Riffing

BOOK: Riffing on Greek myth with a feminist take on Alcestis, the silent good wife who took her husband's death and was rescued by Hercules.

In Conclusion, I Hate You All karenhealey 2010

Riffing on both the art and sports worlds, McDonough has attempted to convert the white box gallery into a den of beer pong and Coors Light: Our Nation's Moldy Basement.

Art review: 'Patrick McDonough: reck room' at Flashpoint Jessica Dawson 2010

Riffing on the “Universal” in Universal health care.

Is ABC's 'V' anti-Obama? Let the debate begin! | EW.com 2009

Riffing on Chicago losing the 2016 Olympics to crime-plagued, sun-worshiping Rio de Janiero, Williams said: "They're going to have to make kidnapping and waxing Olympic events."

In '09, humor and satire fell by the wayside 2009

Jaywalking vs copyright infringement p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P: - Riffing on a recent TechDirt post on different views of copyright, “one of our commenters has written up a blog post for Dvorak. org [from whence came the great pic on the right] discussing how hard it is to not infringe on copyrights, noting that the original system was not built for a digital world,” says Mike Masnick, quoting the item thus »»»

Jaywalking vs copyright infringement 2009

Riffing on the conceit that the Bard originally composed in Klingon ( "You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon," a character famously pronounced in the film "Star Trek VI"), actors from the extraterrestrial version periodically broke character to tell the English-language actors that the transliterations were inaccurate.

Theater Review: Washington Shakespeare Company's evening of the Bard in Klingon Celia Wren 2010

Riffing even further into education – Arguably, a successful educator teaches to a learning style rather expecting students to learn to a teaching style.

inkblurt · Why We Just Don’t Get It 2009

Riffing off of Xeni's excellent post about Omega Recoil I wanted to bring your attention to the Electrum, the world's largest Tesla Coil.

Boing Boing 2009

Riffing on artistic "styles" as diverse as the portraiture of Diego Velázquez and Jean-Dominique Ingres, the Surrealism of Yves Tanguy and Giorgio de Chirico, Francisco de Goya's grotesques, Giuseppe Arcimboldo's absurdist figures and Pablo Picasso's Rose period, Cubism and classicism (as well as Sesame Street and Looney Tunes), Mr. Condo (b. 1957) produces a clownish mishmash of masters and pop culture.

Mind Games for the Surreal Lance Esplund 2011

Riffing off the headlines above, CAP's Matthew Yglesias declared that "52% of Republicans think Obama probably wants to impose worldwide Islamic law," a statement echoed by Markos Moulitsas.

Joshua Treviño: Why the President's Partisans Talk Down Islam 2010