Going to see Watchmen last night (more on that later), I couldn't help but remember one of my all-time favorite Onion headlines:
Other infamous episodes that have occurred during the couple's 18-month relationship include Tillich's August 1999 insistence that Jensen listen to all of side two of the Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat, his January 1999 failure to talk Jensen into visiting the grave of Philip K. Dick during a Colorado road trip, and his ongoing unsuccessful efforts to get her to read Alan Moore's Watchmen, a 1986 postmodern-superhero graphic novel she described as "a comic book about a big blue space guy" and that he calls "nothing less than a total, devastating deconstruction of virtually every archetype in the genre's history."
I don't know what appeals to me more: the fact that they managed to cover just about every base regarding this kind of relationship dynamic (omitting, obviously, the Area Boyfriend's insistence on going as The Prisoner for Halloween, and the Area Girlfriend stating that she didn't know who that was), or the fact that this is pretty much the way I interacted with my girlfriends for most of my life.
And now, I will do the dance of shame. Again.
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