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Emsworth the Unnerved Mon Mar 15 00:18:56 2004
Random Cathartic Credit Posting

From Lux Radio Theater (been working on articles on the subject of radio adaptations of animated product for APAToons)

"Pinocchio" (Dec. 25, 1939)

Cast: Cliff Edwards (Jiminy Cricket), Dickie Jones (Pinocchio), Walter Catlett (Honest John), Charles Judels (Stromboli, Coachman), Christian Rub (Gepetto), Frankie Darro (Lampwick), Evelyn Venable (Blue Fairy), Stuart Buchanan (Gideon, Barker #2), Earl Hodgins (Barker #1), Florence Gill (Cuckoo Clock, Figaro), Clarence Straight (Donkey, Barker #3), Joe Pennario (Alexander),Grace Nielsen (Singing Voice of Blue Fairy), Ernest Carlson, Jean Forsyth, Eric Burtis Jr., Jackie Morrison (Ad Lib Boys); Commercials: Julie Bannon (Sally), Margaret Brayton (Libby Collins), Bobby Larson (Little Boy), Barbara Jean Wong (Little Girl), Fred Shields (Husband), Nancy Leach (Wife)

"Peter Pan"

Cast: Bobby Driscoll (Peter Pan), Kathryn Beaumont (Wendy), John Carradine (Captain Hook & Mr. Darling), Bill Thompson (Mr. Smee), Herb Butterfield (Narrator), Christopher Cook (John), Dick Beals (Michael), Mary Flynn [Quinn?] (Mrs. Darling), Billy Bletcher (The Indian Chief), Michael Miller (Cubby), Stuffy Singer (Foxy), Earle Keene (Nana), Shep Menken, Eddie Marr (Pirates)

If nothing else, the forum won't look so bare.

Hope to be able to find my Bullwinkle cards yet *again* and finally get them mailed off this week, mouse and anyone else I promised them to (I think it wound up being just mouse).

mouse Mon Mar 15 16:09:48 2004
signs of life!


> Hope to be able to find my Bullwinkle cards yet *again* and finally get
> them mailed off this week, mouse and anyone else I promised them to (I
> think it wound up being just mouse).

wow - i'd forgotten about that. do you have my address?

is it really half-past march? where did the time go? where did the people go?

....come to think of it - where did the grim thread reaper go? even he seems to be off the job....

Emsworth Tue Mar 16 00:52:46 2004
Re: signs of life!

> wow - i'd forgotten about that. do you have my address?

Yes, you sent it to me some time ago. However, various situations (the book assignment, family funeral, major housecleaning, flu) have led to the re-arrangement of my desk contents, and also caused a temporary loss of interest in sending anonymous blackmail notes, to say nothing of purely friendly greeting cards, ahem.

Also been listening to old radio shows with a friend in Israel, on leave from the army, enjoying the fact that apparently all Elizabethan writers, when resurrected for the purposes of attending a literary forum arranged for radio, would rather argue and riot and then run off to the pub. Also listened to the one about the carrots and onions on Venus, and featured the following classic bit of dialogue: "You can't do this. The United States Navy will not stand for it!" "Nor will CBS!"

> is it really half-past march? where did the time go? where did the people
> go?

Disneyland?

> ....come to think of it - where did the grim thread reaper go? even he
> seems to be off the job....

No doubt Michael has been preoccupied and hasn't been able to arrange for him to run again.

mouse Tue Mar 16 19:12:40 2004
Re: signs of life!

> temporary loss of
> interest in sending anonymous blackmail notes feh - you put my picture on the internet, you have nothing left to blackmail me with. and i would just have to send the spiders after you.

(actually, that might not be a bad idea...it _would_ get them out of the house...)

> Also been listening to old radio shows with a friend in Israel, on leave
> from the army, enjoying the fact that apparently all Elizabethan writers,
> when resurrected for the purposes of attending a literary forum arranged
> for radio, would rather argue and riot and then run off to the pub.

that _is_ odd - one would have expected that they would _start_ at the pub, which would lead fairly naturally to the argument-and-riot phase...

> listened to the one about the carrots and onions on Venus, and featured
> the following classic bit of dialogue: "You can't do this. The United
> States Navy will not stand for it!" "Nor will CBS!"

wait - david letterman was on this show?!

Emsworth Tue Mar 16 21:22:43 2004
Re: signs of life!

My dear mouse. May I remind you that I did not specify exactly whom the recipients of said blackmail notes would be. Merely mentioned that I've had no time for either.

