Showing posts with label Gary Larson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gary Larson. Show all posts

January 1, 2011

The Quest Begins

Here we go. My first blog with its very first post on 1-1-11. I've been wanting to enter Blog World for quite sometime but the whole thing seemed so complicated. After 2+ years of ruminating and researching the topic I finally said - Fuck it! It's time to just do it. So here I am just doing it. I'll never learn how to blog until I become a blogger and jump right in.

So here's the scoop. I declare 2011 my year of discovery. My quest is to learn something new everyday and share my incidental genius with the world and through the process learn a shit load of juicy techno stuff about blogging. 

After a night of celebrating the new year and fading in and out of consciousness on the couch this morning I ate a healthy bowl of granola and watched about 4 minutes of the Rose Bowl Parade. Then I found myself disappointed. What the hell happened? Was there a shortage in brightly colored flowers this year? All the floats were kind of dull. A lot of earth tones. It just seemed drab so I surfed through all nine channels on the converter box to find something else. 

I landed on the Jesus Channel, also known as the Trinity Broadcasting Network. I watched some kind of animal show and actually learned a few things. Did you know that the Polar Bear is the largest land carnivore on earth? I found this interesting so I googled Polar Bears to learn more and found this.


Caption: "And now Edger's gone...Somethings going on around here."
Far Side cartoon by  Gary Larson

By stumbling upon this I learned something else. On this day in 1995 the last Gary Larson Far Side comic was published. (By the way, the cartoon above is not the last cartoon).  I also learned in the 15 years of syndication Far Side was published in over 1900 newspapers. 

I pick Far Side for $500 Alex.