From: Robert Praetorius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 8 November 2004 11:32:40 AM PST
Subject: next time you use mickeymouse as an adjective
think about the old, avant-garde, redemptive, radical Micky Mouse, not
the new, unchallenging, culturally conservative digital rodent:
http://www.wbenjamin.org/hollywood.html
. . .the decline of animated film is a counter-insurrectionary
catastrophe. . .
(arrived at via the 1st review of Rootabaga Stories
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0152047093
(the 1st 2 chapters of which, BTW, are now online with the original,
wonderful artwork at http://josephperry.net/rootabaga/index.html
(all this prompted by my coworker's discovery of the Advanced
Rutabaga Studies Institute http://members.tripod.com/~rutabagas/
(BTBTW, Amazone has now collected Wacky Customer Reviews,
including the notorious Family Circle and Story About Ping reviews
at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/58203 ))))
