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Parting Thoughts
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Parting Thoughts

Today’s Sunday cartoon, above, is from a time when Moses was younger than the gray-haired, Charlton Heston version so many folks are familiar with.

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WTF?
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

WTF?

Today’s Sunday cartoon (above) is a nod to cartoon cursing. “Cross words,” of course, can be interpreted as words used when you are angry, and when a cartoon character uses profanity, it is commonly represented by a series of unpronounceable typographical symbols like, @#%!

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Pulting Things
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Pulting Things

If you’re from the west coast, you’re probably making that face that everyone made whom I told that to: eyes wide open, mouth in the shape of a big O as though I’d just said I’d never bathed.

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Shrinkage
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Shrinkage

Good Monday, Jazz Pickles. I usually write & post these blog entries on Sunday but Olive Oyl and I were traveling yesterday. We’ve snuck back into the U.S. to visit family and they are not very amenable to…

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Ventrilomime
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Ventrilomime

What do you get if you combine the vaudevillian skills of ventriloquism and miming? I’ll be honest…

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Mobs and Monsters
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Mobs and Monsters

Happy (nearly) Halloween and Day of the Dead, Jazz Pickles. Though they are related, there are fundamental differences between the U.S. holiday of Halloween and that of Dia de Los Muertos in Mexico…

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Snow-do
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Snow-do

Hello and welcome. Today’s essay is about my interest in psychedelic substances.

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Say My Name
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Say My Name

Bienvenidos, amigos y Pepinillos de Jazz. First on the agenda today is a hearty thanks from my buddy, Dave, about whom I wrote in my previous post last week…

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Spudmouth
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Spudmouth

Saludos, Jazz Pickles. I hope you’ve had a good week. Mine included celebrating my birthday. Thus far, I’ve been having a birthday once a year but I think I may do it less frequently. It seems to be making me older a little faster than I’d prefer…

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Adjusting Expectations
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Adjusting Expectations

Since I’m actively trying to learn a second language, people often tell me that watching Mexican TV can be a good way to learn Spanish. Your results may vary, but I have not found that to be true at all for several reasons. The first is that Mexican TV…

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A Little Help
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

A Little Help

Olive Oyl and I have a couple of good things to report this week. For starters, we adopted a terrific dog that we’ve fallen in love with.

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Has Bizarro Been Canceled?
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Has Bizarro Been Canceled?

Wayno and I have received numerous emails from readers this week about Bizarro having disappeared from their local newspaper. Sadly, it is true.

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Snowflakes
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Snowflakes

Since much of the Bizarro-reading world is still baking in the heat of another routine climate-change summer, or, as some Republicans are still calling it, “an extremely convincing and deadly hoax,” I thought you might enjoy a refreshing snow cartoon…

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Captions Courageous
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Captions Courageous

Today’s Sunday Bizarro cartoon is one of those that rewards careful readers. It is also a testament to how changing one letter in a familiar phrase can completely change its meaning and lead to a chuckle.

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Three Puzzlers
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Three Puzzlers

Today’s Sunday cartoon (above) is perhaps the tenth or twelfth edition of this unusual word puzzle format that my good friend, Cliff Harris The King of Wordplay devised. SPOILER ALERT: The answers to the three puzzles above are in bold at the end of this little mini-essay.

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Smorgasbord of Support
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Smorgasbord of Support

I’m thoroughly convinced that time is an illusion but somehow, within that illusion, my eldest daughter will turn 40 this coming week. That has put me in a reflective mood so as I type, I’ve no idea where this post is going to go today.

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Seedy Customer
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Seedy Customer

This week’s Sunday cartoon (above) says it has 11 Secret Symbols but I just created an answer key for it and I see that it has 12. Sorry about that.

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Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

The Mudpig's Tale

Thanks to everyone who has sent condolences in the last few days. They are much appreciated. I mentioned in my brief weekly cartoon post a few days ago that I might tell the story and here it is.

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Twenty Somethings
Dan Piraro Dan Piraro

Twenty Somethings

Bienvenue, Pickles de Jazz. (French!)Thanks for stopping by. I’ve decided to start a new feature today, which will mean a little more work for me but we’ll see how it goes.

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