{"id":4284,"date":"2013-09-09T10:56:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2013-09-09T10:56:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:56:18","slug":"talking-about-mermaids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/09\/09\/talking-about-mermaids\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking about mermaids"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mermaid017\"I’ve been looking through a lot of my Spectrum <\/em>books (and I have a lot of\u00a0Spectrum<\/em> books) so I have been drawing a lot of mermaids (they are chock full).\u00a0 And then, I happened upon a movie in Netflix instant that sounded kind of cool.\u00a0 Mad About Men<\/em><\/a> is a strange and quirky British comedy follow up to Miranda<\/a><\/em> (also a comedy).\u00a0 Both movies star Glynis Johns as a mermaid.\u00a0 I watched them out of order, but it didn’t effect my enjoyment of them.<\/p>\n

The strangest, and most delightful, in my opinion, part of the Miranda movies is that the mermaid doesn’t magically sprout legs on land and blend into the human scenery.\u00a0 Quite the opposite, not only must she soak her tail every night, but she travels around during the day in a wheel chair and gowns long enough to cover everything.\u00a0 Her lack of mobility doesn’t affect her simultaneous seductions of multiple men, however.<\/p>\n

And, true to so many movies I’ve seen from the 40s and 50s, no outrageous betrayal will keep all of the characters from living happily ever after together…wait–what?\u00a0 (see Miss Annie Rooney<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been looking through a lot of my Spectrum books (and I have a lot of\u00a0Spectrum books) so I have been drawing a lot of mermaids (they are chock full).\u00a0 And then, I happened upon a movie in Netflix instant that sounded kind of cool.\u00a0 Mad About Men is a strange and quirky British comedy… Continue reading Talking about mermaids<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[167,49,21],"class_list":["post-4284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-doodling","tag-drawing-2","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5885,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/03\/10\/mermaid\/","url_meta":{"origin":4284,"position":0},"title":"Mermaid","author":"leems","date":"March 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I accidentally draw a lot of mermaids.\u00a0 It's a way to vary the constant repetition of human faces.\u00a0 I think I should start forcing myself to draw more animals. 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