January 2010
1 post
One Year of 'Pay Attention'!
It’s the one year anniversary of this blog, which began on New Year’s Eve 2008. To celebrate, here’s a few posts that pretty well sum up the last year:
My first post here was a look back at 2008.
This post on Amateurs and Art led to a new friendship.
Sometimes, I wrote about politics.
Some of my friends lost their jobs.
My wife and I celebrated our second anniversary.
I...
December 2009
4 posts
RIP Dan O'Bannon
From Dark Star, Pinback vs. The Alien:
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Obituary here.
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Morning Cartoons
Apparently, it’s cartoon week at Pay Attention.
I’m not sure if every parent experiences this, but even before my daughter was born, I started making plans to control curate her pop culture experience. Honestly, I can’t stand the bulk of modern children’s programming, and I freely admit that most of the shows I watched as a kid were pure crap too.
It isn’t that I...
Clyde Crashcup
There’s no excuse for blogging this, except that the world has forgotten Clyde Crashcup. From Wikipedia:
Clyde Crashcup is a fictional character from the early-1960s animated television series The Alvin Show.
Clyde Crashcup (voiced by Shepard Menken impersonating Edwin Carp) is a scientist in a white coat whose experiments invariably failed. His was the only voice heard in many of the...