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RANDOM PIC OF THE WEEK<\/h3>\n

An artist in Canada who loves “Invader Zim” (particularly the Almighty Tallest!) recently integrated a few of our Christoween characters into an art piece she did! FANTASTIC! It shows her characters opening a box of figures from our “Donnie Druthers’ Christoween Capers” stories. You can follow her at @Divin_Thanatos<\/p>\n

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One of my favorite channels on my satellite is DirecTV channel #836 – Coffee Shop Cuts. It’s a mix of mellow songs by newer artists, and while not every one of them is a gem, I do make some nice discoveries every once in a while. The past two weeks of “What’s Wally Humming?” have been good finds from the channel, and this week is no different. This is called “Tenderness”<\/span> and it’s by Jay Som, who said she wanted to create something that would be played at a ‘yacht party’ – something with a real Steely Dan vibe. She accomplished that very nicely! I can’t get enough of this song!<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tenderness_-_js.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Monday the 1st \u2013 SPRING SPRINGING?! \u2013<\/span> Is spring springing up already? It was an amazing day \u2013 very spring-like! I did some work around the house with all the windows open to bring in all that fresh air. I typed out Wally\u2019s Week and recorded a bunch of auditions. I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m ready for summer!<\/p>\n

Tuesday the 2nd \u2013 CATCHING UP WITH CAROL! \u2013<\/span> Roxy was in need of a bath, and it was about that time again, so I walked her over to the groomer\u2019s to get cleaned up. I had a very nice (and LONG!) conversation with Carol, the lady from whom I originally got Roxy back in 2012. She has been training all of the Lassies for decades. I hadn\u2019t talked to her in a long time and it was good to catch up. She has a lot going on. I got some lunch at Subway and came home to eat it while I waited for Roxy\u2019s grooming to be completed. I picked her up and she was back to her usual, gorgeous self. Later I did a ton of auditions, and worked on some artwork for my favorite Christmas radio show called \u201cChristmas Across the Lands.\u201d The host of the show and I have become e-mail pals, as I\u2019m a huge fan of the show. So when he asked me if I would perform an elf character for this year\u2019s broadcast, I wholeheartedly agreed! He was looking for some \u201cfree use\u201d artwork of an elf that he could use in his web publicity to promote the show. But everything he found didn\u2019t look very good. Being a cartoonist, I brushed off the old skills and sent him a few concept pieces I had created. He loved them, so I got busy doing some more and coloring them in my graphics program! Being able to participate in this amazing show is going to be fantastic! I made some food and watched an episode of \u201cThe Invaders\u201d that was terrific. It was about a crazy Air Force general who was bent on destroying the leaders of the aliens, even if he had to sacrifice his own friends and family to do it! The second season of this show is monumentally good!<\/p>\n

Wednesday the 3rd \u2013 \u201cINVADERS & HUTCH?!\u201d \u2013<\/span> Waking up to the sounds of my cat puking is never the start of a good day. But that\u2019s what greeted me at the beginning of this one. It was a pretty rainy afternoon, so I just relaxed and did some work around the house. Later I had a ton of auditions to record, and then some more graphics work and more cartooning. I decided to make a buffalo chicken salad (my usual Saturday Night Super Salad but with buffalo chicken instead of turkey), and I watched another \u201cInvaders\u201d episode. This one was written by William Blinn \u2013 the creator of \u201cStarsky & Hutch!\u201d<\/p>\n

Thursday the 4th \u2013 TRADEMARK TALK! \u2013<\/span> A two-hour Zoom call with my trademark attorney Stephanie was the first order of business for the day. We\u2019re strategizing how to bring a few pieces of Christoween merchandise to the marketplace. We came up with some really great ideas, so stay tuned! My friend Michelle moved to L.A. the day before, and today she bought a car to get her around the city. She drove it over to show it to me and she drove us to lunch at Paty\u2019s. It has very low miles and is a 2020 model. She got a great deal! We headed back to Planet Wallywood so I could do my nightly auditions. Later we made some food and I showed her an \u201cInvaders\u201d episode. We even made some tinfoil hats just for the occasion!<\/p>\n

Friday the 5th \u2013 WHAT\u2019S THE MOST ANNOYING SOUND IN THE WORLD?! \u2013<\/span> My maids came over just after noon to clean up around Planet Wallywood, then I had a few last-minute auditions to record, and one piece to record for an ongoing client. I rushed off to meet my old pal Croix for lunch at Paty\u2019s. She hasn\u2019t been out much during the past year, but she decided she needed to get out and do some things, so we met for a nice sunny, breezy outdoor lunch to catch up. I got back home and did more auditions, and then I did some graphics work in anticipation of a Christoween product we\u2019ll be releasing. But whenever I finish working on a photo file and go to close out of it, it gives me the standard \u201cSave changes?\u201d prompt. And when I click out of a file it plays the most annoying chime. I searched for several hours for ways to defeat it. While I\u2019m doing graphics work I like to listen to music or podcasts. And nothing ruins the vibe more than hearing that constant, annoying chime. Unfortunately, it looks like it\u2019s embedded in the program and can\u2019t be removed. I worked on some more Christoween merchandise ideas, including a tree ornament that I\u2019m going to sculpt and have my special effects guy Jim Ojala replicate with a silicone mold. Then he can pop out as many as I need in resin, I can paint them up and sell them to order.<\/p>\n

