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I was rereading Pat's blog looking for what I could have sworn was a very long, very funny description of Ray coming over and dancing with him and Rod, but I couldn't find it. Am I just imagining this, or is it secretly in some other blog? Also, I've always been puzzled by this one Roast Beef one where he's buying a dildo. I could never figure out the context. Is it just him buying a dildo? Is it a prequel to the Perky Pervert arc?
How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Dec 7, 2013 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 12:24 |
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My impression with Pat is that Onstadt really changed his mind about what kind of character he was, and started quietly nudging him in a certain direction when the interplay with Nice Pete really started to sing, and especially when Rod Huggins comes along. So I don't know, I don't know California very well but I've always sort of believed some of the broader characterization earlier on is overwritten by the more specific and funny version of Pat that develops later on.
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# ¿ Jul 13, 2018 21:16 |
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Pat's blog is probably the best one, required reading if you haven't already. Absolutely, I think about sensibilly and his stutter-shuffles and flying heel variations every single day of my lfe.
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# ¿ Jul 13, 2018 21:51 |
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Javid posted:I have yet to find one (1) Taco Truck-type eatery which could handle the simple instruction "no sour cream" I don't know where you live but in Philly I can take my pick of a dozen taco trucks just walking to and from my apartment, work, and the trolley stop, and I've never ever had this problem.
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# ¿ Oct 22, 2018 07:06 |
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This is killing me, I'm trying to find one of the flow-chart comics (maybe a text adventure one?) but having no luck. It had Lyle and/or Todd in it, and one of the endings involved stumbling into a van or a flop full of violent racists and meth-heads with the punchline being that it's Todd's heaven? Is this one of the magazine-only strips?
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2018 06:40 |
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Thank you so much. The Lyle flowchart and the Todd flowchart are great on their own but all three together are something holy.
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# ¿ Nov 14, 2018 01:55 |
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Erebus posted:If you're wondering what Chris is up to these days, it's apparently hanging out with Bill Oakley and sticking Hot Pockets in an air fryer. I love this, I love that they're friends, and I love that this is what they're doing. I love this.
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# ¿ May 16, 2019 06:36 |
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GigaPeon posted:Bill will be holding the Hot Pocket, but he’ll be passing it to Chris. Both totally smiling...
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# ¿ May 16, 2019 20:21 |
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bony tony posted:And when she hangs with Teodor, we only hear his thoughts. This isn't really the case with the blogs, but I think Android Blues' point still holds. A lot of her blogs feel a little listless when they aren't taken up with stuff other characters do and say-- her own voice is pretty bare and underdeveloped. I think that old Cat+Girl strip was pretty right-on about the strengths and limitations of Onstad's writing.
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2019 11:53 |
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Yayyys?
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# ¿ Jun 18, 2019 21:40 |
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It was a catch-phrase from about a decade ago, IIRC popularized via Ru Paul's Drag Race, which threw around a lot of what would now be considered transphobic slurs in the early seasons. Culture changes fast.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2019 21:17 |
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Looks like he's putting lao gan ma into burgers so as far as I can tell he's doing better than me.
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# ¿ Sep 16, 2019 15:35 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:I did not know there was a Nice Pete fried chicken recipe. Whenever I remember his Portland Mercury days I click through and read all his restaurant reviews too. I like his food writing a lot, and I like that you can tell what's also evident just from Achewood-- that he just really likes food and has a healthy respect and insight into food made well.
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# ¿ Oct 7, 2019 16:39 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:This is really well-observed and there are a lot of great examples of this. This is one of my favorite Achewood strips, I think as much as it's easy to look back on some of the dated elements of the series and be like "huh," I think Roast Beef is a super well-realized character and a really fantastic vehicle for Ontad's spot-on and bleak stuff about the American city and town as, like, haunted landscapes where weird characters like the guy dictating to RB just float around with only the most provisional and contingent connections to the rest of the world and anybody in it. This intersects with his knack for writing food too-- as good as he is at gourmet stuff, I love how intimately and viscerally he gets cheap fast food and crummy little "wipe-down" chains. The line about the "folded over" top on the KFC Corliss has is incredible and conveys so much not only about how the characters' class informs their relationship to food, but about how little sharp moments of sense detail lodge themselves in the brain for decades. Like, of course the folded over top, of course that carried through to the little black narration panel of recollection.
