Bring on the Freep!

Looney Tunes - Golden Collection Volumes 1-3
Warner Home Video

Okay, the Detroit Free Press may have the coolest URL of any newspaper I've ever encountered.

Detroit Free Press - www.freep.com

I'm assuming that's “freep” or “FreeP” as in “Free Press.” The Free Dictionary also lists it as an acronym for Free Republic. But I just like to say “freep” out loud, and I think that should be my word of the week. “Freep.” You can almost hear me saying it, can't you? “Freep. Freep. Freep.” Oh! I know why! I just figured it out... there's this Bugs Bunny episode, and Yosemite Sam shows up to see Fearless Freep leap from a platform into a tiny bucket of water. He buys a couple hundred tickets (just for himself) and sits in the front row as if Fearless Freep is the best thing since Tom Cruise. And there's poor Bugs, the announcer, who has to break the news that Freep isn't coming. Yosemite, undaunted, demands Freep. “Bring on the Freep!” He gets Bugs up the ladder to make the jump himself. And you can pretty much guess the rest. Sam ends up “jumping” or “fallling” into the water every time. My favorite line belongs to Bugs (of course) at the end of the episode, as Bugs hovers in midair and Yosemite drops one last time, he sais, “I know this defies the laws of gravity, but you see, I never studied law.” Gorgeous. Okay. Back to whatever else you were doing. Something constructive, I hope.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not
Arctic Monkeys

I'm listening to “Dancing Shoes (live at KCRW)” by Arctic Monkeys from the album KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic on