My brain's not working so I'm taking a break from my homework to share some comics with you. Frazz and Pearls Before Swine are two of my favorite comics currently. They're a perfect mix of funny and intellectual, often making good points about life without taking themselves too seriously. It also helps that Frazz is a runner and avid reader.
I actually learn from Frazz on a pretty consistent basis because I have to Wikipedia some references within the strip (Check under Trivia for Charles Addams to get this one):
Check out the Meet the Characters page for a little more detail.
Someday I'll actually get back to thoughtful posts. . . maybe over spring break.
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Very nice. Wikipedia was definitely needed on that last one. Still working on figuring out the 3rd one, but I tend to be slow when it comes to comic humor.
He's not really typical comic humor. He's more random literary reference/puns. The third one is in reference to a Robert Frost poem with the famous lines "But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep. Miles to go before I sleep."
Hence the "Frost warning."
Wow, such witty comics! Like Nick, I had to use Wikipedia's help, and I'm glad you explained the Frost one, because I was thinking that I was my edge when it comes to catching on to humorous stuff.
Ah Robert Frost... totally missed the reference. Chalk it up to being sick, or simply me being slow. I'm familiar with the poem, a collection of Frost's poetry used to rest near by bed for evening reading.
"and miles to go before it sleets"! Love it!
That's so great. I love intelligent humor! I'd forgotten how funny Frazz is...
One of my professors brought in these cartoons making reference to T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." I loved it so much that I put it on the cover of my binder. Then one day in one of my [non-English] classes I hear this giggling behind me and just as I'm about to ask if I have a kick me sign on my back, this girl says, "'April sucks!' That's so great!"
Anyway...random...
Ok,Laura. My turn to say I don't get it. Explain?
The opening lines of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" read:
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Hence, "April sucks." The caption for the cartoon reads: "T.S. Eliot meets Beavis and Butthead." I think it was published in The New Yorker.
Come to think of it, I think we've had this conversation before. I'm getting a distinct feeling of deja vu.
Ah. Makes sense now. :)
Yeah, you asked which was the cruelest month or something and I answered February and August since in Jacob Have I Loved the protagonists says "February and August are alike in that they are both dream-killers" or something like that. So I mixed references and you straightened me out. As soon as I read the first line I remembered. Just hadn't put it to the name.
Thanks
Oh, any time, I really miss having pseudo-intellectual conversations with people, even if it is just back and forth in the comments of your blog :-)!
I love Frazz. I saw that Charles Addams comic when it was published, and I did quite a bit of research to understand it. :-) I thought it was cool! I started reading all these articles about him, and then about The Addams Family, and then I ended with looking up Addams Family theme song on YouTube. Full circle, I guess. ;-)
Ha!
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