Monthly Archives: March 2011

Monday through Friday, Cartoon Network here in the U.S. is running two different episodes of The Garfield Show, a series which employs Yours Truly. The morning episode they run is a rerun of a show from last season. The afternoon episodes at the moment are new, first-run cartoons…and the show scheduled to run tomorrow (i.e., Friday) is supposed to feature the odd-looking lady above.

Her name is Mrs. Cauldron and she's a dear sweet woman who may or may not be a witch. What makes us think she might be a witch? Well, her voice was done by June Foray. There's a strong indicator.

June Foray has been playing witches in cartoons since Trick or Treat, a Donald Duck cartoon released in 1952. In 1956, she voiced a witch in a Tom & Jerry cartoon (The Flying Sorceress) and a Bugs Bunny cartoon (Broomstick Bunny)…and there have been hundreds since then. She's done other things too, of course…but 59 years of witch-voicing deserves special mention. How does she do it? Well, I started to get suspicious when she arrived at the recording session on a broom…

If you're heading to your nearby Souplantation or Sweet Tomatoes for my favorite soup this month, these coupons (PDF file) will save you a few bucks. And you don't even have to eat Creamy Tomato Soup in order to use them.

When blogging time is sparse, I invoke the ancient Internet tradition that I made up of posting a picture of a can of Cream of Mushroom Soup. This proclaims to all that I may not be posting much or answering a lot of e-mail over the next few days.

This being March, I should probably change the graphic to can of Tomato Soup but I don't even have the time for that. Those of you who check this site for updates every twenty minutes will be repeatedly disappointed until I finish a pressing assignment. And I don't mean I'm ironing pants or anything like that…I'm just busy with a script. Back soon.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes. I'm getting hundreds of them over on Facebook, many of them (amazingly) from friends I actually know.

Posting will be light here today, not because I'm off partying but because I have a deadline that demands most of my attention. I may even be too busy to go eat Creamy Tomato Soup at Souplantation today. That should give you an idea about how busy I am. Back soon.

Bob Woodward, practitioner of occasional journalism, tells us that Donald Rumsfeld's new book does not quite tell the truth about his role in the Iraq War.