I’ll totally second the “You are so freaking brilliant.” Though the word I was going to use was genius. Perceptive would be a good description, too. It takes a special perceptiveness to see the things that no one else is seeing. Reminds me of the features of Michael Pollan’s writing that makes it so important.
It’s a bit embarrassing to live in such a diet soda culture.
Reminds me of the Four Horsemen character Famine from the book Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. He’s starving the world by promoting diet culture and selling food with no nutritional value.
…said the man with Sweet-N-Low and nondairy creamer in his coffee.
I hate the diet culture. What’s the point of eating something if you have to get rid of this or that making it not as good. I go by a rule. All or nothing. Your better off not drinking soda at all then drinking soda that has more chemicals then the other one all for the sake of free consequence.
Dang it. I’m not seeing the things that no one else was seeing that you saw, and that everyone’s now talking about. And my friends say I’m abnormally perceptive.
Well, can’t get ‘em all. Rah Cat and Girl regardless! I’m wearing my chinese clouds t-shirt right now.
“Coke is not an ordinary commodity, but a commodity whose very peculiar use–value itself is already a direct embodiment of the auratic, ineffable surplus. This process is brought to its conclusion in the case of caffeine–free diet Coke. We drink a drink for two reasons: for its nutritional value and for its taste. In the case of caffeine–free diet Coke, its nutritional value is suspended and the caffeine as the key ingredient of its taste is also taken away. All that remains is pure semblance, an artificial promise of a substance which never materialized. Is it not that in the case of caffeine–free diet Coke that we almost literally drink nothing in the guise of something?” – Slavoj Zizek (http://www.egs.edu/faculty/zizek/zizek-superego-and-the-act-1999.html)
Cookies and soda, if i ever meet a boy who disregards this idea of roses and chocolates and gives me cookies and soda, i will marry him. On the spot. ….Although i will probably just use him for the afore mentioned items.
After watching “Son of Rambow” the other day, it struck me why the 80s setting feels so exotic and alien now. It’s not the clothes, the music or the slang (all of those things have come back to haunt us already): It’s that everyone in it drinks red cans of Coke like it’s the most natural thing. When did Classic Coke become a controlled substance? When sugar was pronounced the new cocaine, I guess. “Calories are the point of food” is my new rallying cry. (And I really wish I wasn’t drinking Pepsi Max right now.)
[...] line (Mr. Smuckles again) leads me naturally to Cat and Girl’s Steak House. Girl shares my pessimism about both diet soda and late capitalism, but I do not share her about sandwiches (because sandwiches are awesome, especially the spicy tofu [...]
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:38 am
You are so freaking brilliant.
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:32 am
It’s nice to be allergic to aspartame, and thus untempted. Metaphorically speaking.
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:53 am
Funny you should say. I’m allergic to corn, so I can only have diet. My momentary pleasure is shorn from corn.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:03 am
I’ve always said that what the world needs is more consequences. Let us abandon this yuppie nonsense and become midwestern farmers.
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I love me some calories and cutting up credit cards.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Me and the rest of the Diabeats can’t drink regular soda. But we need the caffeine to stay up all night practicing.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Cat is completely right of course, calories are the point of food.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Girl is my favourite fictional person.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Oh my goodness! I like cookies, too! A whole lot, in fact.
In this absurd, hypocritical world, cookies are the only things keeping me alive. Cookies are so very punk rawk, my friends.
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I’ll totally second the “You are so freaking brilliant.” Though the word I was going to use was genius. Perceptive would be a good description, too. It takes a special perceptiveness to see the things that no one else is seeing. Reminds me of the features of Michael Pollan’s writing that makes it so important.
It’s a bit embarrassing to live in such a diet soda culture.
– Jeff
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Reminds me of the Four Horsemen character Famine from the book Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. He’s starving the world by promoting diet culture and selling food with no nutritional value.
…said the man with Sweet-N-Low and nondairy creamer in his coffee.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
I hate the diet culture. What’s the point of eating something if you have to get rid of this or that making it not as good. I go by a rule. All or nothing. Your better off not drinking soda at all then drinking soda that has more chemicals then the other one all for the sake of free consequence.
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Perfection.
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Oh, there’s consequences, diet or not. We just ignore them.
Unrelated note, I like how girl is willing to spend money to buy diet soda for the sake of making a point.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 am
Dang it. I’m not seeing the things that no one else was seeing that you saw, and that everyone’s now talking about. And my friends say I’m abnormally perceptive.
Well, can’t get ‘em all. Rah Cat and Girl regardless! I’m wearing my chinese clouds t-shirt right now.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:17 am
Is it me or is girl putting on a little weight?
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I guess it’s cookies and diet soda all the way down.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
I want a tshirt that say “calories are the point of food!” And I want it in XL.
June 5th, 2009 at 3:28 am
And I, Rosa, want your telephone number.
June 5th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
i read a cookie after reading this. oops i mean ate.
June 6th, 2009 at 5:27 am
“Coke is not an ordinary commodity, but a commodity whose very peculiar use–value itself is already a direct embodiment of the auratic, ineffable surplus. This process is brought to its conclusion in the case of caffeine–free diet Coke. We drink a drink for two reasons: for its nutritional value and for its taste. In the case of caffeine–free diet Coke, its nutritional value is suspended and the caffeine as the key ingredient of its taste is also taken away. All that remains is pure semblance, an artificial promise of a substance which never materialized. Is it not that in the case of caffeine–free diet Coke that we almost literally drink nothing in the guise of something?” – Slavoj Zizek (http://www.egs.edu/faculty/zizek/zizek-superego-and-the-act-1999.html)
June 6th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Cookies and soda, if i ever meet a boy who disregards this idea of roses and chocolates and gives me cookies and soda, i will marry him. On the spot. ….Although i will probably just use him for the afore mentioned items.
This is making me hungry.
June 8th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
After watching “Son of Rambow” the other day, it struck me why the 80s setting feels so exotic and alien now. It’s not the clothes, the music or the slang (all of those things have come back to haunt us already): It’s that everyone in it drinks red cans of Coke like it’s the most natural thing. When did Classic Coke become a controlled substance? When sugar was pronounced the new cocaine, I guess. “Calories are the point of food” is my new rallying cry. (And I really wish I wasn’t drinking Pepsi Max right now.)
June 9th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
[...] line (Mr. Smuckles again) leads me naturally to Cat and Girl’s Steak House. Girl shares my pessimism about both diet soda and late capitalism, but I do not share her about sandwiches (because sandwiches are awesome, especially the spicy tofu [...]
June 10th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Dolor General, a subsidiary of Lorem Ipsum Corporation.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:34 am
The point of diet soda is to mix it with rum.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Her expression last panel is priceless.
August 10th, 2010 at 7:20 am
This one is just for the archive enthusiasts, seeing as it’s dated well past the original comments. But nevertheless.
Diet coke isn’t a metaphor, it’s an oxymoron.
I’m sorry, I love you.
August 10th, 2010 at 7:22 am
*sigh*
Diet soda. I meant diet soda.
August 14th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
This is still one of my favorite Cat and Girls.