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The famous clip that featured the debut of Mickey Mouse as we know him, Steamboat Willie, first aired on November 18, 1928, making today Mickey’s 81st birthday. (He appeared in Plane Crazy six months earlier, but that version of the character, considered by many to be more interesting, was scrapped and re-worked for Steamboat.)
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Did you know that beloved Walt Disney character Donald Duck was “born” 75 years ago today? It’s true, apparently, and what better way to celebrate that truly unique quack than with a compilation of aborted, unsuccessful and ill-conceived alternates? For a 75 year-old you look great, Donald, much better than these 12 Creepy Versions of [...]

Some time ago, in an earlier edition of our weekly psychoanalysticle Freudian Fridays, we looked at some of the most overt, excessive and unsubtle phallic monuments built by man. While the need to put power, potency and might into concrete (and steel and glass) expression smacks of typical late-capitalist chauvinism, it would be a mistake [...]