"Community is television’s first Cubist sitcom. Like the still lifes of Picasso or Braque, it starts with a simple tableau: a set of friends/acquaintances/nemeses in a community-college study group. Then, episode by episode — like a painter breaking a guitar into geometric shapes — obsessive creator Dan Harmon rearranges its component parts to play with perspective and create a picture truer than real life. One week the story is built around seven alternative timelines. Another, it’s a parody of My Dinner with Andre. Another, it’s told entirely through flashbacks to Community episodes that were never made. It’s not just invention for its own sake but a way of using the storytelling frame to show how each character in the ensemble relates to the whole. Yet Community is not some high-art experiment but hilarious, good-time entertainment; it both defies sitcom formulas and lovingly embraces them."
I got almost everything on my to-do list for today done. Crossing things off a list is one of my favorite things in the world to do.
Above is Johnny Cash’s to-do list, I like thinking about the various motivations behind putting these things on a list like this (“I keep forgetting to pee! My kidneys are killing me!”)
I also have a special place in my heart for this to-do list.
