Word: weirdness
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...It’s weird how everyone thinks that people with British accents are smart. “Pardon me, but may I be excused to visit the lavatory?” asked Englishman Antony A.S. Friendly ’04 five minutes after the start of section last Wednesday. Despite spending 25 minutes of class “loafing in the loo,” Friendly received an A for the section when he asked his TF if she would “care for a spot of tea?...
...GOSSIP OF THE WEEK: Fred N. Kearns ’04 always has some sort of weird juice or something. “What are you talking about?” he asked incredulously as he sipped a mauve-colored liquid. “This is just a Thai iced tea from Spice. It’s delicious!”...Brenda G. Hofstra ’04 is unsure if she wants to live off-campus next year. “On one hand, it’s like I wouldn’t have to live...
...random thing to do, very spontaneous. My family thought it was a little weird, but my [younger] brother had made a similar transition...so that made it easier,” says McCarty...
...surprisingly upbeat. "I think it will exist in one form or another," Charles Burns said. Though he didn't think the commercial prospects were very good, "people will keep on buying as long as you put stuff out there." Spiegelman likewise felt it was "relatively promising in its own weird way. As publishing itself becomes this totally marginalized activity, there's room for us marginal types in it." Chris Ware, ever the pessimist, pointed out that "the problem is that [comix] always end up in this section called 'graphic novels' which some bookstores don't even have so they...
...When asked what recent work impressed them, the panel universally agreed on Dan Clowes' "Eightball" #22 (see TIME.comix review), a book made up of multiple short stories that also relate to each other. Spiegelman added that what he is most "in awe" of right now is the "weird dialogue" going on between the work of Clowes and Ware. "What is natural for Dan Clowes - narrative development of characters - has found a responsive chord in Chris, leading [Ware] to do more with his characters. Conversely, Chris's very natural feeling for form seems to have affected what Dan does...