Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 18, 2015

Poor Mike. Maybe J.J. can advise him on how to fake through certain situations.

They are in two different worlds.

That’s a good effort there, Mike. Couple more buzzwords and you’re good to go.

I once saw an exhibition of plywood boxes. I love reading about where janitors trash the “art exhibit”.

I don’t “get” modern art (modern==anything after impressionism), but in HS my textbook had a print of “Broadway Boogie-woogie” by Mondrian, and I got it! With the hint from the title, and the fact that I can recall the title and artist 35 years later tells you something.My cousin’s an artist, and his stuff is incomprehensible to me, though his fellows love it. To each his own.www. moma.org/collection/works/78682 (remove space)

Had a good friend, many, many years ago, who was a sculptor and worked with " junk" ( called recycled materials nowadays ).

He had a workshop/gallery on Martha’s Vineyard and used to love to listen to the tourists interpret and describe his works to their friends.

Although he would manage to keep a straight face, he found their views hilarious ( more so, if they purchased ).

He also believed that the higher the price on a piece, the faster it would sell.

He was absolutely correct.

Years ago I was going to yard/garage sales with a woman friend. I saw an antique radio and tried to bargain down the price but he wouldn’t budge. I had the woman try to bargain down the price by saying “the drip pan for the grid leak detector is missing” (grid leak is a type of demodulator use in early TRF radios). I had her do it because there was no way I’d have been able to do it with a straight face. He looked at the radio in back trying to see what was missing but still wouldn’t budge. I didn’t buy the radio.

You should have bought the damn radio cheapskate.

“of the, uh, paradox of desperation and hope in modern life.”

“Words fail me. All I can say is that it moves me.”.There was a scrap metal place in Pensacola on Palafox, just south of Texar. They commissioned an art piece looking like a disconnected crane dumping scrap. .The people who are there now have nothing to do with that business but we’ve all come to like it, so it remains.(I imagine Google Maps, street view would show it.)

@leftwingpatriot“Maybe J.J. can advise him on how to fake through certain situations”

Perhaps he figured it out by the time he met Kim.

If I remember correctly, the broken cups Mike is looking at is their wedding china.