“Live in a way that people don’t burst into applause when your name gets peeled off a building.” ~ Unknown
puck again?
On Saturday last, Stacy and I got to Midway in time to see the R. J. Corman train come through. Of course, I stood as close as possible, just snapping away. Today, I noticed the graffiti in this shot, where the name Puck appears. A nod to yesterday’s newspaper post of the same name? I doubt it. I can’t make out the second word on the train graffiti. As far as I can tell, “Puck” in German is the same as in English. Puck. But what does it mean in regard to news? A simple Google search returns Puck as an American news source, launched in 2021, that employs journalists from a variety of well-known, well-respected newspapers and magazines, focused on politics and social commentary. However, our Puck illustrated newspaper (though called a magazine) began in 1876 in German, but within a year was publishing in English and competing with Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper and Harper’s, both of which were extremely successful in their day. Like the modern internet Puck, all of these rags carried the usual journalistic fare with a big splash of art and political opinion. Interestingly, the definition of puck, ignoring the most obvious ice hockey reference, looks a bit like this:
noun
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Also called hobgoblin. Also called Robin Goodfellow. a particularly mischievous sprite in English folklore who appears as a character in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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puck, a malicious or mischievous demon or spirit; a goblin.
Sounds about right for a newspaper heavy on politics.
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