What the World Needs Now, Is

Flipbooks, sweet flipbooks. These can be found on YouTube and uploaded (and I'm assuming drawn also) by "Ben" or "Bazurawski"

In honor of Barry's appearance on Colbert Report, I hereby dedicate this week's blog entries to Colbert and Barry.

A Barry Tune!

Not the 60's, but early '70's.

In honor of the '60's ....

I love Adam West ....

I'm going to eventually have to draw a cartoon one of these days for the blog, but prior to my Barry Manilow fandom - at the mere age of 4 or 5, I was a Batman/Adam West kind of kid. I had the Batman t-shirt, the 45 record, and was a faithful viewer and at the same Bat Place, same Bat Channel every week.

A local SD resident/DJ, Wally Wingert, moved to CA - but somehow was influential with bringing Adam West to South Dakota. My pal, Aunice, and I stood in line and got to meet the Caped Crusader and get our pictures taken with him. That same year, Wally did a music parody that got quite a bit of airplay on the Dr. Demento radio show. GOT to love YouTube, when doing an Adam West search, this gem popped up.


Cartoon wise, got to love "Family Guy" - I love the inclusion of Adam West in this series as well. What a hoot!!!!

Parody Time ....

(BTW - you can download this song for FREE on Weird Al's MySpace site. Weird Al actually runs his own MySpace site.)

More ELO ...

Love the vintage videos on YouTube. This was the song/album (A New World Record) that really got me into ELO. Loved this song, thought the keyboard player was cute, too. (I had a thing for piano players back then, I guess.) ;-)

To make this Barry related - I have always kinda wished that Barry and Jeff Lynne would have somehow collaborated, though in music worlds that is putting two alpha males together -- so it could be a recipe for disaster OR something totally splendid.

Kinda neat big scale cartoonist/drawing video

Found this today -- man, I do love YouTube. Well, except that "Some Kind Of Friend" got YANKED from there. Some of us were poor, broke college kids way back when and didn't have VCRs to tape our favorite crooners. Finally get to see what we missed and it gets yanked. Sigh......

CNN 'Toon News

I wasn't alone in amusement over the Mary Worth strip and the "Aldo Kelrast" storyline. EVEN CNN found this storyline newsworthy!!!!

Ole ELO ...

Okay, besides growing up on Manilow music, there's just something magic about Jeff Lynne/ELO. While scrounging about on YouTube, encountered this oldie and gem. It makes you want to pull out the rhinestones and blue denim ... turn on the black light to enjoy the flourescent colors on the posters .... and kinda curl up in the nice safety of the '70's.

Halloween 'Toon

I really, really miss ol' Stick Figure Theater. Here's something that is appearing on YouTube that really fits with the ol' Halloween theme.

Arrrooooooooooooo! ;-)

Catching Up!!!

First off - thanks for being patient, thanks for encouragement and well wishing. The scoop is that the brace is off, but I'm finding if I start slipping into bad habits or over do it, I can feel the "echo" (I can't describe it accurately) of the injury or pain from before ... so I'm still taking it easy but venturing out on the computer more.

I'll be contributing some political cartoons to a campaign I feel strongly about - which will only make sense to South Dakotans, I guess ... but it's going to be fun. I'll put up some mock ups and links if any cartoons get on blogs or in the editorial pages. I'll give you a hint where I lean ... give this nice folksy tune a listen!

I BACK JACK!!! ;-)