Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 10, 2010
March 09, 2010
March 11, 2010
Transcript:
Alice: I can't go to sleep. Marcus: When I can't sleep, my mom puts me in my car seat and we drive in circles till I'm out. Alice: What a great idea! Hey, Miss Bliss! Miss Bliss: We are not all getting in the van and driving in circles. Alice: Jeez. Dill: When I can't sleep, my brothers tell me stories about Mr. Sleepyhead, the cranky bogeyman! Let's try that!
Not “gatecrasher”, “gateKEEPER”.
“Charlie Brown Christmas” and “Great Pumpkin” I’ll exempt from my proscription, but I was watching those before I could read the comics on my own anyway. They’re clunky, but that’s part of their charm…
But to this day, those are the voices that I hear in my head whenever I read “Peanuts”…
(One other exemption: the old Fleisher Brothers “Popeye” cartoons, but those are works of art in their own right.)