Okay, so, like, two unrelated thoughts: (a) please notice the time stamp on this one–Hello? Insomnia calling, will you accept the charges?–and (b) does anyone remember seeing little cartoons on PBS–like filler when the station had a minute or two to spare? They were usually pretty creepy, kind of adult-themed. One of ’em I quoted below (“The masked man’s a fag!”). It’s a Lenny Bruce skit that was eventually animated–startlingly vulgar for Mississippi public television, now that I think about it. There also was a cartoon version of I Had a Hippopotamus. But my favorite was a sort of generic one about a kid who’s having a very bad, no good dream and wakes up to realize that everything’s fine, then walks out the front door of his house and plummets immediately to his death.
I only ask because, (a) these things make pretty strong impressions on young minds–kids expect Tex Avery, not Poppy Z. Brite, to be the guiding ideology behind their cartoons–and (b) these cartoons were typically so very out there that I can’t help feeling I never saw them, that I made them up. Know what I mean?
These are the inane babblings of a lunatic at 4:41 AM.
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