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10/25/05: I'll be in the oven.
« on: October 25, 2005, 09:20:02 am »
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10252005

To my knowledge, this is exactly how a Lemony Snicket book reads.
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« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2005, 10:38:45 am »
Dog piddles on the carpet, closed captioning at 11!
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« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2005, 12:30:04 pm »
Heh heh heh. Horrible things happening for no reason, indeed.
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« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2005, 01:13:24 pm »
Last week I heard a radio interview with that guy and he was fuck*ng annoying. He refused to answer to his real name, wouldn't actually answer any direct questions, and just kept going on about how nobody should buy his new book because it was so crushingly depressing that you'd never want to move again. It was one of the worst interviews I've ever heard.
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« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2005, 02:12:14 pm »
Is that Mr. Bear's typewriter?  Looks more like his toaster melted.
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« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2005, 02:15:40 pm »
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Last week I heard a radio interview with that guy and he was fuck*ng annoying. He refused to answer to his real name, wouldn't actually answer any direct questions, and just kept going on about how nobody should buy his new book because it was so crushingly depressing that you'd never want to move again. It was one of the worst interviews I've ever heard.


That does sound like a terrible interview but I have to say when I was like, 12 I would have eaten that shit up. So I guess you have to give him credit for playing to his audience, whether playing to his audience was appropriate in context or not is another matter.
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« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2005, 03:50:04 pm »
haha, poor mr. bear putting up with his agent.

i vote this the best mr. bear having to write for profit rather than fun comic since the last one!
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« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2005, 04:08:51 pm »
"Judge the audience, not the author"
I wonder if Onstad feels the same way about his strip. Which means, about us.
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« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2005, 08:51:46 pm »
I am fairly certain the correct spelling is "micturition," not "micturation."  Other than that, awesome strip
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« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2005, 08:56:39 pm »
yah but "micturation" still makes more sense
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« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2005, 09:01:19 pm »
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"Judge the audience, not the author"
I wonder if Onstad feels the same way about his strip. Which means, about us.

Eh, my suspicion is no. I think "judge the audience, not the author" here refers fairly specifically to the context in which Mr. Bear writes his novels -- that is, a context in which perceived audience demand forces writers to write things about which they are not inspired, just to please the crowds. If there's one thing Onstad's proven again and again, it's that he doesn't care particularly much about demand from us, T-shirt market aside.
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« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2005, 12:33:07 am »
HOORAY FOR MR. BEAR.

So wait, Lemony Snicket is a real person? Clearly, I haven't been keeping up.
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« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2005, 12:49:30 am »
I was skeptical of this strip at first,
as it seems fairly derivative of this one,
but I guess it's not so bad.

Still, if I had read that book as a child,
it would have given me nightmares.
Today I'd have put it down after two pages.
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10/25/05: I'll be in the oven.
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2005, 01:08:06 am »
I don't like reading about horrible things happening for no reason! I can never really put my finger on why. It just bugs me deep down inside.

However, the strip is still funny. The story is a good kind of ridiculous. Cornelius has a way with words.
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« Reply #14 on: October 26, 2005, 01:12:35 am »
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I don't like reading about horrible things happening for no reason! I can never really put my finger on why. It just bugs me deep down inside.

Because it's stupid and pointless?

(I have found myself looking at stupid, pointless things lately as education -- "see, this is how not to write a fight scene!" -- but I would not recommend it in general.)
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