Full Plate
Juggling, isn’t an easy activity…. both figuratively and literally. I don’t do multiple things at once very well. No, I’m I lousy multi-tasker… and I don’t play piano or guitar (where there’s strings and fingers on different strings… ahhh). Emily, on the other hand, would be a good multi-tasker… being a waitress/barista person (taking multiple orders, having multiple checks and payments) and a writer… (handling lots of pieces of information and plot-lines and such) … and Randie is like me… One thing at a time, if you please!
Brig,
I remember reading about a sort of (cult-following) famous writer. He lived in a small wooded mountain community where he had a status of an eccentric legend hero. He drank a lot, partied a lot and got stoned a lot. He was most popularly famous for creating the book and movie, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” So one day he decides he’s lived a full life and decides to kill himself but only after first throwing himself a goodbye suicide party with all his friends attending. Inevitably, the news media hears of it, and someone shows up to interview him one last time. Asked about how he came up with all of his ficitional characters and storylines, he responded with, there is no such thing as fiction; all writings are based on past experiences.
Stick: Is that a roundabout way of asking Brig if this strip is based on real life?
Astra,
I think we both know that it is. Also that writer, Hunter S. Thompson (I googled the book), was widely seen as a modern day John Steinbeck who in turn is very popular in Brig’s Salinas area (they have a musuem dedicated to him there) and also in nearby Monterey’s Cannery Row (there’s a bust of his head on a stone block there)/
While it is true that fiction has basis in real life, I don’t know any outrageously wealthy people. So that part of the Squid Saga is truly fiction on my part. (It seemed like a good plot twist). Randie, who is dirt poor, who is somewhat supported by her best friend, Ryan (who is comfortable in his own earnings) who is suddenly dating a ridiculously well-off woman with art & European ties. Sounds like fun, non? The European ties are based on my own traveling experience. The art, is well, is my background and interest, of course.
As far as Hunter S. Thompson… he apparently was a security guard at what is now Esalen Institute (then Big Sur Hot Springs)… and was fired for some unflattering comments (in a magazine article) describing Big Sur residents. But I am unfamiliar with his work and circumstances.