I follow The Oatmeal (Matthew Inman) on Instagram and he recently annouced he had a new book coming out which inspired me to read some of his other works, I’ve only read How to Tell if You’re Cat is Plotting to Kill You. My local library had My Dog: The Paradox: A Lovable Discourse about Man’s Best Friend and Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants available so I took a break from more strenuous literature and spent an evening reading adult comics. My Dog: The Paradox, a lovely ode […]
“I did not become a runner to lose weight, I did it to escape my computer”
I love Matthew Inman — if you’ve never checked out his comics, do so right now! “Running a race assigns a point to a sport that often feels very pointless. It’s an exuberant payoff to months of tedium. It’s a way of crafting an end boss for a particularly cumbersome video game. It’s a fun, monstrous reason to keep putting one foot in front of the other. So, do yourself a favor: go build a monster.” Inman writes a lot about his running on his website, […]