I've been thinking about Tom Hank's movie castaway. He gets stuck on a desert island,and slowly goes mostly mad from isolation and loniness. he copes, but it's tough.
This is the theme that vonnegut talks a lot about in his books. Vonnegut lives in this town and once did a reading in this coffeeshop, but he's not very social. I should be careful to avoid these digr
guess i file this one under cerebus syndrome
digressions because there's not enough room for text in a comic, so now I can't finish my thought, unless i extend another three panels.
anyway.. see it's snowing outside, so i cant do the social things i planned tonight.. we are all castaways, living lives brutally apart from each other.
So we make comics,and blog,and write songs, and drink too much, or not enough.
For those of you who skipped solipcism 101 back in junior college...
It's an evolutionary psychology thing. Some of us are part of the herd, others are loners who don't need the herd, but some of us go through life feeling like outcasts, cut off and cast away. So we ma
