Reflection upon ruffling nostalgically through my bookshelves this afternoon: Why has there never been an animated adaptation of Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy and Tib stories?

I mean, the earliest ones, when they're still being illustrated by Lois Lenski. The later ones -- past Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, I believe -- drop the friends-forever ( Read more... )

 So Bob Elliott, currently one-half of the reason I have a deal to provide liner notes, turned 87 the other day; his partner would've turned 88 a day or so before that. Asked in an interview awhile back what getting older felt like, Bob said: "It feels like getting older." The interviewer characterized this as a 'wry' response, and, well, good for ( Read more... )

So life hasn't been all shopping drama and NYTimes. Actually, I've spent most of this weekend half-asleep from some random sinus infection, which is even less exciting than it sounds, trust me.

I do not remember where in the morass I found the bsc_snark community, but I have been reading it ever since.

The BSC, for those of you who weren't young and ( Read more... )

As gacked from lizbee . I like the occasional post-a-day challenge as much as the next lazy blogger, so...

Day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

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Besides, boy-oh-boy, have I got a song to share. This song is so good I ( Read more... )

Happiness week @ Shoe Central continues with a theme of universal love, hope and brotherhood...

...well, OK, not exactly. We haven't reached the 'bang the tambourine at airports' stage of happiness yet, and frankly, we hope we never will. We have fond memories of encountering George Carlin in a book of advice to young people: "Question everything. ( Read more... )

Topless Robot recently did a '10 Most Ridiculous Things About the Original GI Joe Movie' list, and lo, I was gleeful. Because I loved the original GI Joe series with all my little mindless-pop-culture-consuming heart, and that damn Cobra-La trifled with that heart like Aztecs looking for fun on Saturday night.

And then I read the opening paragraph, ( Read more... )

So yes, in the course of rambling on about Feminism in Watership Down, below, I got a little carried away. Especially does this bug in terms of children's media (which Watership really isn't, but we'll ignore that for now). It's something I've been personally confronting lately, as I rummage around in my Sesame Street-intensive past. Do you realise ( Read more... )

Sigh. Well, the tax refund apparently doesn't kick in for another week, so I guess it's time to haul out the Backyardigans episodes!

Quite seriously, ever since Treehouse put it on the weekday midnight rotation - ie., just in time for me to snuggle down with something fun - I have learned to totally adore this series. Thusly intimate with the ( Read more... )

 Had the TV set to Treehouse as a pleasant background noise while writing. Just happened to turn around as Rolie Polie Olie opened on the classic shot of mom and pop-bot snoring away, just seconds prior to their kid-bots storming in -

- and just parenthetically, how do people with lots and lots of kids do that? I mean, the ones with a serious ( Read more... )

So I am about the last person on the Net, with the possible exception of www.nepaleseyakherders.org, to weigh in on Transformers: The Movie.

This is doubly odd because I was a massive fan of the original cartoon. I've written elsewhere in this journal of my receptiveness to sweet-hearted yet simplistic animated media, and after-school TV in the 80' ( Read more... )