Being Jim Davis

"Live fast, die young, read Garfield." That quote is pretty much all you need to know about todays's episode.Today's strip:

30 Des 201615min

Today's episode seems vaguely like a promotion for the NRA. In the background, of course, are the notoriously high crime rates of the 1970s: Incidentally, when Donald Trump claims that the murder rate in the United States is "the highest it's been in 45 years," he's lying, of course, but he's also sending a message about who he's with (prosecutors, police unions, "law and order" types, racists) and who he's against (human rights advocates, criminal justice reformers, minorities.) Remember that.Today's strip:

29 Des 201622min

In today's episode of Being Jim Davis, we discuss suicide and the subjunctive mood. In fairness to us, though, Jim Davis really left us with no choice on either count. We're not convinced that suicide is funny, but then again, we aren't wildly successful syndicated cartoonists, so what do we know? For real, though, a lot of people find the holiday season dark and oppressive. If that's you, maybe call the National Suicide Prevention Line: 1-800-273-8255. This podcast has few enough listeners already!Plus, do we talk about the both Kantian epistemology and the three types of heat transfer? I mean, sure, we mention them in passing. Today's strip:

28 Des 201625min

In today's episode, we spend an excessive amount of time discussing the details of SCP, our new time-saving acronym for "Standard Countertop Position," our new time-saving shorthand for panels where Jon is on the left, standing, and Garfield is on the right, sitting on a countertop. Basically, we save a lot of time in this episode. A lot.Today's strip:

27 Des 201613min

Hey, you know what's great in a podcast? People talking about various hand signals you're not able to see, that's what! Also when random other people wander by and start unrelated conversations -- that's great too. Or even if it's not great, it's what happens in today's episode. So live with it.Oh, hey, after we recorded this podcast, I (Christopher Winter) changed my Twitter handle back to @thechriswinter, so don't be tweeting to @doctor_garfield anymore. Why did I change it? Hard to say, but it's a thing I did, and now we all have to live with the consequences.Now here's a diagram of some basic gospel source theories, a thing we talk about: Today's strip:

26 Des 201622min

A raucous night in the Grand Ballroom of the Trump International Hotel in beautiful downtown Philadelphia! We enjoy a Garfield-themed quiz, shout at each other, and do a live commentary of 1987's "A Garfield Christmas Special."You can watch the special on YouTube while you listen. That would be fun, right?Also, here's a screengrab of Jon, Garfield, and Odie on their way to the farm. Take a good, long look at their home city (which we have always assumed to be Muncie, Indiana) in the background: Compare with this shot of Muncie... ...and this shot of nearby Indianapolis: It's totally Indianapolis, right? I mean, you be the judge, but it's totally Indianapolis.

25 Des 201645min

Listener, can you imagine a time where 'man has staring contest with his cat' was actually amusing, or heck, even conceptually interesting in any way? You can't? Well, don't worry, because you don't have to! That's what our podcast exists for. That is, more or less, its very conceit, its raison d'etre. Oh sure, you didn't ask for it and neither did we, but it is in fact the way of things. Look, let's just acknowledge the existence of Being Jim Davis as yet another tragedy in the long national nightmare that is 2016, ok?Merry Christmas everybody!Today's strip

25 Des 201611min

We really don't know what to make of this one. Is this merely a cry for help, or is Jim Davis trying to create some sort of anti-humor singularity that will destroy the entire universe? It's not answered within the text of today's comic, so we're forced to speculate. The only other possibility is that Jim Davis, after 33 years of life on earth including FOUR MONTHS drawing a daily cat-themed comic strip, JUST NOW realized that cats are 'nice to have when you're feeling lonely' and thought it was worth throwing out traditional comedic structure to evangelize this fact. Either way, we really worry about Jim Davis in this one.Today's stripThe 'Intelligence Staircase'

24 Des 201625min