Wow…. this strip just made me remember a young neighbor of mine….long ago, when, as students, we both were renting shabby but cheap apartments near campus…He invited me over one night for some wine…and I discovered he’d painted his walls black…. to the delight of his landlord, I’m sure..and had lots of black lights shining on his poster collection. While he played his two “Deep Purple” albums over and over, he told me how, as a kid, he’d built a huge model train layout.Now, at about 21, he liked to burn up the little buildings, in miniature house fires…He showed me the model fire trucks that he liked to place at the scenes.But he’d run out of houses…so he was building some more…to burn up!To save money, he said, he was making them HO scale instead of O…so he was going to have to buy an HO fire truck.Seriously creepy!Haven’t thought of him in years.Wonder what prison he ended up in…
Wow…. this strip just made me remember a young neighbor of mine….long ago, when, as students, we both were renting shabby but cheap apartments near campus…He invited me over one night for some wine…and I discovered he’d painted his walls black…. to the delight of his landlord, I’m sure..and had lots of black lights shining on his poster collection. While he played his two “Deep Purple” albums over and over, he told me how, as a kid, he’d built a huge model train layout.Now, at about 21, he liked to burn up the little buildings, in miniature house fires…He showed me the model fire trucks that he liked to place at the scenes.But he’d run out of houses…so he was building some more…to burn up!To save money, he said, he was making them HO scale instead of O…so he was going to have to buy an HO fire truck.Seriously creepy!Haven’t thought of him in years.Wonder what prison he ended up in…