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10/04/2004 Archived Entry: "Achewood"

Achewood
I really don't know why I've ignored Achewood all these years. The strip is bizarre and extreme. My kind of stuff. Check out the blogs each character keeps (lower right). Here's an excerpt from Roast Beef's blog:

So much for free rent...back to the drawing board. Looks like I'm going to have to start doing more freelancing, like teaching suckers at night school how to open Microsoft Excel and then that it is okay to close it again.

And Philippe's (what is he?):

A scared man pooped in our yard!

Lyle is so mean! One of his old movie-making friends who he hates now was pooping in our yard, and when I told Lyle he shot a gun at him! The man got so scared! I am against guns, and also yard potties (unless it is an emergency).

Oh man. Blog mockery, yes. How serious do we really need to take stuff like blogging? Let it loose. All these classroom blogs built around journal writing? What for? To invent the university, of course.
What I really like is that super alter-ego stuff is here on these Achewood blogs as well. The alter-ego is the response to the emergence of digital culture. Starting (eh, more or less; don't hold me to times/dates that seriously) with Fernando Pessoa navigating turn of the century technological innovations (telegraph/typewriter) by writing under all kinds of names to Hollywood naming principles ("From now on, your name is Cary Grant") to George Clinton's various egos to the DJ ("I am what I play") to hip hop singers ("Who's the real Slim Shady?") to Fight Club and so on. Comic characters' blogs. Each with its own feed. Love it. Much better than Lucy's usage of technology (showing Charlie Brown films of his faults).