Category Archives: Literary Lyricism

The music in great literature, or great literature adapted to music.

Battle for my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on January 25, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

You’re now in the very contemporary art section of the museum… And we’re back with another installment of my un-winning entries for the New Yorker cartoon caption entries. Well, un-winning according to the contest, but my husband chuckles at them. … Continue reading →

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Conquest of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on December 16, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

A mustang in a Mustang? The 12th installment of the series, continuing to lift its titles from the Planet of the Apes movies. You can find links to the other 11 in Literary Lyricism category. The vegetarian tofu meatballs option … Continue reading →

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Tell-Tale’s Original Script?

Posted on November 25, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

When a very faithful adaptation gets an award for originality… Recently my first Edgar Allan Poe musical short film adaptation “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” received an award for Best Original Screenplay from the East Village New York Film … Continue reading →

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Escape from my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on October 18, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

Cy was a bit of a bore, and Rothko rather withholding, but that Jackson, now he had a mind, he was fascinating, if out of his gourd… The 11th installment in the cartoon caption series (find all the others here). … Continue reading →

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Kingdom of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on September 6, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

Well, that’s one way to spin the data… This is the 10th installment of my own personal New Yorker Cartoon captions (easiest way to find all the others is to click on the Literary Lyricism category). It’s also the fourth … Continue reading →

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At the OSCAR WILDE

Posted on August 11, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

Ed and I treated ourselves to a tasty meal in the even tastier restaurant, the Oscar Wilde, on 45 West 27th Street in Manhattan. “A Public Place for Private Affairs”. The name of the restaurant may be Oscar Wilde, but … Continue reading →

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War of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on July 29, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

We’re testing Schrödinger’s Waffles The ninth installment of my ongoing series of New Yorker Cartoon caption hopefuls. The third in which I mine the Planet of the Apes movies for post sequel titles… … and how does THIS make you … Continue reading →

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Ruin a Band Name By Changing One Letter

Posted on June 23, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

The Polite The Boors The Cute The Rolling Scones The Beach Bots Supercramp Tears for Pears Thompson Twigs Stye Piss Van Haven The Why Yet The Why W2 Sample songs: Excuse Me For Standing So Close To You (The Polite) … Continue reading →

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Dawn of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on June 15, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

Looks like the food court is far far away … I keep trying… (More here, here, here, here, here, here and here) The elephant in the room went into early retirement. Get back to me when it flies.

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Rise of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on April 18, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

This is the seventh installment. I’m beginning to run out of obvious sequel titles. Time to go the Planet of the Apes route. That should do me for the next four or five… Contest #892 Yes, it’s called Thesaurus. But … Continue reading →

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Attack of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on March 10, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

The 6th installment of my submissions to the New Yorker Magazine cartoon captioning contest. My streak of not being chosen as a finalist continues unabated! … got a little political with that one.

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Revenge of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on January 15, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

And we’re back, for a fifth installment of my never-a-finalist New Yorker cartoon caption contest submissions. Well, the jury is still out on finalist status of my last two submissions. I’ll update if one of them gets chosen. But don’t hold your … Continue reading →

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Bride of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on November 21, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

I know I only just posted the third installment of my New Yorker Cartoon caption entries, but I already have six more lined up, having been submitting much more regularly lately, and not being chosen as a finalist just as … Continue reading →

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Son of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on November 1, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Well you know what they say about trilogies: the third installment is always the best in the series, right? Look up the first and second installments of my unselected New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest submissions here and here. I had … Continue reading →

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Return of my own personal NEW YORKER CARTOON captions

Posted on August 8, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

And we’re back! The New Yorker chose not to include any of my first six suggestions as a finalist in their “make up your own cartoon caption” contest. And they haven’t chosen any of these either. So the sequel apparently … Continue reading →

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Ruin 12 Operas with 1 Letter

Posted on July 10, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

La Triviata Famous beauty ruins her lungs while playing Trivial Pursuit. CARMEX The Habanera declares that “L’Ipgloss est un oiseau rebel” when beeswax falls for menthol who then runs away with camphor. The Magic Klute After surviving the Fire and … Continue reading →

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