Comic strip?

My contribution to the realm of questionably funny comics. Click on the image to see full size. This is a work in progress...

Design Within Reach

My wife and I have a running argument about Design Within Reach. Design Within Reach is a furniture store that features stylish modern furniture. We are both fans of this particular style and always look through the new catalogue when it comes in the mail. The argument pretty much always goes the same way, I start ranting and raving about the "within reach" part of the name. $1,900 chairs and $18,000 couches are hardly "within reach" for most people. Her argument, which sounds remarkably like their company line, is that pieces from the great designers of our times are virtually inaccessible for most people because one would have to know someone to even be able to get an appointment with them. Even if this is true, it begs the question, what does "within reach" really mean. I think that you have to be rich no matter what to own the majority of the stuff they sell. Two designers featured in the catalogue, Charles/Ray Eames and Isamu Noguchi did in fact make affordable furniture for the masses when they were alive. I don't know, it just seems ridiculous to sell a chair that costs a third of the average person's yearly salary and that is hardly "within reach"

Sunday Funnies

Are the sunday comics supposed to be funny? For the life of me, I don't see much humor. Granted, my sense of humor may not be the best, but half of the comic strips don't seem to even have a punchline. You know it's a problem when Doonesbury makes the most sense in all of the sunday funnies. Perhaps it's generational but I think there has to be more to it than that. This stuff isn't even corny.

It's too bad Boondocks is gone. That, I got. And I do like La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz.