Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for May 04, 2023

Japanese anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1rEg5zSnM0

The only reason I have not saved this specific comic to my favorites, is that I think I have very likely previously done so. Just SO GOOD. One of the best Rob & Bucky conversations ever.

Bucky’s mind would be a terrible place to be.

Ha ha … as a Chopin enthusiast … imagining him bombed out on cough syrup .. great image Bucky!

So the Marche Funèbre was just a fever dream? That must be why the Green Acres theme turns up in the middle.

Hauntingly beautiful. Japanese music traditionally uses a 5 toned scale. Western ears expect a tonic-dominant relationship (that sense of tension and release, like the end of a verse). The pentatonic scale allows any note to be ‘home’.

It is slower than expected but a lovely melody.

I’ve read much worse from people who actually make a living writing music criticism.

Some of the things that Darby comes up with are hilarious, as in the description of Japan’s national anthem!

I remember this one when it ran in the papers. I clipped it and had it under my clear desk mat. This is at least the 3rd time around that I have seen it.

So what happened to Fungo and the door?

Needs a second movement

The world’s most bigoted creature isn’t a human. It’s a cat.

Calvin needs to replace Hobbes with Bucky. That would be a pair to write about! Endless stories!

I prefer the Brisbane Lions’ repurposing of the French National Anthem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2OnZG6VnJk

My brother has part of this plot printed out and taped to his bedroom door, the upcoming part about Peru and Belgium.