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Typo of the day: Tuhursday (for an intended Thursday). Easily fixed, but now I’m wondering who Tuhur was.

Mr. Internet tells me it’s a Sundanese word meaning “dry”. Maybe Tuhur was the archenemy of that Wonder Twin who turned into water?

Screenshot of an old Super Friends cartoon. The image shows a bucket of water with a face imprinted on the water.

Mirrored from Ambrose & Elsewhere.

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A cartoon from an old (1927-vintage) issue of The New Yorker. It made me smile, even though it’s probably supposed to appeal to class and ethnic biases.

Cartoon of a shop window for "J.M. Dumkupf—Plumber".The window displays a version of the Hellenistic statue group of Laocoön and his sons being consumed by snakes, except in this version the snakes are serpentime pipes.The caption: "on beautifying the city."
cartoon by O. Soglow (?) in The New Yorker issue for Sept 17, 1927

“Look, my dear friend Amaryllis Partington-Smith-Symythe-Vanderbilt-Smythington-Smyth–a banausic of foreign abstraction, decorating his shop-window with classical statuary! Très amusant!”

“Wasn’t your dad a fruit-peddler named Rabinowicz?”

“SHUT UP, YOU WHORE!”

Mirrored from Ambrose & Elsewhere.

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In my ceaseless quest to avoid useful work, I recently opened up an old magazine from my double-stacked shelves of old sf/f zines, this one being the January 1963 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

“This is good,” I said to myself. “I’m very successfully avoiding work. But how can I extend this evasion successfully into the future?”

There being no one else there, I was forced to respond: “I have access to the issues for that whole year, in physical and or electronic form. I could read and write reviews of them all!”

So that’s what this is.

The cover of F&SF for January 1963. Listed on the cover is “Speakeasy: a new novel by Mack Reynolds.” Other authors named are L. Sprage de Camp, frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, and Henry Slesar.The cover painting by Emsh depicts a young man and woman wearing futuristic clothing in a high-tech environment. The man has a drink in front of him and is looking away to his left; on his right, the young woman is whispering something in his ear.
Ed Emshwiller is the artist; the art illustrates
Mack Reynolds’ novella “Speakeasy”
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Mirrored from Ambrose & Elsewhere.

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