Looney Tunes and Me

This box contains boxes. Because that makes sense, right? In here, I have three bobble heads, all from giveaways at Dodger games. I don't want to get rid of them, I don't want to display them. So they live in this box.

Underneath Gagne (oh, I have fond memories of Gagne-such a silly guy) is my box for my old cell phone. Supposedly, I am supposed to keep my old cell phone in case my new one dies. But I'd like to recycle it. We'll see what happens with that.

In the Looney Tunes box are old day planners. It used to be a shoebox for a pair of Tweety Converse.

The thing is, I've never really liked Tweety. But I did like Converse. So I wound up with those shoes. This was like, middle school, mind you, so back in the mid-90s, when, for some reason, the Looney Tunes got really big again.

But I've always loved Looney Tunes. Even if most cartoon shorts make references to things I did not get at the time. On Saturday mornings, I used to get up early and find my parents cancelled checks. Then I would take them and a notebook out to where the TV was and add up all the amounts while watching Looney Tunes. Why? Honestly, I haven't a clue. It was like how small kids play school sometimes, but I skipped past school and went straight to accounting. Which isn't to say that's a particular passion of mine. I'm not bad at numbers or math - but why I was so into those checks ... well, I am somewhat intrigued by small, rectangular pieces of paper - which is why I have saved so many of my Metro tickets.

But I digress. Bugs Bunny is just so smart. And he always gets the best of those with less than upstanding intentions. My favorite cartoons are the absurd ones. The more absurd the better, like Duck Amuck. The cartoon I really want to see is Porky in Wackyland but it has yet to show up in any of the episodes that I've been DVRing from time to time on the Cartoon Network. But I will wait ... or eventually give up and buy the Looney Tunes collection with this short when I am feeling particularly flush with cash.

I've always enjoyed Looney Tunes more than Disney cartoons, probably because the humor is more 'out there'. Disney occasionally hits on things more my speed, like The Emperor's New Groove, Lilo and Stitch, or Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Okay, now I've made myself just curl up and watch movies. Drats.