Monday Morning Commute: The Relevance of Rogues

Listen to the rogues that you come across.

These scoundrels are going to tell you things that make you uncomfortable. Hell, they might just tell you that your way of life is wrong, that it’s contributing to greater evils. When you give them an open ear, they’ll fill it with all sorts of detritus. Stuff that’s bound to upset your sensibilities. Ideas that make you want to vomit. Maybe they’ll ask you to chew on the notion that everything you believe is a lie. They’ll be vulgar and angry and a bit discomfiting.

And you need to listen to them.

`Cause right or wrong, if we don’t entertain roguish ideas then we have no right to accept the easy ones. Sure, some of the time the doomsayers and fringe-dwelling miscreants are wrong. But we can’t know that for sure unless we give `em a chance. And every now and then, when the blue moon turns blood red, the rogues are right. And when this is the case, they’re usually showing us that Daddy Society’s been belting the most hapless, defenseless of his children.

Listen to the rogues.

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Welcome to the Monday Morning Commute! I’m going to highlight some of the pop-culture junk I’ll be snackin’ on over the course of the week. Then, you hit up the comments and share your own recipes for entertainment-treats. It’s show-and-tell amongst the crew and passengers of Spaceship OL.

LIFT OFF!

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Once again accepting that some of the funniest people have the heaviest hearts: reading Darrell Hammond’s GOD, IF YOU’RE NOT UP THERE, I’M F*CKED.

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Finally, after many promises to my big bruddah-man, watching BROAD CITY.

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Absolutely lovin’ CAPITAL CITIES‘ cover of NOTHING COMPARES 2 U.

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Goin’ bananas for the announcement of the Warren Ellis/Tula Lotay collaboration: SUPREME: BLUE ROSE!

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So that’s my week — memoirs and comedy and synth-pop nonsense and comics.

What’s goin’ on with you? Any awesome cover songs I should hear? Other memoirs to read? Paneled pages to inspect? Hit up the comments section!