Frog Applause by Teresa Dowlatshahi
- July 29, 2009
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"Frog Applause reminds one of learning to read, in the sense that each word in the captions seems 'surprising' and new. Teresa's writing takes one back to that fresh state of mind (typical of, but of course not limited to, childhood) in which the brain, free of preconceptions, doesn't 'fill in' any blind spots along the way but rather wholly embraces the present moment as it unfolds. Every sentence is literally an imagination-expanding adventure." — Craig Conley, author of One-Letter Words: A Dictionary (HarperCollins)
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Comments (19) Jump to Comments Form
Margueritem
said,
3 months ago
Hm-mmmmmm
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago
I know matter what; fahther what, too….
D-i-c-e-R said, 3 months ago
Yesterday – butterfly & muskrat love.
Today – robot love.
Robot Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqLIl6-1ZEU
human vs. machine
emotion vs. logic
freewill vs. destiny
true love vs. unconditional love
reality vs. fantasy
ego vs. id
Must override core love programming with higher level logic. A human is greater than the sum of it’s parts. Is love what makes us human?
frogapplause
said,
3 months ago
Yikes. What an embarrassing typo. I’m tempted to correct my careless error and replace today’s abomination…but then, I’d deprive my readers of the opportunity to ridicule me.
Gweedo Murray said, 3 months ago
Harcourt Fenton Mudd…..
D-i-c-e-R said, 3 months ago
@frogapplause Your only human.
hank197857
said,
3 months ago
frog, we’ll do that regardless. … no charge.
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago
Given the character of your strip, Teresa, I thought it was intentional. Really!
sandboil said, 3 months ago
I can’t stop playing with Teresa’s bubblewrap!!!
coltish1 said, 3 months ago
Somebody’s going to ship Teresa? Okay, as long as she can still to the strip.
4deerinmyyard
said,
3 months ago
Teresa, seriously, I thought it was a deliberate pun, supposed to make us run through deep philosophical thoughts about knowing what matters ‘n’ stuff; you coulda bluffed it out. :-D
Anyway, I consider that sort of error a “typo”; and I consider typos to be acts of God.
Saucy1121 said, 3 months ago
No, not a typo. Keyboard gremlin.
Doctor Toon
said,
3 months ago
If I had one of those a year ago I would never have left the house.
boozoothatswho said, 3 months ago
Cherry 2000.
Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago
All eye no is, eye have know idea watt you’re talking about…
( the scary thing is, this would pass spell check, if there was one here)
3hourtour said, 3 months ago
editors are evil…know matter waht
Ray C
said,
3 months ago
It’s actually a homonymo. I do it all the time. Sometimes you hear a word in your head and it comes out of your fingers, only it’s the homonym.
A typo would be “ni matter what…” where your finger hits the wrong key.
A homonymo is just your fingers not agreeing with your mind. Probably happens only to reasonably nimble typists, who don’t need to think about the keys but just “let their fingers do the walking.”
Now, if Teresa penned the word rather than typed it, well…my theory is blown to bits (and so is the excuse I’ve offered her).
4deerinmyyard
said,
3 months ago
Just replacing one word, and then repeating all of the same lyrics other than that one word, does not qualify as filking.
MemoFromDaddyWarbucks said, 3 months ago
Chuckie’s filk is just a casual attempt. I am sure he could do better if he gave more than 10 minutes on it. But you ask 6 filkers this question and you’re guaranteed to get 22 answers. All different.
And Teresa, this FILKING came from a typo, an erroneous version of the word “folk”, as in “folk music”, so maybe your typo will have life of its own.