Get a person mad enough and he’ll tell you the truth. Or — tell him a partial truth and he’ll correct you — Every Single Time. I think we’re hard-wired to straighten out our stories. Maybe it’s a leftover of the Oral History and Memorized Epics days.
See the little cards the Peach is using? Later they will become very important.
I don’t think either he or I knew what he was going to be doing with those things later on.
Okay … I have to ask … “why Tucson?”
And Hard to Bear has a new page up … ewwwwww!
Because they don’t know if the safety is on or off, or if their trunk-full of weapons are loaded or not — and they shoot at targets on hard desert ground EIGHT FEET AWAY with automatic weapons — and then try to explain away the ricochet in the foot as “not a bullet wound” because they’re afraid of having their toys confiscated. ‘nuf said? “Gun nut” doesn’t just mean “crazy about guns” — it means “stupid with guns.” Usually with beer.
“Hard To Bear” — and black horse heads full of eels are typically German, too (“The tin drum.”) Because horses are prophetic, ridden by Death and bringers of food? Anyway, GO LOOK! It’s one of the best pages ever!