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The Milderness
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Lotus, c. 1600 - 1625 from Zhengyen Hu [Ten Bamboos Studio] #China (Rijksmuseum)
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Kintaro Judging the Wrestling Match of a Monkey and a Bear, by Kitao Shigemasa, 1772-1774
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Mechanical Tortoise With Triton Rider. 1600-1650 (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
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On this cold rainy night, people sitting on stools are enjoying hot noodles and sake in this cosy lantern-lit roadside booth (Tomikichiro Tokuriki’s woodblock print ‘Noodle Restaurant on A Rainy Night’ (1951)
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Blondie’s maiden name, Boopadoop, nods to a real Jazz Age singing fad: “boop-a-doop,” a playful scat-style vocal popular in the 1920s–early ’30s. Betty Boop is the best-known survivor of this flirty, nonsense-syllable singing. 🎶
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ALT Clipping of a panel from the November 27th, 1930 Blondie strip in which a newspaper item declares Blondie and heiress and gives her maiden name as Blondie Boopadoop. A portait of Blondie accompanies the text.
