4-18-08 The Cat Came Back
Posted by gavortnik on April 18, 2008
Speaking of cats, Shanoah…
I saw this great animated short on PBS many years and miles ago. It was The Cat Came Back by Cordell Barker, with a highly embellished version of Harry S. Miller’s And the Cat Came Back. The original 1893 song was apparently ”A Comic Negro Absurdity” – in other words, a minstrel song. Now it’s a kid’s song, updated with modern political correctness and military technology, of course. (And you wonder why my generation is so messed up)
Oh, and Shanoah points out that there’s a version of this song, by Marc Gunn, from the cat’s point of view. Those of you who own or owned cats will probably empathize with poor Mister Johnson.
Sez the cat: “I am mighty! I am cute! I am kitty! I am mighty cute kitty!”
Courtesy of espectando.
BTW, I’ve set aside the For Whom the Bell Tolls for the time being. I figured a book from a guy who beat up and/or shot almost everyone and everything he came across would rock. But I started to get worried when there hadn’t even been a single flying chainsaw decapitation by the end of Chapter 1. And when I’d gotten 90 pages in, and not even one Fascist soldier had been kung fu’d into the Phantom Zone, I decided to hang it up for a bit.
Oh, and I think I know why the Republicans lost against the Fascists in Spain:
- They never used contractions. Not once. Never.
- All they did was sit around and talk and get drunk instead of, oh, I don’t know, getting up off their asses and doing something.
Anyway, I bought William S. Burrough’s Junky yesterday and am now slogging through an introduction by a guy who is (and I didn’t know these existed) a Burroughs otaku. I’m noticing a pattern in my reading lately: I’m being drawn to somewhat extreme personalities. Not that this is a bad thing.
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