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# ¿ Oct 24, 2019 06:39 |
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Jerusalem posted:I loving love this so much, it always blows me away. Pat is such a dick that even his natural fear of Nice Pete eventually fell to the wayside so he could enforce his bullshit rules on him I've always liked how Pat's character development, aside from his coming out of course, was mostly just Onstad refining what was initially a more or less generic cranky dweeb rear end in a top hat into something very very specific and very very damning of a certain kind of Californian in a certain moment in time. I still often think of the phrase "gravity sensible skitter-cart" and as somebody who was vegan in the aughts I get a shudder of recognition from all the made-up health food brands in his blog.
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# ¿ Oct 26, 2019 05:09 |
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CannonFodder posted:http://achewood.com/index.php?date=12232005 I know I've often suffered the consequences of craving nori too much.
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# ¿ Oct 28, 2019 04:35 |
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JethroMcB posted:I tried Lyle's Microwaved Egg Muffin a few years back and liked it so much ("this is so easy!") that I started making it for breakfast every morning. Eventually I moved on, now I have a little nonstick pan that is exactly the right size for making a one egg omelette and a dedicated cast iron skillet for browning a veggie sausage; I make this sandwich every weekday and it takes me about 10 minutes. I eat it at my desk at work with a cup of coffee; by 8:25 AM I fold up the little rectangle of aluminium foil I wrapped it in and lament that the best part of my day is over. Thank you, Achewood cookbook, for getting me started in the right direction. What brand of veggie sausage do you use? I've never found one I really liked-- I've had good veggie brats and stuff but not a good salty breakfast hockey puck.
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# ¿ Nov 9, 2019 15:47 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:has anyone ever attempted to make Blammin' Slammin' Oh Man Am I Jammin' Enchilada Stackers? I've seen recipes for stacked enchilada stuff-- like kind of a lasagna-- on cooking blogs here and there and, as a kid, in my mom's magazines once in awhile. I think it's one of those extremely not authenticity-adjacent Americana hybrids that Onstad has always had a really good instinct for. Like just this ruthless middle-class instinct to make any and all foods from other cultures into a casserole at whatever cost (I also remember my mom making lots of Mexican Lasagnas and Tex-Mex Pot Pies and Taco Pizzas etc. which, honestly, I uniformly loved). So yeah the enchilada stacker. I'm pretty sure I could make one, but could I make it blammin'? Could I make it slammin'? And could it make anyone jam? Well I'm not so arrogant as to presume. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Nov 13, 2019 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:New Mexico enchiladas are stacked and have probably been that way since before NM joined the Union. Wow, I never knew. It looks really tasty!
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2019 20:10 |
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I had a little doodle one of my students did on the back of an assignment that said "Ace of Grades" on it and had totally forgotten that Lyle strip. I used to have it pinned up on the little corkboard next to my desk but I lost it with a bunch of other cute stuff when I switched offices. I wonder if they read Achewood or if that's just the joke you go to when you're thinking about Motorhead in class.
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# ¿ Nov 21, 2019 07:22 |
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Tolstoy was the Tolstoy of being a loser and I say that as someone reasonably fond of him.
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# ¿ Nov 23, 2019 21:21 |
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Mr. Dick posted:What is wrong with Ray that he is a cat of financial means and yet the only woman we ever see him with is Tina? You can (and should!) read about his experiences with other women in the blogs.
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2019 01:17 |
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The older I get the more I realize that element of Achewood isn't about youth so much as it is about being friends with a rich guy, and I feel slightly it.
