Stephen Colbert has finished his Make McCain Exciting Green Screen Challenge. He gets in a couple of good critiques of two of the final entries, including an excellent Batman-related joke the submission is lacking.
Month: September 2008
Virtual India ink
This is my big sister Leslie, the doctor, who just got back from a trip to India with her daughter.
GOP glop
Republicans now belong to the party of working mothers and special needs kids? Sounds good, but I think the Democrats were there first, a long time ago.
Bill Melendez, 1916 – 2008
Bill Melendez, who animated Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang, has died. Melendez also did the unmistakable “voice” of Snoopy.
Sally “Lucy” Dryer, Gail “Peppermint Patty” DeFaria, Peter “Charlie Brown” Robbins, Chris “Linus” Shea, and Bill “Snoopy” Melendez.
I hate taking pot shots, but…
I don’t care for those “I was just thinking” things, but I just watched Georgie’s live-but-remote appearance at the RNC, and I was just thinking…
- Laura Bush looks great and, yes, red is her color.
- Bush — George, not Laura — tried very hard to appear Reaganesque.
- Did Jenna Bush abstain from sex until her wedding night?
- Is Jenna’s unmarried sister abstaining?
- John McCain sure showed good judgment marrying into $100 million.
- Country first? We have to listen to Tody Keith? Or is he a Democrat now?
In a world where one man can change a world…
There are lots of tributes to voiceover man Don LaFontaine, who was far from the end of his career when he died, but that won’t stop me from doing one myself. I’ll embed this video, and YouTube will toss in a playlist of hopefully related clips.