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Minnipeg Part 7 [[Phoebe and Athena are inside a tent.]] / Phoebe: Look Athena, someone left us a present in this tent. / Athena: What? / Phoebe: JIZZ! That stain! It's jizz! / Athena and Phoebe: HA HA HA / Athena: Wait--who'd we borrow this tent from? / Phoebe: Uhhh...from Pete. / Phoebe: So it's PETE'S JIZZ! / Phoebe and Athena: HAHAHAHAHAHA
http://actionathena.com/2009/08/10/minnipeg-part-7/
Minnipeg Part 9 8:00 PM / [[Two Kinder Egg toys sit on the Currier's picnic table.]] / 8:00 AM / [[The Kind Egg toys are no longer there.]] / Phoebe: GASP! / Phoebe [[shouting to Athena, who is still asleep in the tent]]: SOME BITCH STOLE OUR KINDER EGG TOYS! / [[Phoebe scowls forcefully.]] / [[Athena and Phoebe sit down to eat oatmeal. Phoebe looks furious. Athena looks disappointed.]]
http://actionathena.com/2009/08/14/minnipeg-part-9/
Dang Gum 1 NOTE: THIS COMIC WAS MADE WHEN I WAS 17. IN HIGH SCHOOL. ASIDE FROM ONE TERRIBLE SUBMISSION TO "TRUE PORN: VOLUME II," IT'S THE FIRST MULTI-PAGE COMIC I EVER MADE. / DANG GUM: An Odyssey By Athena Currier / Cameo: That's the gum! Sweet! Heh--literally. / [[Cameo purchases the gum from a mulleted man.]] / Cameo: NO WAY am I gonna WALK home! / [[She blinks.]] / Cameo: FINE. / Cameo [[walking]]: grumble grumble grumble / Cameo [[chewing]]: Mmm... / Cameo: I LOVE this gum! / Cameo: Hey! / Cameo [[to a boy on a bicycle]]: Wanna give me a ride?
http://actionathena.com/2010/01/04/dang-gum-1/
Dang Gum 2 NOTE: THIS COMIC WAS MADE WHEN I WAS 17. IN HIGH SCHOOL. ASIDE FROM ONE TERRIBLE SUBMISSION TO "TRUE PORN: VOLUME II," IT'S THE FIRST MULTI-PAGE COMIC I EVER MADE. / Boy: Umm.......No. / Boy: Sorry. / Cameo: What! Come on! My car broke and I don't wanna walk! It's...chilly. Please? / Boy: Sigh...fine. Get on. / Cameo: Thanks! You're awesome! / Cameo: Faster--go faster! / Cameo: WHEEEEE! / [[The bike flips.]] / Cameo: AAH! / Boy: LOOK at this! It's ruined! Now we BOTH have to walk! This never would have happened if I'd been by myself! / Cameo: Well...now you can...walk me home? Heh...sorry... / Cameo: Oh come on! I'll...tell you a story? / Boy: Sigh...about what? / Cameo: Um...my day! I'll tell you about my day! / [[Boy blinks.]] / Boy: you're pretty stupid... / Boy: ...But I've got nothing better to do. / Cameo: Yes!
http://actionathena.com/2010/01/06/dang-gum-2/
Dang Gum 3 NOTE: THIS COMIC WAS MADE WHEN I WAS 17. IN HIGH SCHOOL. ASIDE FROM ONE TERRIBLE SUBMISSION TO "TRUE PORN: VOLUME II," IT'S THE FIRST MULTI-PAGE COMIC I EVER MADE. / Cameo: So I woke up this morning, got dressed for work--I work at the make-up counter at Walton's... / Cameo: I ate my cereal. / Cameo: I brushed my teeth. / Cameo: I packed my lunch-- / Boy: Is this going anywhere? / Cameo: I'm GETTING to it. / Cameo: So I was driving to work, but my car stalled in the alley. / Cameo: There were lots of shifty types around... / Guy 1: Hey--nice car. / Guy 2: Wanna buy something? / Guy 3: Why don't you get out of the car? / Guy 4: Hang out for awhile... / Guy 5: You must've stopped for a reason... / Guy 6: Take it easy... / Cameo: Uh...uh... / Car: VROOM! / Cameo: Thank god. / Cameo: Gotta go! / Cameo: I'd already running late, but after that I was REALLY late! Hey--why are you still wearing your helmet?
