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Achewood => Achewood => Topic started by: wombat on December 16, 2011, 08:49:32 pm
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Seriously what is going on here, blog entries and everything? (http://chrisonstad.blogspot.com/2011/12/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html)
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Next week: Ray's Place and Cookbook Vol. II
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The hiatus ends when Baby Update begins again.
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Puzzling:
You gonna scare the giraffe even more than the ball with all that yellin’.
Is Cornelius mocking Ray's speech pattern? Because obviously it's out of character for him. Also, the local neighborhood parks around here frequently explicitly state on signs that golf is forbidden (along with motorized vehicles, model rockets, and R/C toys). Theories on the ban I've heard are safety - as Beef implies - and groundskeeping: practicing chip shots will raise quite a few divots.
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I thought that was out of character for Cornelius as well, but then I realised it was supposed to be Beef talking:
Cornelius eyed them with a barely perceptible measure of displeasure. Roast Beef sensed immediately that Ray’s ball had disturbed the water, sending any already-skittish aquatic life darting beneath distant logs and shadowy outcroppings. “Sssh,” he hissed at Ray. “You gonna scare the fish even more than the ball with all that yellin’.”
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Is Onstad writing like Nice Pete now?
Is he trying to tell us something about what he has been doing with his time?
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Another blog post! From Teodor. It's mostly about a breast, and drinking.
The Christmas Party, Pt. 1 (http://orezscu.blogspot.com/2012/01/christmas-party-pt-1.html)
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Is Teódor a douchey-douche man in the end? He doesn't come off as one in the strips, but his blogs entries, man... Something about them makes me want to unstitch his face.
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unstitch his face.
So sinister.
Teódor is a little bit douchey, I reckon. He's kind of a more mild Pat. Teódor is a spring water and balsamic vinegar douche, and Pat is a Clorox douche.
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man, something about Onstad mentioned Vampire Weekend in this blog post and also in that interview bums me out a little bit.
Even though it definitely makes sense for Teodor, since he is a 30-something (40-something?) desperately trying to be cool and interesting and hip.
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Chris Onstad is also a 30 something, like Teódor. I believe there is previous author's confirmation that Teódor is written the closest to auto-biographical.
Since I am also a 30 something, this obviously explains why we all three of us like Vampire Weekend.
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I was afraid that that post would come across that way, but sometimes trying to explain makes it worse.
I like Vampire Weekend. They are good. Or at least, the album I have heard is good. He is right about what they sound like. I like that sound.
But something about Onstad mentioning a band that I was really into in 2008 makes him sound like a dad. "I heard this really cool band on the internet, Vampire Weekend." He has always had a way of placing cultural references PERFECTLY, especially with music, and this is no different. Teodor is kind of an aging wannabe, and him wondering if this lady has heard the new VW is perfect. Also, I am not sure what counts as the "new" Vampire Weekend single.
Before anyone misunderstands or there is a miscommunication, there is nothing wrong with not following current music, or being older than me, or mentioning a band that you like even if they are not a new band. It is only in the context of Onstad/Teodor that this is funny to me.
I also have a thing about VW, because they do a cover of Everywhere by Fleetwood Mac. When I realized they did a cover of that song, I could basically hear it in my head. I could hear how they would turn the melody into a catchy african-influenced guitar part. I could hear the jangle and the layered polyrhythms.
But it sounds nothing like that. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcYT8TzUarI) Which is too bad. The version in my head is AWESOME. I should write and record it and tell people this is what the VW cover SHOULD have sounded like.
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I get what you're saying. And you're right, Teódor is exactly the dude who would talk about Vampire Weekend a lot a few years after the excitement was over.
Can.
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OK, you all know that I think Onstad is a god, but seriously, I don't want to read his autobiography. I can't even make it all the way through this blog post. Teodor is just not an interesting character.
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I think Onstads new thing is to get halfway through something and stop. It's performance art really.
Also, It appears that I have heard the new Vampire Weekend single 18 times. It's on the 2010 Fluxblog survey. Better give it one more listen as I have no idea what it sounds like.
Edit: Oh yeah, that song is pretty dang good. I'll have to look into them some more.
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OK, you all know that I think Onstad is a god, but seriously, I don't want to read his autobiography. I can't even make it all the way through this blog post. Teodor is just not an interesting character.
Ha! I came to read this thread to figure out if there was anything that worthwhile in the blog, as I gave up on reading it less than half-way through. I'm with you on this one wombat.
