After getting sh*t-faced this holiday season, and before puking as a result, everybody sing this song with Boston’s own Dropkick Murphys!
Author: DOuG pRATt
How Green Was His Spinach
I’m late in promoting a few things for Christmas gift-giving — gifts that I’m giving to myself!
All of the Popeye cartoons produced by the Fleischer Bros. studio from the 30’s and 40’s are available on DVD. All of them, with a couple of notable exceptions, are in black & white. Being out of print, good luck finding volumes 2 and 3 without spending a small fortune.
A new Popeye disc is about to be released on Blu-ray as well as DVD. It picks up where Paramount called in its loans to the Fleischer brothers and took over the studio and began producing Popeye cartoons in Technicolor.
Animation maven Jerry Beck and others behind this project, discuss how it came to be and the considerable efforts that went into making it a must-get release for fans like myself. As you would expect, the business side of the deal had to be worked out before the restoration work could begin.
Turning a recording into a record
A referesher on vinyl disc manufacturing.
Cheer for Gear
I’ve been offline for a while because of a Verizon FiOS upgrade that went wrong, combined with my enduring commitment to flip-phones. Which prevented me from saying until now that I fixed my broken cassette deck.
Kudos to vintage-electronics.net for its tape drive belt kit and the installation tool for it. The tool helped to make the job a lot easier than I expected.
Closed Captioned
The New Yorker has an occasional series of people, some well-known like this guy, coming up with cartoon captions. I used to submit captions for the contests, but haven’t in a long time. Roger Ebert reportedly entered the contest under an assumed name every week, but didn’t finally win until shortly before he died.
Webcamshaft
This ’98 Honda Civic died at 90,000 miles, which is less than half the expected lifetime for this car, and it happens to be the mileage when its timing belt is supposed to be replaced. But I’m giving away the exciting conclusion to an excellent example of effective troubleshooting.