CSotD: Nemi me impune lacessit
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My favorite Scandanavian goth chick, Nemi, explains vegetarianism but mostly explains explanation.
Whether Nemi's creator, Lise Myhre, was ever really anything much like Nemi has long since become a moot point. The strip is now 15 years old and Myhre is now 36, and the married mother of a five-year-old.
And blonde.
Whatever may have been the case when the strip began, even Nemi doesn't get riotously drunk as often as she used to. I suspect some of her other excesses are also less a mirror of her creator, assuming they ever were at all in the first place.
The real question — to which I have no answer — is to what extent Nemi says things aloud that Lise is too polite to say herself. Which, in turn, is not a matter of whether Nemi is able to say blunt, rude, hilariously frank things, since that's a basic building block of the strip, but whether her creator also does that.
And since I have only been to Scandanavia once for about a week a decade before Lise Myhre was even born, it hardly matters.
What matters is that Nemi cracks me up on a regular basis, and brings me back to a stage in life where beautiful, intelligent, toxic, messed-up women were a complete turn-on.
Back before I knew enough to steer clear of train wrecks.
And, to reference today's strip, back when I honestly thought that, when people asked you something, they were interested in your answer.
It's a downer to realize how little anybody really cares what you think.
But some of the train wrecks were kinda fun.
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