Corruption Lasagna

Another day in flith-city. I hope you have a delicious diner waiting for you at home this evening. I do at least but it won’t be lasagna(/lasagne, if anyone cares).

Tom Rowsell put up an interesting post on his telegram/x feed in which he identifies great ancient Germanic names that have been ruined by cartoon characters. Top of the hit list was Garfield (i dunno if he’s doing any others, maybe he just has it in for Garfield) and while I respect and admire a lot of Toms work I felt the need to defend this cartoon character. Because I really liked the OG Garfield comic/cartoon (never seen the remakes so i have no idea on them, and I dont go in for remakes anymore).

Garfields’ cynical temperament wasn’t childish or infantalizing, but rather demonstrated a form of adulthood and maturity to a young audience. (which is alot better than the other way around, the all-too-common childish adults). On that basis I reckon he’s actually upholding the dignity of the name. There are alot worse things to be named after than a great cartoon character.

Just remember at the end of the day, its how you wear it. Clothes, hairdos, names etc.

The corruption part of this post was gonna be a brief rant into the never-ending stew of filth that is the Victorian news cycle, replete with all sorts of tales of crooks and swindlers in government, unions, bureaucracy etc. But I can’t be fucked elaborating on it now, though seeing footage of John Setka being hauled off in police custody today was quite a pretty cheery sight for me. More of that please. Not that I’m expecting too much. I’ve learned to adopt a fatalistic approach to life in this soggy shithole of a state, quite like Garfield actually.

And thats an article-ending that circles quite nicely back to the start. I love it when it completes itself with minimal effort on my part.