0063 — Return of Ray's Place
Added 2024-05-03 17:00:12 +0000 UTCSince I don't want to put any spoilers here, let's just figure out where Ray went when he was out not locking his computer. He's got either a wax paper soda cup from a fast food restaurant, or a sporty reusable workout cup, so we can't know for sure that it was an errand in the service of diabetes. Perhaps he was out for a long walk — long enough for someone to sit and compose at his computer for at least ten minutes (assuming the prose was already seething in the hidden author's veins).
He seems in good spirits, which is not how a man with his bloodwork would feel immediately following a Smashed Buttery Double with Cheese at Jack in the Box. So, here, as Mother Spring shimmers the bough and riffles the heading grain, let us feel renewed hope for our magnanimous friend.
Except for that last panel.
Comments
To clarify, I'm laughing at the 99PI joke and not trying to brag in the context of your reading struggles! That reply out of order looks uglier than intended.
Brian
2024-09-13 16:15:36 +0000 UTCHah! This beautiful nerd finished the audiobook in like March, and have been jonesing for something substantial to sink my teeth into ever since, much to the disbelief of my younger, book-report-eschewing self. The only appealing options at this point time (besides catching up here while vacationing in the other Portland) seem to be relisten to it this fall, or start LBJ.
Brian
2024-09-13 16:09:38 +0000 UTCI am currently having the same relationship with Titan by Ron Chernow, John Adams by David McCullough, and, of course, Infinite Jest by Mr. Typey-Pants
Chris Onstad
2024-09-13 05:49:34 +0000 UTCNo, you've sussed me entirely Chris. My failure to continue to read The Power Broker since this comment was posted has shown that my brain is a fortress into which no books or knowledge shall enter.
Tom PM
2024-09-12 16:53:46 +0000 UTCNearly invisible...you might say 99%! (If yours was a genuinely scholarly comment from actual books and knowledge, I will clarify that 99% Invisible has just brought this figure large back to the current dialogue, for the audio-type learner.)
Chris Onstad
2024-09-12 16:37:00 +0000 UTCI wonder what tender young age Robert was when unapologetic Paul accidentally broke the bridge of Robert's recently acquired toy train set. One look at a road map of NYC might tell you, in part, how much the senseless tragedy stung, but nowhere will you find a number that accurately represents the true cost to humanity of the tiny, nearly invisible slight made by an unwitting child to a younger sibling.
Brian
2024-09-12 16:32:52 +0000 UTCMon semblable - mon frere! I scrolled looking for such a comment, must have missed yours in a fit of blindness.
E Corcoran
2024-05-05 17:30:25 +0000 UTCNo, I brought it up too, but indirectly, because Nice Pete did not Ask for my Opinion
Matthew Harris
2024-05-05 14:17:40 +0000 UTCAm I alone in finding the general disappearance of the correct past participle disheartening? Dragons must be slain.
E Corcoran
2024-05-05 05:49:49 +0000 UTCNice Pete has a few Issues with children I guess
Donald Turnbaugh
2024-05-04 20:45:00 +0000 UTCthis pete fellow has gumption! nice pete 2024
Datura
2024-05-04 16:53:02 +0000 UTCI take back the part about glamor muscles, Ray is actually self assured to a fault and not one to care if people dont like him. I honestly can't call him vain.
Bungus Bronbo
2024-05-04 01:54:07 +0000 UTCThat baby? Robert Moses.
Tom PM
2024-05-03 23:05:05 +0000 UTCThat cup looks like a 'medium' fast food drink cup. In fact, I'm thinking Ray Just came from a fast food location. He got the so called "Chicken Tortilla Wraps" to be healthy. He knows he shouldn't but he can't resist a few of those fries shaped like one of those staircases that keeps turning in circles as it goes up. So he limited himself to a medium iced tea instead of soda. He's feeling kinda proud of himself.
