Suggested wine pairing: Pantene Pro-V Daily Moisture Renewal
UPDATE
Yeah, so I broke my god damn collarbone because I heard it was the sexy thing to do, but it turns out it sucks.
I’m still drawing the big fucking thing every big fucking night, but now it hurts a lot more and takes more time. I’m in big fucking pain, but the big fucking thing doesn’t big fucking wait.
The moral of the story is: Don’t break your collarbone unless you know someone who absolutely wants to get with someone with a broken collarbone.
SHAMPOO WEEK
has crept into a week it shouldn’t have (because I’ve barely slept; I’m so tired, you guys). It’s kind of like how, if you look at the borders of France, they all seem to be in Europe until you see French Guiana, which is just another fucking part of France that happens to be in South America. It’s got a population comparable to Cincinnati. Cincinnati is the home of the Kroger Company, from which I’ve almost certainly purchased shampoo.
Anyway, I think we’re ready for (mutant) Shampoo Week to end, regardless of what I, a Cleveland guy, think of Cincinnati. (It sucks.)
(I’m really, genuinely, SO tired, you guys.)
Sleep will come regardless of our desires. Is an interrupted consciousness a valuable one? Why is it ours to say what is worthy and what is not? With the gods either silent or nonexistent, do we have any other choice? But again, why make it?
Tiredness is such a dang problem. When are we going to invent magic wonder drugs with no side-effects? I’ve been sitting here for like a half hour with food in a pan ready to be cooked just because my back hurts and i’m too tired.
But that’s one hell of a good pun there. And now I wonder how much goats cost and what volume of currency would fit in a measuring cup in different denominations.. and how much goats cost.
Thanks for another shampoo week. I’ve talked at length in the past about shampoo week marking a reference point in the year, I’m glad for it every time.
Good luck with your sleep deprivation. I hope whatever is keeping you up, or just your general insomnia, resolves.
snek: Is an interrupted consciousness a valuable one? I don’t care; my dreams are way more interesting than my day-to-day. In my dreams I’ve done things like fly and ride on a riverboat. A friggin’ riverboat!
Cold: “My Back Hurts and I’m Too Tired” — a memoir by Every Person Over 30.
My meticulous research, consisting of one (1) Google search, told me you can probably pick up a goat for $200. I don’t buy it (figuratively or literally).
Stephen: You got it, dude. And thanks for reading.
My insomnia is a constant; the real problem was that, due to travel, I wasn’t able to get much of this Shampoo Week done ahead of time.
Also, I just used two semicolons. I’m not sure what’s gotten in to me.
Okay, so clearly my comment about Chimneyfoot on the last strip somehow primed reality, since an established character appeared in this one.
For a second I thought this strip had a giveaway code for a million dollars that only I could use.
I actually almost had Chim be the guy asking for goat money, since it’s likely Hamster would dream about him. I ended up choosing the robot for (what I think are obvious) thematic reasons.
And you DID win a million dollars, but you can’t collect it from Isto Combs, Chris Combs, Mountain Time, Mountain Time Publications, or Combs Enterprises. I don’t think “Combs Enterprises” has ever been an expressed thing, but I’m covering my bases. You won a million dollars from the National Professional Anglers Association.
Is Agoraphobia Hamster’s birth name Nelson? Does he nurture a secret desire of being an accomplished wrestler? Does the shampoo represent something more than his suppression of his past as a wig model?
I love me some vocabulary usage. Perfunctory is such a fun word!
Nahtmmm: Eh, maybe he was conceived with Match Game on in the background. And OF COURSE he was dreaming about shampoo during Shampoo Week! Weren’t you?
Xin: If I can ever figure out a way to work “catafalque” into an episode, I’ll dedicate it to you.
Is sleep the horizon…or is the horizon just a field of dandruff?
clavicle sounds like some kinda musical instrument. which I guess it technically is, but it only makes a loud cracking sound and then you can’t do it again for a while. So basically jazz.
Oof, just read that update. Hope everything heals okay, don’t strain yourself too much!
Thanks! I’m not too worried. It was a clean break on a bone that typically heals very well, and the pain has already gone down a lot.
I’m really just stuck trying to write dialog for an episode that’s funnier than I feel right now, because living at 1.25 overall arm strength (where 2.0 means having two good arms) makes everything a little annoying, and none of the characters I’m writing have that problem.
It happens. I did a whole lot less drawing when my arms were broken that one time. And I felt a pillock because I’d done an April Fools joke once where the drawings were all bad and I said I broke my hand