Love's Appetite Unsated by Zach Kanin
This week, three takes inspired by ... (yes, we're not quite over it): Love and Heartbreak. On the visual end, New Yorker cartoonist Zach Kanin and director/photographer Douglas Jessup give us something to feast on. Yum! Yum?
Screenwriter Thomas Moffett on the other hand sticks with an old-school thank-you note to an Icelandic girl called Inga. He's thanking her for walking him home - and, we suspect - giving him a little bit of hope.
One more week of matters of the heart. We're then moving on to...(drumroll please)...
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Love, Saskia, Stephanie and the PenTales crew.
Lazy Sunday by Douglas Jessup
THANK YOU by Thomas Moffett
Dear Inga,
This is a very belated note to say thank you for walking me home when I was a little bit drunk and very sad. I like to think of myself as a gentleman–the kind of person who would walk a girl home, and not the other way around, but you insisted. Also, I don’t want to point fingers, but it’s partly your fault that I was drunk, since you gave me those shots of Icelandic schnapps or whatever it was, that tasted like licorice. Anyway, I don’t know if you remember, but it was snowing, and you were telling me about Iceland and a boy you liked back home who had broken your heart. I was telling you how things were falling apart with me and my girlfriend at the time, that my therapist had described the relationship as like being on the Titanic, and asking if it was possible to swim with seals in Iceland.
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