This audio clip is from DIC’s Pole Position cartoon that aired in the ’80s. I canned it months back so that I could share it with a friend. At the time, it struck me as quite heavy and yet light in that ’80s way, when chatter turns to biological warfare. Mind you, this is Pole Position. With that said, “What’s up Uncle Zack?”
Yearly Archives: 2016
Pen and Ink
Two pen and ink drawings.
Apes on ponies
I think it was 10th grade English (maybe 11th) where we learned that back in the days of Shakespeare, one of the spectacles people used to attend for entertainment was ‘apes on ponies.’ I think the idea was that you tied an ape to the top of a pony and watched it destroy the pony.
The phrasing of this always made us laugh. I have never seen another reference to ‘apes on ponies’ in my life.
BREAKING UPDATE — Apparently I finally figured out what to search for. The ‘sport’ is horse baiting or bear-baiting.
A Spanish nobleman of the time, who was taken to see a pony baited that had an ape tied to its back, expressed himself to the effect that “to see the animal kicking amongst the dogs, with the screaming of the ape, beholding the curs hanging from the ears and neck of the pony, is very laughable.” (from Encyclopædia Britannica 3, 1910)
People have always been awful.
New Super 8 camera
I’m not going to write much about this other than to say it’s pretty cool. A new Super 8 camera from Kodak! It looks pretty neat with a lot of modern features.
Looks like it will in the $400-750 range.