The above photo is a frame from a Betty Boop cartoon and I'm using it as an attention-getting device for this item: Animation scholar and all-around fun guy Jerry Beck will be the guest later today on Stu's Show, which is heard on Shokus Internet Radio from 4 PM to 6 PM on the West Coast…and therefore from 7 PM to 9 PM on the East Coast. Jerry will be chatting live with your affable host, Stuart Shostak, about cartoon history and about upcoming DVDs. A lot of people write to ask me when so-and-so is coming out on home video. If you have one of these questions about anything animated, call in and ask Jerry. He'll probably know and he may even be the guy who's hammering the DVD company to do a quality job on it.
You can listen to this show or to anything on Shokus Internet Radio by going to this link and clicking on an audio browser. If you haven't sampled radio-on-the-web yet, you're missing out on something wonderful and free. As you work on your computer, writing or playing games or surfing for porn — whatever you do — you can also be listening to a station like Shokus and having a very good time.
So listen in. Call in. I'll be doing both later today.