'She's talking to that mirror again, farther?' says Misst Craddock. Father Cradock turns round slowly from the book he is eating and explains that it is just a face she is going through and they're all the same at that age.
Can I please tell you how much I hate you for introducing me to QC (which I first heard of thanks to your comment on km's blog). I was planning to have a productive weekend, get things done, etc. Instead of which I find myself spending all day catching up on the back story of a bunch of people whose music I know nothing about and whose love lives, screwed up as they are, are infinitely more successful than mine. The worst of it is, I now feel guilty walking into Starbucks. Aargghh!!
Falstaff: Heh! Glad someone else spent hours. I spent a couple of days some time ago catching up, noting down which one I'd finished with but not really minding re-reading. And when I did catch up, I was really annoyed that there's only be one comic to read a day.
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And what's more productive than being introduced to new words, (for me, 'emo'), new permutations of weirdness (how does hannelore hang upside down from the ceiling? what is she - a superhero with OCD?)...and Starbucks...:D didn't you just do a post about ordering from there with ease and fluidity?
space bar: Aargghhh! the whole there's-only-going-to-be-one-a-day-from -now-on thing just hit me! Major burn. I so should not have read 764 of them in a single day. Now I'm going to spend the rest of my QC-reading life feeling like Charles Foster Kane on disability. Excuse me while I go practice saying 'Rosebud' in the mirror.
Falstaff: you'll have noticed there hasn't been a new one for three days now. Practice saying, instead, "Happy Birthday, J Jaques'"! (DO you read the entires on the side? They're often hilarious and absorbing in their own right. So now you know what to do on off-days!)
I thought you were committed to doing nothing. So how can you be jobless? Have fun while it lasts.
ReplyDeleteBanno: deeply committed. :D And I found myself doing something and doing it so often over the last several days too...
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ReplyDeleteCan I please tell you how much I hate you for introducing me to QC (which I first heard of thanks to your comment on km's blog). I was planning to have a productive weekend, get things done, etc. Instead of which I find myself spending all day catching up on the back story of a bunch of people whose music I know nothing about and whose love lives, screwed up as they are, are infinitely more successful than mine. The worst of it is, I now feel guilty walking into Starbucks. Aargghh!!
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ReplyDeleteNow that's just genius :)
Falstaff: Heh! Glad someone else spent hours. I spent a couple of days some time ago catching up, noting down which one I'd finished with but not really minding re-reading. And when I did catch up, I was really annoyed that there's only be one comic to read a day.
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And what's more productive than being introduced to new words, (for me, 'emo'), new permutations of weirdness (how does hannelore hang upside down from the ceiling? what is she - a superhero with OCD?)...and Starbucks...:D didn't you just do a post about ordering from there with ease and fluidity?
Cat: Yes, isn't it? a good Lear touch there...did you like all the Dune references in other ones? I love them!
ReplyDeletespace bar: Aargghhh! the whole there's-only-going-to-be-one-a-day-from -now-on thing just hit me! Major burn. I so should not have read 764 of them in a single day. Now I'm going to spend the rest of my QC-reading life feeling like Charles Foster Kane on disability. Excuse me while I go practice saying 'Rosebud' in the mirror.
ReplyDeleteFalstaff: you'll have noticed there hasn't been a new one for three days now. Practice saying, instead, "Happy Birthday, J Jaques'"! (DO you read the entires on the side? They're often hilarious and absorbing in their own right. So now you know what to do on off-days!)
ReplyDeleteNot just Lear, if you notice, but also Mister Honcho Vacuum Cleaner at the FBI... The combination's just brilliant.
ReplyDeleteCC: See, i knew my subconscious was trying to say something when i wrote 'conspiracy theories! *slaps forehead in disgust*
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