I can’t say enough about this animated short. It’s probably my favorite Betty film, and pretty much highlights everything that was terrific in those old rubber hose cartoons.
It doesn’t really do much of a job in telling the actual fairy tale, it’s more of just a backdrop for the films zaniness.
There is a stream of utterly hallucenogenic gags, and suddenly a little Cab Calloway feature — rotoscoped right into the film as Koko — full of hot jazz and cool dance moves.

You can watch it below:

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Filmography: Betty Boop in Snow White

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”

The subletter came to inspect the flowerboxes on Saturday, and had to be physically restrained from discarding the eggs. She is of the belief that they won’t hatch, because –she claims– the city use chemicals to make all pigeons sterile. How about that?

Just the same, around noon today, Julie noticed tiny cracks forming on both eggs, as if pecked at from the inside. According to sources on the internet, pigeon eggs need 24 hours to hatch. We were unable to monitor the eggs after the first hour, because the mother came home to roost and has remained there since. What surprises with the warm sunlit morn bestow?

The eggs are expected to hatch any day now.
We are very excited.

No I do not want to take the the “which sandwich matches your personality?” quiz

Just when I was about to decide to never ever log into facebook ever again, I got a message from Miles, who was probably my best friend in fifth grade.

Fried Peanut Butter & Banana.

30 000 know how to do it.

My bread baking video, filmed spontaneously in Owen’s cozy kitchen last spring, has been viewed 30,000 times.

Will there ever be another baking video? Not while I am still visiting in Paris. Nobody has an oven.

YouTube – Baking Bread from scratch — How To

The first of May was sunny but not particularly warm in Paris this year. But we are nonetheless able to enjoy those May flowers as a centerpiece — Nicole mailed us some from Niort.

The Egg eleventh day

The birds have become enough accustomed to us that we can open and shut the window and roll up and down the shutter without them panicking and flying away.

Vanessa Paradis
because you can never get enough of her. Johnny Depp’s girlfriend, and former teenybopper, no strain on the eyes despite a huge gap-a-grin.

Dès que j’te vois – Vanessa Paradis