I've just uploaded my fourth article, in a little over a month, about a Disney feature. That's somewhat more closely spaced than I might prefer, considering it's been over half a year ince the my next most recent article on a Disney feature, Peter Pan. In fact, it started last month, when I reflected I'd (ironically enough) gone too long since writing up a Disney feature, and did The Jungle Book to rectify that.

That wasn't the case a couple of weeks later, but when they re-released The Nightmare Before Christmas, I decided to grab whatever I could of the coat-tails of their publicity, and write my article on that one now instead of later. And what the heck, that one doesn't seem so much like a Disney feature that anybody'll think I've gone monomaniacal or anything.

So, how to explain Lady & the Tramp, which I wrote up less than a week after that? It's like this —

One of the tasks I had to do to get the site ready for the new format was to go through my list, article by article, and choose "related toons" to go with each one. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to list one as related to the one just then under consideration, but couldn't because I hadn't written that one yet. Several's the time I wanted to stop what I was doing and write an article just so I could cite it elsewhere as a "related toon". But it's the same old story — so many toons, so few brain cells. I can't write them all up at once, can I?

But then the list led me to Scamp, and I wished I'd written the one for his mom and dad. And for once I just couldn't ignore it. What's the use of listing toons related to Scamp, if you can't list Lady & the Tramp. So I wrote that one.

While researching Lady & the Tramp, I ran across a couple of references to Victory through Air Power. Now, when choosing Disney features to write up at any given time, I'd always glossed over that one, giving it no consideration whatsoever. Why? Well, I guess because it's just plain weird. It doesn't fit in with the rest. Nobody especially likes it, because it's just a guy pushing a somewhat eccentric and seriously obsolete point of view, and who wants to see that?

But it was then that I first did think about it. The fact that it's weird, doesn't fit in with the rest, isn't a good reason to skip over it. In fact, it's the very reason I should write it up. Being so different from the rest gives it points of interest that the rest don't have. My Toonopedia™ needs an article on Victory through Air Power a lot more than it needs something about just another Disney flick.

I couldn't shake the thought, and I knew very well I wasn't going to shake it until I wrote the thing and got it over with. So there it is. At least it'll be a few months before I do another Disney feature.