Zen comedy
Today’s Dilbert is amazing:
A less experienced cartoonist would stop at panel 2. “Ha, I got a gag, I can’t believe I thought of something funny. Let me draw this thing before I ruin it or forget it.”
This strip reminds me of one of my current interests in photography: multiple subjects / centers of attention. See this, this, and this for recent examples of what I am talking about. Another, slightly different example would be this (which doesn’t have many independent subjects as much as it has one diffuse one). I like how my eye wanders around from in-focus crabapple flowers to the branches to the out of focus pink buds to the right. (My daughter ate some crabapples from that tree today.)
Don’t get me wrong, I still love minimalism and/or abstract photography! But multiple subjects is much harder to pull off.
Anyway, since I started this post about comedy, do not miss shitmydadsays on Twitter:
“Your mother made a batch of meatballs last night. Some are for you, some are for me, but more are for me. Remember that. More. Me.”
“The dog is not bored, it’s a fucking dog. It’s not like he’s waiting for me to give him a fucking rubix cube. He’s a god damned dog.”
Why would i want to check a voicemail on my cell phone? People want to talk to me, call again. If i want to talk to you, I’ll answer.