Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for March 12, 2024

Phoebe should start putting Marigold’s name in the middle of sentences, the same way politicians should be using the word “context”.

“A little while” meaning, seconds? Minutes?…

Is Marigold like a dog that only pays attention when it hears its name?

Is Marigold a bit insecure? Good thing she has a friend like Phoebe!

Not unlike most city-dwellers these days. Staring at their phones whenever there’s a lull in the conversation.

Let’s remember her horn can download apps and control almost everything of modern technology.

She even can cause a whole power blackout like in Watchdogs.

So Marigold can use internet in her brain and possibly she can listen to music and play games and all that without anyone noticing.

What if Dana here is critically onto something and in the future there will be brain chips or implants someday that allow us to access the internet in our minds or listen to music in our heads or such.

I for one am never getting a brain chip or any kind of implants because I don’t want to become paranoid that people are spying on me and controlling my actions.

In Marigold’s case I wonder what kind of operating system do unicorns use and how much storage space do they have and does it all get stored in the horn?.

I think the horn is only a peripheral device and that the apps and everything else is stored in the brain.

the one thing I would like to see is a strip where somehow we get to see Marigold’s brain.

Like it somehow ended up outside of her head and Phoebe had to touch it and put it back or something like that.

Not too scary or anything just cartoonish.

Or Marigold could maybe still control her body and levitate her brain and play with it and such.

Still might be too creepy or unrealistic for Dana’s taste.

More importantly, does Marigold get better internet than Phoebe’s phone? Who’s paying for it? Does she have VPN and antivirus software running?

“I was talking about the other Marigold. Wasn’t she great?”

[singing] Marigold! I just met a unicorn named Marigold! And suddenly I found how much wonder a sound can hold! Marigold! Say it soft, and there’s music playing, say it loud, and it’s almost like braying! [Braying is a good thing in unicorn parlance, right? And my apologies to Stephen Sondheim et al.]

MMAAAARRRIIIGOOOOOLLLD!!

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