I miss Far Side so much I could cry. I don’t know why he stopped. He could always sell older issues and I’d still buy them.
In past years I’ve bought Get Fuzzy (pretty funny) Non Sequitor (not funny) Passive Aggressive Notes (amusing). In 2012 I had a lovely art calendar from the Met.
I prefer humor, and I like dry wit, sarcasm, and irony. I don’t want dumb jokes. I hate joke a day calendars. I don’t want any animal calendars, unless you know of a really good bird one. No trivia, either. I just want to be able to look at the calendar for ten seconds and smile.
I don’t want pithy quotes, either, and no religion. Yes, it is difficult to find me a calendar, but I’m sure some of you have some good suggestions! I hate settling.
I love birds and I thought about the Audobon birds calendar, but my boss is terrified of birds. Not that she would ever say a thing or complain, but there’s really no reason to traumatize her - she doesn’t deserve it.
Thanks for answering, though. I ended up getting an Onion calendar.
Ooh, that’ll be fun. I don’t really do wall calendars. Outlook’s calendar function has always served me well but I did buy one this year. (well, it came as a perk for contributing to an indiegogo campaign but the end result is the same.)
I LOVE calendars, and I think I have some kind of sick fetish for them. For example, at work I have:
A very LARGE erasable four month calendar. I use this to keep track of staff vacations, when I have class, major events, holidays, etc.
A normal wall calendar. I use this to keep track of some things but I admit I mostly have it for the pretty. I got “Spirit of the far east”.
A desk calendar. This is the Onion calendar.
And of course my Outlook calendar which is vital.
Then at home, I have another large wall calendar. I got this for the pretty too (it’s castles) but I also put my classes on it so my SO knows where I am in case he forgets, as well as family birthdays and such.
A desk calendar. This is a Dilbert calendar.
My google calendar, which I have e-mail me with important dates.
I never really realized how much I surround myself with calendars. It’s kind of pathological. I think it must be something to do with my comfort zone. Regardless, I wait until the beginning of the new year and then all calendars are 50% off. So I got all four of those calendars for $30.
Years ago I saw a George Carlin desk calendar with a one or two liner for each day. I know you already got one, and I don’t know if you like George or not for future consideration.
He’s funny, cynical, smart, sardonic, and sometimes incredibly off the wall.
Googling tells me they’re available for 2013. Now I want one!
Know what you mean about calendars, Anaamika. I’ve made a big switch this year in skipping the big wall calendar, because I never look at it.
At my desk, I have a Mensa Puzzle a Day calendar; plus a weekly engagement calendar (Audubon, as mentioned above), which is where I write the actual places I need to go and things I need to do; a mini monthly calendar, mostly so I can see what date next Thursday without flipping pages and where I mark the dates for the five blog posts a month I write for one of my clients; and, since the dates on this one are really frigging tiny, a single-page six-months-at-a-time calendar [dates only, not squares] that came with an Architectural Digest subscription offer. The mini monthly, as mentioned, has the dates marked in a font smaller than is useful to me, but the pictures are really nice (MoMA art), so I’ll leave it up anyway. Thinking of writing the numbers bigger, but that might be too weird a thing to do.
