Boomerang!

My children have been keeping a secret from me: there’s an entire “Boomerang” channel now. Boomerang had been a show on Cartoon Network that played old cartoons like Top Cat in order to enlighten me to the fact that things that seemed hip when I was four may not have been so hip. But they also play some good old stuff, and now it’s an entire channel, which just sucked me in last night just as I was ready to go to bed. Turns out most things I say in my life are based on a single cartoon, the name of which I cannot find just now, the one where Yosemite Sam builds his cabin atop Bugs’s rabbit hole. “Playin’ possum fer 22 years!” We call up the stairs, “Oh, Haannsy! Breakfast is reeaaddy!” And when Hannah was little and we would watch that cartoon, I would then take a little plastic hammer and try to hammer down the carpet, just like Yosemite Sam. She thoughts it was hilarious. And just the other day, Hannah, out of nowhere, said, “Mmmiiice,” just like Sam.