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  1. "Weird Al" Yankovic is a multiple #GrammyAward-winning American musician, #satirist, #parodist, #accordionist, #director, television producer, and author. He is known in particular for humorous #songs which make fun of popular culture or parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts, or both. His works have earned him three #gold and five #platinumRecords in the U.S.
    youtube.com/watch?v=WSD3brpn2nE

  2. #publishing #satire #humor #literature #essay #comedy #fun #book #satirist #essayist No swearing is as effective as humor. People who read my satirical novels burst out laughing, but when they recover, they become hostile towards me because they think I'm making fun of them.

  3. Good Morning

    6 years ago today Wiglaf Droste died.

    As a satirist, novelist, songwriter, author, publicist, he knew how to expose with the sharpest of blades

    #author #satirist #politics #unmask

  4. A quotation from Horace

    But he that touches me, (hands off! I cry, —
    Avaunt, and at your peril come not nigh!)
    Shall for his pains be chaunted up and down,
    The jest and byeword of a chuckling Town.
     
                                            [At ille,
    Qui me conmorit (melius non tangere, clamo),
    Fiebit et insignis tota cantabitur urbe.]

    Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 1, “Sunt quibus in Satira,” l. 44ff (2.2.44-46) (30 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/14901/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #derision #mockery #retaliation #retribution #ridicule #satire #satirist #scorn #threat #warning