bump bump bumpity bump.

It's tonight!

Am I going alone?

sorry, i'm about to fall down from exhaustion. i have stuff to do after work. i don't know how i'm going to survive, much less do cartoon dump.

Hope you find some company for this worthy outing.

I'd so go with you if I could. I just left the area yesterday. Sad.

I would go, and in fact, I would leave work and fly out now, if it weren't for the fact that I don't really have the time to fly out to Cali at the moment.

Come up with neat-o-bandito stuff to do at the end of May. I'll be there!

Oh wait - off topic - when do Cemetery Screenings start up again? Must look into this...

Cemetery screening start date hasn't been announced yet, but I'm checking often. At the moment, it just says "Starts May 2008".

Maybe some other Tuesday, J. Work, work, work....

I wanted to go but just didn't make it down. :( Next time.

Let's try for next week, E? If work clears up?

And J, how was it??

Just got home - it was great. Jerry Beck, who is an authority on American animation (he wrote my favorite Warner Bros cartoon book), came out first to talk a little bit about the bad cartoons that we'd be seeing during the evening. He explained the origins of such classics as "Mighty Mister Titan", "Super President", "Moon Mullins" and "Winky Dink". After a warm-up bad cartoon, the show began in earnest.

Erica Doering performed as "Compost Brite", while Frank Coniff played "Moodsy the Owl" - they did some great sketches and songs and introduced the cartoons. Tonight's special guest comedians were the Sklar Brothers, a very funny set of twins.

The theater is cozy, and the list of upcoming events is tantalizing. I'm certainly going to come back for another installment of Cartoon Dump, and probably a couple of other shows as well in the next month or so.