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Here’s a great site dedicated to the old 1930’s Fleischer Popeye cartoons. It even has a number of them for download.

I’ve seen a number of the old Superman Fleischer cartoons. Kevin has them. The animation is great–no one since has used the full technique used for them (I think some Disney films of the same era did).

The TV Party website has the actual Mighty Heroes opening in REALVideo. Hmmmmm. Diaper Man–cool or not cool?

Far be it from me to post links for only the 35-40 crowd. For you 25-30 year olds, click here.

Click here for find Quisp and Quake (Quaker re-released Quisp in 1999–my wife actually bought a box of Quisp for me and Kevin a few months ago, but I gave it to the kids to eat).

Click here to find Astro Boy, Prince Planet, Kimba the White Lion, Space Giants, King Kong, Tom of T.H.U.M.B., and more.

Milton the Monster.

Heh.

Apple unveiled its online music service today. It’s great–I downloaded my first few songs already. It’ll be Windows compatible by year’s end. My favorite news coverage of this story is the Crazy Apple Rumors parody here, but if you want, I guess you could read the real announcement here.

McSweeney’s has a great two part parody on the Fellowship of the Ring from the revisionist historian point of view. It’s hilarious. I’ve read Howard Zinn before and I’ve certainly heard of Noam Chomsky–it reads just like their kind of work (not that I’m against revisionist history). You can find part one here and part two here.

Kevin was over and we were having too much fun. Who knew almost 30 years ago that we’d be hanging out on my back porch, smoking Hoyo de Montereys, watching 2001: A Space Odyssey on a laptop computer with a color screen almost the size of my parents first color television, and just having good conversation.

And no, I don’t smoke cigars often, although I do like to smoke a cigar on my grandfather’s birthday each year to honor his memory. Although if I were honoring him more strictly, I’d be smoking Phillie stogies every August 3rd…

So the story in Red Lion School District next door in York County went national yesterday. It’s a terrible thing–people at our school knew the principal killed in the shooting.

It’s interesting to note, however, that the incident at Mechanicsburg Area School District next door in Cumberland County didn’t seem to get up there on the national media scene.

So in one story, a kid shoots and kills a principal. In the other, a kid throws firebombs at the school and tries to throw gasoline on an administrator, but fails to kill anyone. Is part of the problem with our society the fact that the one story gets all the attention because the kid managed to complete his plans? Is it all just about the drama?

That’s sad.

At least Mancuso’s Law of Media Accuracy was disproven with the Mechanicsburg story. My wife works at the school that was “firebombed” and verified that WGAL presented all the details exactly the way things happened (Mancuso’s Law of Media Accuracy:”I’ve been on the scene several times during news events. In none of these situations–not one–has the media reported things accurately.”).