Tag: Hollywood

Escape From Bitch Mountain

Link To Today’s Strip

The big dramatic turning point in Author Guy’s big “Lust For Lisa” arc is Les remembering there’s a “kill fee” clause in his contract. A lazy writer writing a lazy story about a lazy writer who’s found a loophole enabling him to collect money for doing less work. Welcome to the Funkyverse, where indecision and cowardice are attributes and Les Moore is a paragon of virtue.

Le Chat returns from out of nowhere to deliver some of the most cringe-worthy dialog ever…”happy off the table”…”the bipolar express”…dear God that is atrocious, just reeking of “try-hard”. After two weeks of pointless meandering crap he suddenly wants to get all faux-angsty again? Over a guy who’s pleased as punch to have found a way to quit his job and still get paid? Via that irritating imaginary cat? Les isn’t “bipolar”, he’s just a selfish jerk who basks in the misfortunes of others, that’s all.

And yikes, he’s just incredibly punchable today, strutting around and smirking because he’s ready to ruin everything for everyone just because he can. It’s rage inducing to say the least. If TB is trolling us and going for peak Les objection-ability here, well f*cking done indeed, my man. If not, well, wow.

 

Sew Me

Is something going to happen here? Why can’t Les just spout this stuff to Crazy Harry back in Westview? The reactions would be about the same. How is this advancing today’s plot at all? Today’s strip is just cumbersome. Mason is trying to be polite but Les is taking his single-word answers as interest.

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this story is fascinating. Let’s try an experiment tomorrow, Snarkers. Recite, word for word, the Pavarotti story to a co-worker, friend, family member or mailman. See if they seem even slightly interested.

I’ll do the same and let you know how it goes.

Where’s The Beef?

SoSFDavidO here for the next two weeks, takin’ the reins!

Looking back at Lisa’s Story, the other shoe, (inspiration for the script they’re yammering about in today’s strip,) it’s hard to imagine how much he could do to add or remove from the strip. Almost every part of the movie is going to take place at Int: Montoni’s Pizza or Int: Lisa’s bathroom. Sure, there’s a few trips to the hospital and that weird football catch at the beginning but other than that, Lisa’s Story would be better told as a novel or a… (reluctant sigh) daily comic strip.

Jarring Reality

SoSFDavidO here for the next two weeks, takin’ the reins!

Every fairytale has to come to and end, and in today’s strip, Mason Jarr drops off Les in the middle of downtown Hollywood with nary a peck good night. I’m not sure what point Les is trying to make here, as I can’t think of anything much cooler than tooling around in Hollywood as a bankable star in a Porsche. So Mason has to live in an apartment and study lines for a script. Boo-hoo, woe is Mason in his beachside 2700 sq ft apartment-away-from-his-Aspen-Home. I really feel for the guy as his $80,000 car drives him and his perfect hairdo into the sunset.