Posted
2:44 PM
by Gene
We are sorry to hear
Art Clokey, Gumby's father, has died. Gumby's one of those things I never paid much mind to in my youth, or if I did was it in derision -- look at the silly stop animation! and those silly looking toy fire engines! Hear that silly stock music! -- but somehow the BOOMERS did to this what they did to
STAR TREK and
JEOPARDY!!!!! and made it an ICON!!!!! (favorite news-hack word for when he's not thinking). That fact alone means we can't go back to the simple virtue that made Gumby just time-wasting filler for the afternoon kiddie-show hosts.
Thomas Wolfe was right.(Via
another WOLFE WOLFF with no literary talent except for toadying) (Corrected 1/19/2010)