Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 17, 2015

It’s amazing that Alex ever came into being.

Never, but never, criticise art while the artist is in hearing distance…

Must be an abstract.

The artist, actor, musician, playwright, or poet is the worst judge of their own creations. Often what they think is brilliant, is nothing short of dull. Conversely, that which they consider drek , is often a diamond.

Often those judging a creator’s work are abysmally wrong. I understand that those publishers who turned JK Rowling away when she laid Harry Potter on them are now in hiding, changed their names, or had complete reconstructive surgery. The bozo who told the Beatles that their work was second rate is hiding in a cave in the Canary Islands and when he comes out once a year there are still crowds of people heckling him (even now).

On the other hand, those that correctly turned down a stinker that someone else published sigh in relief.

Anton Chekhov attended a rehearsal of his famous play The Cherry Orchard being directed by the great Konstantin Stanislavsky, father of "method acting ". Chekhov was horrified by what he saw onstage.Running down the aisle of the theatre, he screamed at Stanislavsky : " What are you doing ? What are you doing ?I wrote a Russian farce, and you…you are directing a theatrical tragedy ! "

As the husband, he should look at it as long as possible, with the most interested possible look, and say, "this is extremely thought provoking’.

Two whole years… and she’s still hot.

Whereas I’m always impressed by my rantings and ravings…

Mike reminds me of a male friend whose ex-wife was like JJ, the hot girl he thought he’d never get. He’s still paying for overlooking her selfishness and self-absorption (which sends him to court about every 3 months…)

And so it began…

Or my favorite ….. Interesting.

The pull-handles on the drawers became knobs in the last frame. The slanted lines in the framed art change directions in the last frame.