“Somnolence”
The Paul Giamatti or John C. Reilly of the culinary world
Things living under rocks. They get a bum rap, but they’re often pretty nifty creatures.
“Fuselage”
There’s actually a whole blog/travel site devoted to hotel-bed-aided-flight, with lots of silly photos. I think kids pull it off a lot better than grown-ups, though.
Web-O-Joy: Name That Voice
Joyful is introducing a new feature this week, Web-O-Joy, where we link to a few folks who all find glee in the same quirky thing. This week’s Web-O-Joy topic: identifying voice actors. A recent episode of “The Simpsons” had a running gag referencing Tress McNeill—a paragon of the voiceover industry (you can see her nestled between Tim Curry, Luke Skywalker, and the voice of the scary skeleton from “The Last Unicorn” in this Joyful submission from 3/3/08):
During this same “Simpsons” episode, I recognized the voice of guest star Zooey Deschanel (an adorable pixie of an actress who appeared in “Elf” and “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”)
I was quite proud of this achievement—I’ve always really enjoyed trying to recognize performers by voice. This voice-tastic “Simpsons” episode got me thinking about whether other folks derive similar joy from this peculiar pastime. As usual, Google did not let me down. A videogame enthusiast reviewing Half-Life 2 on gamespot expressed immense pride in her voice identification skills. The keeper of a blog called The Seventh Notebook has a nice post about her quest to better know various voice talents. And I found several other folks on the interweb who named “identifying voice actors” as a skill, hobby, passion, or favorite pastime. Not surprisingly, voice actors themselves seem to relish this endeavor. If you want a crash course in voice-overy, get yourself some cartoons on dvd and dive on into the commentary—“Futurama” is a great place to start (surprise, surprise, Tress McNeill sits in for a few episodes).
break it down: periods films with super anachronistic hair and make-up blankie james lipton spikey tulips with an edge did I leave the gas on eddie izzard squirrel time lapse plus lightning mangos eyegore jumping on hotel beds
5/5/08 Lipton, Tulips, and Introducing the Web-O-Joy
