Instead of putting in K's new hard drive after school today, I took a nap. And just in case the Puritan ghosts don't rise up and ethic me to death, I had a glass of milk first. Milk, yet another normal food that doesn't sit so well with me lately. But so far, so good. (And I'm sure the two chocolate Hostess cupcakes I had with the milk couldn't possibly have any ill effect. I know those are good for me. Howdy Doody always said so.)
In my effort to build a collection of cheap, yet obscure, DVDs, I ordered these two yesterday:
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Now these are a couple of full-length cartoons that were on every year holiday time when I was a kid and which I never missed. Gulliver, I think, was always on Thanksgiving morning, and Magoo the next day. They fascinated me. I knew vaguely that Gulliver was some kind of literary classic, and this movie both amused and scared the crap out of me, but in a good way (not like those scary-ass flying monkeys in the much-feared Oz). There was indeed something very creepy about the artwork, but the story about the tiny people intrigued me. I never knew until years later that there was way more to Gulliver than Lilliput.
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol was a whole other story. First, I knew Mr. Magoo; there were Mr. Magoo cartoons on all the time. And I had no idea whatsoever that this was a classic story by Charles Dickens. I thought it was a very clever Mr. Magoo cartoon. I already loved Crusader and Rags, and they were always set in some past time, like ancient Rome, so why not Magoo? When I did finally realized what A Christmas Carol was, I actually expected Ebenezer Scrooge to be nearsighted. Ah, me. And to this day, even though I am a huge non-fan of Dickens, I do still like this story.
Speaking of A Christmas Carol, the only version I've ever seen that gave me a bigger thrill than Magoo was this one:
But I didn't see the TV version, like in the link. I saw this in full glorious life. And by the luck of the draw, since I ordered the tickets by phone, I saw it from the first row. And Patrick Stewart himself played every single part, at times just a few feet away. Ah. Me.
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