Blogs of August (Blogust?) 2005

[V-Adore]

Starting a new thread to keep things all neat-like.

Is it bad that I can sympathize much more with Teodor's general angst about bogusness than I can with Chris's toaster-oven hunt? I mean, one of these two is a fictional character (all right, a more fictional character). What the hell?

Philippe's blog: also lovely, although I continue to try to figure out the context on the giant plaster shoe.

[pmcd9]

God, I never usually read the blog threads.  I suppose I should feel like a total dork for having emailed him with the info he needed about toaster oven mounting hoods?

You just want to have your name written on the door in sharpie.  Don't feed his ego.

~Paul

Don't you hate when you try to help someone out and they shit on you for it.

[cellardoor]

Copy...andpaste....

"It is like having a basic earthworm beside me, only it is a worm that seems like it might be able to learn and hate"

I almost started a new topic just to post this.
This has made my week already.
So entertained.

[AlohaDawg]

God, I never usually read the blog threads.  I suppose I should feel like a total dork for having emailed him with the info he needed about toaster oven mounting hoods?

You just want to have your name written on the door in sharpie.  Don't feed his ego.

~Paul

Don't you hate when you try to help someone out and they shit on you for it.

This is why I thought it was fairly pointless to send any assistance. Not that I thought Onstad would be gracious about it (although he made a token effort to be as gracious as he could).

There is enough demand for the under-cabinet mounting to keep making them, yet one place it won't fit...

I would suggest a little flexibility in where it might go, remodeling the kitchen to accomodate a toaster oven, fabricating a custom mounting device, or punting.

Alternately, European kitchens are generally tiny, Maybe there is a European product that would fit (of course, you would probably have to use an adapter for the electricity).

[Null]

I continue to try to figure out the context on the giant plaster shoe.

When this shoe-business first hove into view on Friday, I just looked at it as some incomprehensible Philippe-business that would make perfect sense if I was five.   Having long ago attained and surpassed that age, I figured it would remain a mystery, and I could direct my energies elsewhere.

Now that it is easing into other areas, it is deepening its hold on my imagination, yet remains just as mysterious...and just as unsolvable.

Just felt like posting.

[AlohaDawg]

Shoes show up quite often in the Achewood world. Philiippe's mom gave him the Special Boy shoes, we had that possesed loafer of Ray's, the dog-doo incidents for both Onstad and Ray, Phillippe's new shoes, Onstad's plaster shoe - there are probably more. Other accessories I can think of are hats, capes, caftans, at least two kinds of helmets, and an Abraham Lincoln outfit.

Onstad is about fashion.

[pmcd9]

Don't forget the rollerskate of death.

~Paul

[Null]

No, no, I'm aware that various articles of clothing make their way into the Achewood world and sometimes become stars.  

I was referring to the Philippe Times' offhand mention of "stayed up way too late (new shoes!)" and how I couldn't process that (mentally).

[AlohaDawg]

Yeah, I get that - I was just ruminating on the central role clothing accessories seem to often play in the drawings of anthropomorphic cats and alive stuffed animals that we love so much.

[aparrish]

Onstad is about fashion.

I really don't think he's as much about fashion as he is about Freudian symbolism.

[AlohaDawg]

Boy, can I not disagree more with the writing at that link.

[Asherdan]

AAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH!

What 'Dawg said

ALSO: Beef anthropomophising the hell out of that cutlery is a little worrisome.

[acoxcae]

I think as long as Beef can resist the urge to bury the knife in the backyard, he might be OK.  I kinda wish that Chris could resist foisting his food inclinations on all the characters, especially Beef, who is ambivalent about food to the point of forgetting to eat for a week, and would basically never spend exactly $120 on a knife for cooking after passing on the Swiss Army knife.  This is crossing the line.

However, I do like to picture Beef immediately turning a tomato into ketchup through the power of pushing.

[Null]

AAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH!

This really needed a picture of Charlie Brown howling in despair.

Also, sometimes a fairy tale is just a story.

[AlohaDawg]

I was gonna say about the same thing, sometimes a shoe is just a shoe. Now I have to feel weird every time I put on a shoe.

I want a shoe sized for my personal junk, now.