Botherer

Brian’s Guide To Disguises

by John Walker on Mar.26, 2006, under Brian

9 Comments for this entry

  • Mr Chris
    March 28th, 2006 on 10:00

    Is it just me that’s finding that this works on two levels?

  • Mr Chris
    March 28th, 2006 on 12:02

    Ah. My bad for breaking the rules. Sorry. I go now.

  • Tim R
    March 29th, 2006 on 08:42

    There, you see. You’ve scared him away now, and he was only trying to say he really liked the cartoon.

  • admin
    March 29th, 2006 on 09:06

    It’s very important the rules be followed. But I would still like to know what levels he means.

  • Mr Chris
    March 30th, 2006 on 10:52

    Well, more than two actually, now I come to think of it.

    There’s the obvious “method acting applied to an inanimate object” style level. Funny.

    It could be taken to be an homage to the new series on Living TV “Criminal Minds”, which started just before the cartoon was posted. So there’s the level upon which it could be a knowing nod to the latest down-market installment of the country’s obsession with crime dramas.

    There’s the schoolboy “hehe, bush” level. Droll, but, be honest, still funny. In the same way that the words “bum” or “flange” are automatically amusing.

    Then there’s the Sun Tzu “know the enemy and know yourself” level, for those saddo geek wargames players, like myself.

    And then finally there’s the level on which it is a pisstake of the American self help culture, and the innumerable books like “think like the buyer for success”, “learn to think like the CEO of your own career” and so on.

    At least one or two of those are vacuous and/or mainstream, I suppose. But just because something’s obvious, vacuous or mainstream doesn’t make it a bad thing. That’s like saying people shouldn’t like the Coors. Which would be madness.

  • admin
    March 30th, 2006 on 22:05

    I agree, I quite like the taste of Coors, even though it’s brewed by an evil Republican funding corporation. By the by, to like the Irish catawauling tripefest the Corrs would clearly be the very worst kind of madness, beyond the help of modern medicine.

    Re interpretations: I prefer to misquote Barthes and argue for the Death of the Cartoonist, and leave its meaning in your capable hands.

  • Mr Chris
    March 31st, 2006 on 10:24

    Not wishing to appear base, but I can’t help but feel the world would be an infinitely worse place without fantasies of a Coors sisters sandwich.

  • Mr Chris
    March 31st, 2006 on 13:07

    “Corrs”.

    Damnit.