Mike Milo’s Journal

Read this little tidbit about Ralph Bakshi, by Stephen Worth over at ASIFA’s blog. I never thought of it this way but the article is quite true. If you don’t ant to read it basically it say that he essentially brought back the animation industry with Mighty Mouse back in the late 80’s and I think they’re right. He gave John K. his start and ren and Stimpy without a doubt had a huge impact on the animation scene. I met him once for a monet at a party in NYC way back a million years ago. I’m sure he doesn’t remeber me but I was enthralled to meet such a big name in animation. Anyway, read the article.
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog: Media: Ralph Bakshi’s Phone Doodles

Dunno if you guys know about this but Frederator has a blog for each short they are doing over there for Nickelodeon. Great stuff. Lots of art up there showing what the cartoon sare looking like and some of it is arguably the best on tv. So many styles and so many talented people.
Frederator Studios Blog

Well after all this time, I have finally finished the preliminary animation on the PHMA film I have been contracted to do for them. You can see a bit of it here. there is no sound effects or music yet. It came out really nice and I am pleased with it.

In other news I should be starting at Nickelodeon in a few weeks on my new cartoon for them.

Also, just finished up a storyboard for Warner Bros on a new Scooby Doo series they have going.

Finally, I just reconnected with an old friend, Frank Bonocore who I have not spoken to in 15 years. We used to hang out quite a bit when we were young. Some of the ideas I got from The Grill were inspired by our antics back then. Good times.

So Cool!

There was a very gracious lady who was mailing an old family bible to her brother in another part of the country. “Is there anything breakable in here?” asked the postal clerk.
“Only the Ten Commandments.” answered the lady.
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A minister parked his car in a no-parking zone in a large city because he was short of time and couldn’t find a space with a meter. Then he put a note under the windshield wiper that read: “I have circled the block 10 times. If I don’t park here, I’ll miss my appointment. Forgive us our trespasses.”

When he returned, he found a citation from a police officer along with this note “I’ve circled this block for 10 years. If I don’t give you a ticket I’ll lose my job. Lead us not into temptation.”
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There is the story of a pastor who got up one Sunday and announced to his
congregation: “I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have
enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is, it’s
still out there in your pockets.”
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A Sunday School teacher began her lesson with a question, “Boys and girls, what do we know about God?” A hand shot up in the air. “He is an artist!” said the kindergarten boy. “Really? How do you know?” the teacher asked. “You know – Our Father, who does art in Heaven… ”
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A minister waited in line to have his car filled with gas just before a long holiday weekend. The attendant worked quickly, but there were many cars ahead of him. Finally, the attendant motioned him toward a vacant pump. “Reverend,” said the young man, “I’m so sorry about the delay. It seems as if everyone waits until the last minute to get ready for a long trip.” The minister chuckled, “I know what you mean. It’s the same in my business.”
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People want the front of the bus, the back of the church, and the center of attention.
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A father was approached by his small son who told him proudly, “I know what the Bible means!” His father smiled and replied, “What do you mean, you ‘know’ what the Bible means?” The son replied, “I do know!” “Okay,” said his father. “What does the Bible mean?” “That’s easy, Daddy.” the young boy replied excitedly, “It stands for ‘Basic Information Before Leaving Earth.’ (this one is my favorite)
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Sunday after church, a Mom asked her very young daughter what the lesson was about. The daughter answered, “Don’t be scared, you’ll get your quilt.” Needless to say, the Mom was perplexed. Later in the day, the pastor stopped by for tea and the Mom asked him what that morning’s Sunday school lesson was about. He said “Be not afraid, thy comforter is coming.”
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The minister was preoccupied with thoughts of how he was going to ask the congregation to come up with more money than they were expecting for repairs to the church building. Therefore, he was annoyed to find that the regular organist was sick and a substitute had been brought in at the last minute. The substitute wanted to know what to play. “Here’s a copy of the service,” he said impatiently. “But, you’ll have to think of something to play after I make the announcement about the finances.”

During the service, the minister paused and said, “Brothers and Sisters, we are in great difficulty; the roof repairs cost twice as much as we expected and we need $4,000 more. Any of you who can pledge $100 or more, please stand up.” At that moment, the substitute organist played “The Star Spangled Banner.” And that is how the substitute became the regular organist!________

Just something to ponder…

Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are
getting weak?

Why do banks charge a fee on “insufficient funds” when they know there is
not enough?

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but
check when you say the paint is wet?

Why doesn’t glue stick to the bottle?

Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?

Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?

Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a
revolver at him?

Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Whose idea was it to put an “S” in the word “lisp”?

If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are
always white?

Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?

Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that
something new to eat will have materialized?

Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum
cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give
the vacuum one more chance?

Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?

How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?

When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping
cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, “It’s all right?” Well, it
isn’t all right, so why don’t we say, “That hurt, you stupid idiot?”

Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that’s falling off
the table you always manage to knock something else over?

In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when
we complained about the heat?

How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?

And my FAVORITE…
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering
from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends — if
they’re okay, then it’s you.

My daughters the past few years have had to compile a Family Tree for school and I of course wanted to help. We put together this collage for a report my daughter Melissa did for school a few years back and I am pleased with how it came out so I thought I’d share it with you.

Just thought I’d mention a cool plug-in for Firefox called Performancing. With it you can right-click anywhere on a web page and select Performancing and when you let go a double paned window comes up in your browser allowing you to blog about the page with it sitting right there in front of you. No more forgetting what exactly that guy said on his website that so inspired you to post about it. Now you can see it all at the same time. Neat lil’ plug-in if you ask me!

Anyone who reads this blog will notcie that is’s a tad different. The Redirect kinda gives it away. We decided to switch from Blogger to Wordpress because Blogger seems to be doing some weird things lately, namely, waiting for 24 hours to post a picture. not allowing comments even though comments is set as “On” and other quirky things like not letting me log oin to my own account. I for one, got tired of it and decided to switch to Wordpress which is in many ways cooler because it allows you to completely customize everything which is awesome. Of course I didn’t do it, my brother did it all. Hopefully it won’t cause me much grief. We’ll see.