Dean Young
Dean Young
fall errors dumbasses
Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.
sea enough slaughterhouses
Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
block believe writing
I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.
mean had-enough too-much
Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.
spring feelings ordinary
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
iron odd platypus
A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.
oddities lobster looks
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.
dad funny kitchen took wealthy
Wealthy playboys and flappers just weren't funny anymore, ... So (dad) got them married, and (Dagwood) was disowned by his millionaire daddy. When they got into the kitchen and started having kids, it took off like a rocket.
addition amazing anniversary biggest blondie characters comedy domestic face follows funny guest party plan storyline trials
The anniversary storyline is quintessential 'Blondie,' ... It follows the trials and tribulations that Blondie and Dagwood face as they plan their anniversary party, the biggest party ever to take place on the funny pages. Their domestic comedy is only accentuated by the addition of so many amazing characters on the guest list.
looking people
People are always looking to see if they're in it, ... It's pretty fun.
blondie three
I think the durability of Blondie has to do with three things,
bless cast characters created dominant genius god job left monkey wonderful work
God bless my daddy, ... He was the genius who created this wonderful menagerie of characters. A monkey could do my job with the characters I have to work with. He left me this cast of characters and this dominant gene.
certain dad eating funny hair intrinsic realized sticking
How could he not? ... Look at his head: He's got all that hair sticking out. My dad realized he had certain intrinsic qualities, his hair, his eating habits. A lot of funny idiosyncrasies.
coming dad fun laughter remember strip
As a kid, I remember my dad working on the strip, ... There'd always be just roars of laughter coming from his studio. The strip was fun for him and I think that sense of fun was infectious.