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Heehee. I went to Costco with Stacey (Rare for me) but it was worth it. First off, I picked the champaigne for New Years and it's impressive. Since I figure New Years company is likely to involve Jon and Peggy, I found the most unbelievably ridiculously named one ever. I kid you not, It is, 'Blanco du Noir' It's a white champaigne made from black grapes. White of Black! If only it were 'Du Mort' :)

Anyhow... The second thing that made the trip worth going was 'Mickey Mouse in Black and White' (volume 2) 1928-1935 Five an a half hours of daus maus being pleasantly aggressive, weird, and surreal.

I'm about 5 cartoons into it and my observations so far are this:

Whistling is easier than lip synch so Mickey Whistles a lot.
Spitting, udders, and dentures are very funny things. All of those are in every single episode so far.
A badly tuned/off key instrument is better than a tuned one (Or Disney was tone deaf)
Walt was a disgusting filthy pervert. (And I mean this is the nicest way! :) The lovingly animated flaps of flesh on the back of fat calves flapping as a woman dances, or Mickey squirting a cow in the face with milk from her own udder. Great stuff!
Anything that can be animated mechanically shouldn't. Everything that can move has a music to it; a style of dancing. Find that and use it. It looks better than technical accuracy.

More later if I think of anything interesting to add.