DO NOT TAKE ME SO SERIOUSLY

It's bad for my self image

This was added just in time for people getting high RIGHT THIS MINUTE to post all their great ideas about the storyline.

Once again, a strip in which Ray Gets Things Done (TM).

I am amused that the first two people that Ray thinks of are Ellen (who is far past hot at the moment) and the Yankees (who are in pre-season and therefore not really that interesting).  I believe American Idol is actually going on right now, but it still only pulled third billing.

Not in that highest tier with John Lennon, Kurt Vonnegut, Axl Rose and Philip K Dick...

Lennon, vonnegut, Philip K, OK, I'm good, I'm on the level here, all worthy as respectable and worthy people to model a life after (in general).  I fail to understand how being kind of annoying sounding and doing mostly so-so songs fits in with these others.  I mean, OK, he did write some good songs, but (and I confess to not know much about him) what has he done to put him in this top level?

I love the fact that Onstad is using gay porn to serve as the common comparison in personalities between the different characters.  Most literary types would use the reaction to something ordinary such as a funeral or an expensive hamburger, but nothing brings out the true character like a man and his buddy watching another man suddenly start playing the lady's role.

I don't know about "getting" the strip, but the humor I find comes from the arbitrariness of the labels and titles on these things.  It seems very Python-esque.  Just select something that seems obscurely respectable and stick a little gay porn inside, and voila!  Instant nonsense!

However, if he IS specifically trying to make fun of something, my guess is the way that a lot of popular movies these days like to add to their labels things like "Unrated Version" and "1100 never before seen special features and commentary with the head gaffer" and such things as if to suggest that these things actually make the movie better, let alone worth paying anything to watch.

I just have regular madness, but that means that I sometimes attend a sports event at my college.  Also I was in the band so I kind of got force-fed football and basketball with a freezing cold saxophone shaped spoon.

Roast Beef Kazenzakis -

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