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You need a Thneed

homunculus — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:18:34 -0800

by Dr. Seuss. [25 min Google Video.]

By: homunculus

homunculus — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:20:58 -0800

(Not to be confused with the Truax.)

By: phaedon

phaedon — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:25:06 -0800

Thanks for reminding me to renew my subscription to Highlights.

By: Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese

Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:29:37 -0800

I'd been looking for this to show my daughter, thanks.

By: interrobang

interrobang — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:43:47 -0800

Here's the Truax, in case anyone else wanted to know what it was.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:00:08 -0800

It's also on YouTube in three parts.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:32:06 -0800

Wow, great swingin' background music.

By: Muddler

Muddler — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:48:33 -0800

And Google claims it doesn't support copyright infringement...

By: taosbat

taosbat — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:53:17 -0800

Very nice...

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:05:45 -0800

Between The Lorax's message warning of despoilment of the environment (brought on by capitalist greed) and his classic Yertle the Turtle, with its celebration of anti-authoritarian uprising against a corrupt king from the lowliest rungs of turtledom, the good Dr. Seuss was a regular card-carrying commie. Love him!

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:19:09 -0800

I speak for the trees! : >

By: raygirvan

raygirvan — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:22:16 -0800

Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back. NO THANKS! A Green message requires no such dribble With words all in CAPITALS, thweeble and wibble If engaged in a chat by a buggering Lorax Whack your Super-Axe-Hacker right into its thorax.

By: rafter

rafter — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:29:55 -0800

The Lorax.

By: rafter

rafter — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:30:41 -0800

Fixed link.

By: perilous

perilous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:42:33 -0800

THANK YOU! Great post! <3

By: owhydididoit

owhydididoit — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:14:47 -0800

Thanks!

By: rhapsodie

rhapsodie — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:40:54 -0800

I didn't remember it being quite so... heavy handed.

By: rubin

rubin — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:01:40 -0800

rhapsodie, I think when we first watched it, it was a little cartoon warning of the dangers of what could happen if things were not changed. Today, as a historical story of what happened, it comes off a little unforgiving.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:03:26 -0800

I didn't remember it being quite so... heavy handed. I didn't either, but back then ecology was serious (no one says "ecology" anymore--i wonder why it died out?) -- Earth Days, and the gas shortages/energy crisis, people planting trees, and Silent Running and Soylent Green, etc.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:10:16 -0800

Yeah, back then ecology was serious. Nowadays, why, just look at the Executive branch. We just don't care! Guh-huck!

By: taosbat

taosbat — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:25:33 -0800

I remember many debates about the first Earth Day in 1970, not the least of which was whether Earth Day was a ruse to divide the anti-war movement. Overall, I thought it went over pretty well at the time. I was newly arrived in Berlin when Soylent Green came out Stateside; so, when my mother sent me a box of green molasses cookies with an ominous note...I didn't have a clue... My mom still mentions Soylent Green as a movie that creeped her out.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:41:28 -0800

not the least of which was whether Earth Day was a ruse to divide the anti-war movement. It is weird that Nixon spoke in favor of it and the government was so involved, but then Nixon was a weird mix. I never knew people thought that then.

By: taosbat

taosbat — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:55:15 -0800

It was a weird time...perhaps it's always a weird time. Yes, we had to discuss it. It went over pretty well though...for a moment.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:58:58 -0800

Ah, yes.. excellent.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:02:59 -0800

i forgot earth shoes! ; >

By: homunculus

homunculus — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:09:21 -0800

Now, today, there's this: Bush Administration’s Secret Plan To ‘Gut’ Endangered Species Act Revealed

By: taosbat

taosbat — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:11:57 -0800

Earth shoes were such fun: one said, "it's like, earth shoes, y'know," to say something was silly.

By: taosbat

taosbat — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:13:27 -0800

Awww, geez, homunculus.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:37:54 -0800

Earth shoes were such fun: one said, "it's like, earth shoes, y'know," to say something was silly. I never understood how anyone could walk in them. And now recycled shoes and bags and things are gigantic business--and all those polar fleeces and ultra fleeces, etc... homunculus, that's no secret at all--it's been standard GOP plans since Witt(?) in Reagan's time (and talking about all 50 states in regard to polar bears is hysterical--they just want to drill in Alaska)

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:34:47 -0800

It's no secret to most of us, true, but the Salon article is refering more to the tactics which they claim the Fish and Wildlife Service is using in this case, like keeping drafts of regulatory changes from the public and making employees fear retaliation for communicating to the media (which is just business as usual, of course).

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:37:41 -0800

This story on orangutans was what made me think of the Lorax when I read it the other day: Five years to save the orang utan: A shocking UN report details how the booming palm oil industry is wiping out one of man's closest relatives as its forest habitat disappears.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:39:25 -0800

The report can be found here: The Last Stand of the Orangutan.

By: raygirvan

raygirvan — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:57:23 -0800

I didn't remember it being quite so... heavy handed. Hence my comment. I remembered enjoying it way back, but now I find it laboured, twee and over-long.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:57:43 -0800

It should be remarked that the cartoon takes a short children's book, and extends it to TV Cartoon Special length. Of course it seems a bit long, you can see the stretchmarks.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:41:51 -0800

but that's true of all his tv stuff--grinch, cat in the hat, horton, etc... (cat in the hat does drag a little, but it has good songs)

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:44:07 -0800

The report can be found here: The Last Stand of the Orangutan. It's so sad--soon it'll only be in zoos and preserves that we'll be able to see and keep so many species alive.

By: taosbat

taosbat — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:41:04 -0800

I appreciate when someone invests in keeping good animation alive. Intersect that with the last hopes for orangutans, polar bears, alpine flowers...geez, homunculus, et al, these creatures are dead or done for, except as captives, and in art, like cave art.

By: taosbat

taosbat — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:27:06 -0800

Well, Hell... A Texas-sized piece of the Antarctic ice sheet is thinning, possibly due to global warming, and could cause the world's oceans to rise significantly, polar ice experts said on Wednesday...