Archive for March, 2011
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I simply like Randall. What can I say.
This strip was based on an experience I had when accidentally dunked underwater at the wrong time. Breathing in water was very peculiar and not something I have ever forgot.
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Ah, Jess and Leslie’s apartment (people in the real world). I recognized that background right away. What a lot of memories.
I so much love playing with words. I’ve tried to get away from that in my humor, to try new things (although I still use generous amounts of wordplay), but when writing this it was so new and fresh and fun to simply play.
Mannn, Forrest Gump rubbed me the wrong way. I remember really enjoying flaying it.
I wonder how I’d react to the movie now. Hrm.
I consider this one of my most insightful strips EVER, and I’m still trying to understand quite what it says. Maybe BECAUSE I’m still trying to understand quite what it says.
I had a funny experience reading Crime and Punishment. I read it IMMEDIATELY after I’d read A Confederacy of Dunces, and as a result, I kinda’ visualized Raskolnikov as a silly Ignatius/Falstaffian character.
Which… well, kinda’ changed the tone of the book for me.
I’ve since re-read it and had the experience more likely intended by Dostoyevski.
What cracks me up about Lenny’s final line, is that he may not be being subtle, but I’m very unclear to what he is implying. :)
I must confess, making fun of accents is petty. But…. normally when one makes fun of an accent, they are laughing at it because it is foreign, and foreign ways can seem pretty silly, and thus it implies that even geniuses from the other culture are primitive silly nitwits. In this case, it was aimed at them for being nitwits to being with, and just having fun with their way of talk (which was as much slurring and poor enunciation as it was actual accent).
Which, in the end, is also petty. Hah!
The golden retriever line is pretty good though. :)
Too much drinking when you’re caught up in your personal tragic situation and really depressed about it is never pretty.
I think I actually found that I had written that in one of my notebooks (I always had notebooks around with ideas written in them), and found it warped and amusing.
Jeremy is actually an offshoot of the character Arthur from my novel Loved Into Submission (which you should buy!) I had created Arthur and didn’t want to wait the year or so of plotting I had to do before really writing to get to him, and so I created a seed of him in Jeremy. The two character do have some similarities, but they really parted ways from the get-go.
