Marvin the Martian

24 July 1948 : Marvin the Martian

AoSHQ: Morning Report 07.24.25

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

I love the book and the George C. Scott version, but Ace posted this the other day. The drafting of this short by Richard Williams is excellent. Chuck Jones directed it too.

The George C. Scott and the Patrick Stewart version (he also did a one man stage presentation) are among my favorites

Den of Geek: A Christmas Carol Adaptations: Best and Worst

Mr. Grinch

Liz Phipps-Soeiro, The Chidey Cambridge Librarian Snubs Melania Trump (or why Donald Trump won)

Chidey Librarian Liz Phipps-Soeiro

Melania Trump donates some classic Dr. Seuss books for National Read A Book Day and Liz Phipps Soeiro can't help but rise to the occasion. Of course it has to throw some digs in against Betsy DeVos (even though she promotes kids having the choice to be able to avoid failing schools).  

So Dr. Seuss was a racist? That's what Liz claims:

Another fact that many people are unaware of is that Dr. Seuss’s illustrations are steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures, and harmful stereotypes. Open one of his books (If I Ran a Zoo or And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, for example), and you’ll see the racist mockery in his art. Grace Hwang Lynch’s School Library Journal article, “Is the Cat in the Hat Racist? Read Across America Shifts Away from Dr. Seuss and Toward Diverse Books,” reports on Katie Ishizuka’s work analyzing the minstrel characteristics and trope nature of Seuss’s characters. Scholar Philip Nel’s new book, Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books, further explores and shines a spotlight on the systemic racism and oppression in education and literature.

Update:  Guess who is a racist enabling liar, (at least by her own standards) Liz Phipps-Soeiro!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! K and 1 celebrated with a green egg breakfast! @Cport_School @cambridge_cpsd pic.twitter.com/9st5TmSmpi

— CPORT | Specialists (@Cport_Special) March 3, 2015

Has Liz ever read about the Star Bellied Sneetches?

Chidey Liz Phipps-Soeiro, back in 2015 when she embraced racist tropes

Donald Trump is strangely blessed with the best enemies, ever.

Melania Trump reading a "Racist" Doctor Seuss book to a child in the hospital

Melania Trump reading to sick kid in hospital 

I like the part of #LizPhippsSoeiro'a job where she DRESSES UP like the #DrSeuss character Cat in the Hat. #NutJob pic.twitter.com/Ybf7Vp4pVb

— .@SerendipityDizl (@SerendipityDizl) September 29, 2017

Instapundit: The hypocrisy of Liz, the graciousness of Melania, and the lessons of Dr. Seuss, Washington Examiner: The Culture Wars Come for Dr. Seuss, Libraries aren't what they used to be, Did Dr. Seuss coin the world "nerd", Remembering Dr. Seuss, and Racist and Lefty Librarians

Wombat: Louder With Crowder: South Park takes On Christopher Columbus Controversy and Mark Steyn: A Tale Of Two Trumps

Fox News: First Lady Melania Trump responds to Librarian who rejected the Dr. Seuss books

Twitchy: Whoville is so White, guess who is getting mocked! and Dumbest Yet?

Michelle Malkin: Gift of Dr. Seuss books rejected as racist propaganda

Mark Steyn: The Cat In The Racist Hat, also, Slaughter On The Strip

Pirate's Cove: Moonbattery and If all you see is...

Proof Positive: Friday Night Babe Teresa Palmer

The Star: Take Your Green Eggs And Scram!

Hot Air: Dr. Seuss rejects for racism!

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Hey Liz Phipps-Soeiro is sort of like this guy...

EBL: Was Dr. Seuss really racist?  Wasn't he a Democrat, too?

AoSHQ: NRO slappin's the heck out of each other (more reasons why Donald Trump won...)

It's almost as if some throw around accusations of racism like a wild card to bolster a stupid argument and score cheap political points!?! https://t.co/5J1YSFnm4u

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) September 29, 2017

AoSHQ: Shrewish Scold of a Librarian

Victory Girls: The hypocrisy of Liz the Librarian

Wombat: Don Surber: Why They Say Dr. Seuss Is A Racist, JustOneMinute: This Is How We Keep Trump, Library Edition

Frank Sinatra: Trade Winds with Bonus Classic Cartoons

A Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra hit from 1940, in those turbulent years before the US was attacked and brought into WWII.  Trade Winds was written by Charles Tobias and Cliff Friend (both were prolific and  Charles Tobias has quite the list of song credits).

Here's a few Bugs Bunny versions of Trade Winds. 

Frank Sinatra made it into quiet a few cartoons himself...

Bugs and Frank had a lot in common

Did Frank Sinatra's Palm Springs house get borrowed for this Merrie Melody?

Here's Porky Pig with Frankie in Swooner Crooner

Here's some Tex Avery Sinatra from 1948

And Catch as Cats Can (1947) (this version is dubbed) but most of you remember this one...

And Daffy Duck's Book Review has a few features of the Voice...

The Singing Sword from Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Pundette is at #23 with Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler's Let's Fall In Love, #24 with Irving Berlin's I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm and at #25 Let's Face The Music And Dance,  #26 with Cole Porter's You Would Be So Easy To Love, #27 with the flawed masterpiece Only The Lonely, #28 with It Had To Be You. and at #29 You Make Me Feel So Young. 

Bob Belvedere completed his top 100 Sinatra songs and his top selections are top notch. Bob is not stopping, listing the top 10 Sinatra albums up through Frank's birthday, starting with this one at #10 and this one at #9.  

Mark Steyn's latest is We'll Gather Lilacs. Before that he had Come Rain Or Come Shine. Fitting for all the lunar talk last week, Mark had Moonlight In Vermont (a wonderfully lovely song which Pundette, Bob, and myself all had too). Mr. Steyn also has It's All Right With Me and Autumn Leaves (where he does a wonderful job explaining and contrasting Mercer's lyrics to the original French version). Mark also talks about Mohammed and the Movies (wow). That is a must read (you will never look at Halloween the same way again) and After the Balls. And here's Dennis and Adair song Everything Happens To Me and a post about Riddle and Young at Heart.

I had Rain (Falling From The Skies) and The Night We Called It A Day.  Before that I had Gershwin's I Got Plenty 'O' Nuttin.  I had the jazz standard Indian Summer with bonus Michele Carey. Given Mark's post a Cole Porter Indian Summer classic It's All Right With Me I posted the Can Can film clip of that performance along with the lovely Juliet Prowse. I added Sinatra and Day singing a terrific version of Take Me Out To The Ball Game in remembrance of Yogi Berra's passing.  And I think I collected links to most of the autumn themed Sinatra songs I previously posted in recognition of the autumn equinox. I also had Frank and the Kessler Twins for Oktoberfest.

Don’t forget to also keep checking out
Pundette’s Sinatra 100 countdown,
Ms Evi’s Sinatra Celebration,
Dispatches from the Camp of the Saints Sinatra, &
Mark Steyn’s Sinatra Songs Of The Century.
It’s a swingin’ world.

Way more trees on Earth than previously thought...

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Instapundit: Lots and Lots of Trees

Welcome Christmas: How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Dr Seuss: The Grinch Song

Actually credit for the song (since it was an add on to the Ted Geisel-Dr. Seuss's book) should go to Christine Keene for writing, Albert Hague and Eugene Poddany for the music, and Thurl Ravenscroft for singing.  And of course Chuck Jones for animation, producing and directing.

Boris Karloff doing the narration with Chuck Jones looking on

And I also am a big fan of the Town of Whoville's Welcome Christmas: