Colbert Rises From Database Ashes

Ah, yes. I had posted the complete video of Stephen Colbert roasting George Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner. Don’t want this one to languish, because of the database snafu…
[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/APR07/ColbertRoastsBush.flv 400 300]

…and I liked Colbert’s cognitive leap that associated Bush’s assurances about Iraq to Charlie Brown being lied to year after year by Lucy about pulling away the football …
[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/MAY07/ColbertPeanuts.flv 400 300]

 

Swooning-Crooning Again

A fairly recent, now lost, post was the Warner Brothers cartoon Swooner Crooner…
[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/MAY07/SwoonerCrooner.flv 400 300]

Oh, right! Don’t want to forget that I highlighted Raymond Scott’s “Powerhouse” that’s featured in the cartoon.

Raymond Scott

[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/MAY07/Powerhouse.mp3]

Kamichu, the Girl-Child God

Eric had written a special guest blog entry for Kamichu, an Anime series about a girl who somehow becomes a god. Not a great god, but a good one. The text was lost in the Great Database Debacle, but here’s the video…

[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/MAY07/KamiChu.flv 425 240]

As Eric pointed out, this sequence is atypical for the show, which is mostly slice-of-life vignettes, sometimes featuring little spirit creatures.

Kino Kicking Again

Here’s another repost of an entry about an Anime title that was lost to the database error. We’ve watched the entire series of Kino’s Journey, which turned out to be one of our favorites.
[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/MAY07/Kino.flv 425 240]

 

RahXephon Re-post

I’m still bumming about losing six weeks of blog posts. We just watched an episode of RahXephon with Eric, so I’ll repost the two videos that were here previously.

First, the trailer …
[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/MAY07/RahXephon.flv 400 300]

… and now an unexpected love scene from a series that is full of battling giant robots!
[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/MAY07/RahXephon2.flv 400 300]

 

Victory — With Casualities

I’m finished repairing the blog for now. I’ve lost six weeks worth of posts. Sorry! But at least that’s better than the three months I thought I’d lost. In fact, for a while, ALL was lost! Long story. I’m beat! Need a break. I think everything is OK, as far as it goes, but let me know what problems you see.

P.S. I need cheering up! I’m looking through the audio and video clip listings, which are in directories that are separate from WordPress, and I’m seriously depressed. So many posts gone! But at least the sounds and pictures remain. I’m going to re-post SOME of this stuff, but certainly not all of it.

P.P.S. I never want to go through that again! And if I do a better job of making backups I won’t, especially now that I’m better versed in how to use phpMyAdmin, the thing that administers the mySQL database.