So, is Mark Slackmeyer being a dick, or is Garry Trudeau being a dick?

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Man, I like old music. I like Cole Porter. What the fuck is this guy's problem anyway - it's okay to want to live in the past as long as it's the exact era that he approves of?

Shut the fuck up, Garry, or possibly Mark.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

It's a little bit of both. Mark has always been a gigantic music snob in the most inappropriate sense (there was a strip during the disco where he completely blasts Donna Summer for no good reason other than needling his boss).

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Here's a link!

It's an issue of credibility more than anything - not the music, but the performer (i.e. some image-switching trend-hopper trying to make the buck). Not that I don't agree w/ the "shut the fuck up" sentiment - if Rod Stewart wants to play the Copa, then godspeed and leave the 20-year-olds alone you dirty turd.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Good catch, though - this is the first of the week (and the first in a long time) where Trudeau is letting his prejudices carry the punchline for him. It's crossed the line from making fun of Jimmy to making fun of the music.

Probably not coincidentally, it's the first week for a long time when I couldn't actually remember what was happening in Doonesbury until I went to read it.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I actually didn't mind the Monday and Tuesday strips too much, because as Daver said - they were more about the desperate fad-chasing. But the idea that "I Love Paris" is such a vile song shows that someone's taste is all in their mouth.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

The underlying subtext here is a younger Yale grad taking potshots at an older, sacred-cow Yale grad.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahahahahahahaha SET-UP AND SPIKE!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Well played, sah!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Even though the execution was a little off, you've got to admire someone who will go out of their way in a daily to be increasingly antagonistic and dickish in order to completely punk the people blindly going "YEAH!" along with the dickish character.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

I have to admit I got trolled there. I feel like I should be scaled, gutted and fried up with butter and garlic.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Ha - first he alienated the yay-Bush right, now he's alienating the yay-granola left!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

What is up with the drawing of Thudpucker? He's practically cross-eyed in a few panels, and his face is throwing itself around like an amoeba.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

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