I don’t want to get all judgey here, but Norah, 8+ months pregnant, has put off what seems to be a ton of work until late evening, late in her pregnancy. I mean, that’s just a really poor use of time. Again, not trying to judge, but she deserves some judgey eyes laid on her. Do better, Norah. Do better.
There aren’t more than like two or three dozen names for cats out there that are better than ‘Señor Snugglehugs’. That may sound like hubris, but genius can strike anybody at any time, and I just happen to be the one that this burst of brilliance came out of this time. Let’s not focus on exactly where this name came from, let’s instead just focus on how much better this world is now that it’s out there.
For future reference: When you’re going to go to a metal concert while your pregnant wife stays at home and catches up on some work all night, just go ahead and leave a note on the counter. It’s not worth the fear of God that it will instill of you for the rest of your days.
What Sarge cuts Lester off from saying, interestingly, is that ‘Blood Pineapple’ is this really great band that does this thing where they are a really terrible band. Lester should speak in a less meandering, more direct way, because every time he gets cut off he misrepresents what he’s talking about. Like the time that he asked Norah to marry him, and he was all ‘hey, I have this thing on my foot. It’s not, like, you know, that concerning or anything, but… I don’t know, it’s been there a while. Just long enough for me to start worrying about it in the very back of my consciousness. I think I’m going to have it checked out. It doesn’t hurt per se, but I would say that it’s fairly uncomfortable most of the time. It’s also just kind of displeasing to look at. Not that I should be concerned with the aesthetics of this thing on my foot, but… Anyway, will you do me the honor?’
What is happening in this strip? Is the author/artist attempting to build a previously unaddressed relationship/sexual tension going on between Rita and Rick? Is this something that we should be keeping an eye on into the future? What exactly is the relationship between Rick & Rita about? Is there a story behind this? Perhaps, and I say this with all sincerity, you should simply allow the storyline to play out. Perhaps, and I say this with not that much knowledge of how this will play out, you should accept that life as a general rule is sloppy, unplanned, and mostly meandering. Perhaps, and I say this as someone who does not know how this little written blurb ends, you should just keep moving through the archives. We’ll get somewhere eventually, and we’ll get there together, reader.
