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why lasagna, i wonder ...

i've noticed that lately garfield, of all things, has been getting alot of attention lately. from the (almost passe now) lasagna cat , to the randomizer, lest we not forget garfield minus garfield and it's many imitations, it seems that the orange comic cat is the in thing to poke fun of. it's kinda of like american apparel in a strange way. "look!," adherents can say, "i am being ironic in my love of this past pop culture (or am i?!?!)." of course, being ironic about how much one loves garfield or how cool the fashion of the 1980s was, is a bit like when a kid is proud of taking a shit in the john - we clap, but they weren't really all that clever, were they? that having been said, i do quite enjoy garfield without garfield. i also own a t-shirt from american apparel, whatever that says about me. 

the important things to note when it comes to garfield are these: 

1.) it was and is a terrible comic strip.

2.) it was a slightly less bad tv show featuring lorenzo music as the voice of the titular cat called "garfield & friends." it also, to the best of my knowledge, introduced the idea that garfield wanted to ship nermal to abu dhabi - a fact that, in hindsight, is hysterical. also, featured a cartoon based off of creator davis' other strip, U.S.Acres. egg with legs = brilliant. the most important thing to come out of the garfield & friends show were two spin-offs: 

3.) garfield & friends: christmas special; and most importantly:

4.)garfield's nine lives.

garfield's nine lives was, simple put, amazing. for a child it was at times magical and entertaining and other times almost disturbing - i say disturbing because it took a character i knew and loved from the aforementioned cartoon series and warped him, bent him and in some of the stories even killed him. the whole experience was incredible. i still recall the sequence where he is mozart''s (or it beethoven's?) cat. just awesome as hell, really. 

in fact, i'm gonna stop typing and you're gonna stop reading and we should both hop over to youtube and watch it. let's do.