Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for March 27, 2012

I think he is infected with some sort of blob-like alien.

and strangely underlined and partially bold.

Getting far-end tethered can do that to a guy.

You just know that Brooke McEldowney has this book.

Turkey has a teen girl magazine? Google Translate makes this one easy to figure out.

Feather that font!

Nice zettai ryouiki.

The tar is there. Where are the feathers?

Eileen?

Tarred for life by his public humiliation, seen wearing nothing but polka-dotted hot pink boxers and a couple of globs of hot black goo, poor blighter!

Can’t believe he’s standing there in front of everyone, sans serif.

Based on the WW I board game’s images, I’d guess it was printed between September 1914 and mid-1915. St. Petersburg was renamed Petrograd on August 31, 1914, so that’s the earliest possible date. The armored car looks like the sort of Rolls Royce that was mounted with a rear-facing machine gun for use in late 1914. The aerial images are interesting for what they don’t show. The airplanes collide but don’t shoot at one another; dogfighting didn’t get going until late spring 1915. The Zeppelin isn’t dropping bombs, much less going down in flames; Zeppelin raids were feared from the start of the war, but the first bombing raid wasn’t until January 1915 and the first Zeppelin wasn’t downed until May 1915. (There’s no imagery for gas, either, which started in April 1915, and Italy isn’t a player [entered the war in mid-1915]).

He seems to be leaning toward tar and feathers. -Wait? Is he on a beach in his BVDs?-Oh! Oh! I know … he’s a walking book title.

Should we knock loudly at your home in Yakutat, Teresa? Will you be home?

In British, “schedule” can mean a list or catalog. A scheduled poison would be a substance catalogued as a poison.

i like italicized meatball sandwiches…

Italicized by tar or ink. It’s a good look on him, bit it’s not for everybody.

Boy, Vlad has had a busy start to 2012. His hit list broke his record for maming and the year isn’t quite a quarter over yet.

Arch Stanton, Come OnOddly it took me 3:48 to post this

I dunno, WWVD sounds more like something you need protection against than a slogan. Of course if you’ve done something to rile Vlad…

I passed out many of these on the streets of New York when I was in 5th or 6th grades. We’d go down to the CD preparedness center and look at all the radiation suit, gas masks, food storage and mockup shelters, and then go around on the streets distributing these cards to passers-by. “Take one of these, Sir, it may save your life!”

Demoralized and italicized? The story of my life.

Well, he’s covered with goop, so…

I would kill for a mobile coop like that. We’ve got three hens and that would be perfect for our yard.

There is a complete sequence of portraits by Chris Rush here.

@LafInLarry: Come onThanks for the tune. Its been a while since I’ve heard that one.