Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 29, 2009

Recycled reluctance.

You can’t break the food chain. Hey, is food the theme today?

Maybe he’s coming back as Danae’s father?

@Lord Dogmore - Surely he has never done anything bad enough to deserve that!

Let the punishment fit the crime.

“Now, what?”

That sums up life in a nutshell.

@ Steverino - how true!

Loved the strip today.

I know what next. He lands in southern California and gets filthy rich writing screenplays for the Coen brothers.

The next one will be called “O Brother, Could This Movie Get Any Sillier?”

Delightful silliness, though, and great music. Who but the Coen boys could put together a paean to both Homer and Appalachian music?

The real Soggy Bottom Boys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMEl5RGnfEc

and the man they learned it from, the real patron saint of bluegrass, Ralph Stanley (still performing at 82)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIpMJ7hizSs

ok, my question is this: Is there a Homer collection forthcoming, or, if it’s appeared in print before, where is it collected. (Hey I’m new to Non-Sequitur, I figger it don’t hurt to ask.) Thanks for a great strip

Aw heck, can’t the guy catch a nap and a shower before getting tossed back into it? No wonder he drags out his story for as long as possible!

Oh but Wiley, it would be wonderful reading/looking.

So once again Homer comes back to earth where he has to learn to grin and bear it.

Very cool story, thanks.

But, Wiley. even if you did have all the time in the world, in the world, in the world to create a Homer book, you’d still have to leave the final pages blank, blank, blank.

… and at some random Sunday in the future, Homer will once again appear.

Thanks again, Wiley, for the great story and awesome artwork.

If Homer always gets to be Phil’s lunch, is there someone in the karma chain who always makes Phil his living-room rug?

Thank You for the great story and wonderful art work !

Wiley, take your time, but please do the novel, collection or whatever. But please do it.

Jon Sequitur,

I’ve got an original 78rpm recording of “Man Of Constant Sorrow” by Emry Arther. He sounds nothing like George Clooney. ;-)

grin and bear it

Hey! No sneaking in ads for other strips.

Now just hop right on your pogo stick and you and your little pet fox trot right outta here before I throw a shoe at you

Never the end, only a new beginning…

Until we get it right?

can’t break the food chain reincarnation

Indeed. My avatar seems to have taken on a life of its own during this holiday weekend. From turkey to mostly carved up bird to pile of sandwiches to wishbone and now … well, see for yourself.

I had nothing to do with it. I think it was poultrygeists.

until we get right out of this world….

logos applies only on earth and in our imagination

do martians and such like…speak english

I like the intermittent Homersodes, unpredictability is a virtue. Save the book for your golden years so I can read ‘em on my Kindle XXIII or whatever in a decade or two. One of the things that makes the strip enjoyable besides the sardonic humor and the artwork is you never know what’s going to be there the next day.

Sorry the story is over. Well done Wiley.

I’ve really enjoyed this series…but seriously, why does it have to end with a bear eating Homer? If it was a lion it would make sense, but why is it always a bear? Bears don’t eat people - it might as well be a hippopotamus as far as I’m concerned (and that sounds funnier too =p)…

thanks for all of your wonderful work.

But Doctor Toon, religion does say we must be born again. And Paul Simon sings that we are born again and again.

Let’s not drag religion into this the same way politics does..

Like the man says, if it’s intentional fine. If not, STHU.

Maybe, in his next lifetime he’ll get lucky and come back as a cartoonist. Or Danae.

another great Homer episode Wiley………..

looking forward to the next

Most of what Ralph Stanley sings pre-dates bluegrass.

Jon Sequitur, Thanks for the uTube link–I spent a happy time there on this cold and blustery day. Cheers,

get lucky …come back as a cartoonist

Yah, all the fame, fortune, groupies –

Oxymoron Alert!

Sigh… .

Jon Sequitur, Thanks for the uTube link–I spent a happy time there on this cold and blustery day. Cheers

You’re most welcome. But - cold and blustery? Didn’t you get the global warming memo?

As far as the Stanley/Monroe discussion, I was raised not to speak ill of the dead, and being a folk musician (which I consider to include old time country, bluegrass, appalachian, gospel, etc.) I especially wouldn’t do that with a musician.

As I get older I tire of musical labels (my fault for using one here in the first place) but Ralph Stanley IMO isn’t primarily a bluegrass musician. I just threw that in as strictly my own personal opinion, and now I have to own up to it as such and look like whatever I look like for not “defending” it. So be it.

It wasn’t meant as sarcasm, I assure you, just a way to honor one of the heroes of my life, “Dr.” Stanley.

There is plenty of information out there about the difference in musical styles between the two, the focused, professional, what some have called (with no disrespect) “patented” style of the one, the more inclusive folk style of the other; the relations between the one and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band during the making of the definitive thransgenerational Bluegrass classic “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” album, the recognition by many artists of the other’s influence on their music and career …

Dr. Stanley’s music, and that of people like him, from Doc Watson to Cousin Minnie Pearl, had an enormous influence on my life, and not just my music. Not just their music, but the way they lived their lives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA5_P3LCXCs

That’s what I’m talkin’ about …

I love new beginnings…

Before anyone decides to appoint himself ‘Official Non Sequitur Self-Appointed Pre-Moderator And WIley Look-Alike Contest Weiner - Er, Winner’

”Before anyone decides to explain how reincarnation doesn’t jive [sic] with their own personal belief system

or ‘Self-Appointed Spokescritter For Everyone-Who-Reads-This-Page’s Opinion’

please don’t, we don’t care.” - Doctor Toon

Oops, too late.

In the words of the late great Emily Latella:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FnpaWQJO0

Dear Dr. Toon: the word is ‘jibe’. ‘Jive’ is what a turkey does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Kh7nLplWo

Most of what Ralph Stanley sings pre-dates bluegrass

Crabgrass too. The man’s older than dirt

Have felt quite lost thru this storyline… Prefer the O. DeSmog story… poor simple me…

I loved the story! First time I’ve ever read a Homer story as I only this year discovered NonS. Great story, well worth the wait to the end!

Aw heck, can’t the guy catch a nap and a shower before getting tossed back into it? No wonder he drags out his story for as long as possible!

Ever read “Prince Valiant”?

There are only two kinds of music. Music that is played well, and music that isn’t….the style is seasoning….

get lucky …come back as a cartoonist

Yah, all the fame, fortune, groupies –

Oxymoron Alert!

Hey, It beats being eaten by a bear. Which would you rather do? Be a cartoonist or be eaten by a bear?

Hey, It beats being eaten by a bear. Which would you rather do? Be a cartoonist or be eaten by a bear?

Well, me being an actual cartoon, and everybody knows you can’t kill a cartoon, even if you feed it to a bear, I’d rather be a cartoonist eaten by a bear, because that’d make a bangup animated cartoon, and I’d still be around to collect royalties on it.

Doncha think?

There are only two kinds of music. Music that is played well, and music that isn’t

“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” - Mark Twain

I tell ya, that feller had a mouth on him.

My ancestors didn’t call themselves “Cherokee” either. My father died, too, and also had absolutely nothing to do with Ralph Stanley.

Hey, theres the bear spirit, thanks Wiley!