Booooooo. I remember seeing him in the Fantasia DVD extras. He seemed pretty cool and upstanding and such.

Of potentially amusing interest to brendala and other fellow ’80s/early ’90s cartoon followers: credited as Executive Producer for Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. Yeah. THAT one. (via)

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I got a Snowscheme to finish, dood. *summon Painter*

*SMB1 Game Over*
Booooooooooo. T_T As much as I love Charles Martinet, my old-school Mario nerd insists that Albano was the best Mario actor. I remember being all WTF when Super Mario 64 hit and was (momentarily) pissed that Nintendo couldn’t get him and the other VAs back.

As Across’ nerd-in-chief, I order my minions and followers to DO THE MARIO as a final send-off! >:O!

also obligatory posting of the equally-dorkily-amusing opening

Ayarane: one thing’s for sure
Ayarane: on top of all the stuff that Michael Jackson’s accomplished, he can now added “made the internet blow up upon death” to his karmic resume
Xenosphobatic: Truth
Ayarane: I’m trying to think of some other celebrity who was able to do that
Ayarane: …I can’t
Xenosphobatic: Me neither

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I will admit that my fandom dropped off in the mid-90’s, but after that I was more or less indifferent rather than derisive.
Major, major “Oof” moment. *watching the live coverage on MSNBC*

For the record, I don’t have a particular favorite, but I recall Scream being pretty freaking awesome. Speaking of YouTube… his channel’s getting flooded with viewers and comments. Holy smoo!

I could whip out a “Kill Bill” reference, but I’ll just leave this link instead.
D’oh! Here I thought that 2009 could march without TOO many awesome people dying. >.

Well, we’re down one bulldog. Repeated pneumonia incidents caught up to and took out Snowflake.

I know this will sound very cruel, but this is probably a good thing. Mother already has a hard time herding that many dogs around, so this… unexpected reduction of the dog population should lessen the burden. Especially if she still thinks she can go back to work (aaaahahahaha) She’s been repeatedly told that bulldogs, ESPECIALLY runts like Snowflake, are special needs and more likely to get sick, and that Snowflake was especially at risk, but mother seemed to think that this one would be some sort of invincible super-puppy since “oh she beat it twice before!”

…argh. A jerkwad is me, I know. >_>;;; I mean… I liked the little sack of flour too, but a lot of that got eroded by how unreasonable mother was being about LOL BULLDOGS EVERYWHERE. Really, that would kinda kill anyone’s patience. o.O; Let’s just hope she doesn’t get the idea to get another bulldog.

Now, VPI should let me quietly drop Snowflake without making me eat some gigantic cancellation penalty…