The Man

Yesterday was the last day for ordering signed mini-posters, which is a good thing as we ran out of most of them. I want to thank everyone who ordered a signed mini-poster. I hope you enjoy them. We'...

Do you think this is because of the impact video games and social media has on toy-buying? Kids today have so many other options than playing with action figures and play sets.

Our Zoe arrives home from college for Christmas break tomorrow, so we are stacked up with waiting Christmas movies that include A Christmas Carol (we alternate versions every year) Miracle on 34th Str...

Our Zoe arrives home from college for Christmas break tomorrow, so we are stacked up with waiting Christmas movies that include A Christmas Carol (we alternate versions every year) Miracle on 34th Str...

@griff Trust me it's brutal. Try this on for size: Breaks your heart. Hold tight to every single moment. When you have children the days are long but the years go by fast. The very best you c...

@he-dad Listen, I'm blessed to be married to a drop dead gorgeous red-haired, blue-eyed Irish angel who's a University of Nebraska graduate, is a rabid college football and Chiefs fan and thinks Gu...

Our daughter, 4.10-GPA-for-three-and-a-half-straight-years-Zoe, returns from college this Thursday and my life will be complete, with all our family gathered through New Year's. We're heading to the h...

@he-dad Try this when you have that discussion. It's the single best piece of advice I ever had about marriage, and it's tough to follow, but it works: When you're having a heavy discussion, or abo...

Jingle all the Way. Boy, does it ever hold up...

@griff And I enjoyed YOUR post which brings home the reason for the season. I hope you and yours have a blessed Christmas Season. I'd wish you luck, but something tells me you don't need it... ...

Many thanks, AJ. I'll post about it when I'm able. For the time being I'm contractually prohibited from talking about it.

@admin Sure. That'a fine. For the record, we may start the blog up again in Spring, after we've added more staff and dug out from under the initial obligations of this delightfully unexpected de...

@2uki You bet, my friend. Kim was helping me with my blog, but with this new project I'm going to need her on that full-time. She's an award-winning producer/director. Runs in the family... 😉

Mods, please discontinue this thread and delete all posts. Thank you.

Dear members, I have to the make bittersweet announcement that I will be discontinuing my "A Writer's Life, During the Golden Age of Television Animation" blog. Because of a happy-but-unexpected devel...

Blog post 118 has dropped -- the final blog post about DIC's championship softball season. Back to M.A.S.K. in my next post. But I promise you this post will be suspenseful. Check it out at And check...

The word "brilliant" comes to mind. And, trust me, after forty-seven years in the entertainment industry, I know brilliant when I see it... 😉

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I like everything -- and I mean EVERYTHING -- about Christmas.

@firefly I based Drissi on my former wife, who was a fashion model. To quote Bram Stoker's Dracula, "That relationship was not entirely successful..." 😉 I sent pics of her to the animators and...