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Entries from January 2024

Bilingual Acrostic Rebus

January 23rd, 2024 · 2 Comments

A puzzle for the readers of Typo, slated for the fifth issue. To get you started, the first four letters are LONG.

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Tags: *Cartoons · B

The Rat Wins!

January 16th, 2024 · No Comments

The Rat Wins! is now available from Black Scat Books! Writer Lucien Descaves and illustrator Lucien Laforge were anarchist activists dismayed by World War I. They cooked up this mordant little satire, pointing out that the real winner of any war is the rat, who feasts on all the corpses–with the suggestion that war profiteers […]

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Tags: *Words · R

Iffiness in the Offing

January 9th, 2024 · No Comments

Some free-flowing piano music…

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Tags: *Music · *Music for Keyboard · I

TYPO 4

January 2nd, 2024 · No Comments

TYPO 4 is now available from Black Scat Books! I contributed an article on typos of the word “typo” (“Typo’s Typos”) and a translation of “Cubist Tale” by Gabriel de Lautrec. My fellow contributors are Tim Newton Anderson, Michael Betancourt, David Brizer, Steve Carll, Norman Conquest, Farewell Debut, R J Dent, Jesse Glass, Reinhard Goering, […]

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Tags: *Words · T