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Mickey Mouse
Friday, November 13th, 2009

Thr phrase Mickey Mouse is a well-established way to describe something small-time, inconsequential or amateurish. Wikipedia has a comprehensive list here but this is my personal favourite; Gary Oldman’s rogue cop in Leon:

Interestingly, Charles Bukowski detested Mickey Mouse:

While we’re talking about Bukowski, this is a lovely reading of one of his most beautiful poems, The Japanese Wife: