# The Buddha's Slime **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 26, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-buddhas-slime/705717 "2014-11-26T23:05:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-buddhas-slime/705717/1 "2014-11-26T23:05:30Z")
This is a comic I made for a creative writing class in 2008: [http://drdanick.com/legowolf3d/TheBuddhasSlime.pdf](http://drdanick.com/legowolf3d/TheBuddhasSlime.pdf) ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-buddhas-slime/705717/2 "2014-11-26T23:26:06Z")
I didn’t explicitly say so earlier but I’m looking for feedback. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-buddhas-slime/705717/3 "2014-11-26T23:39:32Z")
I didn’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-buddhas-slime/705717/4 "2014-11-27T05:52:04Z")
Too deep for me, Grasshopper. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-buddhas-slime/705717/5 "2014-11-27T06:54:15Z")
Whachu talkin’ bout, Willis? ETA: Ahhhh, the “slime” is really your wife, isnt it? ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-buddhas-slime/705717/6 "2014-11-27T07:17:48Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Whachu talkin’ bout, Willis? Who’s Willis? > [@](#): > > ETA: Ahhhh, the “slime” is really your wife, isnt it? I only met her a couple of months after I wrote that though… ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-buddhas-slime/705717/7 "2014-11-27T07:52:13Z")
Passable for a class. The Lego oeuvre is a limiting one though: the aesthetic is crude, notwithstanding the time inputted. I couldn’t figure out what the slime was until panel 5. As for content, I’m not sure indifference is the same as non-attachment, though I suppose it’s a start. I suspect the challenge would be creating a work with fewer “Balks”. The segue from nowhere to the discussion in heaven was pretty quick, as was the segue to suburbia. Also, I thought to myself, “What holy slime?”, in the 2nd panel. Things settled out after the bottom panel of the 2nd page though. ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-buddhas-slime/705717/8 "2014-11-27T10:33:19Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > Passable for a class. The Lego oeuvre is a limiting one though: the aesthetic is crude, notwithstanding the time inputted. I couldn’t figure out what the slime was until panel 5. As for content, I’m not sure indifference is the same as non-attachment, though I suppose it’s a start. > > I suspect the challenge would be creating a work with fewer “Balks”. The segue from nowhere to the discussion in heaven was pretty quick, as was the segue to suburbia. Also, I thought to myself, “What holy slime?”, in the 2nd panel. Things settled out after the bottom panel of the 2nd page though. Thanks for that analysis. I didn’t know what some of those words meant. BTW it was UNholy slime not holy slime (according to the character). BTW it was a creative writing class for people with mental illnesses and they focused more on types of poetry than any theory about story writing. ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-buddhas-slime/705717/9 "2014-11-27T10:41:03Z")
BTW when I was in grade 12 at high school I wrote a kid’s book for English class called “Thomas the Day Dreamer”. It included a picture on each page. At the start of the story Thomas has to clean a very untidy room. It was the biggest mess you could imagine. Then he has a day dream about an adventure and he gets into trouble with a bad guy but then some sea creatures save him. In the end he wakes up and his room was spotless. It didn’t really teach the reader anything useful and now I’m a bit embarrassed about it but I was the top of my grade in the marks department (especially science and maths) Someone else’s book was chosen to be entered into a short story competition and I was a bit offended. I drew the pictures on A3 then used a photocopier to reduce them to A4 and coloured them in and was impressed with myself. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-buddhas-slime/705717/10 "2014-11-27T13:54:51Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > I didn’t explicitly say so earlier but I’m looking for feedback. It made me think. Thanks for sharing. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-buddhas-slime/705717/11 "2014-11-27T14:02:27Z")
It’s like an explanation of Buddhist thought by someone who has never had a a Buddhist thought. It made me think too. It made me think you should try to make some sense.