It's
hard to believe but it is going on ten years since Gary Larson
quit drawing his syndicated cartoon the Far Side and decided
to devote his creative energies to jazz guitar.
Larson spoke of his retirement in an Associated Press interview:
"You can just start coasting a little bit. I didn't want that to
happen. I wanted to bring it to an elegant conclusion."
Although he isn't creating any new cartoons, Larson recently
released an
anthology
of all of his Far Side cartoons.
I never did get this particular cartoon, though. Could someone
explain it to me?
Weird Japanese Car Names In any
foreign country you see vehicles of unfamiliar shapes and sizes, and
occasionally silly names. You observe a plentitude of Fiats and
Citroens when travelling in Europe, and the UK has those mini-cars,
but in the contest for weird automobiles, Japan wins by a landslide.
http://www.renegadelibrarian.com/cars.htm
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Shopping Cart Abuse
The Center for Prevention of Shopping Cart Abuse is dedicated to
preventing the pervasiveness of Shopping Cart abuse. It works on the
local, national, and international level to fight abusers who
are trying to undermine fundamental pillars of society.
http://www.shoppingcartabuse.com/
Video
Busta Rhymes in two commercials for Virgin Mobile . . . very, very funny. http://www.bustabutt.com/
Just the Facts: Why men and women's
shirts button on different sides In the 19th century, well-heeled Victorian women generally didn't
dress themselves, so their buttons were designed to be handled by
right-handed servants. Although wealthy men may have had servants to
lay out their clothes, they generally dressed themselves, and so the
buttons on the right side of men's garments made more sense. Read more Facts
"Song writing is about getting the
demon out of me. It's like being
possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you
have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to
sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or
tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is
what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it
slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can
never grasp them."
