Jermaine Bell

Mickey Mouse should talk in Micky Mouse voice.

Because it's weird when the giant mouse is completely silent as a mute. The cartoon mouse speaks. 

Come on. Everyone has their own Micky Mouse voice. 

Once you get started it's hard to stop. Make your voice go high as it goes, pitched way back to the top and at back of your mouth, squeeze the pipe, strain the voice box for maximum squeak. Say innocent things. Put yourself in the sweetness of life, totally ignorant of hardships.

Say naïve things. 

Talk about ordinary life but through the eyes of complete innocence and naïvety.

Then include an element of the harshness of life in the same voice. With the characteristic "heh heh" laugh.

That abrupt choppy laugh throughout really makes your Micky Mouse voice work.

Continue to the abuse of humanity and the indifference of nature in the same voice. With the same happy insouciant  "heh heh" punctuated throughout and in the most inappropriate places to make yourself sound absolutely retarded.

Then blow the whole thing by including horrible swears that Micky Mouse would never say. With the same stupid laugh in the wrong places. As if Micky has come face to face with the brutal abusive realities of life but is hopelessly ill-prepared to handle any of it because of his squeaky voice and that ridiculous inappropriate retarded laugh. 

And never laugh yourself when everyone around you is cracking up dying from laughter. Like you don't get any joke, like you cannot see the joke is on you, like you don't see anything funny. Just keep talking like that cartoon mouse with his dumb f'k'n laugh. 

That bit about Micky Mouse at the psychiatrist is hilarious. "Doctor, I didn't say Minnie was being silly, I said she was fucking Goofy." Use that joke as model for everything. You have all Warner Brothers for material. All cartoons. Speak as if all the cartoon characters are real.

Not to Jermaine Bell, of course, but elsewhere, Shirley, you have your own Micky Mouse voice and laugh. 

Did you have Micky Mouse ears when you were a kid? 

Didn't we all? 

Kids with Micky Mouse ears look 100% appropriate. 

I love seeing kids with Micky Mouse ears. 

Know what I don't see? 

I never see boys with rainbow colored caps with a spinning propeller on top. And I don't know why not. They seem the best idea ever. I don't understand why they are not popular.

From Palettes restaurant (now closed) Denver Art Museum.

People watching out the window. This post I made to another website. Their mother is walking in front of them. An attractive women, actually. A lot of photographs of young people walking by. I miss that place a lot. Great people watching and great food. Very good place. I hope they put something else great in there. The museum has kid's days. And the whole time I was thinking how ordinary for a boy with a fondness for a ridiculous hat and his whole family just has to accept it. The brother may be thinking, "Oh man, I'm stuck with this dork." And on the other hand he might love it too. Maybe his mother loves it too. For some reason the silliness is very attractive. The innocence is attractive.