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So, Seth McFarlane really wants that Emmy huh? :) ( Videos embedded below) Hmm... as a sidenote Wikipedia suggest that McFarlane worked on a cartoon I particularly enjoyed while growing up: Johnny Bravo , and mentally surfing through my Cartoon Network memories reminded me just how much I loved the SWAT Kats , though I'm not sure how much of that was just because of the music. Intro below .:)

I watched a lot of the Speed Racer cartoons when I was growing up, so I made sure that I caught the movie on the first-day. I really liked it, but I think more because it kept reminding me of how much I absolutely loved the trailer than anything else. Its not a bad movie, but you'll truly enjoy it only if you were a fan of the show. Only then will the theme music , the demo of the Mach 5 features , the Rex Racer flashbacks not just be cheesy bits that work for kids, but goose-pimple inducing moments. That's why I think its absolutely brilliant that 49 episodes of the Speed Racer cartoon are on Hulu , and both they and the studio did a smart cross-promotion gig by putting them on the landing page on the first day. I'm surprised Hulu didn't do some better online ad buys to direct traffic to the site though....

I just remembered that I loved comics; and not just the ones in the papers ; real comic book stories with superheros and stuff. Think almost, but not quite a graphic novel . Growing up I don't remember anything else that captivated me as much! As Jerry Seinfeld put it: "For boys: Superman, Batman, Spiderman; these aren't fantasies. They're career options." Somehow, somewhere I just stopped reading them. A significant part of yesterday was spent in rekindling my interest. Oh, I spent the rest of day recovering from Finals.:) I have mostly Scott McCloud to thank for rekindling my interest, and of course Prof Davis ' suggested reading list for leading me to the site. Trust me to first zero in on a book called "Understanding Comics". So why did I just suddenly stop reading comics? I think it was an availability issue. I kept reading the " Archie " that I could easily pick up in my neighbourhood library, the Tintin and Asterix titles that I ...