As far as ideas of love go, this is at least better than helping a Chinese lady get her MBA so she can dump him.

He was indeed awesome in '05.  Whatever happens to this silly little comic strip, I'll always be grateful to Onstad for making the Bush Years tolerable.

Yeah, me either really.  The lack of good roles for women across all narrative media is an aggregate problem, not so much a specific problem of specific artists.  If an artist is best at writing about gangs of stoner dudes, he should stick to that.  Though if Onstad is reading this (he isn't) I'll pass along a tip I got from a writing teacher: if you want to come off as someone with a fresh idea about gender dynamics, just take a famous and well-regarded relationship story, something from a movie or book, and just switch the genders.  Make the girl Woodie Allen or Carrie Grant or whatever.  It's a cheap trick and it really works.

Really don't have much to say about this one.  This date is taking months.  It's a funny date for sure, but I could use some short form funny at this point.

I guess Onstad is forced by recent circumstances to reconsider his old love of Led Zeppelin and U2?  That's what I'm getting from all of this.

I think he took their potato, put it in an empty fiber supplement bag, smashed it and then ran off?  Which seems like it wouldn't get in the way of turning that potato into hash browns.

Man, she's like... creating a space for him to impress her.  He's in like sin.

That's the great thing about dating a punk.  They're pretty cool with the fact that life's a mess, and they've figured out a way to make poverty entertaining.

"Punk" has meant about at many things over the years as "Rhythm and Blues" has.

The earliest scenes that were called punk by the people that were there at the time (and not retrospectively), New York and Manchester, had a really diverse array of bands.  Classic punk immediately brings The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Dead Boys to mind, but it also had Patty Smith, Television, the Soft Boys, Joy Division, the Talking Heads, and others that don't fit the paradigm so neatly.  Punk was a reaction against the popular music of the late 70s, but that doesn't mean it was a total break.  And in my experience, musicians themselves have wider ranging tastes than their fans.  I bet if you were to take a poll of everyone whose band played CBGB's between 76-81 (to pick a kinda arbitrary range) and asked for opinions on Led Zeppelin, the results would be mixed.  I mean, before punk there wasn't much punk for the punk rockers to listen to.  Their record collections in 1975 had to have more than Iggy Pop and the Velvet Underground in them.