> wait - david letterman was on this show?!

Hardly, not in 1956. This was the CBS Radio Workshop, logs of which were posted long ago, and several shows uploaded for your amusement, but sadly ignored, and no preferences supplied for the home-mailing of a CD of selections from said series. Not even the talking tape recorders. Sob.

Emsworth Tue Mar 16 21:29:15 2004
The Immortal Feh

> feh

I confess to some curiosity about the increasingly common usage of the expletive "feh," which is almost exclusive to the internet. Is this the result of the encroachment of Japanese animation and comics, or rather fan embracement of certain terms thereof or at least the perceived pronunciations, or a return to one of the most venerable Yiddish words, the ultimate insult and the strongest expression of disgust?

spinclad Wed Mar 17 03:13:04 2004
Re: The Immortal Feh

> one of the most venerable Yiddish words

the latter, i fancy...

mouse Wed Mar 17 17:40:28 2004
Re: The Immortal Feh

> the latter, i fancy... from the kosher nosh (http://www.koshernosh.com/dictiona.htm)

Feh Not very nice/ Disapproving

...which fits the way i had always thought of it (although actually i think i picked it up from 'nukees').

it's not a word i actually say - in person, i would signal my opinion by tone of voice or expression - notoriously difficult to do in print.

(although all this pertains to just 'feh'. the Immortal Feh was actually an itinerant arabian alchemist and rope-charmer, who was transformed into a djinn (and hence rendered immortal) as a result of an unfortunate incident involving saltpeter, a stolen opal, and a drunken mongoose. possibly this story is what brought 'feh' into use by the nuclear engineering community.)

spinclad the peeved Thu Mar 18 16:55:24 2004
Re: signs of life!

> > ....come to think of it - where did the grim thread reaper go? even he
> > seems to be off the job....

still direr is the loss of our standings monitor. what good is there in spreading my tentacles throughout the lower standings if they DON'T SHOW UP??

Emsworth the Lovecraftian Thu Mar 18 19:33:42 2004
Re: signs of life!

> still direr is the loss of our standings monitor. what good is there in
> spreading my tentacles throughout the lower standings if they DON'T SHOW
> UP??

I didn't know you were kin to C'thulhu.

mouse Fri Mar 19 17:40:56 2004
Re: signs of life!

> I didn't know you were kin to C'thulhu.

if c'thulhu spinclad, like i know spinclad....

spinclad, tentacularly Sat Apr 3 03:23:56 2004
Re: signs of life!

> if c'thulhu spinclad, like i know spinclad....

in elder days, in old R'lyeh, the statsmaster lies dreaming...

but lo! with the ages the world hath turned

and struck him in his turrets with a shaft of light!

drowsy still but swifter than the tidal wave

he surges forth and with one single YAWP!

he over-whelms the long neglected board:

now scrubb'd and polish'd to a spotless shine.

mouse Sat Apr 3 13:21:44 2004
Re: signs of life!

> and struck him in his turrets with a shaft of light!

i need a better scanner - this reminds me of a pogo sequence that i cannot (alas) present here...

and hey - the gtr must be rousing! there were 421 posts, then spinclad posted, and now there are 420!

...either that, or spinclad has mastered the art of negative posting...

spinclad Mon Apr 5 01:26:09 2004
Re: signs of life!

> i need a better scanner - this reminds me of a pogo sequence that i cannot
> (alas) present here...

Behole! ole bear done struck beauregard in the turret with a larm clock!

Yes, sadly, this was passing between my ears as this atrocity came to me... many apologies to Lovecraft, Kelly, Khayyam, (who else?) oh yes, Whitman. i steal from only the best.

> and hey - the gtr must be rousing! there were 421 posts, then spinclad
> posted, and now there are 420!

> ...either that, or spinclad has mastered the art of negative posting...

funny, it says 421 for me again... (heh)

but hey, i'm happy that we have some fragments of the butterflies advancing ever on, in their forgotten headless threads.

mouse Mon Apr 5 18:16:40 2004
Re: signs of life!

> Behole! ole bear done struck beauregard in the turret with a larm clock!

that's the one! man, and you even remember all the words....you're even more addicted than _i_ am....

must...memorize....pogo.....

spinclad Tue Apr 6 01:57:14 2004
Re: signs of life!

> you even remember all the words....

every word is exactly as i remembered it. i am beset, though, with a doubt as to {beauregard} or {the sultan}. my source, Ten Everlovin' Blue-eyed Years with Pogo (may its content survive unto the nineth generation), remains at my parents' home in New Jersey where i studied it over countless afternoons both rainy and sunny. i cannot claim true fanaticism, though; my brother (pbuh) was even more taken with it than i.

