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that used to air occasionally on the old Garfield Goose television show.
I re-member rushing home from grade school every day – we got
out of class at 3pm; I only lived a couple blocks away; I could make it
home easily in time to put away my books and change out of my school
uniform … hide my little blue clip-on tie in time for
ol’ Andy Starr and The
Three Stooges followed by Frazier Thomas and his royal castle of
critters … .
There were Romberg Rabbit, Beauregard Burnside III and, I
remember, Macintosh Mouse, and of the Garfield Goose, the
self-proclaimed King of the United States.
Cartoon-wise, there were Clutch Cargo and Scott McCloud (Space
Angel!), Spunky and Tadpole and Journey
to the End of Time.
There were Hardrock and Coco and Joe … |
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to R: The Rock-cutter told to
audiences in Bridgeview IL’s Stories
in the Park, Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, a Tellebration, and Ottawa IL’s Two
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most importantly, occasionally, the classic tale of a poor Japanese
Stonecutter who, dissatisfied with his lot in life, curses then wishes
he was, in turn, the sun, a cloud, the wind, a mountain and, at last, a
lowly Stonecutter … .
The first time I per-formed this tale before a live audience I
found myself drawing more heavily upon this animated version than on the
literary variations I and red and re-read and read again.
I believe, perhaps, it has something to do with one’s oldest
memories … or a first love
never fully forgotten.
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