Lilah ,'Destiny'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The Disneyfication of children's stories could be to blame. But I wonder if morbid children's stories are just less necessary now that childhood mortality rates are so much lower than they were in the 1800s....
I've always found it so remarkable and fascinating that kids still sing Ring Around the Rosie some 700 years after the plague.
Grimm's Grimmest--that's the one. Need to get another copy sometime.
I've always found it so remarkable and fascinating that kids still sing Ring Around the Rosie some 700 years after the plague.
Unfortunately, it's not really about the plague. Or that old.
Timelies all!
Now I'm trying remember which fairy tale it was that had the wicked stepmother being forced to dance at the heroine's wedding in red-hot shoes. Cheery stuff, indeed.
I am now trying to see if I can wait out my boss. Just when I haven't heard from her in a few minutes, and I think it's safe to leave, I get a phone call and/or email. See, I don't think she thinks I'm a hard worker (she'd be right, of course), so I'm trying to work later. God knows I'm not going to get in any earlier....
Sheryl -- It's Snow White! 'Cause I just had to look it up myself, heh. It's definitely memorable.
Now I'm trying remember which fairy tale it was that had the wicked stepmother being forced to dance at the heroine's wedding in red-hot shoes. Cheery stuff, indeed.
The original Cinderella story made the stepsisters dance in iron shoes until they were dead. The French court edited out all the good details of those evil German tales.
Does anyone of a certain age know if Jabberwocky was shown nationally. I remember it from when I was very young, but it might have been a local show. I'm pretty sure that's where I first heard the Solomon Grundy rhyme. Oh, never mind. Wiki knows all; it was a Boston show. [link] Perhaps some of you caught the reruns, though.
When I was about five, sad songs about death were my favorites. I mean, they made me really sad to listen to, but they were still my faves. Like "My Grandfather's Clock." My favorite line was ,"And it stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died." I had a windup toy clock that played that song - loved that thing.
Oh, and "Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley."
I learned all those when I took guitar lessons as a little kid. I also loved them.
My favorite fairy tales is Tatterhood. [link]
I refer to her as Goat Girl. I love that she carries a wooden spoon.
Damn.
Spirit Airlines is having sale for Jan 9 - some other date later than that that goes from LA to Kingston or MoBay for $159 each way. By my reckoning, that's cheap.