematics divided into poetry equals genius with a remainder of angrily befuddled Philistines accidentally exposed.”
That only made me briefly happy. What boosted me into a much more durable happiness was my then knocking out good drafts of four new long division poems, three of which I doubt I’ll change but which will need visimages, which will probably be abstract-expressionist. The fourth one won’t need much more, I don’t think. One of the others still voices my hostility toward the morons who will probably be judging this contest with a comparison of superior poetry to “locations miles away from anywhere any certified American Poet has ever visited.”
Rattle, the magazine running the contest, is asking for up to four poems, so it makes sense to enter the maximum. I will probably replace the hostile one with another new one (only new work is allowed), then publish all five when I lose the contest to poets at Ferry’s level (15 of them, each getting $100; one will later get the big prize). One nice thing about the contest is that the finalists will be announced no later than 15 September. I have to get my entries in by 1 August, though.
I have no chance of the big prize but my poems will be quite verbal, so I may, by a fluke, make it into the finals, which would generate some publicity for me.
Entry 424 — A Non-Haiku
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Over at Otherstream Unlimited people are posting opinions and other stuff in short texts they are calling “haiku” simply because they consist of three lines, a seven-syllable one in the middle of two five-syllable ones. There’s a lot more to haiku than that. So I posted the following to the group:
. haiku seem stupid
. only to those dumb enough
. to think this is one
Suchoon Mo then commented:
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. ha ha ha ha ha
. ha ha ho ho ha ha ha
. ho ho ha ha ha!
I may get something of consequence done today, but not here.