Comments on: TOM THE DANCING BUG: Partying Down at the Dance, Louis-Style

By: hogan

hogan — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:05:00 +0000

hmmm that’s not very civil, rich.

By: fett101

fett101 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:35:00 +0000

Don’t forget to take into account that time is a four corner cube.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:24:00 +0000

And… scene.

By: Barry Bolton

Barry Bolton — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:16:00 +0000

Bolling is unearthing all of the sentences I’ve unconsciously cut from the story of my life. Asshole.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:55:00 +0000

I don’t deny a certain necessity to what you say.

By: PrivatizeThis

PrivatizeThis — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:51:00 +0000

The best way to be is to be. That holds true in three, four, or ten dimensions. Eleven if you throw in time.

By: Oka

Oka — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:00 +0000

I have a visceral memory of being at a middle school dance, seemingly everyone except me having fun (’cause, of course, I was too self-conscious to notice the 30 other Louises like me along the walls) — when Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again on My Own” comes on, and I have my first-ever moment feeling like I’m in my own little cliché music video. Older siblings should really form rescue squads to whisk all the Louises from these dances and go play video games.

If I could go back in time I’d find myself at one of my miserable high school dances and say, “What are you doing wasting your time here? You’re supposed to be with all the artsy kids in someone’s basement smoking pot and watching Pink Floyd ‘The Wall’ !”

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:00 +0000

The unconscious motivation behind all writing is to attempt to remove psychological/linguistic repression and suppression. As defined by psychiatry these terms really make no sense – there is in fact nothing nasty in the unconscious which needs to be forgotten – quite a lot about language and physics actually, a sense of ten/eleven dimensional universes and twenty-six dimensional universes. Drugs, dancing, writing are all trying to achieve the same thing. Which works best? In this respect writing is ultimately a very poor substitute for oral codes. Are you so sure that the ideologically motivated search for information (while the unconscious is unavailable) does not produce all kinds of hallucinatory and undesirable side effects? I am not.

By: PrivatizeThis

PrivatizeThis — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:55:00 +0000

Lay off the Derrida. Lay off the drugs. Go dancing. Problems solved.

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:41:00 +0000

Your mileage may vary.

By: eyebeam

eyebeam — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:46:00 +0000

Yes, I think you’re on to something there. The irony is that Louis is the only one watching, instead of participating, so it is only he who cares that Myron looks like a “dork.” When Myron was participating, he didn’t care.

By: phuzz

phuzz — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:57:00 +0000

Especially if you roll your own ciggies, gives you whole minutes when you can legitimately not participate in the conversation. My lungs wish I wasn’t so introverted…

By: H.K. Anders

H.K. Anders — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:43:00 +0000

Another great one, Reuben.

By: Andrew Burnard

Andrew Burnard — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:30:00 +0000

I totally forgot about school dances. Rueben re remembers my own memories for me!

(one day later) Oh, I just realized I misspelled Ruben

By: Promethean Sky

Promethean Sky — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:51:00 +0000

I’m lucky enough to have friends that will physically drag me out on the dance floor when I’m being a Louis.

Not ‘oh come on’ dragging either, feet up off the floor dragging.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:50:00 +0000

This is all so depressingly sad. It is one of the most basic and necessary of human instincts to dance and let go. Psychologically it does you so much good. Speed, trips gabber and speedcore is my favourite. Drugs aren’t cheating but you need not to be afraid to let go with them either. Instead the only movement which the West invests with real psychological significance is the ritual rearrangement of words ‘where in the waste is the wisdom?’ – a cabbalistic dead end. (I feel like saying fuck Derrida here. That is unfair. He describes the problem from the point of view of a sufferer. But he is not the problem.)

By: Promethean Sky

Promethean Sky — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:43:00 +0000

It didn’t strike me as him trying to pull his friend down. It seems to me that his fear is that he’d look like a dork dancing, and is trying to ‘help’ his friend avoid that as well. Which only make the situation more sad.

By: hogan

hogan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:08:00 +0000

wow – the comments r better than the comic that inspired the comments…

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:52:00 +0000

I have an ax wound to my knee, but I used the excuse long before that. Fucking lamp genie; it doesn’t count if it doesn’t start with, “I wish…”

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:33:00 +0000

I don’t think there’s supposed to be a joke. It evokes an emotional response that strikes deeper than a joke does – if you’re the type of person who relates to Louis and who did similar things at high school dances.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:31:00 +0000

You need a couple of drinks (in my case more than a couple), and you need to be dancing in the vicinity of girls. If said girls don’t end up dancing with you after a couple minutes, it’s time to give up.

The only times I’ve enjoyed dancing were when I was with a girlfriend, or girlfriend-to-be. Otherwise it’s miserable :)

By: Metostopholes

Metostopholes — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:15:00 +0000

I used to be a good dancer, then I took an arrow in the knee.

By: jennybean42

jennybean42 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:47:00 +0000

thanks, that actually made my day!
Especially since my 5 year old son is getting too cool to dance with him mom. :-)

By: zombiebob

zombiebob — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:58:00 +0000

Aquaman’s fishiness lol

By: eyebeam

eyebeam — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:09:00 +0000

I think you’ve pegged it. Living in his head.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:37:00 +0000

I’ve spent my life telling people that I have a bad knee. It’s much easier than trying to explain that I don’t want to participate in their sublimated mating rituals.

By: joe k.

joe k. — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:59:00 +0000

I still don’t get dancing. Some people, women mostly, think it’s the most awesome, most super fun thing to do EVER: dress up and go out dancing with your girlfriends YAY!!! BEST THING EVER! YAY!!!!

But even now that I get that yeah, it’s kind of interesting to move to the beat of the music, there’s SO many other things I would rather do with my time…

By: Moriarty

Moriarty — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:08:00 +0000

Louis is comment sections everywhere.

By: Ben Ehlers

Ben Ehlers — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:56:00 +0000

I wish someone was around to make me read a comment like this every time I carelessly forget the pain I can so casually inflict on a young kid.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:38:00 +0000

Wow, your uncle’s a jerk. And on his wedding day, no less. I’ve been uncling since I was eight years old, to four nieces and six nephews, and I can’t remember a time or circumstance under which I’d be too busy to cut a 30-second rug with one of them.

Tonight, my four-year-old daughter and I will do the Time Warp in your honor.