Aye or Nay?

Aye but I like Calvin and Hobbes a lot more than The Far Side.

Alan Moore?

I know who he is, but I've never seen his work, so I'll let someone else answer.

I see i got beat out but Aye, to Gary Larsen I used to be a huge Far Side fan

Alan Moore I only know from the movies made of his work so I cannot properly judge. I liked the movies but haven't read his stuff so I will let someone else answer.

Aye for Alan Moore on the basis of Watchmen

Richard Thompson's Cul de sac?

Aye

Zits cartoons?

aye

Jonathan Franzen?

Haven't read him or Wallace actually, someone else answer.

I only read one of his books, The Corrections, but I liked it so I will say Aye

Contemporary poetry

There's a rumor that Franzen was the model for the character Henry in Donna Tartt's The Secret History, and that Brett Easton Ellis was the model for Francis. They were apparently all in the same undergrad writing class (and more than close) when Tartt penned The Secret History. Franzen today sure doesn't seem like Henry, though.

Yes to contemporary anything, DM, if it is what comes after post-modern. :)

Donna Tartt?

I thought contemporary is post modern? Aren't we still post modern?

Oops, and never read Donna Tartt, so deleting my question.

I can dream, can't I? Nay. PC is really, really scary. Not liberal PC, not conservative PC--but having your opinions prescribed for you is bad, m'kay?

Bruce Jenner as a woman?

Nay, and I'm sick of hearing about everyone's special snowflake sexual orientation. I do not care if you are pansexual and want me to refer to you as 'xir', it will never happen.

People who identify as non binary gender?

I wonder if Pan was pansexual.

Nay. Fish or cut bait. (I may concede a neuter gender, though).

Al dente pasta?

Aye, as long as that isn't code for "I have no idea how to cook so here's some raw pasta".

Taking time to decorate your plate/plating the food elaborately?

Nay ( to both al dente pasta and decorating with my food. I was initially responding to Pompey and saw I got beat out but my answer worked wither way)

Sushi