Just watched The Yellow Submarine with Milo (my four.5 yr old). He's into music and 'rockstar' suddenly. Had the desired impact.

Never noticed the Micky Mouse ears on the Blue Meanies before now. Wondering if it's purposeful. prob. so. YS is the antithesis of standard Disney (at the time) animation. Been obsessed with Disney for quite a few months now... Reading a great book (Vinyl Leaves). Don't know why I didn't think of Umberto Ecco's Travels in Hyperreality. If Eco can be delighted with Disney World, I can stop trying to justify my interest.

Re-reading some Ecco has made me realize how far I've become from my elitist aspirations. At one time I would have nodded in solemn understanding when Ecco tries to explain something that he says "should be obvious to Europeans and Cultivated Americans". Now I read that and I have the overwhelming urge to grab a boob hat and sit on the lawn in a tank top with my feet in a wading pool. Maybe I no longer feel so threatened by the possibility of being lower middle class and I can relish it with a sort of post modern sneer that I would have been to paranoid that someone might recognize for the real thing not too long ago. The phrase "hits too close to home" is appropriate here.