Randies Lament
Whenever I get really emotional… I get my words all jumbled up and I cease to speak in full sentences. So… AIL here.
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Whenever I get lost for words, I punch something/one. Fortunately since I’ve gotten talking to a bunch of philosophers I’m getting way better at expressing myself, but it still happens pretty often when I’m just plain old confused.
……. and reading that reminds me why people don’t often like talking to me face to face!
I’ve always known what to say. And THAT has gotten me into endless trouble.
Pete, wisdom is always knowing what to say. And when NOT to say it. That’s why I love Toastmasters – it has helped me learn how to focus my thoughts & say them “more better” than I could before…
I get you. I’m normally fairly eloquent, but when I get excited or frustrated, I start speaking in single-word sentences.
Or stalking.
Stream of consciousness?
Lady Jenn… carrying around a portable punching bag may prove useful… HA… maybe one of those you could buy in the back of comic books in the 70’s… blow ups in the shape of Batman or Superman or whatever! Ha Ha!
Pete/Rich… the art of conversation is truly an art form. The art of holding one’s tongue is relatively unexplored… for many.
chug… I love the word “eloquent”… it is something society today is in dire need of… just turn on MTV and see what I mean (but why would you WANT to?… turn on MTV, that is).
Jack… stalking…. who? Should Randie stalk Ryan? Mouse is a bit of a stalker…
Yat… Randie maybe dabbling in surrealist activities. SHe could probably draw a really good picture of what she’s TRYING to say…
Oh yeah?! Well, Ryan, you should, uh, have a second career in shutting-the-hell-up!
Dada… pretty harsh.. bet then again… you are, I mean you write, for the World’s best/worst super villain… You gots to have a potty mouth for that.
I understand Randie completely. I’m dealing with some pretty big family issues right now including an upcoming funeral where I will have to deal with extended family members that I haven’t seen since I was a child.
Most of that side of the family considers me and my moms side of the family to be the black sheep and the only reason I don’t give them all a full piece of my mind is because it would upset my mother.
She will have enough to deal with in regards to burying her baby brother. She doesn’t need me getting all tongue tied because I’m angry and wanting to shout obscenities at my other aunts and their respective husbands.
I just hate the way that they treat her like she’s less than them, when she was the only one of the family willing to take in and help my uncle when he got cancer.
She’s the one who’s been through everything with him, and now that all they can do is make him comfortable and wait for the end the rest of the family has shown up to bicker and fight over what he will leave behind while shutting my mother out like she’s unwanted and unneeded.
When I think about it all my brain just boils up with emotion and I can’t speak strait to save my life, so even if it wouldn’t upset my mother for me to actually tell them all what I think of them, I know that I wouldn’t be able to articulate any of it very well and would just wind up sounding like an idiot.
Wow… Sorry about venting all of that in your forum Brig. Feel free to delete it.
lady jenn: you are talking to philosophers and doing LESS punching? how can that be?
brig: i notice that randie’s speech would leave strunk and white (of accursed memory) aghast, but what she’s trying to communicate is perfectly clear. take that, prescriptivists!
@ Gramy Pashakitty: If it helps, I’ve always found that reminding myself people aren’t WORTH hating keeps me relatively sane. Hate and anger take a lot out of you (TRUST me!), and really…… are these the people you want to expend energy on? I think you can do better than that. There’s more worthwhile people to do things for and you will feel infinitely better when you realize the outcome is more positive. (Speaking as someone who ALWAYS takes the worst option except for a very few recent examples).
@ Anatman: The philosophers I know are people who actually are real philosophers. They are people who try to understand how people think. They didn’t get up on a high horse with me and make me feel like a big dumb brute like…… oh…… everyone else. They aren’t PLEASANT, but they are HONEST, and they actually care about what my opinions are and encourage me to fight for them rather than making me feel like an idiot whose only option IS to fight for my opinions. Having learned that it’s just one option rather than my only one, I have been trying new ones with mixed success…… but more importantly, I know I’m not being stupid for using my strength for what I believe is important now. I’ve also learned that not everything I used to think was important is actually important……. see my suggestion to Gramy Pashakitty above, for example.
Oh yeah, and @ Brig: I used to have a Boppo the Clown inflatable when I was a kid. That poor bean-bag…… I’ve since graduated to proper boxing, but unfortunately the heavy bag is far from portable!
Randie’s hair is looking quite awesome in this strip.