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Seth Brown
@risingpun.bsky.social
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Freelance writer/humor columnist/sushi enthusiast

National Press Club's 2024 Angele Gingras Humor Award winner

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The other month we had a frog visitor and it was great:
a tiny frog gripping the outside of a screen window, photo from the inside you see underside of frog with splayed digits just sorta hangin' there on the window with a white belly and brownish legs and little frog fingers, pretty adorable really.
October 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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The best explanation of this I ever saw was a webcomic 14 years ago from Shortpacked:
Webcomic (from Shortpacked) where a comics book dude says, "I'm tired of you griping that CHICKS in comic books are sexually objectified! The DUDES are too! They're impossibly muscled hulks!" The woman replies, "Being a big impossibly-muscled hulk is a male power fantasy. It has jack to do with what a female such as myself finds attractive." She picks up a sketchpad and continues, "Let me show you what I mean. If I'm gonna get the hots for Batman he has to be built for DEXTERITY, not power. Let's make him more lean... seeing his eyes is important, they should be large and intense. Let's throw in some rosy cheeks and kissable lips." She then displays her female-gaze batman, a slenderish big-eyed pouty-lipped Batman who looks ready for kisses and cuddles more than combat. Comic books dude says, "Th-that art makes me feel uncomfortable." Woman replies, "Welcome to the background radiation of my life."
July 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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a) there's no "out-prosing" here; I'm all about the "two cakes" perspective (see image)

b) I wrote last week's (rhyming) column before RFK's latest spate of awful announcements so it doesn't mention him by name but you might appreciate it anyway:
www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/colu...
A two panel comic, the first showing a sad artist placing their cake next to a larger fancier cake and commenting with disappointment, "aw man, that guy's cake is way better than mine". The second panel shows an eager and appreciative fork-wielding audience saying, "Holy shit! Two cakes!", clearly enthusiastic and delighted to have twice as much deliciousness to consume.
April 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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penguin with terrifying open maw pointed directly at the camera, much larger and scarier than seems reasonable for such an adorable little bird friend
November 6, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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Looks even better during the rally with people standing in front of it:
August 8, 2024 at 5:47 PM