Kalliyam

  Saturday, October 29, 2022   Aho’Rajanaka,   I hope this finds you well.  Word has it a tough flu season is coming and a slew of my University students have been sick with something and missing classes (not just sick of me, well, I think. Maybe.) So please take good care.  Do all the needfuls.   It’s Saturday morning and I should be watching cartoons.  My parents never cared how much TV I saw as a kid, which explains a lot.  I’m pretty sure I didn’t let my kids do that.  I waffle back and forth and across---Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera, and the Total TV crowd.  This morning Susan and I were going over cartoon sidekicks, ‘cause everyone needs a best friend, a veritable  kalyana-mitra .  Ricochet Rabbit has Deputy Droop-a-Long, Peter Potomus has So-So, and since we live  out here  I reminded her also of Punkin’ Puss and Mush Mouse.  But Suz did not remember Tobor the 8 th  Man, which was the first Japanese anime to make it to children dropped in front of television screens in the early