Thespis Strip Dated Sunday, August 30, 2009

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TRANSCRIPT:
Marvin: So, I just finished the Battlestar Galactica entire series DVD box set.
At the end, it turns out that the entire series took place 150,000 years ago, and the whole show was about the story of humanity's ancestors rather than their descendants. 
Collin: But wait!
At the end of the original Battlestar Galactica, they arrive on Earth in 1980!
They just so happen to arrive on Oct. 31 of that year, so all of their Weird Space Stuff is thought of as props for Holloween [sic] by the people of Earth!
They then proceed to go on all sorts of wacky adventures with famed radio DJ, "Wolfman" Jack!
...Something is definately [sic] lost in translation.

Scheduling

   729 posts, still a lot of posts. How much should I second-guess myself on this? I don't know whether the scheduling is a distraction and not what really matters, or a lesson in work ethic. Whether it's more important to get all 729 posts up, or ensure that out of the fewer than that I do manage to get up only the best of product gets passed.

   But now I don't think I'm going to be able to do it all. Most of the posts I thought were worthy and ready of putting up turned out not to be. This is the crunch. I guess my true priority is quality over quantity.

   And besides, it doesn't have to be me to schedule all of them...

Crowdsourcing Profundity

   A "deep" experience tends to be seen as that only if the audience of it is the same experience level as the teller. If the audience to the telling of the experience is more mature, it is seen as silly or obvious, less mature and it is seen as needlessly pretentious. Thus, the best path to seeming profound is to find out the experience level of most of the masses.

   Crowdsourcing profunditity? How cynical. Also, what most people would consider to be deep wouldn't even be four feet. I'm not sure how well that would work.

   But, it's an idea.

At the Dull Edge of the Cutting Edge

   Apologists to the avant-garde may say that those disillusioned are just jealous, which jealously leads them to apathy about staying with the trends. But to this I say: fools! Do you not realize that if the trends are so hard to keep up with in the first place, it only means that it's impossible for them to affect any real social change?

   (I do realize that perhaps no one is arguing this, and that that may be a total strawman attack. But at least I've prevented anyone from making that argument in the future.)

   There is no avant garde. There'd need to be a center to have that, and the art scene would have to be more or less supported by society at large. Art cannot carry itself if there isn't mutual respect there. But there is none. Except in places far removed from wherever the "avant-garde" say they are right now.

Red, Yellow, Green, & Blue Pirates

   I like using my dreams. For ideas. Well, what other use would there be?

   I suppose there's: if we did not dream, what incentive would we have for going unconscious every night? But, anyway.

   I had a dream where there was a pirate ship, and, well, you know how pirate ships are. Historically, I mean. They elected their captains democratically. And so it was like that, only based around colors. When I woke up, I dropped the pirate stuff, but the idea of seeing political parties represented by colors interesting. So I made a system of democratically-elected socialist parties which distribute out goods in the color of their parties as branding of sorts. It is this background that  is the political system of the planet... Well, I don't know the planet's name.

   But it's the governmental system of a planet in Artefact, is what I'm getting at.

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   Some scenes I cut, for your enjoyment. Deleted scenes. Okay, maybe not. Maybe not so much as deleted scenes but a deleted tack.

   Originally I did have what you see in the final version, but then I realized that having Okimba and the main character lodged up together in the same room might be interpreted as kind of pedophilic, so I drew these to introduce Okimba later, until I realized it wasn't working out with him being introduced so late in the story. Also, these scenes aren't the way it happened in my dream, so, there's that.

Goose Mons

   Having a conversation with Danny, a cousin on my mother's side. The correct plural of "mongoose." I held mongooses, he held mongeese. Turns out both mongooses and mongeese are correct, and we were both right.

   His argument was that the plural of goose is geese. Pretty solid there, since the syllable "goose" isn't likely to show up from more than one language. But I knew for a fact that it was gooses, so I needed an argument.

   So it's like goose, but it's a Digimon. You don't say, Garurumoon, to mean more than one Garurumon. You say Garurumons. Likewise, mongooses, which are apparently Digimon, get the same pluralization treatment.

   (They digivolve into Wile E. Coyote, in case you were wondering.)

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