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Dinner Date Wednesday, March 12, 2003 • read strip Viewing 63 comments:

A comment left by asherdan was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by ezcmac, Sleeps, Thorfinn, Howard, chatterjee, Afkpuz, dropkickpikachu)

...no whale music available? Duck call is close enough.

They were going to provide a tape of whale songs, but when they went to record, there were just so many whales .

Beyond the door,
There's peace I'm sure,
And I know there'll be more...
Whales in heaven.

That was a nice job.

I see what you did there.

As long as they're sultry mating calls.

If it were a sexier senator I'd disagree but given the particular representative in question you are right

The man is the minority leader. The only thing sexier in the world of bicameral legislation is the MAJORITY leader. Plus. Charlie Rose.

how about Ted Stevens? Convicted member of the senate, the 'bad boy' of the club...

I came across this comment again on the day of Ted Stevens' death (which is today). Such timing.

Is it just me, or does Beef look hell of fat in this panel? Like a fat ass in a muu muu.

I'm sorry, Beef - I didn't mean it...

Heaven-issued clothing isn't very flattering

Hell of tubby, yo.

Who's fat? Beef. (He is)

All that butter and booze.

This strip is what Achewood is all about. If you find the phrasing "chicken which has been baked in a dish" to be humorous, then Achewood is for you. If not, my condolences.

If you put on Charlie Rose, and she stays, it was meant to be.

Too bad it's Charlie Rose and not Alan Partridge.

Molly is so curious as to why she must confirm her liking music.

yeah, that's quite the raised eyebrow she's got goin on there

I've known some people who don't like music. They're not the type you'd think lack a soul and a heart, but one day you're asking them "so what do you listen to nowadays" and they answer "i don't like music" and then you just skip a beat like you just saw a mouse eat a cow.

A comment left by songbirdspectre was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by jamb23, salvagebar, Darthemed, SotiCoto)

It is a strange thing. I mean, not liking pop music, or certain bands, or not being obsessive about it and having a large CD collection, sure, but just plain not liking music? Just not at all? Hard to fathom.

I see it more as meaning "I do not generally listen to or care much about music as a thing" not "Rhythm and melody offend me at a basic level. They are not things that I would like to hear at any time."

No, there are people who feel the latter way. I read a letter once to Dear Abby or Dear Ann or whatever by this guy who said he didn't like music, like not at all, and how it made things socially awkward for him because people just didn't get how he could dislike music.

Crazy. I have no way of comprehending that.

people who do not like music have some sort of Condition.

i have considered this and that's the only explanation i can come up with.

You just kind of have to understand that some people have to deal with a lot of noise in their lives, like literally. Big families or something, always around, like seven TVs left on at their highest volume and at all hours, in one tiny room, etc.
So yeah in that sense, music would kind of feel like more noise added on top of that.

Sometimes it is just nice to have silence, you know?

i can understand this, but i refer to people who straight up do not like to listen to music at all .

it's always in that kind of way where that say it too, "well ya know... I don't really like music!"

I'm always all "what music have you heard that you think all music ever made is a waste of time?"

I remember something from my psych. class about there being a kind of brain damage that makes some people incapable of understanding music. Auditory agnosia or something... Man it must suck hard to have that.

That's fair. The next time someone tells me that they don't like music and I'm about to punch them in the heart so hard that they die, I'll check and make sure they don't have auditory agnosia first.

maybe the tapes are because Rock and roll is the DEVIL'S MUSIC(???). No rocking out in heaven, sorry.

Man Heaven has all of Beef's favorite books and things to ingest but none of his music.

Well, like the old saying goes, the Devil has all the tunes...

Oh, THAT'S what that line in The Satanic Verses meant! I thought that the narrator was Beck.

The narrator described himself in one of the chapters; really enjoyable book.

But Heaven has the best choreographers.

YES.

That's like saying Hell has the best writers but Heaven has the best copy editors. I know which career I'd sell my soul for.

Man, Beef, what are you wearing that is unflattering as a pop up tent

Beef's realization in panel five is basically a main concern of my life at all times for the most part.

Speaking of mealtime noises--that scene toward the beginning of Star Wars in which Luke is eating dinner with his aunt and uncle (and they're drinking blue milk) really grosses me out, what with the noises that happen and everything.

And damn! Right when I thought tetrisattack was done quoting the lyrics to "Heaven" word for word, here comes another Talking Heads reference.

This entire Heaven arc I have had Love and Rockets's "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" stuck in my head.

In the second panel, Beef vaguely resembles Ray.

It is the sign the macking is rearing up in his skinny chest and will roar triumphantly. King Chochacho works his magic and possesses the little cat for one crucial moment.

Were it not for Duck Slayer (I mean really if you are killing ducks you are not a god damn warrior slayer) it would be a smooth ride.

You know what, this is a stupid fucking comment.

I don't know if I'd call it stupid. It was pretty weird, though.

roast beef. is. adorable.

what is up with all this talking heads?

More like what happened to all this Talking Heads?

aww. i love the roast beef nervousness, all wringing his hands together. yay beef and molly!

I love chicken which has been baked in a dish !

Seriously, the boy takes your wine to brethe, gives you chicken which has been baked in a dish, and puts on duck calls: any decent person would let him get boobies at least.

Ohh Roast Beef I love it when you use punctuation.

Oh man, anybody but Mitch McConnell....

that guy is dog shit

Beef's all "do you like... Bread? I've got a French Loaf! Bye......... i love you"

I love how the name Roy Rhodes is trademarked. Dude doesn't want anyone else all comin' up on his identity.

I definately have been that nervous on a date before. The kind of nervous that when she still wants to see you even though you were a total ass-hat, you are simultaniously relieved and slightly frightened.

All this Talking Heads in the alt text is making me incredibly happy.