John Buys a Car Part IV
Ben Horanium, the model train builder. aprilp_katje mentioned him today in a reference to a post she had done back in August. I could not remember if he was real or not, so I googled and found “April’s Real Blog” and the Chaos Theory blog site http://fullmoon.typepad.com/chaos/2005/week31/ which had several quotes from April’s Real Blog back in the days when Howard had just recently attacked Elizabeth. There were a lot of funny quotes from aprilp_katje and qnjones and eeknight (posting as Anthony) and phatsmacky (posting as Michael). I don’t know if I needed a reminder today that things on April’s Real Blog used to be a lot more active, particularly today when I clocked in my 3 posts from my three characters early in the morning (my time) and waited and waited for someone else to write something in. One of my personal quirks with respect to this endeavour is that I do not like to add posts from the same character(s) who had the last post. In other words, I like them to give other characters a chance to respond. aprilp_katje was up a lot earlier than usual today, so I suspect she had something going on, which kept her busy.
Of course the other big difference from then was that when Howard attacked Elizabeth, that was something. There was some action and the characters were firing on all cylinders. People were interested in what was going to happen next. There has been nothing as interesting since. But there has been potential. Wasted potential. For example, when April and Becky broke up, that could have been a huge battle and lots of hurt feelings. Instead they are still talking, while April continues grumbling. Another example, Elly decides to retire. John and Elly could have had a little argument over this, over things like “You’re just starting to make a profit and you want to quit?” Another example, Melville Kelpfroth gets into a shoving match with Mike over the magazine article, broken up by Lovey. Another example, April and Gerald go on a date, by themselves and April has to stop Gerald from going further than she wants to go.
The characters:
Howard K. Today Howard did a little joke on the Flashpoint BRP 500, by riffing off the word flashpoint. That was my favourite post of the day. I have introduced the concept again of people believing Howard is taken, so he is not approached by the gay community who has seen Howard semi-naked for weeks now. In real life, by now Howard would have been approached by someone who wanted to take his equipment for a test drive. However, Howard lives with Becky, and it is difficult to make sexually active Howard work when those activities would occur in close proximity to Becky. Howard is going to be celibate for awhile.
Constable Paul Wright. I had the good constable try to understand the strip implications of why John has to buy a car, which is not the one he would prefer. Coming from a blue collar background, Paul has no concept of the stuff Elly puts John through. David Miller is the mayor of Toronto, in case you wondered where that name came from.
Jeremy Jones. His Z-girl riff was based on susannamoodie’s Zandra Larson post where she mentions 4 Z-girls. 2 of them are never before mentioned in the Zandra Larson blog. 2 have been mentioned before in connection with another previously mentioned Z-girl. That was the source of that whole business. Jeremy Jones also recounted his girlfriend Dirne’s triumph over the A-girls. I will probably conclude that little story tomorrow.
Tomorrow’s strip: Gordon doesn’t sell cars. He sells relationships. That’s a pretty limited set of clients.
Of course the other big difference from then was that when Howard attacked Elizabeth, that was something. There was some action and the characters were firing on all cylinders. People were interested in what was going to happen next. There has been nothing as interesting since. But there has been potential. Wasted potential. For example, when April and Becky broke up, that could have been a huge battle and lots of hurt feelings. Instead they are still talking, while April continues grumbling. Another example, Elly decides to retire. John and Elly could have had a little argument over this, over things like “You’re just starting to make a profit and you want to quit?” Another example, Melville Kelpfroth gets into a shoving match with Mike over the magazine article, broken up by Lovey. Another example, April and Gerald go on a date, by themselves and April has to stop Gerald from going further than she wants to go.
The characters:
Howard K. Today Howard did a little joke on the Flashpoint BRP 500, by riffing off the word flashpoint. That was my favourite post of the day. I have introduced the concept again of people believing Howard is taken, so he is not approached by the gay community who has seen Howard semi-naked for weeks now. In real life, by now Howard would have been approached by someone who wanted to take his equipment for a test drive. However, Howard lives with Becky, and it is difficult to make sexually active Howard work when those activities would occur in close proximity to Becky. Howard is going to be celibate for awhile.
Constable Paul Wright. I had the good constable try to understand the strip implications of why John has to buy a car, which is not the one he would prefer. Coming from a blue collar background, Paul has no concept of the stuff Elly puts John through. David Miller is the mayor of Toronto, in case you wondered where that name came from.
Jeremy Jones. His Z-girl riff was based on susannamoodie’s Zandra Larson post where she mentions 4 Z-girls. 2 of them are never before mentioned in the Zandra Larson blog. 2 have been mentioned before in connection with another previously mentioned Z-girl. That was the source of that whole business. Jeremy Jones also recounted his girlfriend Dirne’s triumph over the A-girls. I will probably conclude that little story tomorrow.
Tomorrow’s strip: Gordon doesn’t sell cars. He sells relationships. That’s a pretty limited set of clients.
posted by howard at 10:58 PM
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Busy day yesterday--sorry about the dearth of posting. Today should be more normal. :)
That's what I thought. And now for a welcome return to normality.
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