Wednesday, March 12, 2008

From the E-Mailbag...

Animator and historian Mark Kausler writes about the Tony the Tiger commercial to which I linked this morning...

The announcer on that Tony spot you posted today is Dick Tufeld, the animator on the spot was Ed Love, looks like he did the whole thing himself!

I'm pretty sure Mark's right about Ed Love, just as I'm pretty sure he's wrong about Dick Tufeld.

• Posted at 11:30 PM · LINK

Recommended Reading

Juan Cole makes the case that John McCain is essentially running for George W. Bush's third term. I think this is a fair and apt viewpoint, though it may not be as we get closer to Election Day. Seems to me that McCain needs to wrap up the nomination, make the convention go as smoothly as possible and unite as much of the party as can be united, plus he needs to not provoke third-party runs to his right. Once he's got all that, and extracted as much as can be extracted from right-wing sources of campaign $$$, then he'll start finding ways to make himself more acceptable to those who think Bush has been a disaster. I suspect there are more of those than even the lowest poll numbers indicate and that their ranks will only grow.

• Posted at 2:10 PM · LINK

Today's Big Surprise

Eliot Spitzer's resignation. Who would have imagined such a thing?

• Posted at 10:15 AM · LINK

Today's Video Link

It's an early commercial for Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes...which is what I'll always call them. Oh, they can take the world "sugar" off the box. They can even change the formula, as rumor has it they've done. They're still Sugar Frosted Flakes. Can't fool me.

That is, of course, the late Thurl Ravenscroft supplying the voice of Tony the Tiger. I'm not sure who the announcer is...sounds a little like Bud Sewell but maybe not. Give a listen.

• Posted at 1:04 AM · LINK