Guilty conscience Posted on Monday 4Dec06, at 9:45 pm. Clue is enjoyable because, much like (other) video games, it is a fanciful escape. Play a game of Clue and you enter a world of the rich, their mansions, absentminded professors, femmes fatale, great white hunters, and mysterious butlers. For the moment, you can forget your life, work, humdrum existence, and solve an exciting mystery of murder and deceit. If I Did It, were it not canceled, would have been purportedly fiction. However, how many people still believe that O.J. Simpson is not only guilty, but that his very confession would have been contained within that book? This isn't the Da Vinci Code -- everything would have been in plain language, spelled out. Nonetheless, many would have read between the lines. The blurring of reality and fiction is something familiar to players of video games, but it can also be seen in recent news items such as the Lonelygirl15 series or the James Frey debacle. It begs the question: is all this ambiguous escapism in our culture desensitizing us to real life events? Are video games a symptom or a cause of this? Is it, in fact, a problem, or just a natural progression? Some argue quite vociferously in favor of one view or another. These are just food for thought questions, and of course I do not actually know the answers. However, I can say one thing, and that is: regardless of whether these trends are negative, they are not going to stop or reverse anytime soon. Check back on Friday for a new comic.

If the Monocle Fits Posted on Monday 4Dec06, at 10:29 pm. We all know Mustard did it, he's just beating around the bush with this book. "If" he did it? I would not have figured a man like Mustard would be a great novelist, but he would not need to be to write things exactly as they transpired! O.J. Simpson had made a very interesting move publishing his own book, especially after pretty much everyone thinks he did it. I don't think there was really any solid proof, at least, not the public knows. I can tell you what no one wants you to know! At the trial, a member of the very jury shocked everyone with new evidence to his innocence. When deciding the verdict, an inconspicuous juror revealed what he held: It was the O.J. Simpson card! The judge immediately checked the person off his list. Do not ask me how I know this, do not question the fact. Despite seeing this card, I can't help but ask myself, how am I to know this card could not be forged? Millions of Clue cards are made, and there have been so many different styles and such over the years. Miss Scarlet even became Asian in 1972! Who's to say that a counterfeit O.J. Simpson card could not easily be produced? That is a mystery for the ages.