David Friedman

1 week ago | ironicsans.ghost.io | David Friedman

This is the iconic cover of Bob Dylan’s 1963 album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan featuring Bob and his girlfriend Suze Rotolo:These are some comic book illustrations that resemble the album cover:I pulled these from the Facebook group Comics Swipes, where comics obsessives share instances of when a comic book artist references, makes homage, or sometimes just blatantly copies another artist’s work. Here’s an example of a comic swipe:Sometimes a swipe is just a single panel or pose.

1 week ago | ironicsans.ghost.io | David Friedman

This week, I bring you a variety of Things To Look At.So without further ado, look at these:Look At An Episode of Bewitched That Was Written By A High School English ClassThink back. Do you remember that there was an episode of Bewitched that had Darren and Tabitha in blackface? It was a special episode about race, and was written by a class of Black students at a South Los Angeles high school where most kids were reading and writing below grade level — many at a third grade reading level.

1 week ago | ironicsans.ghost.io | David Friedman

We’re just a few days away from Pi Day, the unofficial holiday celebrating the mathematical constant π, representing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Pi is irrational. It goes on forever without repeating. And it begins with 3.14, which is why it’s celebrated on March 14th. It’s a fun nerdy thing to celebrate. But for me, Pi Day has a much deeper meaning that changed the way I approach being creative on the internet. I think about it every year.

1 week ago | ironicsans.ghost.io | David Friedman

Well, the holiday season is officially here and if you have kids, they probably have at least two days off school this week for Thanksgiving. Then winter break is coming up. With all that time off school, how can you, a responsible parent, sneak extra lessons into their day? By showing them scenes from movies that take place in classrooms, of course!Okay maybe you don’t have kids. And kids deserve to relax during the holidays. But I needed an introduction to the newsletter. Just go with it.

1 week ago | ironicsans.ghost.io | David Friedman

For obvious reasons, we’re in the suckiest timeline now. If only things had gone a different way at some point in the past — if the hanging chads had hung differently, if Howard Dean hadn’t screamed so close to the mic, if someone hadn’t stepped on a particular butterfly — we would be in a totally different reality now.