You’ll Have to Speak Up: I’m Wearing a Towel
Finding Meaning In Absurdist Humor
3 min readSep 4, 2021
I grew up watching the Simpsons religiously: every Sunday with rapt attention, and even on weeknights in syndication. I took my communion in Buzz Cola and pink-frosted doughnuts. Much like the titular family, I grew up eating from TV trays in front of the almighty boob tube, basking in the soft radiation of its warm, glowing…
