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A Holiday Visit Home

The second of two holiday missives which you will receive from Peter H. "Nice Pete" Cropes this year. Read along as a nostalgic itch takes him on an impromptu tour of one of the many places his fam...

Time Capsules (pdf)

In this new bit of writing posted exclusively for the Author's Tier, I examine the phenomenon of the time capsule as it is practiced in our culture.  

0032 - The Account, Pt. 3

SPOILER ALERT: Tina's Awareness of Different Garnish Styles. The presence and style of garnish silently communicates specific information, and here Tina demonstrates a surprising a...

Discount code for 15% off at Achewood! Holiday shop closes Sunday.

The Achewood Holiday Pop-Up Shop is closing for the season on Sunday at midnight, so please order asap in orde...

Thanksgiving 2023, Depeche Mode

Author's Tier members, you have spoken, and Even More Content it is! Today's update is from the two biggest events of the last week of November: Thanksgiving, and a Depeche Mode co...

Author's Tier Poll: Content Frequency!

Are you getting enough bang for your buck in this, my VIP tier? (Or too much bang? Perhaps not enough bang?) Help me calibrate this tier to bring you optimal reading and parasocial* delight! 2023-12-03 15:36:11 +0000 UTC View Post

A Childhood Christmas in Nacre Shoals, W. Va.

The first of two holiday missives which you will receive from Peter H. "Nice Pete" Cropes this year. Read along and enjoy this heart-warming coming of age story, set deep in the impoverished but ho...

0031 - The Account, Pt. 2

Have you ever worked for a marketing firm, digital agency, ad agency, branding group, design house, copywriting shop, or the like? Let's trade war stories in the comments this week. 

In ...

0030 - The Account, Pt. 1

In which Téodor — incorrectly pronounced "TEE-uh-door" by some, but pronounced correctly by others as "TAY-uh-door" — is shown in his element: scrambling to finally get a job on the actual day...

Thanksgiving Missive and Past-Blast (Serializer).

I probably give a silent thanks to you, dear supporter on Patreon, every day of the week, if not multiple times throughout each day. I give thanks when I wake, and sit with my coffee in the morning...

The Day Where Nothing Added Up

Man, today just really added up to nothing, and everything seemed annoying. This is very unusual; typically I love my days. I’m excited to wake up, I’m excited to go restore the old fixer-upper...

0029 - Back On His Bensington

In this strip we check back in with Bensington Butters, whom careful readers will recall is actually a man named Jimmie "Darnell" Hockawock, from Flokes County, Florida. Along with Ray and AKK...

Sweat Gets In Your Eyes, Part Four (end)

At the conclusion of my mini-series on running: The Marathon! 

Young Peter H. Cropes: Military Intake Interview (pdf)

This piece started life in the Assetbar/Fanflow in November of 2009, but has been so heavily rewritten as to essentially be a new piece. 

New Orleans Photo Tour

Thank you to all you first-water Author’s Tier subscribers for the plethora of New Orleans recommendations. Lauren and I made use of many of your hot tips, but were forced by morbid curiosity and...

0028 - Bandwidth

I got to thinking about how much extra energy is expended streaming all this video for phone calls, and it stressed me out. It used to stress me out when a friend said they streamed Pandora music i...

New Orleans

Chochachos of the First Water, do you have any recommendations for traveling in this great city? We will be heading there soon, and do not wish to simply scour the haunted alleyways for sightings o...

Sweat Gets In Your Eyes, Part Three

Part three of four. Prelude to the ambivalence to the return to glory. 

Outtakes from "Ray and Pat in, Road Trip"

Every strip generates lines that don't fit the story, yet still cry out for any audience whatsoever before they sink beneath the waves. These are those lines. 

0027 - Ray and Pat in, "Road Trip," Pt. 11 (Ending.)

In this conclusion to the "Road Trip" story arc — which we began in the heat of summer and now end in chilling autumn — we learn a bit of the origin story of Ray and Pat's friendship. ("Why...