http://actionathena.com/2010/01/09/dang-gum-3/
 
Dang Gum 4 NOTE: THIS COMIC WAS MADE WHEN I WAS 17. IN HIGH SCHOOL. ASIDE FROM ONE TERRIBLE SUBMISSION TO "TRUE PORN: VOLUME II," IT'S THE FIRST MULTI-PAGE COMIC I EVER MADE. / Cameo: Your bike broke. Why isn't your helmet off? / Boy: Because i-it's that--it's--it's SAFER! / Cameo: WHAT? But there's no BIKE! / Boy: It never hurts to wear a helmet... / Boy: So what happened when you got to work? / Cameo: Oh, right. So I've got this really crabby boss... / Cameo: He wasn't too happy with my being late... / Boss: 18 MINUTES! THAT'S 2 MINUTES SHORT OF 20, AND THAT'S A THIRD OF AN HOUR! / Cameo: Sorry... / Boss: Just get to your counter! I'm warning you, this late again and you're FIRED! I can't have my employees waltzing in at all hours of the day! I'm trying to run a BUSINESS here! So keep moving! And get me some coffee! / Cameo: Sigh...stupid car...stupid druggies... / Cameo: Here Mr. Sykes--OOPS! / Boss: AUGH! MY EYE! YOU BURNED OUT MY EYE! / Came: I'm SO sorry! / Cameo: I just went to the make-up counter after that. I didn't know what else to do. / Boy: You BLINDED your BOSS?! / Cameo: He only had one eye to begin with... / Cameo: Ha--score! Free muffin! / Boy: You blinded your boss AND stole a muffin from him? / Cameo: Well, he'd probably lost his appetite anyway. / Cameo: It was a good muffin. Banana walnut. I offered Bernice some--she's my coworker. But she didn't want any. / Bernice: Ew! SOAKED in fatness!
http://actionathena.com/2010/01/11/dang-gum-4/
Dang Gum 5 NOTE: THIS COMIC WAS MADE WHEN I WAS 17. IN HIGH SCHOOL. ASIDE FROM ONE TERRIBLE SUBMISSION TO "TRUE PORN: VOLUME II," IT'S THE FIRST MULTI-PAGE COMIC I EVER MADE. / Cameo: I hate Bernice. She's full of it. Always telling me about some new diet or beauty regime she's discovered. Always trying to talk me into a makeover. / Bernice: Please?? Just a little blush! And mascara! You'd look SO pretty! / Cameo: As if I'd wanna look like HER. / [[Bernice stands and stretches.]] / Cameo: We don't have much to talk about. / Bernice: Ooh! Guess what? I tried this new lip gloss? "Sorceress?" It increases your pheromones or something! I'm attracting men like FLIES! / Cameo: What's new there? / Bernice: Oh, I told Josh to stop by today. I made him promise to buy me a present! Tee hee! I'm so bad! Do YOU have a boyfriend yet? / Bernice: Nope. Same as yesterday and the day before. / Bernice: Aw, too bad. I'll ask Josh if he knows anyone. Boys are so EASY once you've got the hang of them. They'll do anything you want! / Josh: Hey babe. / Bernice: Josh! What did you buy me? / Josh: Here. / Bernice: Earrings! Cute! Josh, go get me a diet coke. / Josh: 'K. Love you. / Bernice: Ew! GO! / Bernice: See how fun boyfriends are? / Came: Oh yeah... / Josh: Here, babe. / Bernice: JOSH! This is a PEPSI! Try again. / Cameo: It was a LONG morning... / Boy: I believe it! / Cameo: And we hadn't even had customers yet!
