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kaffypants replied to your post: I had a dream that somebody at a party kept asking…

Did you get Matt’s and my voicemail?

I just heard it now, but I could only understand every other word. My phone never rang, so I didn’t know I had a missed call or anything.

kaffypants replied to your post: kaffypants replied to your post: (slight Watchmen…

Interesting. Did I ever mention how morally enraged the Watchmen movie made me? I got into very heated arguments about it with Dexter and Antny. I still hold a grudge against it.

Haha no I don’t think you told me that. I’m curious as to the context of your outrage, you should message me about it.

kaffypants replied to your post: (slight Watchmen spoiler if you somehow still…

Who is he?

(more Watchmen spoilers)

In the book there is a recurring character that walks around in the background (often foreground) on the streets holding a sign that says “The End is Nigh.” I can’t remember if they put him in the movie, but that’s Rorschach out of costume. In the first half or so of the book he appears several times, and each time there is something to imply that he is Rorschach.  Examples:

• The first chapter starts off with panels showing where The Comedian died with excerpts from Rorschach’s journal layed over the tops of the panels, as the perspective moves up and up with each panel. The red headed man walks through the scene holding his sign. At this point, we haven’t seen Rorschach before, and if you’re the kind who reads comics really closely, it’s framed in such a way that might make you think that the red headed man with the sign is the person writing the journal, but the perspective keeps pulling back until you’ve forgotten about him and the scene moves on to the detectives investigating the murder.
• Later in the same chapter, the two detectives are walking down the street talking. As soon as the topic jumps to Rorschach, the red headed man appears in the background of the panel. As they walk by him, one of the detectives shivers. He says “Nothing, it was just a chill…” or something like that in a panel that prominently features the red headed man’s face in the foreground.
• In the second chapter, the red headed man with the sign can be seen standing in the rain outside of the Comedian’s funeral. There is a panel of him watching Moloch walk away from the funeral by himself. A page or two later, Rorschach shows up unannounced at Moloch’s house and says he “heard” he had been at Comedian’s funeral.

There are tons of moments like this. Not to mention there are several panels that feature Rorschach with his mask pulled up so he can eat beans or whatever, and you can see half the dude’s face and it’s clear who he is if you’ve been paying attention. But the red-headed sign guy is really just a background character who never actually DOES anything, and the first time I read it I assumed he had more of a symbolic significance than an actual role in the story. When you go back and read it a second or third time, you obviously notice him more since you know who he’s supposed to be, and then all of these clues become painfully obvious. They’re probably obvious to a lot of people on the first time too, but I don’t think I was doing a very detailed read the first time.

kaffypants replied to your photo: I wish notes on original works could somehow be…

Nice job. Is that your highest ever?

For something I actually wrote, yes. I’ve gotten more notes on videos and pictures that I’ve found elsewhere. That Bill Murray video I posted a month or two back got close to 10,000 notes, I think that’s the best I’ve done.

kaffypants replied to your post: After a disastrous day yesterday, I am at the…

You burn down the storage unit?

Oh most definitely!

kaffypants replied to your post: kaffypants replied to your photo Is that one of…

I have been walking past them lately and there are ones with Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Tony Hawk, and Missy Elliott. Can’t recall the other ones at the moment. Can I also take this time to express the fact that Franken is a huge jackass?

He was kind of a jackass when he was my gym teacher so that doesn’t surprise me too much. I still liked him better than Mancowsky, though he wasn’t as much fun to mess with.

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Is that one of the posters from the WY library?

I just found the picture online, though we definitely had those READ posters in the library, so we could have had the Nic Cage one. I honestly spent very very little time in Whitney Young’s library. If I needed to do research I usually just went to Sulzer or Harold Washington.

kaffypants replied to your post: baconistasty replied to your post: Biggest house…

Number one: moths?

Yes, I still hate those things, though not as much as I used to, probably because I rarely see any big ones in the city. If I saw one in my room as big as that centipede I recently killed, I would definitely flip the fuck out, though.

kaffypants replied to your post: Juncles

Except Tyrion would be a combo of “jape” and “nuncle.”

HAHA yes exactly

kaffypants replied to your post: If you do a Google image search for “John Belushi…

No it isn’t.

That’s because you’re five days behind on everything I post.