Rita’s just pragmatic. She could continue riffing with Sarge about puffy foodstuffs that this tiny baby looks like, but it seems like a waste of time in a world with so many CSI:Miamis to watch.
Character: Norah
CUPS 112: Fresh Snow
Not a surprising revelation: If you have friends who are crude and crass, they will not act that way in front of a newborn child. Another non-surprising revelation… Kind of everybody is crude and crass? Sure, there are levels of offensiveness, and there are surely some people who are perfect angels, but… My wife is like the nicest, most polite person, but when she’s with friends she talks only about butts. It’s like, enough with the butts already.
CUPS 111: Names
My wife and I had a fairly easy path with regards to names for our son, but I was always very taken aback by how every single name you can imagine has an association tied to it. I’d say something like ‘what do you think about Carson’ and she’d say ‘no, I’m sorry, Carson is the name of a guy I went to college with who was a little handsy and smelled like peanut butter’, and she’d say something like ‘how do you feel about Garrison’ and I’d be all ‘no thank you, Garrison sounds a little bit too much like a man between the ages of 75 and 85 who speaks too often and too passionately about the Civil Rights Movement but on the wrong side’. It’s helpful, in the fact that it’s easy to parse down names to get to the one you want, but man you also realize just how many people have names you hate.
CUPS 110: Lemonade Stand
Not pictured — The 60 second ‘Beautiful Mind’-style montage of Lester going down to City Hall and rooting through file cabinets, files spread all over the desk… Microficheing the hell out of some old real estate listings and police reports. Unclear on the specific song playing during the montage, but it’s definitely NOT ‘Taking Care of Business’, because I’m trying to run a humorous comic, here, not lowest-common-denominator satire for dummies.
CUPS 109: Baller
Quick labor? That’s not very realistic, you may say, but then again you’re not the one writing/drawing a comic strip that’s based on humor and not getting too graphic… So, if you want to really get nitty-gritty with the whole labor process, providing a more realistic take on baby having, then go ahead and make your own comic.
