Being Jim Davis

    Hi we are podcast we talks the words, all the words, the best words even sometimes more words. Words of Garfield, other Garfields but also Iranian politics of 1979 times, podcast. Am Ezra Klein podcast? Aren't! Not even talk that, why don't? Just talking other podcasts sometimes, because Garfield is. Six-letter word Brenda!Today's strip

    There sure are a lot of cat pun-themed memes out there on the internet. Lucky thing for us, amirite?!? Anyway, here's a Garfield strip that we talked about today, at least when we weren't talking about Hitchcock movies.Today's stripSoundtrack to today's stripGeorge Carlin bit we referencedPsycho podcast

    Ok, so we spent several minutes discussing the possibility that it could be a cantata Garfield is composing at the piano in panel one today, and yet somehow did NOT manage to come up with the pun 'cat-tata'. We're sorry about that, and we'll strive to be less contra-pun-tal from now on.Today's strip

Today's action-packed edition of Guy in a Bed Being Startled by Some Weird Noises, and the Blanket is Wiggly features all of the usual players, as well as some tremendous cameos by some of the strip's all-time best recurring onomatopoeias. Where's it all headed? Find out in panel three! Or don't! Fuck if I care!Today's strip

One morning, when Jon Arbuckle woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked."What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table - Arbuckle was a travelling salesman - and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer.Jon then tur

I'm sure you guessed this already based on the date, but today's podcast features a LENGTHY digression about one-time Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar, a man we unapologetically judge entirely based on his mustache. We miss you, Shapour!I think there was probably a Garfield strip published today too, but fuck if I can remember what it was about.Today's strip

In today's episode, blah blah blah blah Garfield. Chris Taylor. Magmar Sucks. Send all complaints and corrections to christaylor@beingjimdavis.com.Today's strip

Today's episode of Being Jim Davis -- and of Garfield -- gets pretty racy. That's all I have to say about that.Except that you should listen to Magmar Sucks, the fantastic podcast of Chris Taylor, our special guest host this week.Today's strip

Did we lose some audio from today's episode? Yes we did. Was it the fault of our special guest co-host Chris Taylor, who everyone loves because he's so great? No. No it was not. It was not his fault. Perish the thought. You should feel ashamed for even considering the possibility. Chris Taylor, and his amazing podcast, Magamar Sucks, is a certified national treasure.Incidental music in today's episode, "Last Train to Compton (Final Version)" from the album Who's the Beef? - Rejected Materials, Vol. 2 by The Flowers of Disgust, appears courtesy of The Flowers of Disgust and Cat O' Nine Tails Records.Today's strip

Hey, you know who's great? Our special guest Chris Taylor, that's who! Chris Taylor, our special guest this week, is the host of Magmar Sucks, a really really fantastic excellent podcast about Pokemon that everyone loves. You should listen to it because it's so great and everyone loves it.Some people who co-host our podcast are woefully unqualified to do so, but not Chris Taylor! Check out this tattoo that his wife has: Pretty great, right? We love Chris Taylor! We love him! If you thought you heard otherwise some time before, you were definitely wrong!  Forget it ever happened. Because it didn't. IT NEVER HAPPENED.Today's strip

Today's episode, for the third time this week, struggles through with no third co-host due to the dishonesty and betrayal of our nemesis, Chris Taylor, the stupid and terrible host of Magmar Sucks, a Pokemon podcast. Chris Taylor, we hate you. You are the worst. We will never forgive you. You are the literal love child of Adolf Hitler and another, larger Adolf Hitler. We are not your friends. Hate you, hate you, hate you!But hey, here's some borderline relevant art from Square Root of Minus Garfield:And here's today's strip

Okay, we at Being Jim Davis understand that you, the listener, come to our little program with certain expectations. You expect us to summarize and discuss one Garfield strip today. You expect us to periodically read things directly from Wikipedia. You expect Chris to get angry and shout about things that don't matter from time to time. And you expect that every third week we'll be joined, as co-host, by some random person off the internet.Well, this week we have failed you. Or, more accurately, this week Chris Taylor (our new nemesis and a complete asshole) has failed you. He signed up to co-host our podcast and then he did not show up. Should you listen to his Pokemon podcast Magmar Sucks? No, you should not. It is, we assume without having listened, a terrible, terrible, awful, stupid podcast. We hate it so much. And we hate Chris Taylor. We hate you so much. SO MUCH!Today's strip

Today's episode was marred by the irresponsibility and unprofessionalism of Chris Taylor, the flighty and self-serving host of Magmar Sucks, a terrible awful stupid podcast that you should not listen to. Shame on you, Chris Taylor, for signing up to co-host our podcast and then not appearing. SHAME!Today's background music, "Last Train to Compton (Final Version)" from the album Who's the Beef? - Rejected Materials, Vol. 2 by The Flowers of Disgust, appears courtesy of The Flowers of Disgust and Cat O' Nine Tails Records.Also, here's this guy.Today's strip

IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM Today's strip

kick·ingˈkikiNG/noun1.a punishment or assault in which the victim is kicked repeatedly."they gave him a good kicking"adjectiveinformal1.(especially of music) lively and exciting."their seriously kicking debut, “Paradise.”"Today's strip

Today we had a lengthy argument about what is and isn't sarcasm, and I sincerely want to apologize to my co-host for being such a dogmatic asshole about the whole thing. I'm sorry I very nearly ruined our podcast forever.    -Chris WinterToday's strip

Hey, you know whom we've not mentioned on the podcast so far, not even once? Roscoe Conkling, that's who. You would've thought that with all our various digressions that we'd have gotten there by now, but you'd be wrong. You're WRONG, asshole!!Whatever; here's your podcast.Today's strip

Today we mostly just bitched about Cafepress. It's entirely possible we also mentioned this Garfield strip at some point, but I can't say for certain. To be honest, after doing this podcast for the better part of a year, it's increasingly difficult to feel certain of anything. Except the fact that that was definitely a halfway decent Jared Diamond joke. Obvs.Today's strip

Guys, I HIGHLY recommend googling 'pig vs cat.' You will not regret doing this. I give 50% odds you'll like it even better than actually listening to anything we say in this episode.Exhibit A Exhibit B Today's strip

During the Renaissance of Garfield, from roughly August to November of 1979, there were many advances in science, math, philosophy, and art. One of the most monumental advances in Garfield was the development of linear perspective. Linear perspective uses principles of math to realistically portray space and depth in art. Renaissance Jim Davis was largely concerned with drawing realistic scenes, and linear perspective gave him a reliable method to accomplish this realism, which helped make his comic strips all the more captivating!Comics are necessarily a two-dimensional activity because a newspaper has only height and width. Yet the world around us is three-dimensional because real objects have not only height and width but also depth. So, how do we portray three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional plane? This is a complicated task, but Renaissance Jim Davis used and perfected linear perspective as a means of depicting three-dimensional depth in comics. To achieve this perspective, Davis would pick a va