Humor – Star Bear Publications

Pawis Review of WA

Posted on February 27, 2019April 12, 2019 by michelledevilliersart

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The arc of the Feline universe bends towards purrloin.

Additional reader’s comment:
Your book brought to mind William Golding’s novel Pincher Martin.”

Classic Satura

Posted on September 8, 2016 by michelledevilliersart

You can now get the classic satura that is The Star Bear Odyssey in print too. Such amazonian sartorial elegance!

Eggheads

Posted on January 18, 2016 by michelledevilliersart

SB1 &SB3, looking good after thirty years!

SB coins a Deepity

Posted on December 10, 2015 by michelledevilliersart

2015-12-10 10.46.13

‘Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? No. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force’ of nature, and a powerful ally it is. Help it needs though.
―apologies: Yoda, to Luke Skywalker

Belly Button Bacteria

Posted on December 5, 2015 by michelledevilliersart

h/t: In the hunt for new antibiotics, the genius of simplicity, by Carl Zimmer on STAT;

Über-Cultured

Posted on August 28, 2014 by michelledevilliersart

Meanwhile, back at the museum: A Belly Button Culture Event

(H/T to Belly Button Biodiversity)

Logo Lullaby

Posted on August 6, 2014August 7, 2014 by michelledevilliersart

Tunny Tardigrade sings a Bedtime Lullaby

You can add a logo to your WordPress site, not yet on the Twenty-Ten theme, but maybe soon. So, I was thinking about logos and their implications, when I came across this rather well-done short movie via The Browser: Logorama (Some swearing):

Logorama from Marc Altshuler – Human Music on Vimeo.

(There are many depictions of logos for famous scientists, if they had to brand themselves, too. You can google it.)

The Michelin Man bears a faint resemblance to StarBear…the Michelline water bear! She’s much more attractive, of course.

So, on the mind meanders and brings a memory of Luciferous Logolepsy, where the word for a ten-legged Polar bear caught my eye. You can spend many an interesting minute on Google books looking at many (1930 results!) of the fantastical Native American myths around the qoqoqiak/kiniq/kukuweaq/kukuiak, etc. If you look up kuku/koko in the Urban Dictionary, you will see that it should be used with forbearance. StarBear is an eight-legger, and does share a forebear with the polar bear on the TimeTree.

(At gym we do a polar bear walk which is very tiring.)

Coming back to branding. The word ‘brand’ reminds me of a second year course I took in English literature, when the cultural wasteland of my then-current employment was driving me scatty. In the final test we had to analyze what I thought was a poem called Dollar Brand. In my over-excited exam state I analyzed the living bejeezus out of the metaphor of consumerism, only realizing afterwards with hot-faced embarrasment that it was the poet’s name, not the poem’s title. I got excellent marks though.

StarBear, the précis of pyrrhic passion, is a logo already. Moss piglets and moss go together like peanut butter and jelly, or like water bears and moskonfyt, if you will…though the mos in moskonfyt refers to the must of (sweet-, not those metaphorically sour-!) grapes. Which reminded me of another great video, discovered via NPR: