Thursday, May 31, 2007

Meet Whatzisname

Cracked Magazine picks "The 20 Best 'That Guys' of All Time." Actually, it seems like a list of mainly current character actors who are known better for their faces than their names, but it's not a bad list. Go take a look.

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Where I'll Be

Speaking of events where you'll find the likes of me: This weekend, I will be a guest-type person at the Super-Con in San Jose, California...a fact I have yet to mention to one person without hearing a "Do you know the way?" joke. I will be hosting a panel on the great Filipino comic artists with four of them and I'll be doing a two-man panel — actually, a two-Mark panel — with Mark Waid all about comic book writing. We will mainly be advancing the theory that you really can't write a decent comic if your name isn't Mark. And that's not my claim. I learned it from Mark Verheiden.

All the details on this spectacular event can be extracted from this website and if you can make it, please do. When I'm not doing panels, I'll be wandering around with the usual stupid look on my face, so if you see me or that look, feel free to say hello. Also while I'm there, I'm going to find some peace of mind in San Jose. Wo oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ohhh...

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More on Mort

The other day, I posted an item about an upcoming one-night-only tribute to Mort Sahl. Here's the website and as you can see, the roster of scheduled performers is truly impressive...

Larry King will be the host. This is only possible because I didn't kill him Tuesday evening...although I came close. (I still have the suspender prints on my bumpers.) The rest of the list consists of Albert Brooks, Jay Leno, Drew Carey, Bill Maher, Shelley Berman, David Steinberg, Richard Lewis, Paula Poundstone, Jonathan Winters, David Brenner, Kevin Nealon, Jack Riley and a taped appearance by Woody Allen. I'm told there will also be at least two other very special performers whose names cannot yet be mentioned...and I'm guessing that Mort's going to say a word or two, as well.

The event will not be televised. It will not even be recorded. So I'll be there.

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Our Long National Nightmare Is Over...

Our friends over at the Old TV Tickets website have been enormously irresponsible lately, shirking their update duties. Finally though, they've gotten around to posting something new over there — some tickets from Here's Lucy, the third of Lucille Ball's four TV sitcoms. And it's about friggin' time.

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Watching the Watchmen

I continue to be amazed how many folks in the news-gathering business can get caught making up "facts" and then think they can tough it out and save face without admitting error. Today's case in point: Lou Dobbs.

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Today's Video Link

It's another one of those great commercials for Cap'n Crunch cereals, done back in the day they were produced by Jay Ward's studio and featured the voice of the brilliant Daws Butler as the salty cereal salesman.

The other voices in here are Bill Scott and June Foray. Bill probably wrote the commercial and I don't know who animated it but it doesn't look like the usual Ward crew. Take a look...

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me on the radio (sort of)

Did you hear Earl Kress and me today on Stu's Show on Shokus Internet Radio? Well, if you did, you didn't hear much of us. Shortly after the show began, tech problems forced us off the air. Or off the web or whatever the correct term is for an Internet radio program.

We went ahead and recorded the show and it will air in full tomorrow at 4 PM Pacific/7 PM Eastern and then it repeats many more times in the coming week. Check out the schedule on this page.

If and when you tune in, you can hear Earl and me chat with host Stu Shostak about cartoons of the sixties and other related topics. Stu, by the way, failed to guess the identity of our Mystery Guest, who was Frank Buxton, voice of Batfink and the writer, producer and/or director of many fine unanimated shows like Happy Days and The Odd Couple. We had a short but sweet conversation by phone with Frank around the mid-point of the two-hour program.

To listen to Shokus Internet Radio, go to this page and select a browser. It's free and you might enjoy listening to whatever's on as you work at your computer. Even if what's on at the moment isn't Earl and me.

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