Minus Garfield

Another use for all that Photoshop.

Sure, Dan Walsh's Garfield Minus Garfield experiment may indeed reveal something about "schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life" and lead us on "a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb." But it's also a pretty funny prank played on a comic that stopped being funny in the late 70s.

Now if only we could somehow remove all trace of Bill Murray from those Garfield movies.

Tiny hamlet

One more post before I disappear into a pile of packing paper.

I haven't even been paying attention to the Pennsylvania primary coverage. Yet somehow the phrase "hardscrabble town in western Pennsylvania" has popped out of the media cloud enough in the past few days that I now have Bill Murray's rant from Groundhog Day running on a loop in my mind. I consider this a blessing, so I thought I'd share.

Once again the eyes of the world turn to this "tiny hamlet in western Pennsylvania," blah blah blah... There is no way this winter is ever going to end as long as that groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. I don't see any way out of it. He’s got to be stopped. And I have to stop him.

Not for nothing (as they say further east), but don't look for any relief come Wednesday. The Groundhog Day we're all in looks to last all summer. To quote Phil Connors, again, "You wanna throw up here, or you wanna throw up in the car?"