An anonymous blogger catalogs the various things that excite white people at Stuff White People Like. The blog more accurately provides a tongue-in-cheek survival guide for interacting with affluent 20-somethings. If you're not white and ever wondered just why all white people live Michelle Gondry, wine, irony, pretending to like soccer, or Barak Obama, here's your chance to find out.
"Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?" claims the editor at at garfield minus garfield. Simultaneously funny and tragic, this new strip takes Jim Davis's beloved strip and removes all traces of Garfield. While Davis's original strip may now overuse the premise of a wacky Jon Arbuckle followed by dead space and a wry quip from his cat, garfield minus garfield requires Davis's wacky Jon but leaves us to provide our own quip or tears.
No longer young enough to laugh at anything or old enough to find the humor in the darndest things kids say, I wearied of The Family Circus a long time ago. The Nietzsche Family Circus makes the strip worth reading again. Seemingly relying on a random pairing from a set of both Family Circus and quotes from the German existentialist philosopher Frederik Nietzsche. Random selection fails to produce a winner every time, but there's an inherent irony in having educated dialogue- "When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back into you" and "The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception" - coming from the same child, who in today's actual strip retorts to someone doing their homework, "You did? When will your TV set be fixed?" Ah, kids.
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