http://actionathena.com/2010/01/13/dang-gum-5/
Dang Gum 6 NOTE: THIS COMIC WAS MADE WHEN I WAS 17. IN HIGH SCHOOL. ASIDE FROM ONE TERRIBLE SUBMISSION TO "TRUE PORN: VOLUME II," IT'S THE FIRST MULTI-PAGE COMIC I EVER MADE. / Cameo: You expect a certain breed of customer when working with make-up... / Cameo: Not everyone buys make-up. Especially the cheap Walton kind. I see a lot of middle-aged housewives, some lazy boyfriends buying presents... But mainly, it's one thing... / Cameo: MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS. / Cameo: Oof. / Cameo: They don't BUY anything. They just waste your time, using up samples, asking stupid questions... / Girl 1: Do you have this in mauve? / Girl 2: Where's the really GOOD nail polish? / Girl 3: Yuck--this perfume smells like baby wipes! Gag! / Cameo: The longer you listen to them, the more sense their garbage seems to make... / Girls: Rhinestones are SO hot! Omigod--purple mascara! yay! Puce is the new pink! / Cameo: STOP! / Cameo: If you're not going to buy anything, please LEAVE! / Cameo: So I got in trouble for yelling at customers, and Bernice wouldn't stop babbling about rhinestones! / Boy: Girls are weird. / Cameo: Yeah. Hey!
http://actionathena.com/2010/01/15/dang-gum-6/
Dang Gum 7 NOTE: THIS COMIC WAS MADE WHEN I WAS 17. IN HIGH SCHOOL. ASIDE FROM ONE TERRIBLE SUBMISSION TO "TRUE PORN: VOLUME II," IT'S THE FIRST MULTI-PAGE COMIC I EVER MADE. / Cameo: I decided to eat lunch in the storage basement. I wasn't in the mood for company. / Boy: That's not very sociable. I mean, how are you going to make friends? / [[Cameo blinks.]] / Cameo: say the boy wearing a helmet on a WALK for the sake of SAFETY. / Boy: Point taken. You were saying...? / Cameo: Right. I took my lunch to the basement. It's kinda creepy there... / Cameo: Hello? / Cameo: Hello? / Cameo: Hmm. / [[Cameo hears some shuffling. She whirls around.]] / Cameo: Bernice? Is that you? / A Voice: No. / [[The voice belongs to Kenny.]] / Kenny: I'm Kenny the storage room guy! / Cameo: Oh...hi, Kenny. I"m just...eating my lunch here. Didn't mean to bother you. / Kenny: Oh, that's cool. Hey--are you gonna eat that? I'm STARVING. I didn't bring anything. / [[He GRABS her lunchbag.]] / Kenny: Thanks. Hey, this is really good! Know what it reminds me of? Dang Gum. Heard of it? I LOVE that stuff! Hard to find, but MAN. It's AWESOME. / Cameo: Dang Gum, eh? I've never heard of it. / Kenny: Oh, you've gotta get some. Hey--aren't YOU gonna have lunch? / Cameo: I said goodbye to Kenny, but I kept thinking about that gum. I REALLY wanted some. HAD to find it. / [[Bernice sleeps.]]
http://actionathena.com/2010/01/18/dang-gum-7/
Dang Gum 8 NOTE: THIS COMIC WAS MADE WHEN I WAS 17. IN HIGH SCHOOL. ASIDE FROM ONE TERRIBLE SUBMISSION TO "TRUE PORN: VOLUME II," IT'S THE FIRST MULTI-PAGE COMIC I EVER MADE. / Cameo: But that's when SHE showed up. / Cameo: Her name's Priscilla. Every week she returns something, gets store credit, and buys something else, only to return it the next week for more credit. / Boy: That's terrible! / Cameo: Yeah, but she's the manager's sister-in-law. What can I do? / Cameo: Today it was concealer. She was returning it because it "didn't conceal ENOUGH." There's not enough concealer in the WORLD to hide THAT face. / Priscilla: WHY would you sell such a defective product? I have LOVELY skin! The WORST concealer should have no difficulty making me FLAWLESS! / Cameo: Sorry, ma'am... / Priscilla: I hope so! / Cameo: Should I put it on store credit, then? / Priscilla: Yes, I think that's only fair. You kind of people are SO incompetent. You can't even sell a decent CONCEALER. I'll just look around then... / Cameo: SIGH. / Priscilla: Would you help me with that blush, girl? And that eye liner too--only don't poke at my eyes--I have very sensitive eyes... / Priscilla: LOVELY. Now get me a-- / Cameo: That's when I snapped. I just...SNAPPED. Couldn't take it anymore. / Cameo: YAARGH! / Priscilla: Heavens! / Cameo: In retrospect, I may have overreacted.
