Today's Video Link (and Soup Can)

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I may be away from this blog for a day or three trying to finish a script that must be finished. I may also try sleeping, which I haven't done so far today. But I leave you with…me.

The Animation Guild is doing a series of interviews with folks in the cartoon field and they finally worked their way down to me. Last Monday, I sat for a few hours and answered questions from the union's Business Rep, Steve Hulett.

(As an aside: Long ago and far away, I had a number of problems with that labor organization to which I then belonged. Or more specifically, the man then running it did things that caused some of us to debate: Incompetent or deliberately working against the interests of those he was supposed to represent? Things got a whole lot better for all when that guy was replaced by Steve.)

But as Bette Midler says, enough about them and more about me: What follows is Part 1 of a two-part interview with Yours Truly. It runs 51 minutes and the second part, which I'll embed mañana, is longer. I won't fault you if you don't make it all the way through. I couldn't without getting sick of me.

I thought we'd talk mostly about my cartoon writing career and some of that's in there but we ended up discussing all sorts of things I've written and how I got this job or that job…