deimosrising +23 -1
This strip's prose is absolutely gorgeous. Chris you're a genius dogg

sredni +1 -0
Aye. 'In a land ravaged by terror'

chaesar +4 -0
That is some very decent Douglas Coupland.

crinklebat +3 -0
I agree. He nailed Coupland, to the point where I feel like if Coupland himself read this he might burst into tears.

godfatherofsouls +0 -0
hah, that jerk went to my school

randombeing +6 -0
Authors who capture the zeitgeist are BIG JERKS.

genequagmire +0 -0
I am given to understand that pod six is also of said persuasion.

rearadmiral +0 -0
total suckpod.

godfatherofsouls +1 -0
zeitgeist shitegeist, you wanna capture the spirit of our last 50 years of generations, watch eraserhead.

epicurus +17 -0
very enjoyable. WOULD READ AGAIN.

closefriend +9 -0
Onstad, your Michael Chabon is so dead-on.

invidious +3 -0
It's also extra-funny considering how much Michael Chabon's novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ripped off E.L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime .

straw +4 -0
5 for Coupland's ellipses

lux +2 -0
by now he just talks that way.

keithcozz +0 -0
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evolume +0 -0
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saddestking +0 -0
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saddestking +3 -0
gawrsh this was a bad comment and i need to lay off the sauce

greenkoolayd +0 -0
that was fucking hilarious! chuppy for you!

johnnyrocker +3 -1
It is okay to say when it's a misfire, but I don't think it's necessary on this one...

dreamerman91 +0 -0
favorite story so far

presterjohn +0 -1
Michael Chabon would not use the verb 'charmed' in this fashion. Still a good strip.

rowboat +0 -0
Can you believe that you actually wrote that? Wow.

fineoakstructure +0 -0
Maybe he's Michael Chabon...!

rowboat +0 -0
Get him! Get him! Catch him!!

mystkmanat +0 -0
prester john?!? i think someone was looking for you...

samodrei +0 -0
He is shaking with surpirse/shock

dougthehead +0 -0
Anyone else find it funny that Michael Chabon is commenting on music? And I agree with closefriend- the Chabon impression is dead-on.

riazm +0 -0
Man I honestly can't imagine what Ray's music sounds like. Anyone?

minortough +0 -0
Check yesterdays comments, theres a link to the line in "Ass In Your Pants"

drskradley +0 -0
Ray's song was the most important of the year.

deusoma +0 -0
So apparently I'm the only person here who has no idea who Douglas Coupland or Michael Chabon are.

bixschmix +4 -0
Correct. Go forth to your local library.

gmm +0 -0
Two of my favourite writers. And lo, Onstad does a very good impression of both.

donnatron +0 -0
I don't either. But Achewood has helped introduce me to many new intrigues...these writers won't be the first, nor will they be the last.

charchar +2 -0
Somewhere, lucifer steeples his fingers...and waits.

lux +2 -0
lucifer enjoys verbal irony the most out of all the ironies.

brokeaccount +1 -0
In the frozen desserts section at Whole Foods, apparently.

josearcadio +1 -2
haha michael chabon lol

l_c_b +0 -0
It's always great when Onstad does his "impressions" of writers. The Chabon bit is more Chabon...um...Chabon-ariffic than Chabon himself.

fineoakstructure +0 -1
This kind of reminds of when music critics try to make it sound like a new Justin Timberlake album is one of the top 10 albums of the year.

Hey, you can like the guy if you want, but his album cannot be important.

farqussus +0 -0
why not? he might actually have talent.

he might!

woodenteeth +6 -0
Justin Timberlake has bucketloads of talent, and he vomits it into a funnel that dribbles it into production line Music-In-A-Can. The product is confusingly well made but entirely without nutrition.

tekende +0 -0
This is astute. However guilty I may feel about it, I do very much enjoy Future Sex Love Sounds.

tekende +0 -0
Also, anyone who thinks Justin Timberlake doesn't possess talent needs to watch the Youtube videos him hosting the Espy awards. Shit is so cash .

fineoakstructure +0 -0
oh JESUS CHRIST you kids today (I'm looking at you, farq and wt). There's probably 20 kids in every town across the US of A who can sing and dance like that mama's boy. It's talent, sure, but not unique talent. He's a pretty boy who can dance, charm, and choose actual talented people to help make his music.

He is the male Madonna.

Like I said, that doesn't mean the music can't be enjoyed, but if your artistic raison d'etre is to "bring the sexxy back," then, no, you're not important.

woodenteeth +0 -0
Dear FOS,

1) No one here was arguing that he's important. 2) I agree and share your ire. 3) Future of the Left is a more than satisfying replacement for McClusky.

fineoakstructure +0 -0
Yeah, it was more of a "rant to the general public" and to that one person who lamed me 5 months ago.

woodenteeth +0 -0
Hilarious, I just realised, after reading your original comment that this whole thread stemmed from farq debating your "important" debate with a "talent" comment. As you were.

farqussus +0 -0
Conceded, talent and importance can be mutually exclusive

tekende +0 -0
I have talent but I am totally not important.

rowboat +0 -0
I am hugely important but have little or no talent.

tekende +0 -0
I didn't say it was unique. I didn't say it was art. Just, he has talent. Loads of it. Could it be better used? Sure. But it's there.

tripleg +0 -0
i, for one, certainly look forward to the amazing come-back album that is sure to follow his inevitable fall from grace

nek314 +1 -0
It's silly to like Justin Timberlake! Really, you shouldn't like Justin Timberlake.

troy_convers +2 -0
Try reading the text in your mind in the style of James Earl Jones (especially the Time review)...INTENSE!!!

nice-on-water +0 -0
Who asked Chabon?