{"id":1834,"date":"2009-08-08T21:44:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T02:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2009-08-08T21:44:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T02:44:12","slug":"laughing-typewriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=1834","title":{"rendered":"Laughing typewriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a random walk today around YouTube, wandering through highlights of pop culture from decades past, from off-the-wall Spike Jones to early Rosemary Clooney ballads to lovely scenes of Jean Arthur at her comedic best, I came upon a gem of pop culture at its most sublimely weird that stopped me in my tracks.  What happens when you cross the inimitable Betty Boop with an utterly politically incorrect celebration of drug use?  You get something like <a href=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E9Tb4TMibk0>this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know it isn&#8217;t right to celebrate drugs.  And of course we should all tell our children not to try this at home.  But after a week of watching generally far too literal minded computer animation, of work that overly focuses on the merely commercial &#8211; on mere realism for its own sake &#8211; I find that the sheer lunatic inventiveness of this little film delights me and gladdens my heart.  It brings me back to the ground truth of animated art, and reminds me why this is a medium like no other.<\/p>\n<p>After watching it, you may never again look at a laughing typewriter in quite the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a random walk today around YouTube, wandering through highlights of pop culture from decades past, from off-the-wall Spike Jones to early Rosemary Clooney ballads to lovely scenes of Jean Arthur at her comedic best, I came upon a gem of pop culture at its most sublimely weird that stopped me in my tracks. What &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=1834\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laughing typewriter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}