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# ¿ Dec 31, 2019 01:43 |
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Ask them if they have stairs in their house.
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# ¿ Jan 29, 2020 21:31 |
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projecthalaxy posted:Thats the nice thing about it having an actual publisher. Since they already have the comics and blogs and so forth, they can virtuously release the book, even as Onstad demands they steal the money instead. Dark Horse wasn't an actual publisher?
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2020 17:38 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:I loved that story (Ray's "special" Italian restaurant) told from both sides in the blogs, because man, Ray in that instance was exactly how my dad acted anytime he did business anywhere that was very obviously a small business where you probably dealt with the guy whose name was on the sign, and especially the local red sauce and breadsticks joint. It's kind of a touching/sad recurring motif in the Ray blogs that he spends a lot of time fantasizing about having a real friendship with people he doesn't have a real friendship with, and that's even there in the entry you're talking about. It's him indulging in a very classically dad-like fancy about being "in" with people at places he likes, but it's also really specifically about Ray's well-established personal hang-ups. I love the blogs so much and I'm so stoked to have access to them in a more easily browseable form soon.
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2020 16:36 |
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Pershing posted:Normally I like seeing an Achewood I haven't read before. Now I wish I hadn't asked...drat that last panel hurts! Yeah but the bookstore guy in the very next strip is one of my very favorite Achewood one-off characters. In fact my message to this entire forum is that you're wonderful, and you're alive, and you deserve every little bit of happiness the universe has to offer anyone, no matter who or what you like. Never forget that. Now I'm sorry, but I have to ask you all to leave this thread.
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 22:05 |
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ullerrm posted:We have been through this with far too many people. I am sorry. This could have been much better than you made it. "Have it Your Way,©" I guess. <thoughtfully fingers second onion offense card>
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2020 08:50 |
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There have been nights-- bad nights-- where I've been dangerously close to getting "there is no false power in the universe" tattooed onto my forever body.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2020 18:06 |
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2020 19:53 |
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# ¿ Apr 8, 2020 19:20 |
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I love Hanselmann and I would never have come across those on my own, thank you so much.
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2020 17:17 |
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Owl is a Pat for our times and also a Teodor for our times.
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 17:41 |
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I've never had the crisps but I want to just note that Vegan Rob's Cauliflower Puffs kick rear end, and you shouldn't judge a book by how much the cover looks like Pat made it. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ¿ May 5, 2020 05:24 |
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Labrador owners may wish to leave the thread.
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# ¿ May 11, 2020 16:43 |
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Chanterelles are not super expensive, treat yourself the next time you're at the grocery store or farmer's market, you should be able to find them dried at least in a lot of places. You can also approximate a crostini in your own home by cutting a big baguette into little rounds, brushing both sides of each piece with olive oil, and then toasting them. Now you too can soon say "Awww HELLZ yeah," with the boys.
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# ¿ May 23, 2020 23:25 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:I've been reading the body of work of Charles Portis in quarantine and if you love the language of Achewood, you've got to check this author out. I know he's best known for writing True Grit, but his dirtbag 60s-80s narratives almost certainly have to have been a part of the formative Achewood DNA. Oh man he rules so loving much. I did a reread of a bunch of his stuff right after he died, Norwood is one of the funniest American novels of all time for sure.
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# ¿ May 27, 2020 06:04 |
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Laugh all you want but what if they're telling the truth about UNEQUALED SAUCE.
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# ¿ May 27, 2020 19:23 |
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ManiacClown posted:If Onstad is stuck at home there's no way he shouldn't be able to work on this. Onstad doesn't live at Oni Press HQ, and authors usually don't personally print and bind every copy of their books. I regret to inform you that teachers also don't sleep at school.
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2020 20:12 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 12:24 |
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Turpitude II posted:the bss discord has an achewood channel and they'd prob chuck a thorsby one on there if you ask I just added one! Go hog wild.
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2020 19:54 |