Lowell thinking. I haven’t checked, but I don’t think I’ve written a lot of that.
Also? Mixed metaphors are really, really hard to avoid unless you’ve got your eye to the storm. The shorthand that we use to tag things in our language lends itself to cut and paste recombobulating. Like an ostrich running it’s race down the roadway of literary baskets full of eggs.
Hah?
He can now go off to a career at Bass Pro Shops.
Amen, it says 12:01 am but took until after 5 am to appear….
Lowell could always go apply for corporate, and invite his buds the raccoon tribe, to move in…
Yeah, I don’t know what happened. I got up this morning and it said ‘load failure’ or something like that. I had to hit the button… MANUALLY! Some twenty-first century THIS is.
I think you need to upgrade.
Whatever it is, it can only be improved by buying the more expensive version.
Either that, or you should unplug Hubris and plug him back in to see if that fixes the issue.
Lowell is thinking? Uh-oh.
Usually Lowell simply discusses things with Mr. Stuffins (e.g., http://hubriscomics.com/comic/hubris-making-friends/) but I suppose that only works when he is at his home.
Ok i hope hubris is far and with solid witness at this point
To be (a corporate drone again) or not to be.
That is the poop wrapped up in shiny new $100 bills laying on the ground in front of the door…
She’s gonna be sorry she said that if he becomes her boss.
or another option he can turn around and return once again to harrass hubris . but odds are the first option lowel will be to begin his destruction of sports mart from the inside.
I have hopes for Lowell. Maybe he can find his way to humanity. ‘Course, I am the eternal optimist.
Go om Lowell, go to work for them, then set fire to the place. And your first fire should be that kid behind you. That kind of attitude doesn’t stop at the time clock.
On second thought, walk away. That surly employee will do more harm to Sportsmart than you could.
Lowell thinking? That hasn’t happened often — or has it? Maybe it would be more accurate to say that it hasn’t been *shown* often. Yet here, it is obvious that he is capable of greater self-reflection than most would give him credit for. More than *I* had given him credit for. Yet there had been evidence of it earlier:
http://hubriscomics.com/comic/hubris-motive-or-motivated/
http://hubriscomics.com/comic/hubris-do-the-right-ish-thing/
But I think there is still more to it, if you consider the comment by Greg on the strip that appeared on GoComics on June 27, 2013:
“I will never admit this outside this comment right here… Ready? Lowell’s behavior? Puts him juuust inside the Autistic spectrum. Also, he’s well within the newly expanded parameters that describe sociopathy. Just like, say, Sheldon on Big Bang Theory. Or, some doctors continue to argue, me. Booyah. Yeah, they’ve expanded the range of both these diagnoses to include an awful lot of people. Can we still blame the neurotoxic lead-infused air we or our parents used to breathe before leaded gasolines were outlawed, or is there just simply no one left who falls within psychologists’ ‘normal’ range? Lowell, for reasons I have no reason to divulge, falls outside the range of ‘normal’.”
Lowell autistic? It wouldn’t surprise me. If he does fall just within the spectrum, that would make him ‘high-functioning’ — which means that he may thrive in certain settings and situations, yet founder in others. Certainly much of his behavior reflects the latter. And for real-life autistics, it can be profoundly demoralizing to know that you are an intelligent person, yet to others you can appear stupid because your dysfunctionality causes you to keep messing up, especially if you don’t have someone to help keep you on track:
http://chaoticidealism.livejournal.com/126895.html
Lowell’s job with SportSmart may have been the only area of his life where he felt capable and confident; when they fired him, he soon went off the rails. Losing a job is awful, but if it has been your sole source of stability, then you are on shaky ground if you are at risk of losing that job. When the job is gone, so is the stability.
On the other hand, even if Lowell did well at his job, it probably was not the healthiest environment for him, as it seems to have encouraged (if not created) his sociopathic tendencies. First it was his desire to put Hubris out of business; after being fired, his obsession with taking revenge on SportSmart.
Yet if Lowell really is within the parameters of sociopathy, I would say that he is, at most, on the edge of it. Yes, there is his penchant for scheming, but not the corresponding ability to carry out his schemes successfully. Full-blown sociopaths are supreme at playing people, at manipulating and exploiting them; they often succeed in persuading others to assist them in their schemes — even, literally, to kill for them.
Lowell? Suave and persuasive he isn’t; in his interactions with others, he has consistently irritated, aggravated, or alienated them — not the reaction you want when you’re seeking out others to do your evil bidding. And Hubris has borne the brunt more than anyone else.
And now, standing on the threshold, what happens next? If past events are any indication, it will be a wacky, wild ride, regardless of the direction it goes. But I will make a tentative prediction: If Lowell *does* return to the fold, it could be the best thing to happen to him — and the worst.