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I'm sad about this. I kind of fell off reading the blogs way back in the day when I took and extended break, but when they first came out I could not believe how good they were.
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I'm sad about this. I kind of fell off reading the blogs way back in the day when I took and extended break, but when they first came out I could not believe how good they were.
This one could have been good had there been some kind of point to it.
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In some other thread, AW mentioned that the good thing and the bad thing about the internet is that everyone can be their own publisher. This blog entry could have been good if he had had an editor. Unlike the others, this character is obviously too close to him for him to judge how much of it is interesting to anyone else.
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Am I the only one who liked this blog entry? Maybe it's that I don't particularly care that something be interesting if it's well-written, and this was very well-written.
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No, I liked it.
You can pretty much take that as read for anything Onstad does unless I say different (which I never do).
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So a couple of you convinced me to try again. I got a nice cup of tea, took out my uncomfortable contact lenses, sat on the couch, put a pug in my lap, and made myself read the whole thing.
There are definitely some nice little turns of phrase here and there, because the man can't write anything without some nice little turns of phrase. But I come away from it terrified that when Onstad finally writes a whole book of only words without pictures, that this is the sort of people he is going to write about.
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I come away from it terrified that when Onstad finally writes a whole book of only words without pictures, that this is the sort of people he is going to write about.
Ah, this I can agree with. As much as I feel that Onstad has the talent and skill to write the world's most compelling bus schedule, I do not actually want Onstad to expend his talent and skill in writing the world's most compelling bus schedule.
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As usual Victoria has it exactly right.
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Wait, what? Didn't there used to be a message promising part 2 of the Christmas party blog? It doesn't say that anymore.
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Wait, what? Didn't there used to be a message promising part 2 of the Christmas party blog? It doesn't say that anymore.
I think Onstads new thing is to get halfway through something and stop. It's performance art really.
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I think Onstads new thing is to get halfway through something and stop. It's performance art really.
Tomorrow's reci
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The Christmas Party, Pt. 2 (http://orezscu.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/christmas-party-pt-2.html)
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The Christmas Party, Pt. 2 (http://orezscu.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/christmas-party-pt-2.html)
TLDR
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Has Teodor always been so long-winded?
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This doesn't sound like Teodore. This does sound like someone I would like to read more of though. Especially after a bunch of beers and a bottle of cheap read wine.
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Personally, I loved the heck out of Part 2, especially when read with part 1 as a single long entry. His "Teodor voice" doesn't seem too rusty to me; I imagine some of the rambly feel comes from the sheer length of the piece. Even though I knew where things were going from the beginning, since no Teodor blog ever ends with him getting laid, I enjoyed it simply for the sake of its being Onstad prose. Plus parts 1 and 2 are chock-full of quotables, including "You only go around once, and I got no truck with god or the devil, so it’s all for a laugh, sometimes", which definitely found its way into my Facebook profile.
That being said, new comic please.
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Os Mutantes are from Brazil.
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yeah man, come on.
Although maybe he was saying that obscure Argentinian pop sounds like Os mutantes?
But come on. Os? Weird polyrhythms? Not Argentinian, dude.
This whole thing annoyed me. But I was also trying to imagine every problem as him trying to make Teodor seem very unlikable. Mr Bear has also gone into full on Fancy Pretentious Old Ass mode.
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It becomes much better when you read it as Teodore editing after the fact to pretend he handled it with a cool aloofness and cynical wit rather than gibbering, freaking out and stealing a handle of Vlad.
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yeah man, come on.
Although maybe he was saying that obscure Argentinian pop sounds like Os mutantes?
But come on. Os? Weird polyrhythms? Not Argentinian, dude.
This whole thing annoyed me. But I was also trying to imagine every problem as him trying to make Teodor seem very unlikable. Mr Bear has also gone into full on Fancy Pretentious Old Ass mode.
Yeah, I kinda thought about that, but they (with two other dudes) basically define a genre that is essentially Brazilian. I know you know this, I;m just sayin...
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Yep, it had its good moments and some quotables, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who read it thinking "Teódor, please stop being you"...
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I kind of figured how this would end back in January. Teodor, he of the eternally frustrated libido. T still sounds like T IMO, but it's kind of lame how Mr. Bear has since developed; his dialogue doesn't really convey anything. I can't believe anybody would ever talk that way in any situation. Some of his phrases were familiar, but his dialogue has gone wayyy too purple.
I think it's interesting how the phrase "take no truck" was first used by Nice Pete.