Comments on: Chinese??

By: Dave Van Domelen

Dave Van Domelen — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:36:23 +0000

Shortpacked has picked up this particular baton.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:55:23 +0000

I am sure that Zach Weiner or SATURDAY MORNING BREAKFAST CEREAL has portrayed a savage breast ofr two in his time, Mark, but Congreve referred to inner emotional turmoil or upheaval.

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:03:20 +0000

What the hell is a savage breast?

By: Chakolate

Chakolate — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:48:00 +0000

Keera (18) I used to show people how to lose 40 pounds instantly - I just corrected my terrible posture. I seriously looked 40 pounds lighter.

By: jjmcgaffey

jjmcgaffey — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:21:18 +0000

24 (among others) That was what puzzled me about the original strip too - the nasal resonance was something much urged by my college choir director. On the other hand I asked my mother about it (she’s currently singing in a church choir) and she instantly identified it as instructions to look up and sing forward, not looking down. Which also makes sense - I got that instruction too - but the way the ‘proverb’ is phrased definitely obscures its meaning.

By: Heather D

Heather D — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:06:16 +0000

Daniel, it’s not different. That’s what I was referring to above. I’m a professional classical musician, I know a thing or two about proper singing technique.

By: Daniel J. Drazen

Daniel J. Drazen — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:42:46 +0000

“Sing through nose” reminds me of when my choral director in college wanted us to sing so that the sound comes not from the throat but sort of resonates in the sinuses. This is especially good WRT singing high notes and going for the overtones instead of just belting out the melody.

Of course that WAS choral singing so maybe it works different for soloists.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:06:52 +0000

The saying, “Music has charms to soothe the savage breast”. It’s from Congreve’s MOURNING BRIDE.

As for the typo, Bill, there’s is the Freudian analysis, but we needn’t examine that here.

As for the advice, it is good, and it’s apparent that Quill’s mother heard or concocted this adv ice, and it had a “Chinese” sound to it, so she called it an old Chinese proverb.

Finally, I take issue with Bill’s remark that one of these strips “focuses on Luann’s breasts”. Yes, they are more prominent when she stands up straight & pulls her shoulders back a mite, but the strip has not placed them in the panel’s center nor remarked on them at all. We focus on them, because Greg Evans’s style is DRENCHED in sex. It is one of the reasons that LUANN is worth reading. It has a sexual subtext a mile long & a mile deep, but barely below the surface.

By: Keera

Keera — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:58:02 +0000

LOL! Elyrest #19.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:55:14 +0000

No, Bad Seed, ’singing through your nose’ is a bad thing.

Here’s one of many, many sites giving advice on avoiding it.

And singing to her toes is what she’s doing in the first panel.