I was sent a joke via email yesterday. The subject was, “Garfield on the Oil Crisis.” Immediately I thought of the cartoon cat, because, let’s face it, no one remembers John Garfield anymore. It seemed strange to have Garfield the cat giving reasons as to why we are in the midst of an oil crisis. I mean, why Garfield? It’s a typed joke, there were no pictures of Garfield eating lasagna. Couldn’t they have used that old cartoon lady with a bad attitude, Maxine? Just odd.
Last night while I was doing my normal slum around the Internet, one of my favorite photoblogs had a picture of John Garfield posted. I guess this was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I awoke this morning with very vivid memories of my dreams. I dreamed I was staying at a resort hotel and I somehow knew John Garfied was staying at the exact same place. I called him up and told him that I was a 19-year-old high school student writing an article on drunk driving and might I interview him? It seemed to work. He told me to dye my hair green, put it up in piggy tails and come to his room. The rest of the dream consisted of me jumping over barrels and dodging school buses, trying to get to John Garfield’s room to interview him. Odd.
Your dream sounds kind of Freudian. Kind of madcap like…”What’s New Pussy Cat?” Apparently Peter Sellars stole Woody Allen’s Freudian humor in the making of that film and led Woody to get away from working on other people’s films after that.
I really need to see that movie! Despite Woody’s involvement it has 3 of my favorite actresses: Paula Prentiss, Capucine and Romy Schneider! I gotta queue that up on Netflix!
I don’t know how Freudian my dream really was– I think it is just a jumble of images and ideas I had the day before. Green hair = Hulk, Piggie Tails= Saw an older actress on tv sporting them and thought, maybe I can too! John Garfield= email joke, hotel room = been thinking of taking a vacation, etc…
I have to mention this.
Garfield is funny again. Someone had the great idea of removing Garfield from all of the “Garfield” strips. I thought you mignt enoy:
http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
I find it hysterical (not sure if that’s a valid endorsment … ).
N.
Nathan– I agree! I saw it not too long ago and thought it hysterical!
AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
There was a picture of Garfield on the original e-mail received–I just forwarded you the text of the joke. It didn’t occur to me that Garfield was still in the title. So, mystery solved.