Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first strip made with a piece from my new clip art collection. This is not only the only cell phone picture in the collection that’s actually larger than the person endeavoring to use it, but it’s also probably the newest-looking one in the collection. Ah well.
This one took a few rewrites to get a level of nonsense I was happy with for the operator’s side of the conversation. One of the things my musical project, Worm Quartet, is moderately known for in embarrassingly small circles is that every album I’ve put out has at least song that’s called – for reasons it’s not worth the effort to make clear at this point – a “Chutney song.” These songs are mostly-nonsensical rants with a reasonably unique lyrical rhythm and structure delivered in a quivering voice over obnoxious synths. Titles of these songs include “Eskimo Pie Is Not Pie And Contains Very Little Eskimo” and “Adventures In Creative Nostril-Swallowing (A Tribute To Plants That Suck.)” So basically, I tend to feel like if I’m spouting nonsense, it has to be nonsense of the proper caliber. Hopefully I’ve succeeded here.
The closest I have to an unlimited Dada plan on my phone is an Android port of the infamous “Yow” app, which displays random Zippy the Pinhead quotes. I highly recommend it.
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You lost me on this one.
Guess I’ll have to look up dada.
Maybe you should just borrow from those paragraphs of text that end up in spam messages to defeat filtering software. (Look up “spamland” on Youtube.)
Oh my god. This is the first time I’ve felt compelled to leave a comment. The strips have been extremely funny lately, but this is just brilliant. Bravo!
Oh, the one about the uphill cement block race on an ice floe is neck and neck with this one.
Dada plan, huh? I thought it was one of those long-blocks-of-narrative-spam plans.
Here I was, rolling my eyes at what I thought was going to be a sophomoric clip-art joke, but that last line caught me by surprise and had me laughing out loud!
If it’s tired of wheat, it needs to join the Corn King’s army. “For corn!!!”
I wish I was this good at random nonsense.. my hat’s off to you!
Having recently read the “Doom Patrol vs. the Brotherhood of Dada” comic book by Grant Morrison, I was especially receptive to this. And even then, I did not guess; had to read the very last panel before the penny dropped. Rataplan rataplan.
So… you’re doing covers of Beck songs?
on the plus side the billing statements are in the form of Photo collage expressing the Ineptitude of the Wiemar Government.
Vestigal sausage.
“Nonsense of the proper caliber.” I need that on a shirt.
My phone company just put a cap on their Dada plan. Now I can only polish two sharks per kumquat before I have to pay a service charge.