I seem to have let most of today get by me without posting anything. But that's okay because it allowed the Alan Young obit to stay in top position longer.
Speaking of that fine man: Our pal Greg Ehrbar takes us through some of Mr. Young's many audio roles — radio, records and animation. A lot of the animation roles were due to his close friendship with a man named Alan Dinehart. When I worked at Ruby-Spears and Dinehart was the in-house voice director, if you had an adult male role that wasn't a super-hero or a super-villain, Alan D. would cast Alan Y. and no one complained…because Alan Y. was so good.
Hey, I'll bet someone reading this can help me with something: I have a friend who has an antique cell phone — a Nokia 6102i. I believe those came out about the same time Warren G. Harding was running for president and guaranteeing us that there was "no problem" with regard to the size of his penis. Anyway: For reasons that wouldn't interest you, my friend has been saving old voice mails on his phone — messages he's received and wants to keep. Alas, the phone is now full and no more can be saved.
For reasons that also wouldn't interest you, he needs to preserve those pieces of audio. He wants to delete them so more messages can be recorded but he wants to somehow transfer them first so they can exist as MP3 files of WAVs or just about any format. Being an old phone, it has no known capacity to forward saved messages elsewhere…or does it? Or is there some way to record its playback? Or something? If you have an idea, please lemme know.
The Republican Convention, which will apparently be produced this year by Donald Trump to sell Donald Trump, runs July 18-21. The Democratic Convention is July 25-28. If I were in charge of the latter, I'd assemble a squadron of writers and performers from The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live, The Nightly Show and other programs like that and alternate the political speeches with sketches that parodied the preceding convention. With Alec Baldwin as Trump.