Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis

[steepholm]

Two things came together this morning.

1) I woke from a dream in which I'd been complaining to someone that I had all these great ideas for cartoons but didn't know how to draw.

2) I mused yet again on the curious fact that Paul Dirac and Cary Grant were at infant school together just round the corner from here, and that, living as I do in a road named after Dirac, I really ought to find a way to mark his 110th birthday this August.

Time to get on to Kate Beaton, methinks....

Comments

[roselet.livejournal.com]

I'd draw the comics?

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

You're hired! I don't have any boring a hole in my head at this moment (though I clearly did in my dream), but ideas for cartoons do come at me on a regular basis, and I'm sad not to be able to give them form and being. Having said which, they almost always depend on some creaky pun or other. As an example, see this one, which I got my daughter to draw for me.

Oh, okay - I just remembered one, and it's a good example of a joke that just doesn't work using words. Someone walks into a room, and there are two people there. One has the head of Edgar Allen Poe, the other of Po from the Teletubbies.

"You two are looking very po-faced."

Still want the job?

[roselet.livejournal.com]

I can't access the entry you linked to me but I love puns, so that's no problem for me! Sounds like fun.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Sorry - I didn't realize I hadn't friended you! Fixed now. And thank you.