>sufferin’ succotash!

>i am bored. i have things i could be doing right now. i could be doing laundry. or cleaning my kitchen. hell, i could be going to bed.

earlier today i was reading. it’s been a while since i’ve sat down and done that. if you recall from an earlier blog, last week i believe, i said that my friend john had recommended the book of mice and men. i did finally get a real copy of the book and started reading it in earnest this morning.

it wasn’t long into the story before i was overwhelmed with an image. more than an image. it was like a little movie in my head. i couldn’t get away from it, no matter how much i tried to ignore it. i finally had to put it down because i just couldn’t concentrate with the images and sounds flashing through my head.

i felt sure that there had to be a way to share with all of you what i was going through. but try as i might, and believe me i tried, i just couldn’t find what i was looking for.

this is some text from the wikipedia entry for of mice and men:

Characters similar to George and Lennie have been popular since the publication of Of Mice and Men. Theatrical cartoon shorts of the 1940s and 1950s, particularly the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons released by Warner Bros., are particularly awash with Of Mice and Men parodies. The Of Mice and Men reference most often in the form of one character asking another, a la, Lennie, “which way did he go, George; which way did he go?” Tex Avery, who worked as a director on Warner-released cartoons during the 1930s and early 1940s, started the trend with Of Fox and Hounds (1940). The formula was so successful that it was used again and again in subsequent shorts, notably Robert McKimson‘s Cat-Tails for Two (1953) and Chuck Jones‘ The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1961). Avery used it again when he went on to direct several cartoons starring the George and Lennie dopplegangers George and Junior for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the late 1940s. What’s more, Avery himself provided the voice of “Junior.” The parody also appears in Mystery Science Theatre 3000 when a stereotypical ‘dumb’ person asks, ‘Tell me about the rabbits, George’.

why didn’t anybody tell me?

sufferin’ succotash!

i am bored. i have things i could be doing right now. i could be doing laundry. or cleaning my kitchen. hell, i could be going to bed.

earlier today i was reading. it’s been a while since i’ve sat down and done that. if you recall from an earlier blog, last week i believe, i said that my friend john had recommended the book of mice and men. i did finally get a real copy of the book and started reading it in earnest this morning.

it wasn’t long into the story before i was overwhelmed with an image. more than an image. it was like a little movie in my head. i couldn’t get away from it, no matter how much i tried to ignore it. i finally had to put it down because i just couldn’t concentrate with the images and sounds flashing through my head.

i felt sure that there had to be a way to share with all of you what i was going through. but try as i might, and believe me i tried, i just couldn’t find what i was looking for.

this is some text from the wikipedia entry for of mice and men:

Characters similar to George and Lennie have been popular since the publication of Of Mice and Men. Theatrical cartoon shorts of the 1940s and 1950s, particularly the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons released by Warner Bros., are particularly awash with Of Mice and Men parodies. The Of Mice and Men reference most often in the form of one character asking another, a la, Lennie, “which way did he go, George; which way did he go?” Tex Avery, who worked as a director on Warner-released cartoons during the 1930s and early 1940s, started the trend with Of Fox and Hounds (1940). The formula was so successful that it was used again and again in subsequent shorts, notably Robert McKimson‘s Cat-Tails for Two (1953) and Chuck Jones‘ The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1961). Avery used it again when he went on to direct several cartoons starring the George and Lennie dopplegangers George and Junior for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the late 1940s. What’s more, Avery himself provided the voice of “Junior.” The parody also appears in Mystery Science Theatre 3000 when a stereotypical ‘dumb’ person asks, ‘Tell me about the rabbits, George’.

why didn’t anybody tell me?

sufferin’ succotash!

i am bored. i have things i could be doing right now. i could be doing laundry. or cleaning my kitchen. hell, i could be going to bed.

earlier today i was reading. it’s been a while since i’ve sat down and done that. if you recall from an earlier blog, last week i believe, i said that my friend john had recommended the book of mice and men. i did finally get a real copy of the book and started reading it in earnest this morning.

it wasn’t long into the story before i was overwhelmed with an image. more than an image. it was like a little movie in my head. i couldn’t get away from it, no matter how much i tried to ignore it. i finally had to put it down because i just couldn’t concentrate with the images and sounds flashing through my head.

i felt sure that there had to be a way to share with all of you what i was going through. but try as i might, and believe me i tried, i just couldn’t find what i was looking for.

this is some text from the wikipedia entry for of mice and men:

Characters similar to George and Lennie have been popular since the publication of Of Mice and Men. Theatrical cartoon shorts of the 1940s and 1950s, particularly the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons released by Warner Bros., are particularly awash with Of Mice and Men parodies. The Of Mice and Men reference most often in the form of one character asking another, a la, Lennie, “which way did he go, George; which way did he go?” Tex Avery, who worked as a director on Warner-released cartoons during the 1930s and early 1940s, started the trend with Of Fox and Hounds (1940). The formula was so successful that it was used again and again in subsequent shorts, notably Robert McKimson‘s Cat-Tails for Two (1953) and Chuck Jones‘ The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1961). Avery used it again when he went on to direct several cartoons starring the George and Lennie dopplegangers George and Junior for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the late 1940s. What’s more, Avery himself provided the voice of “Junior.” The parody also appears in Mystery Science Theatre 3000 when a stereotypical ‘dumb’ person asks, ‘Tell me about the rabbits, George’.

why didn’t anybody tell me?

sufferin’ succotash!

i am bored. i have things i could be doing right now. i could be doing laundry. or cleaning my kitchen. hell, i could be going to bed.

earlier today i was reading. it’s been a while since i’ve sat down and done that. if you recall from an earlier blog, last week i believe, i said that my friend john had recommended the book of mice and men. i did finally get a real copy of the book and started reading it in earnest this morning.

it wasn’t long into the story before i was overwhelmed with an image. more than an image. it was like a little movie in my head. i couldn’t get away from it, no matter how much i tried to ignore it. i finally had to put it down because i just couldn’t concentrate with the images and sounds flashing through my head.

i felt sure that there had to be a way to share with all of you what i was going through. but try as i might, and believe me i tried, i just couldn’t find what i was looking for.

this is some text from the wikipedia entry for of mice and men:

Characters similar to George and Lennie have been popular since the publication of Of Mice and Men. Theatrical cartoon shorts of the 1940s and 1950s, particularly the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons released by Warner Bros., are particularly awash with Of Mice and Men parodies. The Of Mice and Men reference most often in the form of one character asking another, a la, Lennie, “which way did he go, George; which way did he go?” Tex Avery, who worked as a director on Warner-released cartoons during the 1930s and early 1940s, started the trend with Of Fox and Hounds (1940). The formula was so successful that it was used again and again in subsequent shorts, notably Robert McKimson‘s Cat-Tails for Two (1953) and Chuck Jones‘ The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1961). Avery used it again when he went on to direct several cartoons starring the George and Lennie dopplegangers George and Junior for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the late 1940s. What’s more, Avery himself provided the voice of “Junior.” The parody also appears in Mystery Science Theatre 3000 when a stereotypical ‘dumb’ person asks, ‘Tell me about the rabbits, George’.

why didn’t anybody tell me?