http://actionathena.com/2010/01/20/dang-gum-8/
 
Dang Gum 9 NOTE: THIS COMIC WAS MADE WHEN I WAS 17. IN HIGH SCHOOL. ASIDE FROM ONE TERRIBLE SUBMISSION TO "TRUE PORN: VOLUME II," IT'S THE FIRST MULTI-PAGE COMIC I EVER MADE. / Boss: That's IT! You come in late, you pour coffee in my face, yell at customers, and now you've ATTACKED my sister-in-law! You are FIRED! Get OUT. NOW. / Cameo: Sigh... / Cameo: Sigh... / [[Cameo has reached a drug store.]] / Cameo: ? / [[She gets an idea.]] / Cameo [[walking down an aisle]]: Gum...gum... / [[She finds a huge bin that says "Dang Gum." Also "Sale."]] / Cameo: Yahoo! / [[She struts off.]] / Cameo: ...And that's when my car wouldn't start.
http://actionathena.com/2010/01/22/dang-gum-9/
Highway 3 RED HOT SATURDAY NIGHT / Sarah Currier: Wanna go out to dinner with us, Athena? / Athena: okay. / Sarah Currier: Let me just flip through this Northfield High School Band coupon book to see if there are any deals. ooh, two-for-one Burrito Supremos and Fiesta Salads at Tacoasis! / Sarah Currier: Wanna get dessert after this? / Ross Currier: We could check out the custard at Culver's. / Sarah Currier: Hmm, that's not in the coupon book. Dairy Queen? / Ross Currier: Sure. / Sarah Currier: Well, we did a regular tour of Highway 3 today! / Ross Currier: We sure did. / [[Author's Note: this is the saddest motel in Minnesota.]]
http://actionathena.com/2010/07/19/highway-3/
a class="searchlink" href="http://actionathena.com/2011/01/28/yes-yes-yes-2/">http://actionathena.com/2011/01/28/yes-yes-yes-2/ [untranscribed - please consider transcribing this comic!]
The Comical Goddess Athena: Part 1 HERA: Goddess of Women & Marriage. Age: Eternal. KNown for her jealous and vengeful nature. Was tricked into marrying her older brother Zeus. / APHRODITE: Goddess of Love & Beauty. Age: Eternal (but younger than Hera!). Arose naked from a cushion of sea foam. / ATHENA: Goddess of motherfuckin WISDOM and WAR. Age: 21 years old. Shot forth from her mother's womb into Southern MN back in the late '80s. / Aphrodite: A lovely ceremony. / Hera: Mmm. / Aphrodite: Pity that Eris, GOddess of Discord, wasn't invited. / Hera: Well, with a name like that. / Athena: Say, isn't that her over there? / [[Indeed it is. And she has a golden apple.]] / Hera: What the-- / [[Eris THROWS the apple at them.]] / Aphrodite: Oh! / Hera: WHAT IS IT. / Athena: It's uh, it's a golden apple. / Hera: WHAT DOES IT SAY. / Athena: It says, "To The Fairest One." / All: !!! / Hera: Give it here, then. / [[Aphrodite stares.]] / Aphrodite: WHAT. / Hera: Oh, come on, I'm head of all the goddesses, it's obviously mine. / Aphrodite: But I'm the goddess of love and beauty! / Hera: Yeah, so? / Aphrodite: I said BEAUTY, bitch!! / Hera: I heard you the first time. / Aphrodite: I don't think you di-- / Athena: Waitaminute, waitaminute, guys, maybe we should get like, a mediator or something-- / Hera: Just because you've slept with every god on Olympus doesn't mean-- / Aphrodite: Oh, do NOT! / Athena: For instance, I've heard there's this guy, Paris, who's really good at, working out, um, disputes of this nature.
