Star Trek Into Darkness
Less a classic "Star Trek" adventure than a Star Trek-flavored action flick, shot in the frenzied, handheld, cut-cut-cut style that’s become Hollywood’s norm, director J.J.…
Many of my losing entries in the New Yorker's daunting Cartoon Caption Contest
It has become a ritual for me to enter the New Yorker's weekly Cartoon Caption Contest. I won only once, long ago in April 2011, and the magazine's cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff, wrote a blog about that. In his blog he included three of my losing submissions he enjoyed...and one that was too tumescent, perhaps, to get past the magazine's board of editors. I believe that one (above) was the funniest I've ever submitted. But look over these losers and I'll link Mankoff's blog down at the bottom
Go here for Robert Mankoff's blog.
And click here to enter this week's contest.
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