tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post5693279575255538507..comments2024-03-28T05:23:01.707-05:00Comments on A MOMENT OF CEREBUS: Please Hold For Dave Sim 10/2020 the Visual version!A Moment Of Cerebushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02718525538144698138noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-12325087308552621812020-10-26T13:42:12.216-05:002020-10-26T13:42:12.216-05:00Keep forgetting to tick "e-mail followup comm...Keep forgetting to tick "e-mail followup comments" - tickedRSShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05633955729495526624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-52933471986645427062020-10-26T13:23:03.357-05:002020-10-26T13:23:03.357-05:00Incoming email: "Stairs for Dave" [with ...Incoming email: "Stairs for Dave" [with images], Matt [text:]<br />For his 'coal entrance' (that he apparently wants to keep but has given up on)<br />Saw the design on Belmont (street), just now...<br />Four by fours; stout; handy if a baby elephant drops in? (that's what I thought)<br />Thanks Matt!RSShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05633955729495526624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-59547188207993229632020-10-18T13:11:40.357-05:002020-10-18T13:11:40.357-05:00Ah, Evergreen State - where the Woke Patrol roam c...Ah, Evergreen State - where the Woke Patrol roam campus with baseball bats, looking for thought criminals to put in the hospital.Tony - what, AGAIN?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-17517205942366559092020-10-16T11:51:13.710-05:002020-10-16T11:51:13.710-05:00Tony,
Martin Gardner has written about "inte...Tony,<br /><br />Martin Gardner has written about "intellectual" attempts of the staff of Evergreen College to apply postmodernist ahem, thought, to mathematics, to very funny results. Well worth your time (and will give you VERY similar belly laughs!)<br /><br />If I recall it's in this essay collection:<br />id Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience (2001)<br /><br />I would imagine you can pick it up for two or three dollars at AbeBooks.<br /><br />Best,<br />SeanSean Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09794186823194520775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-54426935429579776642020-10-16T09:50:31.555-05:002020-10-16T09:50:31.555-05:00I teach mathematics, so no, I don't get expose...I teach mathematics, so no, I don't get exposed to Foucaulian balderdash very much at work. I'll try to keep this short - about 30 years ago, my mother's employer suddenly decided that her job required a Master's degree, so she went back to school and got one - in literature, since that was her undergrad major. Well, this was the late 1980s and postmodernism was in full flourish in humanities departments; she became mesmerized by the sparkly, flashy verbal contortions of Foucault, and got me to read some of it. Since I found most of it to be largely incomprehensible, I decided Foucault must be some deeply insightful genius. I've since mostly recovered. (I never actually read any Derrida until YDKJ appeared in my mailbox, but it's about what I would have expected.)<br /><br />I do hope there's less of this stuff in Alabama than in California.Tony one more timenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-55010110952049334512020-10-15T11:28:02.557-05:002020-10-15T11:28:02.557-05:00Tony,
Are you exposed to it on the regular in you...Tony, <br />Are you exposed to it on the regular in your line of work? I sure as hell am!<br /><br />I always wonder how much of that stuff Dave is read in. Behind everything he is against, and all of he social changes he has predicted, lie these philosophies. I just don't know if it is instinct and an awareness of how the stuff is filtering into society versus direct engagement with the material itself.<br /><br />Dave's own writing - especially his commentary - heavily displays the postmodernist strategy of over-interpretation. He can also give Derrida a run for his money with headache-inducing sentence/paragraph structures. Cerebus itself is pretty much a masterclass in Postmodernist Pastiche. It is a curious conundrum in Dave's output.Carson Grubaughhttp://hodtech.net/comics.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-69629606534506849672020-10-14T10:48:32.284-05:002020-10-14T10:48:32.284-05:00Well, Dave probably hasn't spent much time lis...Well, Dave probably hasn't spent much time listening to insufferable postmodernists take themselves seriously...Tony againnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-33534159241314734522020-10-14T08:23:05.774-05:002020-10-14T08:23:05.774-05:00Tony,