http://actionathena.com/2011/03/14/the-comical-goddess-athena-part-1/
The Comical Goddess Athena: Part 2 [[POW! Hera punches Aphrodite. Athena cowers.]] / [[BAM! Hera punches again.]] / [[They circle one another.]] / [[They edge toward a cliff.]] / Hera: NYAAHH! / [[Hera pushes Aphrodite.]] / [[They both tumble off the cliff.]] / [[plip. They fall into the ocean below.]] / [[Aphrodite's eyes and lips appear on the surface of the water.]] / Hera [[emerging from the water]]: I AM VICTORIOUS!! / Hera: Wait, what? / [[THRASH THRASH THRASH, THRASH THRASH THRASH! Uh oh: metal sinks!]] / Hera: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! / [[plip plip. Hera sinks below.]] / Athena: Damn. / Athena: Guess I'm the prettiest. / [[Athena sniff sniffs the apple, then peels it.]] / Athena [[taking a bite]]: Oh, hey, chocolate.
http://actionathena.com/2011/03/16/the-comical-goddess-athena-part-2/
 
3 Years of Haircuts ALL OF MY HAIRCUTS OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS: / FEBRUARY 2008: Sara Lutrell buzzes off the last of my hacking. / JULY 2008: I try to give myself some kind of fauxhawk. / SEPTEMBER 2008: I get a tidy pixie cut at the $12 place in Noho. / JANUARY 2009: I give myself an awful trim. / FEBRUARY 2009: An Austrian lady in Berlin helps me fix it. / JANUARY 2010: Goldfeather gives me a cute trim. / MARCH 2011: The parents give me a gift certificate to Buzz Salon. / Stylist: So, been awhile since your last haircut? / Athena: Heh, yeah...and last time, I just had my friend do it. / Stylist: I can see that. / Athena: And before that, there was a time in Berlin that I got it cut by an Austrian lady who spoke no English... / Athena: And at that time it was still just growing out from when I shaved my head... / Athena: Heh. So yeah. I guess it's been awhile. / Stylist: ...
http://actionathena.com/2011/04/06/3-years-of-haircuts/
Guest Strip: Lupi McGinty Athena: What do you want to be when you grow up? / Lupi: A cartoon character.
http://actionathena.com/2011/06/27/guest-strip-lupi-mcginty-3/
Guest Strip: Ted Anderson Athena: Today our guest artist will be Mr. Ted Anderson! / Invisible Reader: Will you be talking about ponies? / Ted: What? No. That's dumb. YOU'RE dumb. / Ted Anderson: Today I'll be discussing the life and works of the author Philip K. Dick. / Dick had aspirations of literary greatness, but could only get his sci-fi books and stories--his LESSER works, to his mind--published. / PKD: Junk! / His first novel was published in 1955. His works never sold well. Even after he won the Hugo Award--sci-fi's highest honor--in 1963. / On February 20, 1974, Dick received a delivery of painkillers for an impacted wisdom tooth. / The delivery woman wore a necklace with either the ichthys--a Christian symbol--or the vesica piscis--a similar, gnostic symbol. / After seeing the symbol, Dick began experiencing visions. / Through February and March--a period he would later refer to as 2-3-74--he saw images of Christ, ancient Rome, geometric patterns, gnostic symbols, and a monstrous "black iron prison." These visions transformed him. / Interestingly, Dick saw these visions in a sci-fi light, attributing them to "valis," an artificial satellite analogous to God... / ...which had fired an information-rich laser directly into his brain. / Dick began experiencing a double life. / Was he Philip, a member of the Counter-Culture living under the regime of Richard Nixon? / Or Thomas, a secret Christian living under the regime of 1st-century Rome? / Was he schizophrenic, or a prophet? / Dick dealt with his vision the only way he knew how: he WROTE about them. / The books he wrote between 2-3-74 and his death in '82 feature characters who are trying to deal with profound breaks in reality, who have been granted visions they cannot understand from beings they cannot comprehend. / Ted: The characters who experience these visions are usually not the protagonists. For example, in Valis, the character Horseloverfat, not the narrator, is the prophet. / Ted: I believe Dick was trying to work through his doubts over the nature of his own visions by separating his psyche-as-character into TWO figures, to / Invisible Reader: SNRRK / Ted: What? / Invisible Reader: "Horseloverfat" is so totally your new nickname. / Ted: I think we're done here.
