"Sparkle Amuck"
A little homage to the oft-cited best cartoon ever. Here's a still from Chuck Jones's classic "Duck Amuck:"
And here's the whole thing in its anarchically goofy glory:
Ah, good stuff. And to reiterate, the chapter was awesome, discussing how the widespread concept of the cartoon changes via industry practices, targeted advertising and scheduling practices. One of the more pointed quips in the chapter was noting how in the 1960s station censors bent over backwards to remove racially sensitive content from the cartoon reruns from the 1940s but simultaneously endorsed both child-targeted advertising and hyper-violence, implying some assumptions that children needed to be protected from certain things they could not understand but could be subjected to others safely. Cool.
Otherwise, things have slid back to normal here with Beck back in the casa. I slept NOT-AT-ALL last night thanks to a neck amuck - I aggravated the Ultimate pull from earlier in the week during a romp with the dogs. Thoroughly aggravating, especially since I have a game tonight - I suppose as long as all the throws come directly to my face and I don't have to turn my head at all, I should be fine. We are playing a beast of a team from the other division, so it may be a moot point anyways. We'll see.
Enjoy your Thursday - DBacks series starts tonight, and I've been engaging in a little (surprisingly, for the web) healthy debate over the impact of run differential and win-loss records over at the DBacks blog. Here's the post in question; you can read through the inanity to spot the comments by the jerk nyetjones character.
If you are looking for a more psychedelic way to spend your time, here's an mp3 clip of all of the Beatles albums played in an hour. Art?
And if that's still not enough, revisit the LOLCats, quickly becoming the best comic strip.... ever.
See you on the flipside- wish us luck in our Ulti-massacre tonight.
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