Monty by Jim Meddick for October 14, 2022

Trendy-ish male.

Said “Sedgwick.”

Ah well. Not funny today. Hoping for better tomorrow. Call me bored.

Reminded me of the pleasure of reading “Moby Dick” for the first time.

It gets better.

Hahahahaha. That little kid is something else. I love the way he speaks his mind with a sense of entitlement. Look at his hand gesture in the last panel.

Not to be mistaken with “Mobile Dick” that starts with “Call me, Ishmael”

Good choice. Despite its generally accepted status as a classic, Moby Dick is garbage. The plot is heavily borrowed from the story of a real ship, the Essex, but with all of the interesting bits removed. This makes it so boring that even Melville himself doesn’t seem to have been able to concentrate on it, instead devoting almost half the book to barely-comprehensible ramblings about the role of whales in philosophy. It is one of the few “classics” that is better in its abridged versions; but, even then, you’d still be better off finding a properly-researched history of the Essex.

Although Sedgwick is an action figure, I see a book like “The Big Short”, or maybe “The Big Rich” to be his style.

Jarvis! Go get the Jack, Jane and Spot golden books for our little Sedgie to read. Perhaps he can comprehend those books better.

It wouldn’t have been worth it. Moby Dick is the most tedious slog I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading. Large sections are full of absolutely nothing

Like “Starbuck”? ☺

BTW, “Starbuck’s” got it’s name from “Moby Dick”:

https://www.tastingtable.com/873652/how-moby-dick-inspired-the-name-of-starbucks/

I was a high school teacher for many years until just recently. I dreaded the first day of school doing roll call and trying to pronounce some of the “new and trendy” names!

And Sedgwick ain’t a trendy name?

Reminds me of an air freshener. If I see one of those in somebody’s house, I unplug it and hide it in a drawer. I hate those things. So unnatural.

point is the name Ishmael is thousands of years old

Semi-agree with Sedgie. Have read “Moby Dick” (or as I prefer to call it “FOR GOD’S SAKE GET ON WITH IT, MELVILLE!”) twice; the second time just to ensure that it really does suck as much as I thought it did. And yes, if anything, it sucks even more than I’d remembered it sucking.

Somewhere along the line I was warned off of Moby-Dick because someone said it was about a particularly painful venereal disease.

—Said Sedgwick Nuttingham III. Sure. Okay….