Just a quick note to say that I’m still collecting Scrappy stuff and hope to have an update to Scrappyland up in our lifetime. Meanwhile, here’s a quick Scrappy fix–an image from the side of the box that contained the Scrappy savings bank (circa 1935), depicting Scrappy lecturing Margy on the state of her finances [...]

See this Columbia Journalism Review e-mail thread for an interesting sidelight on the New Yorker article on P.L. Travers and Walt Disney I recently mentioned.

So it looks as if Disney may seal the deal to buy Pixar as early as Tuesday–and it’s at least possible that John Lasseter will end up running Disney animation. In some ways, this seems overdue–wouldn’t Pixar have been a steal in about 1994, right before Toy Story debuted? But it also feels odd to [...]

On a recent trip to Charleston, South Carolina, I discovered what Jiminy Cricket is up to these days: flacking for a chain of convenience stores…

In recent days, both my blog’s “Comments” feature and the Harry-Go-Round MessageCenter have been victimized by full-blown spam attacks–I’m getting dozens or hundreds of spams a day on both. I’m trying to whack the stuff soon after it comes in, but the onslaught is so relentless that by the time I’ve deleted one batch, there [...]

From The New York Times’s report on a possible Disney acquisition of Pixar:

Many of the terms have been worked out. The new animation division would be overseen by John Lasseter, Pixar’s chief creative officer and a former Disney animator, who would work with animators at Pixar’s headquarters in Emeryville, Calif., and at Disney in Burbank.

It [...]

Rumors of Disney buying Pixar are heating up again. I think this would be a good thing for Disney; whether it would be a good thing for Pixar or animation fans is another question. (Do we want anyone involved with recent Disney features being allowed to boss John Lasseter or Brad Bird around?)

I do sort [...]

A correspondent writes to ask if I know anything about an upcoming LSH series. I don’t. But I figured I’d ask here–anyone heard of one in the offing?

Just a note to remind everyone that Harry-Go-Round’s almost-weekly chats continue. Actually, it’s been close to a month since the last one–but we get back on track tonight…

Over at my day job at PC World, I’ve been working on a new consumer electronics blog called Digital World. It’s now live at www.digital-world.com, and while I won’t be blogging there myself and it has absolutely nothing to do with animation, one of our three bloggers is Emru Townsend, also known as Mr. FPS. [...]