a fed-ex of comments, and garfield again!

can you guys believe it's wednesday already? i know i can't. it's mind-blowing. it's life-altering. it's gnarly to the max!

good morning, reeds. as previously stated, it is wednesday, november 8th, early in the mo'nin; so set your alarm to "good-times" and wake up smiling for today's installment of tiny damaged notions!

attack of the comments!

naqi-reed wrote:

jim davis may have been onto something all along: http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4997

that link brings you to a forum where someone took the initiative to remove all of garfield's speech/think bubbles from garfield comics. said person did this to prove that it "become[s] an oddly surrealist comic." here's one example to illustrate his point:
ooooo, artsy.

here's another one showing that garfield's inability to talk simply makes jon arbuckle crazy:
i'll admit, while i am not a fan of garfield comics, i would be a fan if this was the format for the strip: a crazy man talks to himself while his cat stares into space and/or eats--because it is a cat, and that's what they do.

that last strip did get a giggle out of me.

"i demand more comments!"

who are you to demand things of me? i am appalled! but, i'll give you more comments anyway, because they're nice.

a frequent commenter, and an equally hungry (i assume) friend, matt-reed writes:

2048? that's a sci-fi movie recently released. perhaps you should look into this and make any connections with madonna, ocean life, etc.

you got it, matt. however, on further inspection i found out that the sci-fi movie released in 2004 was titled 2046. i assumed it was a take on the pre-apocalyptic world of sea-creatures, two years before they are no more. however, a quick check on imdb proved that i was wrong.

(imdb, "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212712/")

ok, so we all know by now that the tagline misused the ellipses. apparently, that's what makes taglines so darn eye-catching. what's really great about this here movie is that plot summary snippet. "He thought he wrote about the future but it was really the past."

not being able to differentiate between the past and the future only makes you a crappy writer--not a good main character for a sci-fi movie. sorry, 2046 creators.

"i've got an ingenious idea: in the not-so-distant future, there is an institution based on a specific set of beliefs on the afterlife which will be called rah-leegion. this rah-leegious institution is known as the yatholic smurch. the tope--the highest official in the yatholic smurch--orders all of the followers to go on a prusade, killing all non-believers. i'll call it: the prusade of tope murban II of the yatholic smurch.

"what do you think?"

in a note unrelated to that, i'll tell you what i think: i think it's time for what's gossipin??, my entertainment news section whose title is a joke i probably won't stick with.

in entertainment news, britney spears has decided to wrap up her spicy marriage, and is serving now ex-hubby kevin federline a hot divorce burrito.

watch out k-fed, i hear that's got a bit of an aftertaste.

CBS took this news as a chance to try out some fresh new wordplay with kevin federline's nickname. take a look:

(CBS news, "http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/08/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main2162099.shtml")

"K-Fed now Fed-Ex." looks like CBS sent a priority overnight envelope full of hurt to mr. federline's doorstep. have fun signing for that tasty bit of wit, kev.

you have to appreciate the fact that CBS knew that based on headline alone, no one would know what the hell they were talking about; this is why, i assume, they added that little gray clarification sentence. perhaps i should employ this journalistic technique as i say goodbye, and wish you reeds a wonderful wednesday:

TDN CLOCKS OUT; HANDS REEDS SECOND ALARM
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