May 10, 2008

Jim Davis likes Garfield Minus Garfield - Washingtonpost.com

travors:

When the Cat’s Away, Neurosis Is on Display - Washingtonpost.com

One of Walsh’s occasional readers is (Jim) Davis, who heard about the site a few months ago. The cartoonist calls the work “an inspired thing to do” and wishes to thank Walsh for enabling him to see another side of “Garfield.”

I had been told by a few people that Jim Davis was a pretty cool guy but after reading this interview my respect for him jumped through the roof, I still have a grin on my face.
Instead of reacting over-zealously and hitting me with a Cease & Desist order, Jim is down to earth enough to admit that there’s a laugh to be had from Garfield Minus Garfield and in fact he even thanks me for putting it together!

In an age when the internet gives everyone an opportunity to put their own spin on art, music and literature, it’s a pity more people aren’t as generous with their work - just imagine some of the fantastic creativity we could be enjoying.

(As my buddy Hashim on flickr can testify, I LOWVE the Garfield Without Garfield comic-strip. -Y)

May 8, 2008
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Malaysian woman can leave Islam
“ Things rare or things beautiful, here are wisely assembled, they instruct the eye to look at all things in the world as if never seen before.” (Paul Valery)
Executive Team | Blurb
travors: inky: John Campbell Awh, precious old people.

travors:

inky:

John Campbell

Awh, precious old people.

Guys backflip into jeans (via HMan)
You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. (via diyosa) (Because I need that quote so much these days, too. -Y) 

You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. (via diyosa)

(Because I need that quote so much these days, too. -Y) 

May 7, 2008
(A friend of mine sent me this the other day. I have a tendency to be difficult and argumentative sometimes, and convinced I am always right - depending on whom I’m speaking with - so he thought this was apposite. -Y) Paishkash, by Parveen Shakir Itnay achay mausam mainRotna nahin achaHaar jeet ki baathainKal pay hum uta rakkhainAaj dosti kar lain

(A friend of mine sent me this the other day. I have a tendency to be difficult and argumentative sometimes, and convinced I am always right - depending on whom I’m speaking with - so he thought this was apposite. -Y)

Paishkash, by Parveen Shakir

Itnay achay mausam main
Rotna nahin acha
Haar jeet ki baathain
Kal pay hum uta rakkhain
Aaj dosti kar lain

BBC NEWS | Americas | Violinist plays for taxi driver
See also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7385174.stm
“ Some of our websites make us money, yes, money that puts food on our table, pays for preschool and helps pay for utilities. Sometimes we even use this money to pay for more unnecessary things like computers or manicures or purple ceramic hippos, and this in particular is something people grab hold of to try and twist what we’re doing into something gross and ugly. And try as they might, I will not be discouraged from continuing to document the beauty of life with my family or supporting them with an income from doing so. Leta, some people will one day try to convince you that what I’ve done here is some sort of sickening betrayal of your childhood, and what those people fail to recognize is that I am doing the exact opposite. This is the glorification of your childhood, and even more than that this is a community of women coming together to make each other feel less alone. You are a part of this movement, you and all of the other kids whose mothers are sitting at home right now writing tirelessly about their experiences as mothers, the love and frustration and madness of it all. And I think one day you will look at all of this and pump your fist in the air.
from  Newsletter: Month Fifty and Fifty-one | dooce ®
April 25, 2008
“ Besides, exclamation points are the gateway drug to swearing, and next thing you know you’re in traffic yelling DAMMIT(!!!!) and then look who can’t take the sacrament on Sunday.

The blogger blogging her blog | dooce ®

(bwahahaha! highfive to the cutting-down of multiple exclamation points! [Emphasis mine.] -Y)