Eccentric Flower:200907/Are You Serious
From Eccentric Flower
Are You Serious?
Peter Zale's "Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet" has been up and down and sideways so many times that his archives are basically a set of discontinuities. I gather he has never had much success at syndicating it, and it's possible he has stopped drawing it - again. I'm sure it's frustrating for him; I wish I could make it profitable for him to just stop trying for syndication and be a webcomic and do it the way he wants it, which to my mind was just about perfect. Syndication means giving up two-thirds of what makes a strip unique anyway, because print comics syndicates mostly don't want anything different or edgy. You know, like Hollywood.
Anyway, so, today I went all the way through his online archive, braving his occasionally-broken navigation. I looked at every strip there from number one to number fivehundredsomething, and I didn't find the one I wanted, the one which is staring at me right now from my wall; so it must have been during one of the times when he was making a set for syndication that didn't show up on his pages. (I know a lot of strips aren't there because I also didn't see the one which gave Utopia With Cheese its name.)
So I'm going to have to type it in as dialogue, which is oddly not as effective; oddly, because to look at the strip, you'd say its strength was entirely in its words.
This is what's on my mind today.
No, even though I'm not a prayer by nature, I think it's a legitimate question.
The problem - as is true in so many situations - is, I think, that sometimes talking without getting a reply is manifestly unsatisfactory.
-- 17:47, 30 July 2009 (BST)
Indeed it is. Comparable to not knowing whether the lack of response to an email or journal comment is due to lack of receipt or lack of interest... or, perhaps, not having anything constructive to add?
It is said that God always answers one's questions. Sometimes, the answer is no. I got that from early Sunday School training. I'm not much into prayer, either, but I remember that concept and it makes sense to me.
-- 18:37, 30 July 2009 (BST)
As for your poetry post:
"More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world."
Ah, Edna. Lovely. Simply lovely.
-- 18:39, 30 July 2009 (BST)
ahh, poetry! ...and then 30 minutes lost to re-reading about the search for the Golden Hare.
-- 20:58, 30 July 2009 (BST)
You know, I've been meaning for years (yes, years) to ask you what you thought of Jitterbug Perfume -- in general, but specifically the descriptions of New Orleans.
-- 22:24, 30 July 2009 (BST)
It is, in my opinion, the only Tom Robbins novel worth rereading.
(Although most of them are worth reading once, and select bits of Still Life With Woodpecker are worth reading many times.)
-- 22:57, 30 July 2009 (BST)
HFS! We actually agree on a literature point. I like Robbins very much, to the point of being willing to read anything he writes, but JP is the best one, and really the only one I have a major desire to reread (well, maybe Skinny Legs and All -- I love the scenes with the inanimate objects).
-- 23:39, 30 July 2009 (BST)
Re: the poetry post that's next:
love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places
yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds
-- E.E. Cummings
-- 04:23, 31 July 2009 (BST)
Bunny42:
I've never seen the strip itself, but the words are great. I'd be a party pooper if I asked why he needs a machine, wouldn't I.
-- 17:33, 30 July 2009 (BST)