Emsworth Tue Apr 6 08:53:56 2004
Re: signs of life!

I need to acquire "Ten Everlovin' Years..." someday. I have a few of the Fantagraphic reprints, and two collections which happened to come across my path, but little else.

I did recently acquire a copy of the wonderful CD re-issue of "Songs of the Pogo." The highlight for me, amongst many (including the rousing "Go Go Pogo") is "Lines Upon a Tranquil Brow," written, composed, and rendered by Kelly himself:

Have you ever while pond'ring the ways of the morn, Thought to save just a bit, just a drop in the horn... To pour in the ev'ning or late afternoon, Or during the night when we're shining the moon?

Have you ever cried out while counting the snow, Or watching the tomtit warble Hello? "Break out the cigars, this life is for sqirr'ls We're off to the drugstore to whistle at girls"!

mouse Tue Apr 6 16:34:56 2004
Re: signs of life!

> I need to acquire "Ten Everlovin' Years..." someday. I have a
> few of the Fantagraphic reprints, and two collections which happened to
> come across my path, but little else.

yes - you must. it's really wonderful, as kelly talks a lot about various things that were going in when he wrote various strips: reactions to his anti-mccarthy stuff, etc - and well as a fair amount of just funny things that happened in his life (he must have been a great guy to hang out with). it is, perhaps, a little disappointing, strip-wise, because it doesn't have (for the most part) the whole of a story line - just selected strips from the sequence - so one misses some of the detail (it does have a really funny sequence of sunday strips, though, all revolving around a door.)

> I did recently acquire a copy of the wonderful CD re-issue of "Songs
> of the Pogo."

amazon sent me a thing about that - is it really good? i love kelly's 'pomes' - but i was worried that the actually voices or accompaniments might put me off (i actually saw an animated show based on 'pogo' (many many moons ago) - and the main thing i remember is disappointment at how little the voices resembled what i _thought_ they should sound like) - still, i have less a firm vision of how the poems would go to music...ah well, so much for keeping the credit card bill under control this month....

Emsworth Tue Apr 6 19:58:28 2004
Re: signs of life!

> amazon sent me a thing about that - is it really good? i love kelly's
> 'pomes' - but i was worried that the actually voices or accompaniments
> might put me off (i actually saw an animated show based on 'pogo' (many
> many moons ago) - and the main thing i remember is disappointment at how
> little the voices resembled what i _thought_ they should sound like) -
> still, i have less a firm vision of how the poems would go to music...ah
> well, so much for keeping the credit card bill under control this
> month....

Well, you need have no concern about the voices, or rather little anyway. None of the songs are sung by specific characters, although a few seem tailored for characters, like "Man's Best Friend." Kelly himself sings three, including the jaunty "Go Go Pogo," a sort of Pogo election song, and composed the music for that song and four others. The CD also includes as bonus tracks two slightly strange Pogo children's records narrated by Kelly in an interesting, thick character voice, "No" and "Can't," some scratch or audition tracks of Kelly singing, and Kelly's recorderd "Word Fore" for one of his books, from 1952 (not sure which one).

Definitely worth acquiring, even if you just read the lyrics. Also, which Pogo show are you thinking of? The cel animated one (which included a few of the Songs of the Pogo tunes, this time assigned to characters), or the later stop motion one? Neither was perfect, and June Foray was actually lambasted by comics historian Maggie Thompson in a Funnyworld review for her performance as Pogo (leading to a heated response from Junie in the next issue or so). The stop motion one, produced after Kelly's passing, was an interesting experiment but doesn't quite work, as it is filled with dated late 70's/early 80's songs and chorus pieces, the characters in three dimensions seem slightly off, and the voices were mostly supplied by New York actors, with nary an attempt at Southern accents (Jimmy Breslin in particular was badly miscast as P. T. Bridgeport, though Vincent Price turned in a fairly fun performance as Deacon Mushrat).

mouse Wed Apr 7 17:15:41 2004
Re: signs of life!

> Definitely worth acquiring, even if you just read the lyrics. Also, which
> Pogo show are you thinking of? The cel animated one (which included a few
> of the Songs of the Pogo tunes, this time assigned to characters), or the
> later stop motion one?

must have been the cel animation - it was a _long_ time ago. oddly, i don't remember the art at all - just my disappointment....






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