http://actionathena.com/2011/06/29/guest-strip-ted-anderson-2/
Guest Strip: Ryan Dow Athena: Blankets is the most overrated graphic novel ever. / Ted Anderson: I know! It's so whiney! / Athena: Totally self indulgent! / Ryan Dow: F#@$%ing college kids! / Ryan Dow: They take a few classes... / Ryan Dow: And suddenly they think they know EVERYTHING about storytelling. / Ryan Dow: Think it's so cool to be detached little smartasses. / Ted Anderson: I liked Hellboy, but... / Ted Anderson: I couldn't stand the love story between Hellboy and... / Ryan Dow: YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE PROBLEM IS?! / Ryan Dow: YOU'RE AFRAID TO FEEL!
http://actionathena.com/2011/07/04/guest-strip-ryan-dow-2/
Guest Strip: Dan Murphy ATHENA: NORDEAST DETECTIVE / guest strip by Dan Murphy / this week: The Case of the Nixed Tix. / Tweeter: @ATHENANORDEAST! Help, I lost my Czech Panthers tickets! / Athena: We're on the case! Let's go, Carnegie! / Athena [[spotting a beer cap]]: A clue! / Carnegie [[spotting a case of Pabst]]: A-HA! / Athena: Found em! / Tweeter: They're like too mainstream now. / Carnegie: The passes are now passe.
http://actionathena.com/2011/07/06/guest-strip-dan-murphy-2/
 
Guest Strip: Danno Klonowski ACTION ATHENA CAST MEMBER #316: / Danno AKA Staple Genius: Hi, I'm Danno Klonowski. / Danno: When Athena asked us to do guest strips...well...I don't think she realized something about me...my process... / METHOD CARTOONIST / Danno: All those "Manly Tales of Cowardice" comics I did-- / Danno [[in costume, playing with puppets]]: By the eyes of Xerxes! / Danno: I used to act out each adventure as I would write the script. / Danno: And so doing a guest strip is no different! / MOM & DAD / Danno: Say something hilarious... / [[Ross and Sarah Currier look at each other.]] / Sarah: Get out of our kitchen. / Danno: Oh, you two are the bee's knees! / WORK / Danno: You know the last cartoonist who worked here that i did a guest strip for was dead within weeks of it posting. I'm cursed. / Coffee Shop Boss: So you keep saying. By the way... / Coffee Shop Boss: Stop giving these cards to customers! It's really creeping people out!!! / [[Card reads: WHEN WILL SHE DIE? AND HOW?! PLACE YOUR BETS @ ACTIONATHENADEADPOOL.WORDPRESS.COM]] / JASON / Jason: OK. We'll go on one date. We'll go comic shopping, to dinner, and then a concert. / Jason: But just so we're clear---under no circumstances are we having sex! / Danno: We'll still make out though, right? / Jason: Oh yeah. We'll totally make out. / Danno: Think I'm ready. I have enough material to be able to do a Athena-esque auto-bio...now to go run 19 miles...and then start drawing!
