Dean Young
Dean Young
bad constant hair since though time update wardrobe year
We try to update Blondie's hair and wardrobe from time to time. Though Dagwood's bad hair day has been pretty much a constant since year one,
bosses challenges definitely eat fancy forgets huge marriage people rather relate resonate sandwiches settled
As they settled into marriage, 'Blondie' started to resonate with more people, ... Dagwood wasn't too different than a lot of guys. He forgets to take out the garbage. He'd rather eat one of his huge sandwiches than go out to any fancy restaurant. Hopefully, most people don't have bosses like Mr. Dithers but they could definitely relate to some of the challenges at the workplace.
basics children four raising
My four basics are eating, sleeping, raising children and making money,
count funny hard perfectly year
But it's hard to count 'Blondie' out, ... We do what we do. And we do it well. Year after year. The strip's just as funny now as it's ever been and, to be perfectly honest, just as popular.
comedic dad humor infuse inherited uniquely
My dad's comedic sensibilities were uniquely his own and very different from mine, ... But he was very good. He said if I should ever inherited the strip, he wanted me to infuse my own sense of humor into the strip. He wanted me to make it my own.
heart way pebbles
Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.
bird cages
Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.
want happy-endings cookbook
You want happy endings, read cookbooks.
mean errors mirrors
Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.
song lying coats
You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.
sleep want pages
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.
taken rain ugly-things
but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.
dream sleep writing
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.
moving life-is-hard darkness
You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.