Very few of Addams’s cartoons portrayed the Addams Family. I’ve read his work extensively, but have only seen a handful with the characters. There are a few more featuring Fester or Pugsley alone, but there are entire collections that feature the characters only once or not at all. Note that once the show began, the New Yorker refused to accept any comics with the family, but Addams still contributed in most every issue.
Just rasping down my horse’s feet between trims to tidy them up and to get them into her trail boots exhausts me. I don’t see how they do it.
Do you use an angle grinder? That seems to be the go-to tool from the hoof vids I’ve seen.
No. Just a farrier’s rasp. I have never seen anyone use power tools on a hoof. Possibly because most horses do not care for power tools. Much of horse handling on the ground revolves around how easily horses get upset. They panic easily, and when an animal upward of a half ton panics in a confined space, bad things happen. Very bad things. Any horse person has stories.
There are a limited number of them. I’m sure I’ve seen them all in collections. Didn’t know about the New Yorker no longer accepting Addams Family cartoons. Do you know why that was?
I presume the magazine didn’t want to appear to be promoting the show.
Today I learned Brenda Lee was 13 years old when she recorded the song Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.
The charts for that record are so bizarre, even for a holiday song. It didn’t chart at all for two years after its release. Then it charted every December between 1960 and 1962 after Rockabilly was thought to be dead and gone. It disappears for more than 50 years (during which several Rockabilly revivals had come and gone) and then charts every winter from 2014 to last Christmas.
I figured that would be a part of it. Wondered if there was a copyright issue or just more weird behavior from Addams.
No. It was the magazine editor that made the rule. He had no problem with Addams’s other cartoons.
That would be my guess. The highbrow New Yorker magazine didn’t want to be associated with a mass market television comedy.
Speaking of words most laypeople use interchangeably but actually mean different things – “direct flight” does not mean the same thing as “nonstop flight”.
“Nonstop” is pretty self explanatory; the flight goes from A to B with no intermediate stops.
“Direct” only means the flight goes from A to B with no change in flight number. It may make an intermediate stop along the way for fuel, or to pick up more passengers. There can even be a change of planes as long as the flight number stays the same.
Thankfully pretty much everyone in the travel industry knows that most people don’t know the difference, and that when a customer asks for a “direct” flight, what they really want is a nonstop flight.
If you want to be really technical about it, as I understand it the official departure time is when they release the parking brake.
More likely, they wouldn’t want to be seen as having a commercial tie-in.
I wonder if the characters were ever collectively referred to as the Addams Family before the TV series. Or just that weird family in the Addams cartoons. I know all of the first names were created for TV.
Not so much a commercial tie-in as just not cosmopolitan enough for them as they saw it. Back in the 60s they still looked askance at television in general. They would have had no problem with people assuming a tie-in to a museum or theatre, television not so much.
I don’t think so. I was a fan of his collections before the show, and at first did not connect the name of the show with the cartoons when I first heard of it.
Here’s the actual television set for the Addams Family show. It was taped in B&W, but the colors translated into the correct shades of gray.
The earliest I can find a clear reference to the “Addams family” on google is 1947, the The New Republic: Google Books (quote: “the somber family of three known as the Addams family to New Yorker readers.”) But this is only a snippet view, and I don’t have access to the full issue, so I’m not sure what it’s about. It suggests to me that this name is in circulation, but perhaps not yet used by Addams or his publisher.
I had never really thought about it, but there is a reason women should duel topless. To avoid infection.
