A one-Euro coin with Homer Simpson’s face on it has turned up in Spain.
No, really. (more here and here)
 
By rights, though, it should have turned up in Greece. (Just sayin’…)
Tags: Homer+Simpson, Euro, coin, forgery, hilarious, Simpsons, counterfeit, defacement

Posted in Animation, Cartoons, Current events, Europe, Humor, News No Comments »

Watching “Justice League Unlimited” as Gaeilge / in Irish.
(Unfortunately I don’t seem able to find any online links to demonstrate how it looks / sounds. But TG4, the national Irish-language service, is showing it at the moment.)

Posted in Animation, Cartoons, Ireland No Comments »

Just stumbled across a reference to this at Lou Romano’s weblog —
TotoroForestProject.com

Totoro Forest Project is an international charity effort to save Sayama Forest, also known as Totoro Forest. This endangered sanctuary on the outskirts of Tokyo is where director Hayao Miyazaki got the inspiration for his much-loved character “Totoro”.
Over 200 top international artists from […]

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Current events, Fantasy and science fiction, Film and TV, Graphic and plastic arts No Comments »

As the commercial over here would have it.
Bunny Suicides
Absolutely not worksafe if your boss finds it odd that you should break down in front of the monitor weeping with laughter.

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Graphic and plastic arts, Humor No Comments »

My favorite article from the Times this morning…
A free society survives partly because the powerful are mocked, and their pretensions undermined. Religions, which guard their own illusions carefully, are particularly ripe for satire. And they should be…
Orwell once remarked that one reason fascism never took off in Britain was because the sight of a goose-stepping […]

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Graphic and plastic arts, Online life, Uncategorized No Comments »

A note to the Scooby madness: in having a casual look at one of the Scooby episode guides, I find that I’ve written two episodes that I don’t even remember. Egad.
The interesting thing is that the original scripts seem to have been misplaced somewhere along the line; otherwise the titles would have been […]

Posted in Animation, Cartoons, Writing No Comments »

This is plainly one of those weeks when my past is going to come back to haunt me with unusual insistence.
Starting this morning, Cartoon Network Europe has programmed an entire week of Scooby-Doo, during which they claim they’ll be showing every single Scooby episode ever shown. Meaning my episodes as well… I’ve been […]

Posted in Animation, Cartoons, Film and TV, Writing No Comments »