It's Mermay!

 
 
 
 

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Musical Monday with Thousand Foot Krutch

I am not particularly religious, so that might be why I generally find rock bands that bill themselves as "Christian" to be underwhelming. That is NOT the case with Canadian band Thousand Foot Krutch.

"War of Change" is a fabulous, hard-rockin' song with a visually interesting video that takes full advantage of the black-and-white film. This is a solid Ten out of Ten Stars!

 

It's the Sunday Comics Section with Wonder Woman!

Here's everybody's favorite Amazon, seen through the lens of Canadian cartoonist and children's book illustrator Kate Beaton:

Click here to see an index of hundreds of strips and single panel cartoons created by Beaton under the heading "Hark! A Vagrant!" from 2016 - 2018.

We're putting words in Fanny's mouth!

 We've been having a little late-night fun with 'Flapper Fanny Says', with the viewers/side-chatters of my YouTube Channel coming up with the jokes to go with some Ethel Hays and Gladys Parker drawings. Going forward, we'll be sharing the results as an extra post on every other Fanny Friday!

In addition to the post here, you'll be able to vote for your favorite of the jokes on the YouTube Channel's Community Page, here. (And if you like what you see, please subscribe to the channel, and come by and hang out with us some night!)

This is the cartoon (selected for today, because it's almost fitting for Mermay):

Here are the five best of the jokes the YouTube viewers came up with:

"There are plenty of other fish in the sea... like blobfish."

"Is that a harpoon in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

"You get we your way, I'll get wet mine."

"Oh, I don't come here to swim. I'm here to show off my suit."

"'Just the tip' of my toes."

Fanny Friday!

Rarely has there been a wackier race

Ker-Choo (1933)
Starring: Bonnie Poe and Gus Wicke

Director: Dave Fleischer

Rating: Eight of Ten Stars

It's the Grand Prix, cartoon-style, with all the craziness you'd expect!

"Ker-Choo" is one of those cartoons where almost anything I might say about it will ruin the fun of watching it for the first time. While it remains funny if you watch it more than once, the biggest enjoyment will come from watching the race (as well as the cartoon animals watching it in the stands) for the first time; the wacky bizarreness of it all will bring joy to even the grumpiest soul!

This is one of the Betty Boop-headlined cartoons where the entire gang is here -- with Bimbo and KoKo the Clown being among the drivers competing against Betty -- and each gets their moment to shine. In fact, I think Bimbo and KoKo between them deliver two of the funniest gags in the film, with KoKo even turning what might have just been a simple transition scene into a moment of hilarity.

While there are many reasons I think you'll enjoy this cartoon if you're into Pre-Code Era animation, the most important one is the unique place it has cinematic history: It was the first tale (and perhaps the only tale so far) of a race being won through germ warfare! Further, this cartoon may also be the true origin of "twerking"!

One word of warning: The race music may get stuck in your head for a day or so after watching this!

It's Mermay!

It's a little known fact that mermaids enjoy sports-fishing!

 
  
 

Musical Monday with Lady Gaga

Well... sort of. It's Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" filtered through the stylings of 1940s western swing by There--I Ruined It. (It's a lotta fun, and it'll kick off your work-week in just the way you need!

The fight in the fountain!

I've failed to find the original version of the cartoon embedded below, so I can't give proper credit nor do I even remember the actual title... but I found this short cartoon featuring an indignant mermaid and her attempts to defeat a statue of a little boy peeing hilarious when I first saw it many, MANY years ago and I find it hilarious today. I hope you do, too!

And if anyone out there knows the original source and creator of this animation, please let me know, so I can give them proper credit and put a review header on this video. (It's an easy Nine of Ten Stars, by the way.)

Flapper Fanny