[from the New Yorker]

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Remove Garfield from the picture (literally) and you turn a bland comic into one that is strange, delusional, desperate, lonely, and often hilarious.

Kudos to Jon Davis, creator of Garfield, for being cool with the idea and saying so.
[subconscious linktribution: CogDogBlog]

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Another comic I forget because I can’t subscribe to it (though that is supposedly going to change real soon) is the almost always amusing– and often scary– Get Your War On. A pair from late last month:

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Actually, Drew Dee’s own comics are also pretty funny:
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Two of the funnier comics I discovered recently have two things in common… both are at least partly the creation of Natalie Dee and neither have RSS feeds. The samples I’ve chosen here are pretty mild. Most of the entries I prefer are a bit more biting– but I’ll let you find those for yourself!
First, [...]

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The teachings of Phistophicles, lesser known ancient Greek philosopher, are now available for all to learn from…

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I’ve been enjoying pictures for sad children and came across a couple of literary-ish comics worth sharing since they reference a couple of my favorite authors and works.
First, David Foster Wallace:
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Then T.S. Eliot and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":
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Passive-Aggressive Notes is a collection of "painfully polite and hilariously hostile writings from shared spaces the world over." All genres represented from refrigerator dos and dont’s to dealing with laundry thieves, elevator sex and those who can’t stop singing Billy Joel songs too loudly.

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I know a few people who could make use of more than one of these rejected greeting cards…

[via Shareski Tweet]

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You’ll have to jump to the original blog entry to see the details…

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Books That Make You Dumb is a clever bit of visualization based on university average SAT/ACT scores and the books students from those institutions report as favorites. My clipping is just an excerpt from the top of the visualization (others are available)… many more books listed. Incidentally, the vertical dimension doesn’t mean anything:

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I laughed out loud a few times reading Michael Lewis’s vasectomy narrative, which reveals that the worst parts of the procedure all happen before it actually starts. I know getting snipped was the best decision I ever made… and it’s ridiculous that there is such a stigma (and so much false mythology) about it. The [...]

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See the rest of this comic as well as many other comic creations by Rosemary Mosco.

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The Rut has some good, tasteless cartoons for a frustrating Friday, but this clever bit caught my eye:

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This is so strange that I’m still not completely sure it’s a joke, but When Pigs Fly features some of the strangest, non-satirical cover songs I’ve heard for a long time. Jackie Chan and Ani DiFranco, Don Ho covers “Shock the Monkey,” Leslie Gore (of “It’s My Party” and other 50s and 60s teen songs) [...]

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Ever wonder what happened to that one kid who thought making the bunny ears on the screen before the movie started was so hilarious he had to do it every single time the teacher showed a film in class? Apparently he went on to become this guy
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There is something profoundly disturbing about this video featuring a gorilla and the classic– now completely cheesy– Phil Collins song that was actually cool back when Miami Vice was cool… back when I went to prom with a white suit and pastel pink tie over a t-shirt.

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Jack Black and Mos Def directed by Michael Gondry? Be Kind, Rewind looks hi-larious…

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Hey, how often does a new t-shirt come out that includes Shakespeare and The Ladies? Ahh, to be young again…

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I feel a little dirty even linking to the Bulwer-Lytton Contest results, but some of the entries are too horrible to pass up. You’ll have to go there yourself to see the winner, but here are a few selected runners-up and dishonorable mentions:
From the science fiction category:
Racing through space at unimaginable speeds, Capt. Dimwell [...]

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