Being Jim Davis

Hey, you like Being Jim Davis ? Well here's another. Today's strip

What can I say about today's episode. Really, what can I say? Does anyone have any ideas? I sure as hell don't want to have to listen to it to write this thing! Today's strip

A lot of people probably think of Was (Not Was) as a novelty act, but this here is a legitimately great straight-ahead number. Today's strip

In today's episode, Chris establishes and then rescinds an eternal rivalry with new nemesis (and friend of the show) Josh Gates. Today's strip

So, if I remember how this works, by Tuesday I can drop the pretense that I'm summarizing what actually happens in the episode -- or even that I've bothered to listen to it all the way through -- and can instead just post a weird, kitchy video and call it a day. Right? Today's strip

Listener, was your patience sorely tested by two full weeks of thoughtful, relevant and interruption-free podcasts while host Christopher Winter was off in Australian Drug Jail? Well, finally, FINALLY, our long national nightmare is at an end. In today's episode, Chris and Jon discuss coffee, frozen custard, gin, and -- who knows? -- probably some other things too. Today's strip

Too bad Chris wasn't here today. I'm sure if he had he would have informed our poorly-read asses that Jon's misplaced poetry in panel three is lifted more or less directly from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Since he wasn't the closest thing I can offer is a clip from this episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle which is, doubtless, much better. R.I.P. June Foray, amirite?     Endless thanks to J...

Y'all watching Ozark on Netflix? It's pretty good. Today's strip

We conclude that Garfield is not best understood as the male sexual organ, or as a male reproductive organ, but instead as an enacted social construct that is both damaging and problematic for society and future generations. The conceptual Garfield presents significant problems for gender identity and reproductive identity within social and family dynamics, is exclusionary to disenfranchised commu...

CONTENT NOTICE: CAT POO Jon Arbuckle's unfettered cruelty towards his cat takes the spotlight today in one of his most diabolical plots yet. Sure, he's delved into the use of decoy objects before in his tireless quest to bring Garfield suffering, but this particular deception attains Batman Gambit levels of trickery, paired with a well-timed panel three deployment of tactical sarcasm. It's truly a...

I realized in the course of editing this episode that I've always conflated in my head the names of Michael Jackson's 1991 uncredited Simpsons  guest role 'Leon Kompowsky' and Michael Richard's idiosyncratic savant janitor from Weird Al's 1989 opus UHF 'S tanley Spadowski'. Am I the only one who does that? Anyway, today's Garfield  is weirdly morbid and borderline subversive, so we had l...

Ketchup (disambiguation) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ketchup  is a condiment. Related pages: Banana ketchup , a prepared condiment made from mashed banana, sugar, vinegar, and spices Heinz Tomato Ketchup , a brand of ketchup by H. J. Heinz Company Vecchi Ketchup Factory  in Hazlet, New Jersey produced ketchup Ketchup  may also refer to: Emperor Tomato Ketchup , the fourth...

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Today's strip isn't all that great, but since it's vaguely western-themed it does give us an excuse to post some Ennio Morricone tracks. Here you go: Special thanks to Danny Gibson for subbing for Chris this week! Follow him on twitter, , ok? Today's strip

The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges in the United States. Started in 1869 and completed fourteen (14) years later in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m) and was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed. It was originall...

As legend has it, an American traveler named George Hansburg was making his way through Burma when he made the acquaintance of a poor farmer. The farmer’s daughter was named Pogo, and Pogo—devout little girl that she was—wanted to go to temple every day to pray, but couldn’t because she had no shoes to wear for the long walk through the mud and rocks. So the poor farmer built a jumping Garfield fo...

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This week's podcast was narrowly rescued from the brink of death by noted American hero and Robert Goulet enthusiast Danny Gibson. You can follow him on Twitter @FasterDuckworth . And a good thing too because this week is pretty fucking good. Here's a bunch of dolly zoom shots in celebration of that fact. <img class="thumb-image" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b273931b631b...

If what is "self-evident" and this alone--"the covert judgements of common reason" (Kant)--is to become and remain the explicit theme of out analysis (as "the business of philosophers"), then the appeal to self-evidence in the realm of basic philosophical concepts, and indeed with regard to the concept "being," is a dubious procedure. But consideration of the prejudices has made it clear at the sa...

3. "Being" is the self-evident concept. "Being" is used in all knowing and predicating, in every relation to beings and in every relation to oneself, and the expression is understandable "without further ado." Everybody understands, "The sky is blue," "I am happy," and similar statements. But this average comprehensibility only demonstrates the incomprehensibility. It shows that an enigma lies a p...

2. The concept of "being" is indefinable. This conclusion was drawn from its highest universality. And correctly so--if definitio fit per genus proximum et differentiam specificam  [if "definition is achieved through the proximate genus and the specific difference"]. Indeed, "being" cannot be understood as a being.  Enti non additur aliqua natura : "Being" cannot be defined by attributin...

1. "Being" is the most "universal" concept:  to on esti katholou malista panton. Illud quod primo cadit sub apprehensione est ens, cuius intellectus includitur in omnibus, quaecumque quis apprehendit.  "An understanding of being is always already contained in everything we apprehend in beings." But the "universality" of "being" is not that of genus . "Being" does not delimit the hig...

At the beginning of this inquiry the prejudices that constantly instill and repeatedly promote the idea that a questioning of being is not needed cannot be discussed in detail. They are rooted in ancient ontology itself. That ontology can in turn only be interpreted adequately under the guidance of the question of being which has been clarified and answered beforehand. One must proceed with regard...