Category: Humor

Funny things

Collars

I think this photoshopped pic is hilarious, making visual allusions not only to the plastic hood of the witch’s sleigh, but also to her wardrobe with its immense fur hoods and the wide collar of her ice-blue gown.

Have you seen this cat?

This pic was from an ad campaign for the North Caroline Zoo. But it could be applied to Aslan as well … and one’s faith if you want to go meta.

The Lion, the Witch, and the IKEA Wardrobe

Cartoon by Andrew Birch. It wrote itself, don’t you think?

Tolkien vs. Lewis: Allegories

Webcomic by R. E. Parrish, who also did last Spring’s Tolkien world creation one.

Passing Obsessions 5-25

Fluffy Summer supplement insert for The Chicago Times contains a list of books generated by ChatGPT, and only two of them are real! Among them, Taylor Jenkins Reid’s (writer of Daisy Jones and the Six) fake novel The Collector’s Piece, about “a reclusive art collector and the journalist determined to uncover the truth behind his …

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A Court of Tiddies and Ass

So I was reading A Court of Tiddies and Ass, and I absolutely hated every dreadful second of it. Should I read the follow-up, A Court of Dongs and Thongs? To be clear, I just hated the first book on every level; the characters, the story, the prose, even the font on the cover of …

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Dungies and Dragons

I saw someone wearing a tshirt with this design and thought it was hilarious! The “dungie” refers to the Dungeness crab at the lower left, which are renowned as a delicacy in the Pacific Northwest. The artist’s name is Ray Troll. He’s a native Alaskan known for his unique style and scientific accuracy of the …

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Smaug the not so great and often terrible.

Today comes one the crueler parts of Tolkien March/April — mocking Smaug! Of The Hobbit fame. He’s been depicted many times over the years, and in my judgement most of the artwork has been appropriate for the story and, in many cases, superlative. But many renditions fall short in depicting the giant reptile’s majesty and …

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