From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 12/24/23 11:26 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
      
   > BLIND WILLOW SLEEPING WOMAN (2022): BLIND WILLOW SLEEPING WOMAN is   
   > based on several stories by Haruki Murakami.  Katagiri is a failing   
   > salaryman in Japan who one day finds there is a giant frog that   
   > talks and sings to him.  This is actually a fairly common theme in   
   > animated films from Japan, along with the theme of the natural as   
   > supernatural, which also appears frequently in Japanese folklore.   
      
   Sounds very familiar, other than the frog being giant.   
      
   > Frankly, Mieville's   
   > 'nightmare future' seems far more likely to me than the nightmare   
   > future of Christmas being forbidden because of political   
   > correctness.  After all, one cannot now sing 'Happy Birthday to   
   > You' in public without owing royalties on it!   
      
   The copyright on "Happy Birthday" has been dead since 2015, though it   
   withstood more blows that should have been fatal than Rasputin.   
      
   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/happy-birthday-officia   
   ly-public-domain-180956740/   
      
      
      
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