The saga of Psychiatrist cartoons rolls on, with unusual analysands in two strips that have come my way recently: a stalk of broccoli in the winner of a contest to caption a Lonnie Millsap drawing and a cephalopod in a Victoria Roberts cartoon from that I stumbled on while harvesting a recent Roberts cartoon for an entirely different purpose.
But then the Psychiatrist cartoon meme is extraordinarily welcoming to bizarre patients on the couch — all manner of non-human analysands as above or thoroughly fictive ones Superman and Batman are frequently in need of therapy. Posted in Comic conventions , Language and animals , Language and food , Linguistics in the comics 2 Comments ».
All of this was brought to my attention again yesterday, in a Facebook posting by Bert Vaux, which included this vintage advertising poster:. Some reflections on my life as an old man, disabled, living alone — resolutely and defiantly — in the midst of this endless, constantly morphing, pandemic. Two occasions on December 19th, together making my social life for the Christmas season: from 10 to 1 Pacific time , a Zoom gathering of soc. Why all this seafood? Because it was Christmas Eve, and though Owen and his husband are in wintry Winnipeg and not sunny Sicily where the seafood is a component of La Vigilia , bivalves and crustaceans are still appropriate for anticipating the arrival of the Child.
Then specifically about mussels, as food. Posted in Language and food , Language in advertising , Linguistics in the comics , Understanding comics Leave a Comment ». Meanwhile, December 13th on the Christian religious calendar is St. Yes, people have told me that my religious education is somewhat spotty. In any case, the Daily Jocks people are recognizing the days of Commercial Christmas with what looks like a Man Meat of the Day for each of the 12 days, beginning with the, um, boxboy I called Joey when he turned up last year as the DJ offering for Boxing Day.
Now promoted to the inaugural position in the season of commercial excess, Joey appears again in his Santa hat, red party socks, and blindingly new basketball shoes underwear models and gay porn stars nearly always appear in brand-new athletic shoes — or spiffy boots — whatever else they fail to be be wearing. Joey is quite free about displaying and offering his delicious body, so that some of what follows is not for the sexually naive or the sexually modest.
