Today was the annual Joe Barbera birthday party, which for some reason is never held on Mr. Barbera's birthday, which is March 24. Last year, the party took place on April 9 and the year before, it was March 22. In any case, he was born around 93 years ago (give or take) and as usual, a nice grouping of friends and employees turned out to wish Mr. B. the best. Among the voice actors present were Gary Owens, John Stephenson, Ruth Buzzi, Lucille Bliss, Henry Corden and Casey Kasem, and among the long-time Hanna-Barbera artists were Iwao Takamoto and Jerry Eisenberg.
Songs were sung, speeches were made, cake was served and a fine, loving time was had by all. Oh, yeah — and Paul Dini got a photo of himself with someone in a Scooby Doo costume.