With my spear and magic helmet!

It's been too long since I posted last (not counting, of course, the one from a few hours ago). It's funny but I tend to do that a lot. Saying "it's been ages since ..." when I have just completed something, I mean. What I really mean is that before that instance, I haven't done it for ages. So anyway here I am. I don't really have a concrete reason for not posting in so long beyond being busy and tired. Yet I have nothing to show for it really.

So anyway, here I am. Getting ready for uni the way a studious young man does--watching Bugs Bunny cartoons that he downloaded from the net. I've downloaded four so far: What's Opera Doc, The Rabbit of Seville, Ali Baba Bunny and Beanstalk Bunny. The first two are my all time favourites. When I was younger they seemed longer, but they are each all of six or seven minutes.

What's Opera Doc is the one where Elmer Fudd is a viking in an opera and he wants to kill the wabbit with his spear and magic helmet. Meanwhile, Bugs dresses as Brunhilda, the viking beauty, and woos Elmer, who eventually kills him and then cries over having killed his beloved Brunhilda. The Rabbit of Seville is arguably the most famous, where Bugs is running from Elmer and ends up on the stage of an opera house and poses as the Barber of Seville. He gives Elmer a cut, shave and cement face wrap before proposing to him (which Elmer accepted, changing quickly into a wedding gown). Bugs takes his "bride" to the top floor of an apartment building and drops him over the threshold (the building was a set in the opera house) down countless flights into a cake, conveniently in the right position.

It just occurred to me, recounting these plots, how much cross-dressing went on in these cartoons. Considering they were made in 1950s, the idea that Elmer and Bugs could get together in the two marriage scenes described above was obviously totally alien to the writers, hence the cross-dressing to ensure that one was a bride and the other a groom. With all my lobbying and letter writing, I can't even watch a simple cartoon without politicising it. So sad really.