I'm just going to lay on the pavement for a second here, son

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1. The first round of dealing-with-mold has been accomplished; we shall see what happens. Regardless, the weekend worked out. There was Tea last night with sen_no_ongaku and sigerson and before that an hour of Blues Jam at Johnny D's. Sadly, I missed the trombone solo.

2. Pleasant discovery of the afternoon: that I had enough pocket change to buy the new kind of cookie from Lakota Bakery. Coconut macaroon, chocolate-dipped with almonds just beneath the surface. Oh, God, Pesach is the end of this week.

3. Have an interview with Roger Miller of Mission of Burma.

4. Have an interview with Neil Marsh and Rob Noyes of the Post-Meridian Radio Players.

5. Outtakes from Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977). Just keep watching.

Happy National Poetry Month. I should maybe post some poems.

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What's fascinating is that if you watch the accompanying documentary they actually say that the first time they did it it worked perfectly, but the camera wasn't rolling that time.

That's strangely unsurprising and wonderful.

It's one of the few documented places where you get to see how hard it was to make the movies that look so effortless and joyful. I am forever grateful for the perfectionism and the love.

Yes. I love being able to see behind the scenes of that kind of art.

I really, really wish the live-action reference films from the heyday of Disney animation survived.

Also, on this year's viewing of Emmet Otter I realized that Harvey is the same character as in Harvey's Hideway that I read to pieces as a kid. I was fascinated with the secret clubhouses aspect.

I don't know if I've read Harvey's Hideout! I'll have to look for it.

I don't think I wanted a secret clubhouse, but I tied all my belongings (all right, a book, a sandwich, and a stuffed animal) up in a kerchief and carried it around on my shoulder as soon as I read Calvin and Hobbes' Yukon Ho! I wanted very much to run away and ride trains.

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I don't think I wanted a secret clubhouse, but I tied all my belongings (all right, a book, a sandwich, and a stuffed animal) up in a kerchief and carried it around on my shoulder as soon as I read Calvin and Hobbes' Yukon Ho! I wanted very much to run away and ride trains.

I have always not-so-secretly wanted to do that too. Oddly, there's also a handkerchief bundle in Harvey's Hideout, so the resonant idea was there.

I really, really wish the live-action reference films from the heyday of Disney animation survived.

Yes, me too. I do believe there are dribs and drabs, but mostly there are just still photographs for Ken Burns style documentary depictions. That reminds me, have you seen The Boys?

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I do believe there are dribs and drabs, but mostly there are just still photographs for Ken Burns style documentary depictions.

There would have been nothing to do about the colossal cultural fail of the Indian characters, but I still want the reference film for Peter Pan: Hans Conried as Captain Hook. (The overdrawing here is fascinating.) This looks like it would have been a bit of film.

That reminds me, have you seen The Boys?

No; and especially given Robert's recent death, I really should.

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Wow, the remaining pictures are amazing. I had a serious fear/fascination with Captain Hook as a child and those photos beautifully capture the beauty and menace of the character.

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I had a serious fear/fascination with Captain Hook as a child and those photos beautifully capture the beauty and menace of the character.

I assume I don't have to recommend Jason Isaacs? He's astonishingly good double-casting, and probably going to be definitive for me unless I see a stage version I like better.

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*grins* Yes, he was pretty close to my archetypical ideal.

Why on earth do I not have a Peter Pan icon? I'll have to rectify that at some point.

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Yes, he was pretty close to my archetypical ideal.

I say this as someone who's got the film on DVD.

Why on earth do I not have a Peter Pan icon? I'll have to rectify that at some point.

The internet can probably help with that.