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9/23/05 - Get ready for this. You are going to orgasm with glee. I HAVE REVIEWED... Dog Tags ... what?

7/31/05 - Not much of an update, just a new rating system. The old one bugged me, mainly because I ripped it off. Then again, it's still the same system, just with fewer numbers.

1/08/05 - At long last, a substantial update! Tons of Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Bob Clampett reviews have been added/rewritten. So have a look.

11/06/04
Recommended for retarded audiences only

I got the Ren and Stimpy Uncut DVD. I still haven't gone through all of it but even if it's not 100% truly uncut, Man's Best Friend and the uneditied Sven Hoek and Big House Blues definately make this thing worth it. The audio commentaries are also a must have for fans. Amazingly, I felt like adding an extra point to Son of Stimpy after watching it with the audio commentary...

I've been too busy to update the site or write anything, but this DVD set makes me wanna get back in the swing of things. Still overcoming my despair at four more years of Bush. Take care.

4/08/04 - Added a bunch of Frank Tashlin reviews

3/29/04 - Well, I added some Norm McCabe reviews (as part of Bob Clampett's page). Hurrah.

3/25/04 - Added a page on Arthur Davis

10/10/03 - The three new R&S cartoons have been reviewed, and I rewrote Big House Blues, Fire Dogs, and Man's Best Friend.

8/29/03 - Today I put up some Friz Freleng and Frank Tashlin reviews but there are still a ton of gaps to fill.

8/25/03 - For reasons I can't disclose, I watched "Duck Dodgers" (that's right, the new show) last night. When the commercial break hit, I mumbled to my dad, "You know what, you can watch whatever you want" and I walked out.

I like what Paul Dini did with "Batman - The Animated Series", but this is not what I want from a cartoon. The humor is almost totally dialogue-based and the characters are only there to deliver the jokes. Mexican Joyride (Davis), on the other hand, packs more visual humor in 5 seconds than the whole ten minutes of "Duck Dodgers" that I saw.

It's a shame I have to dismiss someone's hardwork with a wave of my hand, but someone is gonna hafta learn not to drag the Looney Tunes characters through half-baked cash-in projects that look like they were dreamt up by a commite.

8/24/03 - My first update in about a million years, there are now a bunch of WB-era Tex Avery reviews I've been sitting on for awhile (including A Wild Hare!!!).

4/11/03 - Since I haven't posted on here in awhile, I may as well announce that I just got the Mickey Mouse in Color DVD from half.com. Thank God. It's actually a Chinese (Hong Kong? Taiwanese?) release and it came in a single-sized DVD case (with two holders on either side) w/o the tin. That's alright with me. I've watched a few of them and while I have to exert more patience than I do with Warner Bros. cartoons, I can say for sure I really like Disney. :)

2/09/03 - I put up the rewrites for Tale of Two Kitties and Kitty Kornered.

2/02/03 - Happy Ground Hog day! Guess the Ground Hog didn't see his shadow, because today could have passed for a warm Spring day. Strangely enough, I watched the Robert McKimson cartoon where Porky hunts a ground hog this morning, and I forgot what today was!

Anyway, I went to Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival last night. A few times I walked out of the theatre and came back in because they were showing the worst crap - some of these shorts would rival Road Apples for the lowest rating on my site. Highlights include Craig McCracken's No Neck Joe, which wasn't just better than everything else at the show, it was better than most PPG episodes. Inbreds was a semi-highlight when the gags were more character-based (though much of it was sub-Southpark humor), there was this one short with a Hippo whose name I can't remember that was very funny, up until he shat out the chicken he ate (and the ending was really horrible - if you haven't seen it, a cow pees milk all over him while crying. I'm not easily offended or grossed out, but that disgusted the hell out of me).

As a cartoon, Spumco's rendition of Tenacious D's "F@#k Her Gently" was a disappointment, but those guys can play a mean acoustic. My other favorite was the moving 1600cc about a biker who steals his old lady neighbor's purse and takes her drugs, which causes him to hallucinate. What's worse, she tries to give him back a pamphlet that he dropped, so when he sees her he thinks she's going to kill him. It was illustrated realistically, which isn't my cup of tea, but it was a very moving film, and even some of the sicker gags were really good. A couple more I liked were Shhhh (a look inside a baby's head) and a pervese conversation between a black boy and his father whose name I also can't remember - it was perverse, but the dialogue was so direct and so uncrass that I could laugh at it.

The remainder of the films ranged from mediocre to downright awful, and I won't bother mentioning them (besides, I don't remember most of them). The depressing thing was that most of the audience laughed at all the fart jokes and "shocking" humor, while I laughed at gags which would have been more appropriate in a classic 40's short (few and far between as they were). All-in-all, I'm glad I went for the highlights, and