M-I-C... see you real soon...



Well, here's a new wrinkle -- this may be the first time a costumed children's show host was beaten to death on the air. The Hamas propaganda character Farfur had his show cancelled, so in the final episode...

...an actor said to be an Israeli agent tries to buy the land of the squeaky-voiced Mickey Mouse lookalike.

Farfur brands the Israeli a "terrorist" and is beaten to death.

He was killed "by the killers of children", Saraa says.

I wonder if he got 70 virgin Minnie Mouse rip-offs in the afterlife.

On the BBC, here.

For this, our 800th ride in Danny's Land, may I proudly present a musical band whose name includes one case of celebrity imitation and one word that cannot be said in polite company. They have a few observations [observe here!] on differing levels of cultural relevance and of differing modes of transportation, all of which observations are delivered to an attentive audience while the performers sport mouse ears common to a certain other Land.