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Lots of people really enjoyed this “Disney on Ice” cartoon. It’s a collaboration with my known associate, Wayno of Pittsburgh, who can be a very entertaining fellow. His blog about it says some interesting things, so check it out.
As you may know, there is an urban legend about Walt Disney having had his body (or was it just his head?) frozen for future use. The truth is, however, that is was not Walt Disney at all, but Dick Clark, and he did it back in the 90s, many years before we knew he was dead.
As a person trying for the last couple of years to get a TV show of some kind, it always amazes me how much utter crap there is on television. Of course, any random viewer can notice that, you don’t have to be “in the business” to see it. I’m not being petulant, it’s always been tough to get a show on the air and I never thought it would be easy, or even likely. Still, one can’t help but wonder why with so many talented people creating potentially terrific shows, they end up with the things they do. Oh well, no one ever said life was a 
meritocracy.
Even more amazing is how so many people in the modern world–in 21st century America–still deny that evolution is the process by which the creatures of the earth got to where they are and will get to where they are going. I just saw the classic film, “Inherit the Wind” again this week and in addition to being a terrific film, it is just as salient today as it was in 1925 when the event upon which it was based actually happened. The irony of all of this is that the stranglehold that mythology has on the human mind is a direct result of evolution. Predictably–and perhaps worst of all–those who would seek power in human government routinely use this knowledge to sway the masses with fear and superstition. This has nothing to do with cartoon soup, of course, but it was on my mind.
By the way, “archaea” is a word referring to the first kinds of micro-critters that developed in the sea billions of years ago. As it turns out, I used the wrong tense in this cartoon. “Archaea” is plural and I’m using it as singular. Wikipedia says I should have used “archaeon.” Damn.
Hey Dan, any cartoon sporting the crazy beards of the 19th century, is entitled to the occasional misuse of latin. Maybe he’s referring to the plural as a collective, besides since you’re just channeling Darwin, seems like it’d fall to him to speak more clearly.
Good point. It was Chuck’s fault!
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Regarding your link for the “stranglehold that mythology has on the human mind”, do you know why the first astronauts found bones on the moon? The cow didn’t make it.
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You used the wrong grammatical number, not tense.
re: the darwin comic… I’m glad that you caught the incorrect ending of archaea, but I still have two issues with it. First, Darwin called Bacteria and Archaea ‘animicules”… so that shows how little he knew about microbes. Second, nobody knows if the first organisms were Archaea, Bacteria, or something even simples. They often call it LUCA or Last Universal Common Ancestor.
Not trying to be hypercritical, just educational.
Your Jazz Pickle,
Matt
The Disney on Ice captures the moment perfectly. Good one!
…. you didn’t use the wrong tense, because nouns have no tense… you used the wrong number. xx Nerdpickle
Damn again!
The occasional mistake in grammar gives an added quality of life; consistently-perfect is contrived. And btw, thank you for bringing up archaea. I’m fascinated by them. I have a bowl of blastoids I use for worry stones. An what pickle (HAD to be a pickle) came up with the name “blastoid!”
“As a person trying for the last couple of years to get a TV show of some kind…”
Curious as to what kind of show. If I had to guess, I’d say you would be interested in doing something humorous, but would it be live action or animation?
Of course thanks to the Internet we’re suppose to be entering the era of ‘disintermediation’ where entertainment is concerned. While I understand that there is a desire to have high production values, in order to be taken seriously, it still seems like there is a lot that can be done to ‘test the waters’ with some small pieces. Of course I also understand that you already have an incredibly demanding day job, so finding the time would be difficult. But I think something that was the equivalent of a narrated storyboard could be a good way to try out some material.
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