That is very gratifying to hear. Knowing th...Tony,<br /><br />That is very gratifying to hear. Knowing that even one other person thinks the combination is perfect makes me so happy! Dave did not like those pages at all. <br /><br />Thank you so much for the comments! Glad you enjoyed to books!Carson Grubaughhttp://hodtech.net/comics.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-33705377676288171022020-10-13T12:04:48.404-05:002020-10-13T12:04:48.404-05:00I don't want to give too much away, for those ...I don't want to give too much away, for those who haven't read it - but I found the juxtaposition of that text with those images to be too, too perfect, in a way I lack the complex theoretical apparatus to unpack.Tony againnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-78735491785201307272020-10-12T19:02:58.636-05:002020-10-12T19:02:58.636-05:00Hi Tony,
Thank you for helping it become a realit...Hi Tony,<br /><br />Thank you for helping it become a reality!<br /><br />Glad you enjoyed the AvenJacques pages so much. I conceived of and fought for those, Dave insisted they were not funny without the in-jokes about the industry. Whatever your reason for enjoying them was I am glad we got to a point where they worked! <br /><br />Personally, I find Derrida to be an extremely laughable writer, and not in a "laughing with Mr. Derrida" kinda way ;b carsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14370869494601115244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-9225283935361187672020-10-12T16:34:01.688-05:002020-10-12T16:34:01.688-05:00Thanks for your kind words about the project Tony!...Thanks for your kind words about the project Tony! Glad you enjoyed the book.Sean Rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-31260650025743660132020-10-12T02:33:27.186-05:002020-10-12T02:33:27.186-05:00Hmm.Hmm.Jeffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-53550692032785360322020-10-11T20:06:53.854-05:002020-10-11T20:06:53.854-05:00"If I am all of these things, how can I not b..."If I am all of these things, how can I not be God?"<br /><br />Um, because all of these things are created, and therefore contingent, and God is not?<br /><br />(Orthodox Christian Theology 101. You're welcome.)Tony againnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-38937621350581947872020-10-11T20:04:32.639-05:002020-10-11T20:04:32.639-05:00OK, to remain off topic:
1. The sticker has been c...OK, to remain off topic:<br />1. The sticker has been claimed.<br />2. You know that kind of laughter where you actually have to stop to catch your breath, so you can laugh some more? That's what happened to me when I read the "Avenjaques" pages of "You Don't Know Jack." Great stuff.Tony againnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-61207339856777987952020-10-10T22:50:32.422-05:002020-10-10T22:50:32.422-05:00Sir Matt -
Please check your email inbox, I'd...Sir Matt -<br /><br />Please check your email inbox, I'd sent in some questions back on Sept. 7th.<br /><br />Next month is fine too, of course<br /><br />SteveStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06324364972414451992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-55236710560154528132020-10-10T13:20:33.931-05:002020-10-10T13:20:33.931-05:00"If I am all of these things, how can I not b..."If I am all of these things, how can I not be God?"<br />That line seems like it could be an original final line of the poem. One of Dave's great abilities is to mimic the writing style of others.Dan E.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-26008645767894716742020-10-10T13:05:17.942-05:002020-10-10T13:05:17.942-05:00By the way, the YDKJ comic came with a little silv...By the way, the YDKJ comic came with a little silver YDKJ sticker, which I don't want. If anyone wants one (or another one), first full mailing address (US/Canada only please) sent to: roxanton (at) comcast (dot) net gets it. I promise I haven't coughed on it, although I have touched it with unsanitized hands. If I don't hear from anyone in a week it's going into the landfill for future archaeologists to dig up ("midden," anyone?) and construct elaborate theories about.Tony againnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-55731614940287161822020-10-10T12:18:43.108-05:002020-10-10T12:18:43.108-05:00Off topic, but my YDKJ arrived today. Looks great;...Off topic, but my YDKJ arrived today. Looks great; a quick flip-through reveals comic fan in-jokes, contemporary social satire, and gorgeous photorealistic/surrealist drawing. Can't wait to sit down and read it!<br />Thanks to Carson, Sean, and everyone who made sure this thing saw the light of day.Tony Dunlopnoreply@blogger.com