Category Archives: arts

to paint the sky

Alexander Calder and Braniff Airways — a page about Calder’s airplane paintings. Here’s something I find odd: Four Models were painted, but before two of the models could be finished, Alexander Calder died in 1976. Out of respect to the … Continue reading

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NINA not missed here

With Al Hirschfeld gone, where will TV Guide turn for amazingly hideous portraits?

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new at ogre.nu

My newest page is a list of links to my favorite comic strips.

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so near and so far

Culture clash comics.

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Sunnydalish

Can you speak Buffy? Now the witty diction of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been accorded the academic respect that it deserves in Professor Michael Adams’s Slayer Slang (Oxford University Press). Under headings such as ‘The Attraction of Prefixes’ and … Continue reading

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The Wrath of Servalan

Is it too good to be true? Is it too true to be good? Watch out for Blake’s 7: The Next Generation — well okay it’s really called A Rebellion Reborn.)

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well, he’s got the Newspeak thing

Daniel Kurtzman: Learning to love Big Brother / George W. Bush channels George Orwell

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