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.
