Benjamin Hobbs:
"Aww. Man! I been robbed!! Four damn weeks, I been waitin' fer this, gettin' tickled and teased at least once a week, sometimes twice, and *this* is what I get?!?
"Geez!"
Well, don't say I never give you anything Jeff! Here is an AMOC EXCLUSIVE CIH? STRIP!
It's so fresh, not even DAVE SIM himself has seen it!
Well, he MAY have seen it by the time you're reading this. Faxes are slower than email, but not that much slower.
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If you appease him he'll only expect more.
I do! I do! I wanna see Cerebus ridin' Jingles into whatever part of Hades in which Jingles follows the boys (YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE) into next.
Cerebus, may God bless him (though I'm skeptical on that), in his equestrian(?) adventure.
Perhaps, as he/she (Cerebus), is saying, "Tally-ho!!!"
Earlier today (okay, last evening), I answered a call from one Dave Sim--that's what it said on the phone screen just as I was about to leave my apartment to meet my regular taxi driver -- sayin' " Hi, Jeff!"
I had already said "Hi, Dave!", as we do.
I told him that I was about a foot out of the door, headed for my taxi, to take me to the Mall of America. But that if he could wait, I would speak with him during the taxi ride.
"How long is that?" he asked. He also asked why.
I replied that, at 3:30 p.m., it wouldn't be long. An hour later, I arrived at the mall. I had forgotten about all of the now-three-years-long construction in Minneapolis, with the alternate routes that taxi drivers love.
As I was walking out the door, just as Dave called (I swear, I think he has a camera feed somewhere in my apartment). I told him to wait until I got in the cab. "Okay!"
So, I left the phone going, got in the cab and politely listened to my regular cab driver try to tell me about his day; all the while Dave stayed on the phone, listening.
So, after I picked up the phone again, a few minutes later, Dave was still there.
I told him about going to the MOA for a Parrothead Club business meeting and he asked me about the MOA. I told him that it is huge and that I only go there when I know what I want. And, then we exchanged a few regular banalities. Finally, I asked him why he had called (because he only calls when he has some real message for me).
Why? Well, he had received the copy that I had sent to him of the letter addressed to POTUS. To my...
No surprise, Dave had no problem with my letter, in which I expressed to the President that I believe that he is a pox upon the country.
However, Dave said something close to: "As a longtime champion of free speech, I have *no problem* with your having written to your president the way you did."
"If people can't write their President, and express displeasure, well, then that's a side that I don't want to be on." Which I'm pretty sure I heard him say. Or, in a much longer manner, with the same intention.
That went on at some length, in that vein, and then I told Dave that Ahmed was driving me from downtown to the MOA, so that I could get there and socialize with my Parrothead friends. And that I had to cut him off.
On the way, Dave and I discussed mostly politics, international politics, and the "failing" Canadian Politics and everything else that's failing in Canada.
But we were approaching the Mall, so I said that I needed to ask a proofreading question. Answered.
Shortly later, after I had walked in and gotten on the escalator up, I observed two Tibetan monks, in full "Tibetan monk gear (you know what I'm talking about), having a lot of fun.
Thus, I called Dave back and described the monks. I don't know if he will respond to that, but I think he might have an opinion, which opinion may not agree with mine.
Still. Two Tibetan Buddhist Monks, in the MOA, and I just happen to see them having fun? You can't make this suff up.
I don't see what you find so funny about monks in a museum, Jeff; that's weird. And I don't believe that either you or Dave know enough about Canada to criticize what's failing. But I agree with you and Dave on the importance of freedom of speech. To his credit, Dave has almost always championed freedom of speech (his hedging about depictions of Mohammed were revealing). The right to write to (rite 2) our political representatives, to communicate to them even and especially with criticisms, is the primary reason why we have (and require) freedom of speech.
-- Damian
Actually, Damian, it's an enormous shopping mall (one I can barely stand to be in, it's such a sensory-overload chamber), not a museum. Kevin Smith's film "Mall Rats" was shot there. I've seen Buddhist monks there before, and it's always a little...incongruous?...in a place that's basically a cathedral of conspicuous consumption (and brutally bad taste).
ACTUALLY Tony,
Mallrats was filmed at the Eden Prairie mall, about five miles away.
I've been there twice. They have completely remodeled the joint and it doesn't look like the mall from Mallrats at all.
I've also been to the MOA a couple of times, and after a couple of hours, I feel like a nap.
Matt
Really? Damn, I would've missed that question in Twin Cities Trivia.
Tony,
Smith even uses the Mall's REAL name in the movie.
You DON'T get the fifty dollar gift card to Omaha steaks.
Matt
(But, thanks for playing, you've been wonderful.)
I've seen Mennonite families at my local shopping mall in Southern Ontario.
...I saw Masonite once...
Steve
Damian,
ACTUALLY, I don't think Jeff said he found the monks funny (I don't even think he implied it...) but that they were having fun. Jeff said:
"in full "Tibetan monk gear (you know what I'm talking about), having a lot of fun."
&
"Still. Two Tibetan Buddhist Monks, in the MOA, and I just happen to see them having fun? You can't make this suff up."
He spelled stuff wrong.
I've also been to the Mall of America. Once was plenty.
cheers,
A Fake Name
ACTUALLY, come to think of it I'm surprised Mr. Seiler is disappointed with the current President of the United States. Jeff's always portrayed himself as a pretty staunch right-winger, and most of them still adore Mr. Trump. With the exception of East Coast Republicans, almost all of whom would be called "RINOs," or actually be Democrats, if they lived anywhere but the East Coast.
I *am* a staunch Republican, but I *do* believe tha Trump is a moron (insert your own adjective before tha), an idiot, and exceedingly corrupt.
But, enough talk about dancing; let's talk art...
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