RIP Rodney Dangerfield

I expect there will be editorial cartoons about Rodney Dangerfield this week. But really, the most fitting would have to wait until next week...

One panel: Rodney Dangerfield addressing an audience atop a cloud or such. "I'm ok now but last week I was in rough shape..."

Unicorn Jelly - new, but familiar

Credit to melskunk for pointing out Unicorn Jelly.

"Unicorn Jelly is a philosophical science fiction manga strip which tells a metaphoric and purposeful story with a definitive beginning and ending."

Despite that description, it's actually good. I looked at it, expecting to have it look like the typical manga (either overly cute or bletcherously oooogley) and instead saw a rather well-drawn comic with a decent storyline. I'm at comic #520 or so (start at the beginning and give it, say, 14 comics, before deciding) and it's still interesting, though there are now enough characters and twists that I can get a bit lost from time to time. Perhaps if I hadn't read all that in pretty much one sitting last night, it would have helped.

There was something familiar, though, it is a possible spoiler, so...

( Spoiler? )

"Magic" seems to work, but that's not a sure thing - it could be simply unexplained physics of the world. Some suspension of disbelief is required to deal with how the UJ universe operates, but since the "magic" is left open, it's only one thing and has driven the plot.

A pre-disbanded band

I'm pondering starting a musical group. The gimmick would be the intentional drifting into dissonance during a performance. I have the ideal name for it, too: Opporknockity. After all, "Opporknockity tunes but once."

Whoops, there already is a group calling themselves Opporknockity. Well, so much for that idea. (And Min-"Tune it or die!"-strosity heaves a collective sigh of relief...)