Yitz aka Isaac Wasileski (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} agnoster) wrote,@ 2005-08-01 20:24:00 |
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The joke is that my actual addiction is webcomics
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?da
http://www.meninhats.com/d/20030818.htm
See, I haven't had so much as a beer in two days. It's strips like this that remind me how fun alcohol really is, though. And I almost forgot to smoke yesterday, too - it wasn't until the evening I was like, "Shit, where my nicotine be at?" only with correct grammar.
And I thought I'd share an excerpt from Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (for those of you who don't know Adrian Mole - well, you should!) For context, Ivan is Adrian's mother's lover. And the books are in the form of a diary.
The funny part is, this is the excerpt my mom read to me when she read it (we're both big Mole fans). I just got to it now. The chronicles follow Adrian from the age of 13 3/4 to 34 - they are, I believe, as close as you can come to being inside a fictional character's mind as one could possibly get. My grandfather used to wake my grandmother up in bed because he'd be laughing so hard. The author, Sue Townsend, has what can only be called an uncanny grasp on what goes on in a growing boy's mind... of course, I have yet to see how good her insight into the perspective of a 30-year-old man is, because I have no idea what I'll be like then. Probably the same... scary thought.
Onward!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?da
http://www.meninhats.com/d/20030818.htm
See, I haven't had so much as a beer in two days. It's strips like this that remind me how fun alcohol really is, though. And I almost forgot to smoke yesterday, too - it wasn't until the evening I was like, "Shit, where my nicotine be at?" only with correct grammar.
And I thought I'd share an excerpt from Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (for those of you who don't know Adrian Mole - well, you should!) For context, Ivan is Adrian's mother's lover. And the books are in the form of a diary.
Friday November 21st
Michael Hutchence of INXS is dead, choked by his own belt, which was tied to a hotel doorknob. My mother said she couldn't understand why men choke themselves in order to achieve heightened sexual satisfaction. She said, 'He made love to some of the most beautiful women in the world, so why would he want to hang off a door?'
Ivan said, 'Because it's less complicated than having a relationship with a woman. One doesn't have to tell a door twenty times a day that one loves it.'
Well! Well! Well! Is Ivan tiring of my mother's emotional neediness?
The funny part is, this is the excerpt my mom read to me when she read it (we're both big Mole fans). I just got to it now. The chronicles follow Adrian from the age of 13 3/4 to 34 - they are, I believe, as close as you can come to being inside a fictional character's mind as one could possibly get. My grandfather used to wake my grandmother up in bed because he'd be laughing so hard. The author, Sue Townsend, has what can only be called an uncanny grasp on what goes on in a growing boy's mind... of course, I have yet to see how good her insight into the perspective of a 30-year-old man is, because I have no idea what I'll be like then. Probably the same... scary thought.
Onward!
