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Kate Beaton’s Take on “Macbeth”

Earlier, I pointed you to comic artist Kate Beaton’s take on The Great Gatsby. Here’s her latest comic, which does the same wonderful job on Macbeth:

Kate Beaton's comic, "The Scottish Play"

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Basic Catching Positions

1970s guys in a very 1970s outfit demostrating the "thumbs-down catch" and the "thumbs-up catch"

My question is: “Catching positions for what?” Volleyball? Things thrown from an upstairs window? Stage-diving characters from a production of Godspell or Jesus Christ Superstar?

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I’m Calling It That From Now On

The question was raised on FOX affiliate WNYW’s news program: If you can’t call stuff like soy milk, rice milk, almond milk and so on “milk”, what should you call it? Anchor Greg Kelly didn’t think that “soy juice” sounded right, so his co-anchor Rosanna Scotto came up with a better suggestion:

I don’t like soy milk, so I think that Ms. Scotto’s suggested name is right on the money.

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Which Action Movie Should You See?

Given the bounty of action films coming out this summer, you might not know which one to watch. Let this flowchart help you decide:

"Which Action Movie Should You See?" flowchart

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Live Long and Shocker

Leonard Nimoy and some dude making the "shocker" hand sign

I don’t think Leonard Nimoy has any idea what that hand gesture [beware, raunchy content] means. The dude on the right scores major bragging points for this photo.

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SAYLER!

White Ford Fiesta with "SAYLER" spelled on its hood in black duct tape

Sometimes you’re so devoted to a band that you forget how to spell its name.

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Kate Beaton’s Scenes from “The Great Gatsby”

Halifax-based Kate Beaton draws funny historical comics at her site, Hark, a Vagrant! In her latest comic, she pokes fun at one of my all-time favourite novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby:

Kate Beaton's comics spoofing "The Great Gatsby"