Relations in the time of Corona 5/15/2020
/So you’ve run through 6 seasons of Breaking Bad, 3 seasons of Ozark, the NFL Channel’s Best SuperBowls of all time, The NBA channel’s Best Game 7’s, Covid extravaganzas with stars singing from home, Homeland, Better Call Saul, Marriage Story, and let’s not forget a replay of Linsanity for you Knick fans longing for 2012, and the question is…now what?
With less to occupy people’s time, some folks take to reading recipes. Inventive recipes with, shall we say, exotic ingredients. Said exotic ingredients are easy to copy down from a recipe onto a shopping list, but they prevent an altogether different challenge for the person who does the grocery shopping. What on earth is tamarind paste (found in a recent recipe for bbq ribs)? Do you find it in the ethnic foods shelf? Or is it in produce? Can you use a tamarind instead, and what the hell does one even look like? Who do you bother to ask, “Uhh excuse me, do you know where to find the tamarind paste?” The guy stocking the shelves? The person at the information counter? Dilemmas like these formed the basis for our first comic. And just so you know, Andy went through all this only to discover he doesn’t much care for the taste of tamarind.
The second comic in your scroll comes directly from the first paragraph of this blog. After watching every single show your friends have recommended, now what? Board games? When’s the last time you played one? And which ones do you even have anymore? And you mistakenly left Monopoly at the beach house you rented last summer, didn’t you? John instantly recalled the “Hungry, Hungry Hippos” game and the incredibly silly commercial featuring animated, rhumba-dancing hippos and we had our second comic.
We will be back again next week with two new ones that explore our rapidly decreasing worlds. I mean, how many comics can you come up with about staying at home, grocery shopping, binge-watching or a trip to the drug store? Stay tuned and we’ll let you know.
Have a great and safe weekend.
Andy and John