By: Annna [2002-01-02]

More from the Petey Tapes

a celebrity interpretation?

In the past, we've found two songs about Petey or the rabbit meat he hawked and loved. Both were by now-obscure singers, and only significant for their mentions of rabbit meat.

Going through the mysterious box of reel-to-reel tapes I'd earlier uncovered, I picked another one at random.

All right, it wasn't so much "random selection" as "avoiding the ones covered in spiders." Anyway, I plucked one canister from the moldering cardboard and, knocking off the egg cases, encoded this song:

"Rabbit Meat" (1928?) [0.97 MB].

Now, I'm no music historian, but both the voice and the song sounded somehow familiar to me.

Was there, perhaps, an early draft of The Singing Fool where Al was despondent, not over his estranged son's death, but because his friend had eaten all his rabbit meat?

The world may never know for certain. Readers, for posterity's sake, check your attics!

Attic [2002-01-02 01:45:28] Jacques Kitsch

I have toys in the attic!

Pel-freez killed the video star [2002-01-02 08:05:33] Lou Duchez

Annna, please tell me you're trying to get some of your works played on local radio stations. Do the words "cult following" interest you at all?

3D "Petey" [2002-01-02 08:57:35] Jacques Kitsch

There's a Lightwave 3D model that looks somewhat like Petey, but he needs the hat."Hugo"

Hugo/Petey Debacle [2002-01-02 21:55:09] casey

I see absolutely nothing in Hugo's hideous Wallace-esque face that resembles Petey.

Petey vs. Wallace [2002-01-03 00:20:19] Lou Duchez

Do I sense a Grudge Match in the works? Both Wallace and Petey build rockets to the moon -- one to get the moon's cheese, the other to eat the rabbit in the moon.

Hollywood Magic [2002-01-03 04:12:44] Jacques Kitsch

Through the Hollywood Magic of makeup, it is possible to alter Hugo's appearance! The rest can be done with smoke and mirrors. They both wear shorts, and they are about the same height. I will have to locate a wig with five hairs. Mickey Mouse, as we know him today, looks a bit different than Steamboat Willie. But don't get a hemmie, mesh models are infinitely morphable. You can moosh the mesh like clay.

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