Dean Young
Dean Young
moving life-is-hard darkness
You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.
fall errors dumbasses
Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.
sea enough slaughterhouses
Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
block believe writing
I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.
mean had-enough too-much
Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.
spring feelings ordinary
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
iron odd platypus
A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.
oddities lobster looks
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.
comedic dad humor infuse inherited uniquely
My dad's comedic sensibilities were uniquely his own and very different from mine, ... But he was very good. He said if I should ever inherited the strip, he wanted me to infuse my own sense of humor into the strip. He wanted me to make it my own.
characters comic strip
There's going to be this juxtaposition of the comic strip characters you're never going to see again,
dad diet earth grew hollywood humor steady surreal tv
You see, my dad grew up on Hollywood two-reelers and screwball comedies, ... His humor was very surreal and fanciful at times. I grew up on a steady diet of TV sitcoms, so my humor is more-to-earth.
coming dad fun laughter remember strip
As a kid, I remember my dad working on the strip, ... There'd always be just roars of laughter coming from his studio. The strip was fun for him and I think that sense of fun was infectious.
certain dad eating funny hair intrinsic realized sticking
How could he not? ... Look at his head: He's got all that hair sticking out. My dad realized he had certain intrinsic qualities, his hair, his eating habits. A lot of funny idiosyncrasies.
came depression funny rich
Then the Depression came along, and rich playboys and flappers weren't funny anymore,