High blood pressure and high cholesterol (despite weighing only 130 pounds), but I am still around. Of course, I'm more active on Facebook and YouTube these days. In fact, my YouTube channel soon will reach 50,000 subscribers ( Read more... )

Today's the 20th anniversary of our tour of Warner Bros. Animation and the WB lot, a.k.a. Animania IV.

Couldn't let the day go without mentioning that.

Last month, I had a septoplasty and a turbinate reduction done. All my life, I've never been able to breathe well through my left nostril. When I moved to high altitude, it became unbearable. I was holding my nose open at home whenever that was the active nostril ( Read more... )

John P. McCann writes in detail about how the Lobo series that almost was, wasn't. It's a three-part blog post beginning here: http://writeenough.blogspot.com/2015/04/lobo-on-wb.htmlRead more... )

I also should mention this. Tom Ruegger, John P. McCann and Paul Rugg are organizing a Freakazoid convention to celebrate its 20th anniversary in the summer of 2015. Already I've seen Scott Jeralds announce he'll be there too.

As time progresses, no doubt Tom will talk more about it on his blog (as will John and Paul on their blogs), which is

Hey everybody (whoever is still on LJ)... Last night was the first episode of That Voiceover Improv Thing, a live online improv show put together by Paul Rugg and his voiceover buddies, with direction by Deanna Oliver. They'll be doing it monthly.

The first episode can be heard in its entirety on their page, http://thatvoiceoverimprovthing. ( Read more... )

If not, here's a presentation I made yesterday, complete with the lyrics, and prefaced by a bit of prerequisite knowledge needed to get the big punchline of the third verse.

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In other news, smoooooke! bleah. Air Quality Index hit 200 yesterday (at 201 the rating goes from "Unhealthy for everyone" to "Very unhealthy for everyone") thanks to all the wildfires -- particularly the "Rim Fire" at Yosemite. I can feel it in my lungs... bleah. Today's the third day in a row in the "Unhealthy" index, and likely to have two more ( Read more... )

You may remember the "bombing run" scene of the Goodfeathers upon Mr Plotz. What we never saw (besides the actual pigeon poop) was the entire prologue that led to them deciding to bomb Plotz to begin with. Lance Falk has just posted his complete original screenplay for the never-produced prologue on the Facebook "90's Warner Bros. Cartoon Fans ( Read more... )

Some of you may remember that in the late 1990s WB was producing a series around the Superman character Lobo, and that the series got axed shortly before its debut (with Pokemon being a last-minute acquisition to fill the slot, there being no time left to produce anything original ( Read more... )