http://actionathena.com/2011/07/08/guest-strip-danno-klonowski-2/
Sarah Currier's French Bread: Page 1 My mom can cook and bake a billion different delicious things, but her most popular creation is without a doubt... / Sarah Currier's French Bread / Sarah Currier (aka my mom): Somewhere along the line, I became known for my French bread. I'm not sure it's really "French," but people love it. Even though OUR family has become a bit tired of it, it is a requirement at extended family gatherings. I fear there would be a revolt if I didn't make it! / Athena Currier (aka me): I'm not gonna tell you the recipe: that's beside the point. There are only 6 ingredients, and one of them is water. It's infuriatingly simple, yet no matter how many times Mom passes the recipe along, no one can make the bread turn out like hers. / No one, that is, except my little sister, Phoebe. / Those two just have a magic touch! It seems no matter what they put their hands to, the result is beautiful, a true work of art. / Sarah: Some people act like making homemade bread is just SO HARD! / Phoebe: I know! That's so weird. / Phoebe: And like, all those people who use breadmakers? / Sarah: What is WRONG with them
http://actionathena.com/2011/08/03/sarah-curriers-french-bread-page-1/
Sarah Currier's French Bread: Page 2 When Phoebe graduated from high school, Mom made 16 loaves of French bread for her graduation party. / Sarah Currier: Are we going overboard? / Phoebe Currier: Maybe? / The loaves were gone in half an hour. / The women in the kitchen watched with widening eyes at the rate at which that bread was devoured. / My mom's friend Anne cried, / "START SLICING IT THINNER!! We've got to slice it thinner to make it last longer!" / It was no use. That bread is a force of nature. / The bread's "French" label is somewhat deceiving. This is no airy baguette. It's denser, chewier. Befitting the hearty German stock of our heritage? / Mom uses the exact same recipe for her pizza dough, which she tops with all kinds of good things. Pineapple & hot pepper, goat cheese, walnuts, & caramelized onions, pesto & pine nuts... / Once when I was a kid, Mom forgot to put yeast in the bread. The result was the toughest loaves of all time. She and Dad had a mock sword fight. / Phoebe regularly makes the bread for her college friends. She basically has the recipe memorized. / Phoebe: Except I always forget the oven temp! I'm thinking of getting it as a tattoo... / Mom, meanwhile, is tired of having the recipe tattooed to her. / Sarah: tsk. It's really not that good! / Sarah: Give me a good ciabatta any day.
http://actionathena.com/2011/08/05/sarah-curriers-french-bread-page-2/
Better? And how for HEALTH NEWS with Athena / Athena: I've been feeling significantly healthier for the past week! Like, the closest to "normal" I've felt in four months. / Athena: I have no CLUE why. Maybe because... I've started taking vitamins? And flaxseed oil pills? And a homeopathic remedy? And I'm wearing my retainer regularly? WHO. KNOWS. / Athena: Certainly not me! I just hope it'll last. / Athena: Life is AWESOME when you're healthy!!
http://actionathena.com/2012/01/09/better-2/
Scandal Male Character: This isn't a blind date. / Female Character: What? / Male Character: It's a job interview. What are you drinking? / Female Character: Dirty Martini. What do you mean this is a job interview? / Look guys: I don't know yet whether ABC's "Scandal" is going to be good. / Star = Kerry Washington / Setting = Washington, D.C. / But any series that opens with a mysterious job interview between suited, fast-talking strangers? / Male Character: Ask me who I work for. / Female Character: What. / Male Character: You really want to ask me who I work for. / Female Character: FINE! Who do you work for? / I'm just--I'm in! I am IN. Can't help it. / Male Character: Olivia Pope. / Female Character: Olivia Pope? THE Olivia Pope?! / Athena: heh heh
http://actionathena.com/2012/04/11/scandal-2/
 
My Little Sister Graduated: Part 1 My Little Sister Phoebe Just Graduated From College. / By Athena Currier / My little sister Phoebe graduated from Grinnell College last weekend, so I figure this is a good opportunity to tell embarrassing stories about her. / Phoebe has always loved dirty words. As soon as she learned about gender and genitalia, she'd ride through the grocery store with our mom, pointing out: / Phoebe: THAT one has a penis, and THAT one has a penis. That one doesn't. / When she got a little older, she used potty language as a weapon. She'd chase after the little boys in our neighborhood shouting out the dirtiest thing she could think of: / Phoebe: Bloody Penises!
