Book promotion seems to involve taking excepts from the book and repackaging them into headlines as a way to interest people in purchasing the thing. In that vein I wanted to highlight one of my absolute favorite parts of Ortved’s book. (Which you should think about buying, or at least getting from your local library where you can “borrow” books for free.) Harvey Fierstein has solid Simpsons credentials. He was the voice of Karl in Season 2’s “Simpson and Delilah” and Patty and Selma were stunned to learn that he was gay in Season 6’s “A Star Is Burns”. Harvey…
Day: October 29, 2009
Spurlock Update: Celebrity Checklist
Even by our low standards there isn’t much point in posting things from Spurlock’s Twitter feed, but I’m going to do it anyway: had another Simptastic day – spoke to Mike Reiss, Hank Azaria and Fat Tony himself, Joe Montagnea – tomorrow: Hef at the mansion. Crazy. Other than misspelling Mantegna’s last name there isn’t much of note here. Reiss was there for all the good stuff and has been back lately to no real effect. Azaria is, well, Azaria. Mantegna is fucking awesome and Hefner guest voiced back in the before time, in the long long ago. Will the…
Quote of the Day
“I’ll make a wish that can’t backfire. I wish for a turkey sandwich, on rye bread, with lettuce and mustard and-and I don’t want any zombie turkeys, I don’t want to turn into a turkey myself, and I don’t want any other weird surprises. You got it? . . . Hey! Hmmm, mmm, not bad, nice hot mustard, good bread, the turkey’s a little dry . . . the turkey’s a little dry! Oh foul accursed thing! What demon from the depths of hell created thee?” – Homer Simpson Happy birthday Dan Castellaneta!