So we’re on the long drive down to North Carolina, and I have control of the car stereo, because I’m driving, and going into our second solid hour of mid-career Enya I lean over to my wife and stage-whisper,
“It’s possible I don’t fully grasp the concept of ‘roadtrip tunes’.”
My wife was silent for a moment before replying: “I… I would say not.”
“Well,” I said, “to be fair, this is also my workout playlist.”
I found this the other day—it’s a list I made of things to bring with me when I abruptly left home, the day after high school ended, (I think) several months in advance. When I actually did leave I did so with considerably less gear (although I did include the prescribed reading list of Potok, Rand, and Joyce, along with a Peter Carey paperback I picked up along the way).
Because Fiedler asked nicely, here’s another unrun panel from the ill-fated Homunculous webcomic. I had a thing for this picture of Napoleon, apparently, because this is not the only one I did. Also I’m not sure why he and his horse’s dialogue appears in iPhone-style chat bubbles.
I did this quite, quite some time ago for the Homunculus webcomic, and never ran it. (For some reason I lost interest in doing that, even though I had a fair amount of material just waiting to be posted.) Anyway, it was my attempt at Roz-Chastian humour, and I still find it a bit funny.
