Being Jim Davis

Fair warning, we get into some pretty controversial territory in this one, including the bold assertion that a changing table can also be a cabinet. Of course, anything goes in a universe where people buy charcoal briquettes in quantities small enough to fit in a regular grocery bag. Seriously, the fuck?Today's stripBerenstein Bears theory of parallel universes

23 Des 201618min

Hey, you know what's pretty darn good? The Darkwing Duck video game for NES. I mean I guess it's no surprise since it was made by Capcom, literally the ONLY company that was able to consistently make good video games based on licensed properties in the 1980s, but while the likes of Ducktales and Rescue Rangers seem to get no end of good press in today's retro gaming community, relatively few people seem to have Darkwing Duck on their radar. But it turns out to be pretty freakin' great. So much so that I think it's far more worth your time to play it for 15 minutes than to listen to today's episode of our dumb Garfield podcast.Seriously, I promise you're not missing anything if you skip this one. Just play Darkwing Duck instead.Today's strip

22 Des 201613min

Today's Garfield strip is pure applesauce. Really just a tangled mess of legalistic argle-bargle, if not outright jiggery-pokery. Honestly, I can't in good conscience recommend reading it, even though I HIGHLY RECOMMEND listening to this episode of our podcast. It's ok. We argue about geometry.Today's strip

21 Des 201614min

“A cup of coffee – real coffee – home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.” -Henry Ward BeecherToday's strip

20 Des 201616min

Can one genuinely describe Jim Davis? Or does the very act of measuring his essence alter it in some fundamental way? Even if you succeed in painting an accurate representation of Jim Davis as he exists in the present moment, does that get us any closer to understanding the origin of Jim Davis, or is Jim Davis Irreducibly Complex? Jim Davis.Anyway, this one's got a toilet in it, so it couldn't possibly be entirely disappointing.Today's strip

19 Des 201618min

How do you convert degrees into radians? And also, why would you do that? And why, for that matter would Jon Arbuckle attempt to take his cat, Garfield, for a walk on a leash? We talk about that stuff for a while, then about old people and attitudes toward immigration, then, finally, about whether committing to a multi-decade daily Garfield recap podcast was a terrible soul-crushing mistake. Today's strip:

18 Des 201617min

Hey, you tune into this podcast mostly for discussion of 17th century Japanese poetry, right? Well, good, because that's what you're going to get. Today's strip:

17 Des 201612min

So @elliottlusztig, precious voice of sanity and conscience over the past few months, was forced off of Twitter yesterday (Thursday, December 15) by abuse and death threats directed at him and his family. Fucking appalling, Twitter. Appalling. Whatever, here's your goddamn daily Garfield recap podcast. And happy birthday mom.Today's strip:

16 Des 201611min