Subtraction changes things
Writing by sharpster on Monday, 28 of April , 2008 at 10:40 am
It’s amazing how a little subtraction can change things. A BLT with the bacon subtracted is taste bud cancer. A car with the wheels subtracted is a hunk of steel, a hunk of steel that can double as shelter during the zombie invasion. A spider without a web is a tarantula.
I found a couple Internet things that exist by subtracting the main component of the originals. I don’t know if the subtraction makes them better, but it definitely changes things up.
The first is Garfield minus Garfield. And, actually, it is better with Garfield missing. I mean, what did Garfield spend most of his time doing? That’s right–screwing up the comic. I never understood everyone’s obsessions with Garfield anyway. I was always a Heathcliff man. That cat could scrap.
The second is Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds without the birds. The lack of THE BIRDS creates a whimsical land where people are afraid of blank sky and go into terror fits during clear days. My favorite part is when a little girl has a fit on the ground next to a fence because the sun beating down from the beautiful blue sky was too warm and comforting.
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Comment by Tim
Made Monday, 28 of April , 2008 at 10:57 pm
I actually saw the Garfield Minus Garfield site a while ago and didn’t think much of it, but in retrospect I should have paid more attention. It does create a weird kind of universe where Jon is a babbling maniac instead of a babbling maniac with a cat.
And The Birds thing is just awesome.
