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Goodenough Gismo

This is the classic children's book, Goodenough Gismo, by Richmond I. Kelsey, published in 1948. Nearly unavailable in libraries and the collector's market, it is posted here with love as an "orphan work" so that it may be seen and appreciated -- and perhaps even republished, as it deserves to be. After you read this book, it won't surprise you to learn that Richmond Irwin Kelsey (1905-1987) was an accomplished artist, or that as Dick Kelsey, he was one of the great Disney art directors, breaking your heart with "Pinocchio," "Dumbo," and "Bambi."

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This is Grotesque.

My Google ads are ghoulishly offering lovely courtyard hotel rooms in New Orleans, particularly the French Quarter. (Googhoul? Ghougle?) Apparently those ads are still in the system (for which I can't blame them), and the mindless bots that place the ads, blisslessly unaware that the world has changed, are simply responding reflexively to the words "New Orleans." These ads must be getting a lot of play on a lot of blogs. Google really ought to remove them, not for reasons of taste but of futility: no one will click on them, no one will make any money. The hotels are under water, or getting trashed by gangs of gun-toting looters.

I am involuntarily and inappropriately reminded of the student visa renewals issued to to two hijackers by the Immigration and Naturalization Service six months after 9/11. Maybe the INS is run by bots!

[I'm having a bad case of adverbial hiccups this morning. Sorrily.]

Posted by amba on September 02, 2005 at 09:08 AM | Permalink