Over on his weblog, a gent named Will Campbell posts an anecdote about the late Lorenzo Music working with him at a Suicide Prevention Center. His account is true. Lorenzo did work occasionally at such places and the way he told it to me, people occasionally did recognize his voice. He once described a call that went something like this…
"I can't go on any longer. My wife left me for my sister and is suing me for divorce. I lost my job and I'm hopelessly in debt. My parents won't speak to me. My kid disowned me and changed his name. My doctor says I only have…say, do you know you sound like that cat on TV?"
I found this story thanks to a link that Amid Amidi posted over on Cartoon Brew. I am so grateful to him that I will even forgive his sacrilegious remarks the other day about Top Cat.