BOB'S BIG BOY PROPAGANDA

Have you ever eaten at a

BOB'S BIG BOY?

"Home of the Original Double Decker"

There's one here in Toluca Lake:

Well, aside from serving tasty burgers,

Bob's Big Boy

has also been

used as a way to spread

KND PROPAGANDA!

 Check out this old issue

of

BIG BOY MAGAZINE

from way back when:

Obviously,

this information was only given to 

KIDS.

Parents just wouldn't understand.

LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS 2013

I'm kinda stoopid 

and haven't gone to the 

LOS ANGELES TIMES

FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

in a couple 

years.

Last time I went it was

on the campus of

UCLA

but these days it's at

USC.

As always,

there was

LOTS

to see and

DO!

There were books by sooper pal

Dan Krall:

Scooby and the Mystery Machine:

Free Scooby Snacks:

Lots of people:

Dinosaurs:

and 

Smurfs:

Okay,

FINE!

I admit I didn't get a lot of

good pictures.

I didn't even see anyone

 I knew this year!

I also totally missed seeing

sci-fi author

John Scalzi

in person.

I've only chatted with him

online and would have loved to 

meet him.

SO...

I owe you a better blog post

about the festival next year.

PIXAR'S ZOETROPE

Hey you!

You going to

California Adventures anytime soon?

If so,

make sure you stop into

the animation hall

and see

this:

Yeah...

it looks like a bunch of

cool action figures.

But watch

what happens when 

it starts

SPINNING:

Pretty 

amazingly

COOL,

right?

The basic principles

of this come from

one of the earliest forms of 

animation,

the zoetrope:

You'd spin one of these

and look through the 

moving slits at eye level

and 

BOOM:

MOVING HORSE!

But as usual,

Pixar

took it

NEXT LEVEL!

Although rumour has it they

borrowed the idea from

the Studio Ghibli Museum:

THE FISH HOOKS LOOK-ALIKE WALL

The

FISH HOOKS

LOOK-ALIKE WALL

is

evil.

It's cruel.

And 

yeah,

It's 

FUNNY!

No one on the crew is safe from it.

Some comparisons are eerily dead-on.


And some are just

plain mean.

Here's my piece of real estate 

on the board:

I wondered why people kept singing

LIFE IS A HIGHWAY

every time I walked by.

McKinley?

Really?!

And then
there's this
guy:

I know, 

right?

THE RECIPE FOR A GREAT RECORDING SESSION

People always stop me 

on the street and ask,

Mr. Warburton,

what are the ingredients

for a tasty

FISH HOOKS

recording session?

And you know me.

I ain't no recipe hog like 

Colonel Sanders.

So I tell em:.

First...

You gonna need a dog: 

And you'll need an

executive producer,

preferably

Maxwell Atoms

who thinks his dog is a rabbit:

Next, 

you'll need

Felicia Day

sitting on a

monkey:

Stir in a full serving

of

Richard Simmons

(with extra sparkly sneakers)

But

be careful not to mix

too much

Richard Simmons

with your

Felicia Day.

Things could get mushy.

Next,

take a prom photo

with 

Matt Hill

(voice of Ed from

Ed, Edd and Eddy)

 Bring in Dee Bradley Baker

to stir things up:

Add one (1)

doggie kiss

with Chelsea Kane:

Who was 

TOTALLY

psyched to get the

Mark McGrath 

autograph

we got for her

when she missed his recording session:

Next,

you're gonna need

SWAG!

So you're gonna need

Kyle Massey,

who looks like he smells poop:

Add a dash of Bill Reiss:

Then go out to lunch

with

voice director

Kris Zimmerman,

Maxwell Atoms

and

Jennifer Hale:

And voila:

You've just

made a 

DELICIOUS

Fish Hooks 

recording 

session!

Bon Appetit!

WONDERCON 2013

I think I've made it abundantly 

clear that I like 

going 

to 

Comicon!

But I've got a special place in

my heart for 

Wondercon.

Mainly because it's a con

I can take my chickens to.

At Comicon I'm all but 

guaranteed to:

a)  lose my children

b) see them trampled by 

cosplayers/stormtroopers/comic nerds

c) watch them go supernova 

due to overstimulation

d) not get to work, see or do anything I want 

since I'm trying to avoid A, B, and C

So I save Comicon for me,

and make Wondercon all about the kids!

It's smaller,

less crowded,

and much kid friendlier

although it's still 

big,

crowded

and 

rough for smaller kids

to navigate.

As an added bonus,

it's a short drive

to Anaheim, CA.

(it used to be in San Francisco

but changed venues last year)

I didn't get to socialize or take many pictures

since it's all I can do to keep track of the 

munchkins.

But I did snap some busts:

The Mondo Media booth,

home of the best movie posters in the world:

R5-D5:

Just like at Comicon,

Adventure Time rules the day:

Even He-Man has to take time out to

re-adjust:

I made sure to point out Stan Lee

to the boys.

They thought he looked

"older than grandad".

And upon hearing that,

we were immediately 

escorted out of the building by 

stormtroopers.

Go on!

Take your kids

to Wondercon next year!