The Terrible Catsafterme

The Simpsons have been as American as apple butter for the last two decades, garnering numerous awards and critical recognition. In 2005, I had the chance to meet Dan Castellaneta, who voices the patriarch of the Simpsons family, Homer Simpson. So I was excited when the opportunity presented itself to get to meet our local Kettering sensation Nancy Cartwright, who has provided the voice of the irrepressible Bart Simpson for some twenty years. Read the rest of this entry »

I absolutely adore Peanuts. Not the salty snack food – although I am fond of those too – but the Charles Schultz series of comic strips and animated cartoons. So I was naturally excited to find out that Pamelyn Ferdin, who was the voice of Lucy Van Pelt in three of the Peanuts shows (two TV specials: It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown and Play It Again Charlie Brown – and one of my favorite movies A Boy Named Charlie Brown) was going to be appearing at the Chiller Theatre Show on April 18, 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

The previous day had been an exhausting one at California Adventure, but that didn’t stop Jimmy and I from waking up at the butt crack of dawn and getting ready for another full day of excitement on Friday, July 17, 2009. We left his house in San Pedro at about 8:15am and headed back to Disneyland to meet David, where he parked his car and then rode with us. Our ultimate destination of the day was San Diego, a city that I had visited twice without ever really ‘seeing’. We also decided to stop in San Juan Capistrano on the way down to see the famous Jewel of the Missions located there. Read the rest of this entry »