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Morty Comix # 2318

Morty Comix # 2318 was slipped into nice hiding place between a shelf and napkin dispenser at a Starbucks in Olympia, Washington very early a few mornings ago

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Favorite Movie Quotes: History of the World Part I

"It's good to be the king" 

[The planet prop was described in Weird Gifts From My Brother]

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Morty Comix # 2317

Morty Comix # 2317 was left on the front door handles of a long vacant Hollywood Video as an offering to the nearly extinct VHS/DVD rental Gods. In fact, it was almost as if I was in ancient Olympia, Greece honoring some now forgotten deity instead of being on the westside of chronically overcast Olympia, Washington, leaving some cartoon art on a place that once housed a great collection of movies. I bought a few of their used vids when the store was alive and those movies show up in this blog.

It was very near this spot I first met J.P. Patches about 1960 when he came to open the new Peterson's Foodtown shopping area, now occupied by Grocery Outlet. I would later see him again at the Seattle World's Fair in 1962 and, incredibly, got to interview him on the set in 1975. J.P. Patches is one of my personal heroes, so as you can see the very area where I deposited this residue of my cartoon hand is a special one with a lot of history.  

Notice the Bil Keane-like crucifix symbol posing as a telephone pole over the roofline, giving the image an almost tragically sacred tone. When Hollywood Video pulled out of this place overnight, apparently in some nasty dispute with the landlord according to word of mouth (for what that is worth), they created a literal black space for cinema enthusiasts in the area. And that was quite awhile ago. In fact, in Phone Photo 566 from last year, the place was already closed. I sure hope the workers there were not screwed over in the process.

If video killed the radio star, then Internet killed the video star.

So, Morty Comix # 2317 was offered in remembrance. It probably fell on the ground, got rained on, and is now pulp in the storm drains. A fitting fate in this land of constant rain and natural recycling.

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Favorite Movie Quotes: High Sierra

"'Crashes out'? It's a funny question for you to ask now, sister. It means he's free."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 11]

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Morty Comix # 2316

Morty Comix # 2316 scurried off and found a place to settle in an obscure corner of an Olympia printshop

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Favorite Movie Quotes: High Noon

"It figures. It's all happened too sudden. People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 9]

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Morty Comix # 2315

Morty Comix # 2315 was deposited at a free publication area of a popular downtown Olympia coffeehouse/fair trade gift shop.

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Hell in the Pacific

"You know, how come you guys don't believe in God?"

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 6]

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Heist

"Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money."

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Looking west at sunrise

McCleary, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Heat

"I'm alone,

I am not lonely."

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Heart and Souls

"Let's go, dead people."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 4]

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Harrison Bergeron

"We're just about to select a new governor of Connecticut. In the old days politicians used to come to power through a process of election rather than selection. Nowadays of course we know nobody's any better at the job than anybody else. Folks never really believed it made any difference anyway. All elections did was made sure nobody got too big for their britches, become a tyrant or something like that. Our process does that every bit as well and it saves a whole lot of time and money."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 3]

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Favorite Movie Quotes: The Harder They Fall

"A newspaper job only pays a living. I want a bank account. A man passes 40 he shouldn't have to run any more."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 1]

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Favorite Movie Quotes: The Hard Way

"Not if you tied my tongue to your tailpipe and drove me 80 miles per hour NAKED across a field of broken glass! No! No! No!"

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Morty Comix # 2314

Morty Comix # 2314 was deposited several days ago in one of these shopping carts at a westside Olympia grocery store.