Again and again and again, corporations insist that regulation and oversight inhibit their ability to innovate and manufacture their products. Again and again and again, more regulation and oversight, not less, is shown to be essential for public safety.
Author: DOuG pRATt
Why DOuG pRATt?
I continue to be amazed by the number and diversity of Doug Pratt’s. By adopting the pen name “Dog Rat” over 30 years ago, I preemptively avoided being mistaken for one of them.
The Doug Pratt interviewed here talks about being gay and Black in Cleveland. We’re the same age, but that’s all we have in common besides our name.
There is also a lack of diversity in my name, at least with hobbies, as I explained on my Contact page.
A very long time ago, after we moved into our first house, I was in a Cambridge audio shop buying an excellent NAD 3120 amplifier for the living room. As I recall, it was on sale for only $90.
The owner of the shop looked at my credit card and laughed. “You’re Doug Pratt? Doug Pratt is a crazy guy who comes in here all the time looking for bargains. You’re not Doug Pratt!” Except for the “all the time” part, I was guilty as charged and I still have the amp. Ten years later, shortly after we moved, another Doug Pratt moved into the town that I’d left.
The Gold Star Sound
According to Jim Dawson, this was one of the early recordings produced at the legendary Gold Star Studios in Hollywood. Jim says co-founder David Gold is still alive.
It’s No Wonder
That will be me if I ever meet Lynda Carter.
Murdoch Mysteries
Trump attorney Joe Tacopina quits, and Matt Murdoch gets the nod, based on the argument he used in his courtroom defense of Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner. Justice is blind, and so is the defendant’s lawyer!
It looks like the judge’s word balloon was originally going to be in the lower, left corner.
Bluto’s Pop Pie
“I Likes Babies and Infinks” from 1937 is a perfect Popeye cartoon. The premise is that Olive Oyl can’t get Sweetpea to stop crying. There are clever ideas presented with outstanding character animation. Once Popeye and Bluto progress from competing to fighting, the violence quicky escalates until a neat solution to the problem is reached.
There are two things that are unique, at least in my memory, about this cartoon. First, Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Bluto are established as living above one another in the same apartment building. Second, Popeye doesn’t resort to spinach to wrap things up.