Today’s strip was pretty much word-for-word a conversation I shared with my wife Cami a few days ago. Quite sweetly she asked if we could see How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days when it opened on Friday. Equally sweet, she butchered the name of the movie almost as badly as depicted in the comic.

My line of reasoning is as follows: If you don’t care enough to correctly say the title of the movie, then obviously, on some level, you know this will be yet another round of disposable Hollywood crap you will dump from your long term memory the minute you step out of the theater.

I mean, I wasn’t begging anyone to see The Lord of the Necklace.

Please note that our entire exchange was in pure jest. No venom was exchanged. No hurt feelings to nurture.

All the same, we’re not seeing that damn movie. Cami says we are.

We’re not. (Yes we are–Cami)

Anywho, flicks like these usually leave the door wide open for satire. In coming up with the concept of today’s strip, I developed no less than 3 possible jokes.

The first joke had something along the lines of Cami wanting to see How To Lose A Guy… and with me responding that one sure-fire way to lose a guy was to drag him to chick flicks with unnecessarily long titles. This idea failed to catch fire.

The second joke had more to do with the source material. Some of you may not know this, but How To Lose A Guy… is actually based on a comedic self-help book featuring stick figures (no, I am not making this up). The punchline for this joke would have been how casting the actress to play the girl stick-figure was very difficult, but in the end, the role went to Kate Hudson. In the third panel, I would have drawn a painfully skeletal Hudson boasting how she weighs less than a paper clip. In the last panel, a very disgruntled Laura Flynn Boyle would be lamenting the loss of the part due to the accidental ingestion of some lint a few weeks ago while sleeping.

While everyone knows that anorexia jokes are like money in the bank, I had to go with the third treatment as illustrated above because, ultimately, it would earn me brownie points with the missus.

And there you have it.

In a completely unrelated story, Tuesday saw the return of some unusually high traffic to the site. Typically when this happens, it means that someone who is a big shot in the community and has immeasurably more talent in their little pinky than I have in my entire body has linked to me from their front page. I checked my referral logs, and lo and behold, I was getting a boat-load of hits from Carrington over at Movie Punks.

I about fell out of my chair when he detailed in his blog the amount of mail he had been getting concerning the spoiler warning I posted on Monday If there is anyone out there who seriously thought I was ripping him off, please stand up so we can all point and laugh at you. I mean, honestly…

I think Carrington summed it up best when he posed the question how anyone else would tip off their readers to spoilers in their strips. There’s really no other way around it. And it wasn’t like I didn’t fess up in the first two repentance of my blog that this was a trick I pulled from the big C.V. I gave credit where credit was due, by Jove.

I’m not trying to make mountains out of molehills. I just thought it was really funny and wanted to say thanks to Carrington for coming to my defense.

He redefines the term “good people”.