November 18, 2008, - 12:15 pm
Happy B-Day, Mickey: My Favorite American Icon Turns 80
By Debbie Schlussel
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Mickey Mouse, to me, symbolizes everything great, light, and funny about America. He’s one of my favorite symbols of America and American kitsch. The animated Disney character turns 80, today, and still has a spring in his step, even if he was defamed and appropriated by Hezbollah in the last couple of years. My favorite Mickey appearance is as the sorceror’s apprentice in “Fantasia.”
It’s also auspicious that in the same year Mickey Mouse turns 80, 63 million plus Mickey Mice chose Barack Obama as President. Below is the “new and improved” hip-hop Mickey and terrorist keffiyeh-wearing Mickey, in honor of the occasion.
**** UPDATE: Jimmy Lewis of Rouge Revival has a lot of great stuff on Mickey Mouse’s 80th. Check it out.
From Steamboat Willie to Gangstah Mickey. Mickey Mouse is almost like our own country’s cartoon mascot. Why do people want to dress him like some knuckle-dragging Looney Tunes Character like you find at a Six Flags, where all the scum-bag gangstahs and their minions of wanna-be’s are always found?!
Yiddish Steel on November 18, 2008 at 1:46 pm