Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for November 16, 2015
November 15, 2015
November 17, 2015
Transcript:
You're the guy who designed this building? That's me. Tell me-why does it look like a giant heartless cube of concrete? Ah, yes. It symbolizes disaffection and anomie in modern life. Life is brutal, and so is my art. Sure. But, like... I have to actually work here. Every day. Every day for like thirty years. You probably work in a nice coffee shop or something. I have a cottage in the country. So, when you said life is brutal... I meant statistically. Like, not my life in particular. I wish I had a cottage in the country. Well, you should of become an architect.
Ida No about 9 years ago
You write software. You live in a concrete bunker designed by a moron. Drain his bank account.
Brass Orchid Premium Member about 9 years ago
The building is only the tool.Its occupants are the medium.
davids.comments about 9 years ago
Makes me think of the John Hartford song “Gone to work in tall buildings”.
Brass Orchid Premium Member about 9 years ago
They couldn’t afford to pay me according to my usefulness.Unfortunately, the IRS wouldn’t take twice my pay as a charitable deduction. Bureaucrats…