Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 24, 2011
April 23, 2011
April 25, 2011
Transcript:
Captain: I was fishin' in unfamiliahwatahs fah, fah away, and found the lines to all my lobstah traps had been cut! Theah was no choice...to stay in business, I'd have to go down and get them... ...And that's when I sawr it - the greatest discovery of all time! Flo: Yaw're tellin' us that you discovahd the lost city of Atlantis? Captain: No...the mothah lode of the calamari business.
I read Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath when I was on summer break during college (a while back). I was sitting in an arm chair in my parents’ home in Marblehead, Massachusetts when I got to the punch line at the end of the story. When Marblehead was mentioned by name, I couldn’t help laughing out loud…. (It is a pretty town, btw, and gem-like in its own way.) However, I’m not so much of a Lovecraft fan that Chtulhu was the first thing I thought of (and I’m a little sad about that)….