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Spanish Popeye: May 2008
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Saturday, May 31, 2008. Heading out shortly to see a live Prairie Home Companion. Broadcast at NMSU, but a brief follow-up to my last entry. Going through some old Family Circus. Books (discarded by the library for 35 cents a piece), I found this little salute to co-author Erma Bombeck, circa 1976:. Kind of way (or possibly "How dare she say that my verbal errors weren't cute! He's just physically and emotionally spent by the ordeal. Links to this post. Tuesday, May 27, 2008. Represents as an easy target...
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Spanish Popeye: Can you tell me how to get....
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009. Can you tell me how to get. So, still no major new content here, but I'm starting a series at Examiner.com, looking at. And its use of animated segments over the years. Particularly nifty, I should think, will be an upcoming piece on Henson's own animated experiments. So, to the two or three people who may see this, enjoy it here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin. Something Old, Nothing New. Thrilling Days of Yesteryear.
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Spanish Popeye: Cigareets and Whiskey
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008. Been a topsy-turvey holiday period (we got the tree up barely a week or so before, Mom fixed cookies just yesterday, we didn't even have a meal together), plus stress and such (though I finally submitted my chapter for the upcoming Kermit Culture. Anthology of Muppt essays to the editors). Anyway, we'll see if I can blog more in the coming year (certainly stockpiled plenty of subjects and images), maybe even take a stab at this here "daily blogging" fad. Yay for legal booze!
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Spanish Popeye: Tired of the Everyday Grind? Go to Juarez with Jack Webb!
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009. Tired of the Everyday Grind? Go to Juarez with Jack Webb! I've been meaning to blog about old-time radio, one of my other passions, so this seems as good a way as any to christen the first post of a new year, in addition to a raft of material I've recently acquired, been saving, or simply put off. Anyway, let's all get close to that glowing dial, or your computer speakers, and give a listen to Escape. Used big name Hollywood stars, and Escape. In the early years especially, th...
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Spanish Popeye: May 2009
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Saturday, May 30, 2009. Save a Polar Bear, Drink Booze. And now, join us once again for an adventure into the fantastic wilds of vintage advertising. As carefully observed and recorded from a 1942 issue of Liberty Magazine. Let us see how the Madison Avenue species of that era managed to link the natural instincts of wildlife with alcohol consumption, yet avoiding the cliche of caribou or water buffalo stampeding to the watering hole. The overall impression I took from this ad, particularly in light of c...
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Spanish Popeye: November 2008
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Sunday, November 9, 2008. Horses and dogs were growing shaggy-haired like never before.". You know, 1960s films sometimes fascinate me. Mark Harris' book Pictures of a Revolution. Is the best known of these (and my least favorite), along with several Blake Edwards efforts, the infamous Casino Royale. A mess, but one which captivates), and things like Those Magnificent Men in Your Flying Machines. And The Magnificent Seven. Well, not quite (and easily parallel to Spencer Tracy in It's a Mad, Mad World.
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Spanish Popeye: October 2008
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Sunday, October 26, 2008. Ah, cannibal jokes! They never get old! Takes a basic cannibal situation and turns it into a brilliant fever dream, helped more than a little by the oddball inclusion of Louis Armstrong singing his famous jazz tune about wanting his wife's lover to drop dead. But in general, it seems to me that the "Look, it's a cannibal! Era is dead, slightly outlasting the "Look, an Indian! Funny" and "Look, a black person eating watermelon" cliches. A one-panel Far Side. Links to this post.
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Spanish Popeye: December 2008
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008. Been a topsy-turvey holiday period (we got the tree up barely a week or so before, Mom fixed cookies just yesterday, we didn't even have a meal together), plus stress and such (though I finally submitted my chapter for the upcoming Kermit Culture. Anthology of Muppt essays to the editors). Anyway, we'll see if I can blog more in the coming year (certainly stockpiled plenty of subjects and images), maybe even take a stab at this here "daily blogging" fad. Yay for legal booze!
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Spanish Popeye: June 2008
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Sunday, June 29, 2008. Jello again. Well, a week long houseguest, re-scheduled doctor's appointments, and other issues, plus the heat, ate most of June. Still planning to finish my thoughts on the Dick Tracy. Pilot, but had a hard time getting back to it. Is a little gem). London studio (Grillo had done fine commercial work, and animated the scavengers in Richard Williams' A Christmas Carol. And the likes of future Disney animator Ken Duncan. Worked on different spots. Here's a brief first sample:. Again...