http://actionathena.com/2012/05/29/my-little-sister-graduated-part-1/
My Little Sister Graduated: Part 2 She and one of those little boys had a game they liked to play called "The Naked People Game." Basically the idea was that these naked people they hated would call them on the phone a lot. / Phoebe: Who is this? The NAKED people?! Ugh! Stop calling! We hate you! You're naked! Goodbye! / Friend: Was that the naked people? / Phoebe: Yes. / Friend: God! They're always calling! / Once when Phoebe was a kid she got shingles, which is weird because usually only old people get that. Mom made Phoebe lift up her shirt to show guests. Phoebe got SO MAD. / Sarah Currier: Come look at this rash, it's TERRIBLE! / The funny thing is, now our MOM has shingles! I told Phoebe she should make mom show her tits to everyone at graduation. / Phoebe has always been cooler than me. She's just so funny and foul-mouthed and has this take-no-shit/I-don't-give-a-shit attitude.
http://actionathena.com/2012/05/30/my-little-sister-graduated-part-2/
My Little Sister Graduated: Part 3 She made up this song called "The Vegetable Rap," and once we were in a play together and people LOVED it and always wanted her to perform it. I was kind of jealous, but then Phoebe got sick of it and wouldn't do it anymore. / Phoebe: YO, MY NAME IS PHOEBE CURRIER AND I'M HERE TO SAY-- / Phoebe: NO. / In high school, Phoebe and I bunch of her friends once walked across the whole town naked, from one windmill to the other, no big deal. They were completely sober. / There was a time when a total of NINE of Phoebe's male friends had crushes on her. Several of those guys turned out to be gay, but still. / Phoebe has an incredible eye for color and design, and she likes to work. She's convinced my mom to take on some major redecorating projects with her. It's always worth it. / Sarah Currier: WHEW! It DOES look better in here now. / Phoebe: Duh.
http://actionathena.com/2012/06/01/my-little-sister-graduated-part-3/
My Little Sister Graduated: Part 4 Oh, and also: my parents own the MEANEST Jack Russell Terrier in the world, who hates EVERYONE except Phoebe. When Phoebe left for college, our parents had to avoid saying her name for awhile because it made the dog visibly distraught. / Sarah Currier: Dixie, where's Phoebe? / Dixie: Whine! / One thing that I really admire about Phoebe is that she's never made any apologies about what she likes. She is totally unpretentious, and far smarter than the snobs who occasionally judge her on her taste in pop culture. / Phoebe [[holding a DVD of The O.C.]]: I love it. So what? / If Phoebe had a motto, it might just be, "I DO WHAT I WANT." For awhile when she was little, this meant wearing (CONSTANTLY--until it fell apart) a t-shirt that read, "LEAVE ME ALONE." Our mom was mortified. / Sarah Currier: WHY did we ever let her have that. / [[Phoebe is beaming while wearing the t-shirt.]] / Goddamn. I really love that Phoebe. / THE END. / This comic was created in five hours on May 26, 2012 for the second annual Mini-Comics Day in Minneapolis, MN.
http://actionathena.com/2012/06/04/my-little-sister-graduated-part-4/
Madison Wedding: Part 1 Madison Wedding Weekend / Thursday, June 28-Sunday, July 1, 2012. (The bride and groom, Andi and Peder, actually held the ceremony on a farm 40 minutes outside the city, but our hotel, and much hanging-out time, were located right in downtown Madison.) / What you need to know is that Jason is part of a very close-knit, VERY LARGE group of college friends: / Andi, Peder, Angie, Katherine, Emy, Annie, Matt, Sundeep, Pete, Scott, Beth, Christian, Christine, Lucy, Dan, Katie, David, Jason, Me / THURSDAY NIGHT / Andi, The Bride [[to Annie and Katie]]: You two both have PERFECT breasts. / Athena: Oh, Andi, I heard you got your nails done today? / Annie: They look nice. / Andi: Yeah. / Andi: I need to poop. / Then we all walked to The Union and shared pitchers.
http://actionathena.com/2012/07/16/madison-wedding-part-1/
 

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