Scott Meyer

How to Brace Yourself for the Coming Future

Added 2022-09-19 08:01:01 +0000 UTC

In the time since I stopped the comic and I restarted the comic, I have procured an actual They Might Be Giants Flood-Logo shirt. I didn’t really have one back in the day. The one I have now is probably printed on better material than it would have been then. It is definitely larger than it would have been in the 90s. I choose to see that as a good thing. I am a man of greater magnitude, and thus I require more shirt.

When I was a teenager, I made a lot of musical choices that seemed suspect. I understand now that I like music that has at least a little bit of a sense of humor. In the 90s, that was not hard to find. In the 80s, for every gem I found, like Thomas Dolby: Aliens Ate My Buick, there’d be something like Buster Poindexter, or Bruce Willis: The Return of Bruno. My music collection was a confusing place.

I still love They Might Be Giants. The band is very much a going concern, despite the fact that one of the two guys named John that makes up the creative core of the group got T-Boned by a drunk driver a couple of months back. For those unfamiliar with the band, or just unaware of their more recent work, here are three of my favorite later TMBG songs, and a nice, somewhat outdated documentary about the band that was recently upscaled and made available on YouTube.

Last Wave

Madam, I Challenge You to a Duel

Stone Cold Coup D'Etat

Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)