Tom & Jerry cartoons

Tom & Jerry ^>.<^ squeak, squeak

Besides lifting my spirits and making me laugh they also inspire my writing by enabling me to look at the world from a comical perspective. There's also a subtle comraderie between the cat and mouse that balances out their continual attempts to eliminate one another. So even in their most villianous moments they continue to be endearing. Acheiving an affect like this certainly must've taken lots of skill and talent on the part of the cartoon's creator, who's become my posthumous mentor.

So are there any other T&J fanatics in the house?

Oops. I forgot to dedicate this thread to Stormie, who instructed me how to start a thread.

Sounds Interesting in more ways than one, RGame. Got this off of Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307267563/?tag=absolutewritedm-20

“Millhauser has stayed true to the fantastic tradition that extends from Scheherazade to Poe, to Kafka and Barth. He rejects the ordinary world of the merely real, and playfully and powerfully explores the incredible world of purely aesthetic creation. . . . The 13 stories [in Dangerous Laughter] are united by the quest for transcendence. Even the first story, which uses fast-paced present tense to create the illusion that you are watching a ‘Tom and Jerry’ cartoon, concludes with erasure of the physical, and the reinstatement of illusion. . . Millhauser takes an ordinary truth and pushes it to extremes both amusing and pathetic. . . [to] intriguing transformation of the mundane into the miraculous. [But] Millhauser’s stories are not mere ingenuity, although they are devilishly clever. He is motivated by the desire to see a world in a grain of sand, to affirm that the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Millhauser is our most brilliant practicing romantic, for whom surface reality is merely an uninteresting illusion.”

–Charles May, San Francisco Chronicle


Jaycinth... And there's that bulldog's pup too who is a pip.

Stormie gets applause. IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII ( supposed to represent hands/fingers.)

Jerry sure could dance well, when musical phenom Tom played the piano, best demonstrated in that fairy tale episode that concluded with their playing for the King.

The background music on most classic cartoons in general was superb. I think I first got into Jazz/bebop because of cartoons.

Ahhhhh! I never saw that ep. Sniffle, sniffle. And it sounds like a great one too, hee, hee.