Zitat des Tages von Gary Larson:
I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.
A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.
Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
