Saturday Night Live had one of the best, "TV Funhouse" animation segments ever. It was Iraqi TV's children's hour cartoon show. "Saddam and Osama", they are superhuman and can do all sorts of tricks to fool the infidels. There was a preview of a "Batman" cartoon showing Batman fighting Joker, The Riddler, and The Penguin, all known collectively as "The Jews".

Conan O'Brien's going to do a cool thing on an upcoming show... He's going to take an episode and have a stop-motion animation team completely do the whole show and spots in claymation. That dude rules!

Ray Harryhausen's unfinished children's short film of "The Tortoise and the Hare"--That he began in the 1950's--has finally been completed with the help of two animators from Burbank, Mark Caballero and Seamus Walsh.� Ray came out of retirement to assist in animating this film.� Thanks to some help from Caballero and Walsh, WonderFest June 7-8, 2003 attendees will get to see this short, to be screened just before "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad."� It's sure to make a memorable evening even more special!

I remember hanging out with the Master Ray Harryhausen when my x-wife was doing PR for Columbia and she helped get Ray's handprints in cement in front of The Vista Theater in Hollywood. Ray stepped forward off the red carpet to kneel down and press his hands in, but just completely keeled over and pressed his forehead into the cement by accident. My wife was very quick to cover and rescue Ray. Hardly anyone noticed. Ray, whenever he sees her, grabs her and says something to the effect that she's watching out for him.

I told him this great Texas story about a Bigtime Texas Politician who came home after a hard day's work either electrocuting someone or just being a rich oilman. This goodole' boy just wanted to watch Tee Vee. His wife and son were watching a Western on Tee Vee already. Beer in hand he settled in too. Then the genre of the Western quickly changed into something else...

The Man, pissed jumped up and changed the channel with no thought that his boy and wife were already engrossed in the story. His wife angry, jumped up and she too changed the channel, but this time back.

That's just too much. The Man hits her right in front of his son. The kid runs to his bedroom. The wife in tears heads to her bedroom. The Man again changes the channel, settles back in, and continues drinking and watching whatever it is he wants to watch. Until his wife returns and blows his brains out all over the tube.

And THAT movie they were watching my friends, was....

"VALLEY OF GWANGI"

After I told Ray that, he turned to me all pained and said, "You don't think that's MY fault do you?"

Dinosaurs don't kill people, people with guns kill people.