Episode 244 - Saturday, February 17, 1979

In today's episode of Being Jim Davis, Chris forgets to edit and upload Tuesday's episode until late Monday night. Is the result shoddy, slipshod, slapshod, slapdash, slashfic, dashboard, Mrs. Dash, Mrs. Butterworth, Butterfinger, and... Honestly, that one got away from me. Anyhoo, here's today's strip:

19 Sep 201720min

We kick off today's episode by burning through, like, a dozen of the perfectly good taglines that superfan Faster Duckworth wrote for us. After that, who knows? I did not bother to listen to the rest. Today's strip

18 Sep 201727min

We round out the week with a landmark strip in which we see a character commit certain actions based on a set of presuppositions that turn out to be incorrect, leading to circumstances which run counter to that character's desires. Thanks to guest host Daniel Manning for his hard work this week. Don't forget to follow him on Twitter and check out his podcasts, because they are a delight. ars PARADOXICA Timelapse And here's Nathaniel Bozarth's podcast Wide Ruled. Today's strip

17 Sep 201718min

AFTER experience had taught me that the common occurrences of ordinary life are vain and futile, and I saw that all the objects of my desire and fear were in themselves nothing good nor bad, save in so far as the mind was affected by them; I at length determined to search out whether there were not something truly good and communicable to Garfield. ars PARADOXICA, a better podcast than this one. @manieldanning, an astronomically better Twitter account than ours Today's strip

16 Sep 201717min

Today on Being Jim Davis we discuss the endless parade of horrors our lives have become. Here are some amusing GIFs about conquistadors. Today's strip

15 Sep 201712min

Today's Garfield is about Garfield eating candy, so of course we talked about Shapour Bakhtiar. Señor Murphy's Today's strip

14 Sep 201713min

***Spoiler alert for some movie where Paul Newman dies at the end*** Sous-vide (/suːˈviːd/; French for "under vacuum")[1] is a method of cooking in which food is vacuum-sealed in a plastic pouch and then placed in a water bath or steam environment for longer than normal cooking times (usually 1 to 7 hours, up to 48 or more in some cases) at an accurately regulated temperature much lower than normally used for cooking (typically around 55 to 60 °C (131 to 140 °F) for meat, higher for vegetables). The intent is to cook the item evenly, ensuring that the inside is properly cooked without overcooking the outside, and to retain moisture. I think we're about far enough into the week for me to let you in on a little secret. You see, not only is it the merely the case that, as I've been telling you so far this week, our delightful guest host Daniel Manning maintains an incredibly fascinating and erudite Twitter account that you should all follow; it's also 100% accurate for it to be said here, publicly, that he's also the host of his very own podcast! No lie, it's called ars PARADOXICA and I don't know about you but I'm definitely going to go listen to it. Today's strip

13 Sep 201723min

In lieu of listening to today's episode of Being Jim Davis, please just go read the entirety of Ta-Nehisi Coates excellent recent piece "The First White President". Today's strip Do these html codes even work? Who knows?

12 Sep 201730min