Without Garfield
Strangely disturbing this. Removing Garfield from the trips turns them into potent documents of contemporary anomie. Possibilities proliferate. Remove Bart from The Simpsons and you have Homer strangling air. Take Jon Snow out of Channel 4 News and the show keeps cutting back to the bleak spectacle of an empty desk. Metaphors made by removal - it feels like a breakthrough.
# posted by Bryan Appleyard : 5:15 AM
5 Comments:
At June 06, 2008 7:35 AM,
ian russell said…
if don't you want any comments just say.
The Apprentice without Sugar - sweet!
At June 06, 2008 8:17 AM,
Brit said…
The Garfield sans Garfield cartoons are a tremendous improvement.
How about the Daddy: Big Brother with no contestants. Long, bleak shots of an empty bedroom...hundreds of hours of live feeds...week after week of nightly 'highlights' showing gently growing grass and corroding metal...
It would be seminal, mind-expanding. Consoling.
At June 06, 2008 8:45 AM,
ian russell said…
the small bits of Big Brother I've seen, Brit, that suggestion would neither improve or diminish its quality for me.
yes, basically, I don't get it - probably never did! really surprised it's still running...
At June 06, 2008 9:16 AM,
Johntyh said…
Take all Welshmen of a certain sexual proclivity out of Snowdonia and Bach's 'Sheep May Safely Graze' takes on added meaning (Well, at least to the sheep of Snowdonia)
At June 06, 2008 11:57 AM,
malty said…
Someone took the news out of channel four news.
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