Owen: This showed up like six times in my Google reader today. Apparently people like it. What do you think about it?
Victor: I don't like when people think the word "cheese" is funny. And "I am so fucking drunk" is kind of a predictable "non sequitur" punchline but I could imagine myself laughing at it if I was in a different mood maybe.
Owen: Yeah, this didn't make me laugh, it made me think of mocking it on our blog. I think that "In a way, he died in every war" could be a funny line, if it wasn't sandwiched by crap.
Victor: At first I thought his big puffy mariner's sweater was like a Shakespearean type get-up with one of those giant collars and the thing made even less sense. Remember when you asked me earlier if I remembered that comic Non Sequitur? I do. It was pretty good, it got kind of wack in the later years. Was dude hella Christian? It's weird that the spell check doesn't think "sequitur" is a word. Oh wait, I guess because it's Latin. But it's kind of been an English word for a minute...
Owen: Yeah, I remember, that comic was awesome for a while, but I remember it getting really weird and incomprhensible later. Wait, you just left, are we still writing this? I think it probably sucks that people make comics that reference things like Ernest Hemingway in a sort of dismissive way. This isn't actually a joke that you would get if you didn't know who Ernest Hemingway was. I guess that doesn't really matter, but it seems cheap or something.
Victor: Sorry I went to go change the channel cause I'm really not liking Nacho Libre right now. But then I couldn't find anything else and I came back to blog more. Blogmore. What? spellcheck recognizes blogmore as a word but not sequitur. Oh wait, it didn't underline sequitur either. Did it somehow turn off? kjfg OK, yeah.
Owen: I think kjfg is actually a word.
Victor: What?
Owen: Nothing, sorry.
Victor: Nacho Libre is so dumb.
Owen: Yeah, I really don't understand why this movie exists. Oh, and I forgot to say that I couldn't agree more about the "cheese" thing. Also, if Ernest Hemingway ever met the author of this comic he would totally fucking kill him. Easily.
Victor: Oh, what I was about to say was I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea to make a joke about Ernest Hemingway that someone wouldn't understand if they weren't familiar with him. I really think the "cheese" part is probably the most objectionable thing in the comic.
Owen: It's concievable that the author's use of the word cheese was coincidental and he/she doesn't think it's funny either. God dammmit. I don't want to talk about this anymore.
Victor: OK, but like even if he was just like, "OK, what word should I use here? Uh... cheese... perfectly neutral cheese..." that's still stupid. Cheese is a bad filler word in general, but especially in a comedic setup.
Owen: Yeah, I know.
Victor: OK, sorry I made you keep blogging after you said you wanted to stop. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is on now. More like Who Wants to Be on a Boring TV Show? AM I RIGHT?
11 comments:
"In a way, he died in every war" is great, but this does indeed suck. I was watching some talk show host ask the audience if they'd ever been to Umberto's Clam House and then he was like 'How was it? Have you ever been killed there?' and I lost my shit for a good 2-3 minutes. same shit, i think.
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You know what fucking sucks? Carol Lay's comics on salon.com. http://www.salon.com/comics/lay/2009/07/17/lay/index.html. Oh hey it's the time of night when the music channel plays weird-ass european music videos
Don't stop now. You're just hitting your stride.
I HATE THIS BLOG
See what I did there? Yeah. You saw it.
It's often a sign that you are forcing people to engage their brains when they launch angry, opinions at you without explanation. Unfortunately, the level of engagement is often insufficient.
WE HATE STUFF. WE'RE SO COOL.
I bet you play Dungeons and Dragons and listen to house music, you dipshits.
Why hello there! My name is benjamin sTone and I drew this comic!
Allow me, if you would, to rebut.
First, the use of the word "cheese" was actually in direct reference to Hemingway's writings, which mention cheese far more often than one would expect. If one suspected mentions of cheese, that is.
Indeed, one of my favorite strange lines by him comes from A Farewell to Arms:
"I was blown up while we were eating cheese." - Frederick Henry
As for the sweater, that's my own shitty drawing--there's a reason all of my art is tagged "Things I Can't Draw" (http://benchilada.livejournal.com/tag/things+i+can't+draw)--of the most iconic Hemingway photo out there.
As for the "sandwich of crap," the dialogue was intentionally written in an overwrought, reduced, pseudo-Hemingway fashion.
In conclusion, sorry you didn't find it funny, except that I'm really not.
Enjoy your day!
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No desire to discuss? No follow-up?
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i think it's hilarious!
i don't see where the authors of this blog are coming from. do you not understand the nature of parody?
'hemingway was a genius' - literary world
'actually i was just drunk as fuck' - hemingway
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