Saturday the 6th \u2013 THE GANG AGAIN! \u2013<\/span> Though the reports talked of rain, I didn\u2019t see any sign of it. It was a gorgeous day. I poked around on-line to see if there was some new music out from one of my favorite \u201cchill\u201d artists named Washed Out. Sure enough there was. I sampled it on Youtube and it sounded like a GREAT new CD! I ordered it immediately. Later in the day Michelle came over again and we hopped into the Gran Torino and drove over to Bob\u2019s Big Boy for dinner with a few of the old \u201cmovie night\u201d gang. Now that people are getting their vaccinations, and infections have gone down, a few were asking if I was going to start up movie night again soon. I said I was considering it, but nothing was planned for the near future. It sure was great seeing the old gang again, and we even called up our \u2018adopted grandma\u2019 Shirley at her home in Palm Springs so we could all say hi and send our love. Later at home, I went down into the garage and poked around in my storage bins. I needed to find some thin, clear plastic to sculpt my Christoween ornament. I\u2019ll draw out the design on the plastic, and then with a compound called Magic Sculpt I\u2019ll create the ornament on the plastic. Once it cures and hardens, I can just bend the plastic and the ornament master will just snap right off. Then I can sand it and touch it up, and take it over to Jim Ojala\u2019s for molding. While I was in the garage I also consolidated a bunch of fabric into a new bin, and took inventory of the contents for my database. It\u2019s much easier to find stuff that way when I need it. Since it was the first Saturday of the month, that meant it was time for another \u201cLaurel and Hardy Theatre\u201d during TV time. As is my tradition, I made a Chef Boyardee pizza to eat while I watch the boys cavort around in their craziness. Michelle had never had a Chef Boyardee pizza so I was excited to make one for her. While she loved the Laurel and Hardy movies (especially the one called \u201cTwice Two,\u201d where Stan and Ollie play each other\u2019s wives) she wasn\u2019t a fan of the pizza. I couldn\u2019t believe it! I guess it\u2019s all a matter of what you grew up with. Oh well, that leaves more for me I guess!<\/p>\n

Sunday the 7th \u2013 LOCKED OUT! \u2013<\/span> Michelle needed to do some grocery shopping to get supplies for her first official week as an L.A. resident. But I was a bit tired so I didn\u2019t go with her. I told her I was going to nap but I\u2019d leave the front doors unlocked so she could come back whenever she was done. But after a while I woke up and thought it was odd that I hadn\u2019t heard her return yet. Come to find out she had been waiting on my porch for about 45 minutes! One of the locks had gotten locked somehow, and had locked her out. I was positive that I double-checked it when she left to make sure she would have access when she came back. I was beside myself with confusion, as I was certain it was unlocked before I laid down for my nap! And she didn\u2019t ring the doorbell to wake me up because she didn\u2019t want to wake me up. I felt like a real heel! I did a few auditions and did some work around the house. I got an idea for an improvement project of sorts. When I made my Rowlf the Dog replica puppet back in late 2018 I was still dusting off my old puppet-making skills. So while Rowlf turned out pretty nice, I was always a little disappointed that I made his head a bit too large. That\u2019s one of the worst temptations in puppet-making; making them too large. You\u2019ll build the head out of foam rubber and a plastic mouth and it seems like it\u2019s a good size. But then you add the fleece and fur and it \u201cbulks\u201d the whole thing out quite a bit. My Rowlf\u2019s mouth is 9 inches wide, which in retrospect seems a bit too big. I\u2019ve often said that I wish I would have made his head about 10% smaller. Well, I have all the materials on-hand (the plastic, foam rubber, fur and fleece) so I\u2019m going to start the process of designing a new, improved head. I can transplant the same nose and eye pieces from the old head. I initially made a mouth 7\u201d across, but it seemed too small. I need to ponder it some more. If 9\u201d is the original size, 10% of that would be .9 inches (almost a full inch) \u2013 which means that 7\u201d would be more than 20% smaller. I think that may be too much. But I\u2019ll know more when I start building it up. Later Michelle helped me film another Cameo message for a fan of the Power Rangers. I came up with a fun way to sing the birthday song as my character Psycho Blue. What fun!<\/p>\n

And how was YOUR week??!!<\/p>\n

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Clearly the pets were excited to see Michelle again, and they try to crowd each other out to vie for her attention.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ready for “The Invaders” – with our tinfoil hats and everything! Even Roxy got into the act!<\/p><\/div>\n

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