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0059 - Cinnamon Buns

🕑 Added 2024-04-05 17:00:08 +0000 UTC

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Ruxine

So if who we are depends on who is perceiving us, there is a self for each perceiver, multiplied by three for the public, private, and secret selves discussed above. But is the secret life just an amalgam off all the public lives, and simulacra of our various acquaintances we create in order to understand them? Can we ever know ourselves truly without being born entirely alone, and left that way until we've tempered an attitude? Holy mcmoly these strips do make me think. I wish someone would perceive me like molly perceives beef, so I could see the futility in containing my secret self at all.

2scrogz

I have watched enough Great British Bake-Off to know that the word Roast Beef is looking for is "over-baked."

Spyguitar

This is the second time Tim Krieder has come up today, for me. The first time I saw it, this comic: http://thepaincomics.com/weekly050406.htm made me _cry_ laughing

ladiesbane

Secrecy is guilt, shame, and harsh self-judgment. Privacy is restraint, boundaries, mutual respect. But forgetting a word and going into vapor lock is part of my favorite AbFab episode: "Darling, even Amanda de Cadenet would remember the word 'accessories'."

Nicole Lyden

How It’s Made: A Shoe is a delight

Michael F

Amazing mouth-art on Beef today.

John Perich

Never thought I'd say this, but Beef could learn something from Ray about silencing his inner voice when it's just some sass in the main.

Alexander Rediger

Read Leonard Cohen's Death to this Book and his "commentary" on it. Cohen's version of Achewood and the alt-text.

Alexander Rediger

I experience this regularly, post-40

E Corcoran

bake

E Corcoran

"I work all day, and get half-drunk at night"

E Corcoran

His last piece for the NYT was in 2023, so he's still churning em out it seems

souvlaki Alabama

Not all secrets are bad

Douglas Wykstra

Okay but what is the word he was forgetting though

James

Well this got existential. My partner's away and it's 1am but almost called her on the basis of some alt text.

Jenn

My sister has to listen to me have this conversation about myself at least once a week

s b

1600s reenactor group

Benzy

Or, as Mr. Billy Joel says: Well, we all have a face That we hide away forever And we take them out and show ourselves When everyone has gone Some are satin, some are steel Some are silk and some are leather They're the faces of the stranger But we love to try them on Well, we all fall in love But we disregard the danger Though we share so many secrets There are some we never tell Why were you so surprised That you never saw the stranger? Did you ever let your lover see The stranger in yourself?

John Robinson

Anybody know where he got off to? I quite miss The Pain.

Kate S.

I feel the same. The final panel in particular was a bit “off” to me. But on the plus side, I’m glad to hear that other functioning humans also believe that we have sides no one else can ever know. Secrets are human nature, and not inherently poisonous in the least.

Crumbles

The roasted flour of our inevitable demise rarely slides down the esophagus of life easily, and without some manner of liquid assistance.

Oppido

Beef Takes A Road Trip to Utah But Ruins It For Himself By Staying In An Airbnb (Coming 2026)

Kol

It's interesting how Beef frames his neuroses and fatalism as being destructive to Molly while still making it all about him. He frames her as a victim of his circumstance but acts as if he's putting himself second instead of front and center.

Walter Cooke

"I spit on metaphysics!" -Gaff, Blade Runner

Guilherme Töws

"if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" - tim kreider

Oppido

I really hope Molly has like a book club or something she attends. Maybe a casual neighborhood pickleball league. Just, some opportunity to interact with other kinds of brain chemistry.

A. Hamster

I prefer the Kelly Bundy theory, that the mind is a teacup, and once it is full, more cannot be added without some splashing out. I may have lost basic words to Achewood quotes (case in point: “Just Some Knuckleheads From The Day!”)

Nathan

the dude has got no mercy

Kevin Worrell

I will confess that I wasn't really feeling the comic itself, but the "alt text" made me laugh out loud when I got to the end of it.

Shawn Warren

I love How It's Made, is there something my doctor isn't telling me?

blair

Jesus Vlad uh I ain't even sat down yet

Don Rowe

The man runs on a hybrid of Nihil Novi and thermodynamics

tossrock

Man, when are we gonna get those men being punched on the erection?

Ian Stewart

Quiet and expensive????! Pal, have you ever even been to Texas Roadhouse?

J Hardy Carroll

You reach a certain age where everything reminds you of your imminent death, but then you grow out of it. I'd recommend that Beef spend a couple days hanging out with Cornelius, who is so old he only needs to drink hot water because the heat and moisture is enough to get him going.

Julie (HiDeeHoGal)

I mean, yeah. Yeah.

David Kettler

You even think for a minute there's some better way to play it?

John Ashton

I am fond of remembering these words three days later and yelling them out loud suddenly while giving absolutely no context to anyone around me at the time. It does little to disabuse the notion that I am going senile.