The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”
Go figure.
The first major improvement in Garfield was the removal of Garfield's dialog and the results improved the strip quite a bit, making it more surreal (as well as showing just how disturbed Jon Arbuckle really is).
Now, however, the process has been taken one step further—removing Garfield altogether!
![[Jon: Get Back!]](/2008/02/26/g-01.gif)
![[Jon: My hand is ever alert]](/2008/02/26/g-02.gif)
![[Nothing sadder than a grown man playing with a sock puppet by himself]](/2008/02/26/g-03.gif)
I think this makes Garfield not only funnier, but more surreal as the apparent schizophrenia takes hold on Jon Arbuckle.
![[Self-portrait with my new glasses]](https://www.conman.org/people/spc/about/2025/0925.t.jpg "Glasses. Titanium, not steel.")
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