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Les-o-line Alley

Today, TB borrows a device from Gasoline Alley: dropping a real-life character into the cartoon milieu. Today’s special guest is none other than Fred Gwynne…what? Oh, Fred passed away in 1993. Then I guess that must be Will Underwood, director of Kent State University Press! Hey Will: why the long face? HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

Back to College

Les wanders the campus of his (and TB‘s) alma mater, Kent State University, talking to himself, and the definition of the word irony suffers another hit. No doubt Les’ “old English lit profs” have either long since been put out to pasture or were killed off when time suddenly leapt forward ten years.

Wait Just a New York Minute

Methinks Les smelleth a rat? So then…when did he put two and two together and surmise that Apple Annie got her mitts on his lost “masterpiece” back in her Central Park days? Just now, sitting across the desk from her? Or was this whole trip to the city, ostensibly on Montoni’s business, carefully set up so Les could have his big scene?

billytheskink is Clarivoyant

billytheskink, April 12, 2010 at 9:15 am:
Les came all the way to New York to find out that his potential publisher is in his back yard?

Yes…yes I guess he did. Well done, BTS. Snark away, everybody…I got nothin’.

Les is Not Im-pressed

Meanwhile, back in Metropolis, former-bag-lady-turned-semi-attractive (by FW standards) literary agent Ann Apple informs Les that “we may have found a publisher for your book (this deal’s not done yet?): the KSU press.” And what is Les’ reply on hearing that he’s on the verge of finally accomplishing something?

“That’s great news, Annie; you really came through for me.”
“Kent State University Press? I had to fly to New York City to have my book published in O-friggin’-hio? Ya fired!”
“Sounds like a winery.”

Yeah, you guessed it, Les went for the “funny” response. “Funny” as in here’s a guy who dreams of being published but doesn’t associate the word “press” with printing, only with red, red wine. Maybe Annie, the former bum, will appreciate the “pun”.