C C
2024-05-03 23:04:35 +0000 UTCIM HOLLERING. Thanks nice Pete, I’m feeling much more prepared to for my friend to get induced next week, perhaps I’ll gift her some sort of ceremonial knife. It’s nice to know that I can choose the manner of my own death.
Blaine Bowman
2024-05-03 20:59:14 +0000 UTCGoody! He can write to me at: John D. P.O. Box 1112 Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
Cf Duddy
2024-05-03 19:05:54 +0000 UTCNice Pete's worldview would have been shaped by The Omen, were he permitted in town where Satan's moving pictures flicker in a dark room.
Jay Y
2024-05-03 18:46:04 +0000 UTCNice Pete guest-edits the Philippe Times when?
Oppido
2024-05-03 18:41:54 +0000 UTCI forwarded this to him
Chris Onstad
2024-05-03 18:34:16 +0000 UTCOh Manhunter is 🤩
Cf Duddy
2024-05-03 18:21:13 +0000 UTCI wonder if Nice Pete ever finished that bible adaptation with Ray in the role of Jesus... I would read the fugg out of a Nice Pete penned creation myth with stoned Ray as the main character.
2scrogz
2024-05-03 18:20:30 +0000 UTCWhat's the difference between Nice Pete and AI? Nice Pete has ethics. Of a sort.
J Hardy Carroll
2024-05-03 18:18:20 +0000 UTCHe ponders this at the cold, cold waters of Texture Creek.
GruntyGinMan
2024-05-03 17:57:08 +0000 UTCThat was definitely bouncing around in my head somewhere
Chris Onstad
2024-05-03 17:48:56 +0000 UTCSomething bubbly sweet to wash down a heaping slice of Rasmus Cake I bet
b.zap
2024-05-03 17:39:13 +0000 UTCWatch Manhunter instead, you'll enjoy yourself more
RBM
2024-05-03 17:37:29 +0000 UTCIt alarmed me how similar this is to my feelings about babies.
Jeff Holt
2024-05-03 17:30:49 +0000 UTCNice! Pete is back!
emitydna
2024-05-03 17:29:43 +0000 UTCTook me one panel to know Who had written the column.
Hunter
2024-05-03 17:29:31 +0000 UTCIs Ray's "abbita habbita" the noble heir to Ralph Kramden's "homina homina"?
Greg Earnest
2024-05-03 17:26:24 +0000 UTCabbita-habbita encompasses that moment as no other onomatopoeia possibly could
Zen Window
2024-05-03 17:25:38 +0000 UTCWith a dragon being slayed it was either going to be Jordan Peterson or Nice Pete. So I guess Ray lucked out.
Occluded
2024-05-03 17:21:35 +0000 UTCA masterclass in "even a great cast cannot lift bad direction and script."
Chris Selvig
2024-05-03 17:12:11 +0000 UTCNext Week: Nice Pete volunteers with Achewood's Big Brother program! Hilarity ensues! Stay tuned!
Josh Egbert
2024-05-03 17:11:44 +0000 UTC"Yours will be the first hatred it knows and all dragons must be slayed." God damn Chris I mean Pete. What a line!
Brian Sutton
2024-05-03 17:11:18 +0000 UTCNice Pete always makes me think of the submediocre [blech] film, Red Dragon
Cf Duddy
2024-05-03 17:07:47 +0000 UTCTorn between my pedantic nature, which demands correction of "slayed" to "slain", and my general preference to have my lungs on the inside of my body
Matthew Harris
2024-05-03 17:07:17 +0000 UTCNice Pete telling the hard Truths
Yelahneb Unicornucopiax
2024-05-03 17:05:43 +0000 UTCHe writes poniards, and every word stabs.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-05-03 17:05:40 +0000 UTCRay 100% is coming from the gym. He's got that pump going, and probably has that highly branded Reusable Workout Kup (TM) filled with high sugar-octane pre/post workout that completely cancels out any dumbbell lifting he did to help out his glamour muscles.
Bungus Bronbo
2024-05-03 17:05:40 +0000 UTC
