Serious Nonsense

David and I discuss the virtues and problems with various weird symbols and titles and evaluate whether we'd use any of them.

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David walks us through the process of coming up with funny collages, as he does at Wondermark.com, a wonderful collage comic.

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Ryan's written a comic about things that don't exist. But he's also written an entire book on how to invent everything. Can he explain himself? Let's find out!

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In which Ryan and I discuss dialogue, the socratic method, and more about writing comics and dialogue.

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In which I challenge Alex to tell us whether certain quotes are from Lena Dunham's "Girls" or some other place. A personal favorite: just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand!

You can find more of Alex's writing at Defector.com or the latest season of her podcast Try Hard here. Want to know more about Serious Nonsense? Visit JoyfulAmazing.biz/podcast. Catch you soon!

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Alex Sujong Laughlin of Defector.com and I break down the reasons why Girls hits and Dunham's latest memoir doesn't. In brief: everyone needs an editor.

You can find more of Alex's writing at Defector.com (truly, I mean it, the last great website). You can also find out more about Serious Nonsense at JoyfulAmazing.biz. Gosh I need an editor.

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Ronald's (very good!) podcast Weight for It discusses self-image, being a fat person, and all sorts of nuance. This game is much more shallow because I basically tortured him with questions about Gravity.

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Sometimes I'm simply charmed by a person, their ideas, their work, their ability to self-criticize (complimentary). It's for these reasons I kind of got over myself and reached out to Ronald Young, Jr. to discuss a whole lot of things, his approach to interviewing and just how far you can get by yourself. Stick around for the game next episode, it's one of the funnest ones I think I've done so far.

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We play a game of "real or made up?" about apples. You can read more of Rachel's writing and editing at TheAtlantic.com, if you liked this episode, share it with a friend after aging it for fourteen months. Find out more about Serious Nonsense at JoyfulAmazing.biz

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I have obsessed over this story for years: Rachel ate an apple. It was...old. It's a a pandemic weird behavior classic.

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