Sunday, December 21, 2008

Public Appeal

Does anyone reading this know a source for the original airdates for the Jeopardy! reruns on GSN? In particular, I'm looking to record the 1/18/07 episode whenever it comes by again. Drop me a note if you can help.

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Answering Machine Messages of the Stars

Here's another one of these. Back when I had an answering machine — in the primitive era before voice mail was invented — I had answering machine messages recorded by a number of great cartoon voice actors. I've been posting them here...like the one Daws Butler did for me as Yogi Bear and the one he did as Huckleberry Hound. Or the one June Foray did as Rocky the Flying Squirrel. Or the one Lorenzo Music did as Garfield. This one is Arnold Stang in his legendary role as Top Cat...

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Go Read It!

Where are all of our tax dollars going in these bail-out deals? They're going to make sure the top executives at failed companies get all their bonuses and huge salaries, of course.

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Today's Video Link

I link to this every Christmas and everyone seems to love it. It's an animation of "White Christmas" as sung by Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters. (Clyde's the one singing tenor. The bass voice is Bill Pinkney.) Animation is by Joshua Held, who also invented The Slide Show Game.

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Recommended Reading

A reporter named Colin McEnroe gets a phone call from the National Rifle Association that tries to fire him up with lies to goad him into donating or enlisting or otherwise opening his wallet. More attention oughta be paid in this country to how much of our "political activism" is just good, old-fashioned hucksterism, trying to push folks' hot buttons to extract cash from them. A former business associate of mine is presently making his living advertising, in effect, "If you hate Hillary Clinton, give me money."

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