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So right now I'm sitting in my living room, kind of exhausted, looking at a green chair that used to sit in my Grandmother's living room. This weekend was eventful, and I'm tired.
Crysta and I went down to Milwaukee so we could spend father's day with my parents (along with some other family members). We went to the Brewer's game on Sunday, and like any game of baseball, it was a good time. I've never been a huge sports person, but I love watching a good live baseball game.
Honestly it was an amazing day.
Before I left town on Saturday though, I swung by the local No Kings protest here in Eau Claire, and then spent a chunk of time at the local Pride celebration. I tend to be a bit of a shut in these days, so with all the awful stuff in the news it was nice to remind myself that there are good people in the world willing to stand up for what's right and for each other.
My grandmother passed away not that long ago, and one thing I had my parent set aside for me was a chair. I realize that it looks a bit more gold in the photo, but trust me when I say it's green in real life. This morning I loaded it into my pickup and drove it across the state and got it into my living room. I loved this chair as a kid, and importantly... it swivels. And when I was growing up adults would always yell at me not to spin the chair. Well guess what, it's my chair now.
And no one can stop me from spinning.
I dunno -- it was just a lot of stuff in a short amount of time. We also went out to dinner after the baseball game yesterday, but I think I'll give my full opinion on that later this week in a different blog post. Because we went to a restaurant none of us had been to before, and uh... I have thoughts.
That was vague. I'm being vague. You're just going to have to be okay with that.
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Why doesn’t YouTube have a clip of the song from the SNL nude beach sketch for me to link to?
I’m having some serious flashbacks here.
Sarah does have some weird hatred for Terrence. And either Terrence was always this bad or Sarah brought out the worst in him.
It’s definitely been a progression. There’s a pretty fair escalation that’s been going on since he was introduced. Kinda disappointed myself though – that he’s turned out to at least apparently just be a one dimensional farkwad. He sort of seemed more interesting as he was written in the first few.
With only two comics a week, I can only show so much. He’s not a main character, so we only see his interactions with them.
So, uh, here’s another random dimension to Terrence: he lives at home and takes care of his disabled father.
Boom.
Lol the hell there is Trae, no matter WHERE that guy is he’s still a serious buttmunch . He’s one of those guys that has a GOOD twin in the evil Star Trek beard dimension. I was just being the cheerleader for a more nuanced dumbarsery I ‘spose. That being said – yeah – in a few panels a day nuance is a bastard to accomplish. Frankly I’m kinda amazed you get as much as you do in so small a canvas to work with. Always kinda regarded comics as being akin to short stories. Sure, less to write – but that’s a seriously two-edged sword. Also wayyyyyyy less room to characterize/etc. There are quite a few authors that have flat out stated they’d much rather try to write a really good book than a really good short story – and there are damn good reasons for that.
Terrance was always shit. His “people like us” comment and a few others like that are pretty clear. His interaction with Lynn last comic was all on him. At the same time, Sarah and T are locked in unending combat and that makes him act worse around her.
It’s too bad he’s going to get killed and served to the GoH, there’s a lot of fun to be had with 2 chars who can’t be in the same room without trouble.
Sure, he always was an ass. BUT in the first few with him he had some reason to be an ass. SOME. Not to the degree he was being, but it was open for a bit for the possibility of crippling social ineptitude being reinforced by “Go do stuff and get it done – figure it out yourself.” While that totally works for these folks, ’cause they’ve been working together half of forever – it’s not really the best way to handle new people working on anything. They’re either A: gonna come up with solutions you don’t like at all, or B: usually gonna screw it up because they’re clueless. As I said that WAS a possibility – ’cause now it’s quite clear he’s just a jackhole. 🙂