The Walton Firm Memos

This is a very exciting week for me because Chris Onstead has put up three Achewood strips,  and he hasn’t been this prolific for a while.  I’ve been anxiouse about the strip ever since he dropped the “you don’t always feel that way” bomb in a radio interview. Specifically, I’ve been worrying that he might go the way of other [...]

Dear Mr. Tremblay, We are issuing you this letter of reprimand to detail the history of these events and our actions, as they exist in the record submitted to the court.
On march 14th, at a firm event at Dave & Busters you were said by several employees to have displayed signs of intoxication including slurred [...]

Scribd, the website where anyone can publish their own documents, is an often overlooked resource.  These documents can be, like, political-tirade pamphlets, unpublished (unpublishable) books, business-school homework, whatever. The whole boat-and-parade is like a rowdy, misfit Google Books. Check it out sometime. I’ve discussed Scribd before of course, but the specific case I’m going to make for [...]

May you always have a buckle on your hat,
a wind at your back,
a new world to sail to,
and a desert beach to wreck upon.
May all your friends’ graves be loitered by cure fans of the purest heart.
May your juice be loose,
your smiles unhidden,
your styles un-bitten,
your gardens lusciouse,
and your crushes smitten.

“I think selling out is pretty much a dead concept,” said the panel’s moderator, Rob Levine.
It’s okay everyone, Rob Levine said it’s ok, and not a moment to soon might I add. I’ve been sitting here on this sort of upbeat, dancey elctro-pop thing for which the new energy drink, Twitpocalypse has just been pounding [...]

Before it gets too far away, there was another thing I wanted to mention about Infinite Jest, particularly the fish joke that appears on page 445:
Robert F./Bob Death asks Gately if by any chance he’s heard the one about the fish…He leans in more toward Gately and shouts that the one he was talking about [...]

I just finished reading Infinite Jest for the second time. The first time I read it it was sort of just generally impressive, and made me a lot more interested in reading books in general, but was really far too much material for me to really absorb. The second time through was a lot cooler, [...]

So this is a picture of Grape Methamphetamine, which does exist. Some alarmist local-tv-news-types like to hype the flavored-meth thing as, like, a phenomenon of children-targeting, which I find to be bullshit.  Grape flavoring, or Methyl Anthranilate, is known to any serious candy-eater as the most sickly of all flavors (it is, symbolicaly, also used [...]

This comes from a court document obtained by The Smoking Gun:
Scene Description:
The scene is a residential street lined with single family residences. The decedent’s vehicle is parked along the south curb line to the front of the listed address. The driver’s side window is smashed. The decedent is lying on her right side in the [...]