It's weird, first thing in the morning, to see your exact feeling on something laid out right in front of you in such a concise, striking manner:

"I loved Calvin and Hobbes. For the lonely, precocious children of the Calvin and Hobbes generation -- and I suspect we are legion -- it's impossible to convey how profoundly we were affected by Bill Watterson's genius. Like my mother with the Beatles, I can't even talk about it without a dangerous amount of tears and introspection. So I won't try here, except to say that Watterson was to newspaper comics what Stephen Sondheim was to musical theatre. Show me someone around my age with a huge vocabulary, and I'll show you a childhood Calvin and Hobbes fan."

This comes amid an explanation of Achewood's status as the new gold standard of comics and B.C.'s slide into complete incomprehensibilty, peppered with religious sanctimony, in its later years. This girl is my new favorite.

What do you say? I've been trying to write about this all day, but what do you even say?

Speaking at Issac Asimov's funeral, Kurt Vonnegut said, "Isaac is in heaven now, that was the funniest thing I could have said to a crowd of Humanists. God Forbid, should I pass on sometime, may all of you say that Kurt is in Heaven too."

But, you know, he said a lot of things. That was a problem when I was trying to decide on a quote to include: the amount and quality of things this man said and wrote over the course of his life is monolithic. Like Mark Twain before him, his work has so permeated our culture as to make it impossible to fully understand the effect he has had on it. Truly a genius.

He also said, "When you're dead, you're dead."

Kurt Vonnegut, Nov. 11 1922 - Apr. 11 2007