Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts
Friday, July 28, 2017

FFStories: Mickey Spillane Parodies and Pastiches by Jean Kerr, Fritz Leiber and Howard Browne

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Three stories this week that are meant to be parodic pastiches of Mickey Spillane, at least in part. I'd first read all these before I...
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Friday, July 7, 2017

FFB: PULLING OUR OWN STRINGS: FEMINIST HUMOR & SATIRE edited by Gloria Kaufman and Mary Kay Blakely (Indiana University Press 1980)

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This 1980 volume somewhat unsurprisingly gathers materials from the 1970s and earlier...one might be surprised by the eclecticism of thos...
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Saturday, May 21, 2016

retail spaces which are gone...

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Courtesy Amelia G : photo by Miguel Angel Batraz:
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Friday, December 11, 2015

Recent television in some of the less traveled pathways...

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The Man in the High Castle (Amazon) Midtown (TuffTV broadcast/Amazon streaming) Everyone's Crazy But Us (Funny or Die/YouTube stream...
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Monday, June 1, 2015

SCTV (1976-1984): not quite as overlooked a fictional television network

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The Second City , the improvisational comedy troupe which has helped groom an impressive lot (to put it mildly) of comic actors and standups...
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Friday, April 17, 2015

FFB/S: "Super Whost" by Margaret St. Clair and why it matters...

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Margaret St. Clair, despite admirers much better-known than myself including Ramsey Campbell and Martin H. Greenberg, remains stubbornly u...
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Monday, March 30, 2015

The Parts Left Out: THE REALIST and the Larger Culture

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The beginnings of an entry in Earl Kemp and Luis Ortiz's Cult Magazines that I didn't have the wherewithal to put in the form I...
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Friday, June 7, 2013

FFB: funny papers: some humor and satire in prose and comics (from 5 years of reviews)

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Reviewed (to one degree or another) below: Nelson Algren's Own Book of Lonesome Monsters (edited by Algren) Bennett Cerf's Housefu...
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