Word: pinhead
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When a crowd armed with donuts and taco sauce gathered at the San Francisco Chronicle's office last Thursday, they were prepared for spicy, sugary violence over the loss of their favorite daily comic strip. A reader poll had shown Bill Griffith's "Zippy the Pinhead" to be unpopular despite having first appeared as a daily in San Francisco over fifteen years ago. Had the city changed so much that it could no longer tolerate the strip's non-conformist structure and idiosyncratic ramblings? Most of America doesn't understand "Zippy," the best daily comic strip printed today. Here...
...Zippy Annual 2001" eliminate that prejudice. But to me, Bill Griffith's art works best in the absurd and sad context of daily news. In fact, the San Francisco protesters had their fury appeased when the comics page editor announced to the crowed the re-instatement of "Zippy the Pinhead." Following a brief "huzzah" the protesters, in true Zippy spirit, reportedly began shouting "Cancel Zippy...
More meaningful to me are the repetitious mumblings of Zippy the Pinhead in the like-titled strip by Bill Griffith. "Zippy Annual" (Fantagraphics Books, October) collects the last year's-worth of this razor-sharp cultural critique and nonsense strip...
...cell types that make up a human being. That opened the door to remarkable possibilities, including replacement cells for malfunctioning pancreases, injured spinal cords and plaque-clogged brains. It also brought stern warnings. Though the sacrificed embryos were no more than hollow, pinhead-size clusters of a few dozen cells, destroying them for whatever purpose represented, in the mind of many antiabortion conservatives, an assault on a human life...
Such are the disappointments of this, the Olympics' biggest unofficial sport. But win, lose or draw, at least Falcao and his pinhead friends can console themselves with the prospect of a few thousand more tiny medals...