For almost 20 years he has produced a ceaseless stream of ideas, observations, jokes and strange insights in the form of left-field drawings that have appeared in broadsheet newspapers, books and magazines as well as galleries.
It wasn't all bad, though; the beating granted him strange insights: he heard his tío, three rooms over, stealing money from his mother's purse; and he realized that had he and Yvón not been serious the Capitán would probably never have fucked with him.
Instead, she directed readers to his "wonderful observation of character, and his strange insight into the tragic secrets of the human heart".
But a battle between a dance-rock outfit, LCD Soundsystem and ticketing agents over the band's "last" show offers a strange insight into the laws of supply and demand.
As it happens, there have been many times in the past few years when it would have been useful to have had McLuhan to hand because, in a strange way, his insights into media seem more relevant now than they were in the 1960s when he sprang into prominence.
I found it to be remarkably intelligent, achingly funny, and full of strange, but wonderful insights into the empty evils of corporate collapse in the dot.com era and the soul-scorching shallowness of suburban life.
Then in the third act, you reach the contemplative stage where being drunk produces a strange form of insight.
Mr. Simpson found Ms. Banks and her two "America's Next Top Model" sidekicks lovely, "but they didn't know how to use a shovel," he noted, as if that were a strange and unexpected insight.
According to Anthony, pretending to be Trump for almost two years gives him insight into strange psychology of the president.
Gross offers endless insights into the strange world of puppets.
He dreams and muses, offering endless insights into the strange and archaic world of puppets, inanimate things breathed to life.
