Once upon a time I lived with Bryan Lee O’Malley and this other guy, and we used one of the rooms in the house for our office. It housed all of our computers. I was kind of poor, so I had a pair of hand-me-down speakers for my computer and no headphones, wheras Mal and Other Guy both had pretty bitch’n headphones. So it made sense to me that I could just play the music I wanted because they couldn’t hear it anyway. About the time Christmas rolled around and I started listening to Christmas music 24 hours a day, I was informed that my music could in fact be heard, and was in fact intolerable.
That did not deter me. So Mal made me a comic strip.
I still consider it a tribute, rather than a threat.
- Christopher
I would pretty much kill someone who forced Christmas music on me at… any time of the year at all. Department store/shopping centre owners only get away with their lives because I don’t know who they are.
I met you last month at the store, during my travels around the US/Canadia. I bought a very large pile of stuffs & got most of the Measles issues with help :) (I found the one I was missing at the Fanta store in Seattle, so all good!)
The Beguiling is totes the most awesomest comics shop ever! Floating World in Portland is also great (and can only get better with age), and Comic Relief in Berkeley is great but possibly in decline at this stage… So, YAY.
December 1st, 2009 at 1:57 am
Charming.
December 1st, 2009 at 3:51 am
Sorry, Christmas lovers! Sorry Chris!
(You’re still dead, though. Metaphorically.)
December 1st, 2009 at 4:22 am
Journalista – the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Dec. 1, 2009: It’s alive says:
[...] Christopher Butcher: A Bryan Lee O’Malley strip [...]
December 1st, 2009 at 10:56 am
Too funny :-)
December 1st, 2009 at 11:15 am
I had a roommate my junior year of college who only played two kinds of music: Christmas music, and anything by Celine Dion. So guess what she played starting in November? Celine Dion’s Christmas album. Yes.
Fortunately my computer speakers were louder than hers and I had an arsenal of Japanese Christmas songs (B’z FOREVARRRRR) and uhh… it was an awesome sort of month-and-a-half-long sonic battle. I won. :3
December 1st, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Hilarious.
Christmas music I can tolerate- malls in Christmas season, I cannot.
December 1st, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Gedankenblasen » Blog Archiv » Ein Sack voll Links - 14.12.2009 says:
[...] Der erste Dezember ist schon einige Zeit vorbei, aber noch ist dieser Comic von Bryan Lee O’Malley zeitgemäß also verweise ich schnell auf ihn. Remember, Remember, The First Of December [...]
December 14th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Low, Just Like Christmas – 25DoCM – ChristopherButcher.com says:
[...] it, and really, all Christmas music so much at the time that it inspired Mal to draw a comic about me being killed. Which I really only got in retrospect, I just assumed he was being grinchy at the [...]
December 1st, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Comic Book Links For Tuesday December 1st|Comic Book Daily says:
[...] Chris Butcher (from one of Toronto’s best comic shops The Beguiling) live blogs his previews. Hilarious! (Also he provides us with a great little Bryan Lee O’Malley gem.) [...]
November 8th, 2011 at 1:53 pm