Yarr! Any last words Santa Claus, Dreidel-stein, and King Kwanzaa? It be time for you and your exclusionary holidays to walk the plank!

Specificity be the enemy of Unity.

That aside, it is that time once again where we gather to celebrate the wonderful holiday, brought to us by the Greeting Card companies where we eat Lamb Tacos, which is apparently delicious.

I know last year I had a contest which awarded prizes, and not all of those prizes have even shipped yet. I feel terrible for it and I really will make the effort to finish all of that. Forgive me.

And as for the status of cartoons… Well, I’m really trying once again to cut down on some personal things like too much gaming, or sleeping in and going into work late, so that I can spend more time getting back into this. I know I’ve said that before, but I certainly do care and I certainly want to see these, and other, cartoons live once again.

Now, finish off your day by doing the traditional all-religions-are-equally-valid snowflake day celebratory cabbage patch.

Catch you all later!

I’m interrupting normal content on this page to bring you this late breaking bulletin. Being a cartoon fansite, I try to dedicate time to cover any silliness of the interwebs dealing with either Mission Hill or Clone High, and I never thought I’d do something political.

Not that I’m endorsing one candidate or another, but the following was just too good to pass up.

As gorillamask.net puts it: BarackObamaEatsBabies.com – Well, it’s exactly as what you’d expect from a URL like that.

As soon as I heard it, I giggled, and decided for a quick update to this news page. Hope it made you Clone High fans laugh.

I know it was a LONG time coming, but prizes from the Snowflake Day contest earlier this year should be hitting the mail this coming week. I sincerely apologize for the delay.

Setting up my new house has called for much more of my free time than I had anticipated. I’m getting back to work on my computer as I can. No real news about the cartoons this time, but I am trying to allot myself time each week for work on the shows.
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I was browsing this site and noticed that my “Bonus Features” on the Clone High website was empty, so I have now rectified that. I don’t believe there is anything there you all haven’t seen already, but you can all check it out. I added the link to the Phil Lord and Chris Miller Retrospective video from 2007′s ITVFest, as well as images and videos, mostly from the Clone High USA official website, to here, for posterity.

This mini-press kit arrived for me this past week. I also was able to acquire the Time Squad Press Kit with some cool info that I could throw into a DVD I may make myself since they insist on not putting that show on DVD. I’ll show off the press kit in a little while. I may give that show it’s own page later.

The ITVFest is coming up August 1-7 and again Chris Miller and Phil Lord will be attending. So for anyone living in California (8000 Sunset Blvd, LA, CA) and fans of Clone High you have no excuse but to attend, ask questions and report back. I think you all know the appropriate question to ask. Joan or Cleo or this mysterious Jah-Cle I keep hearing Abe stammer on and on about?

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And speaking of Chris Miller and Phil Lord, Sony has made an announcement about their upcoming “Cloudy, With a Chance of Meatballs” movie. Two major points were stated. That it should be arriving in front of your eyes January 15, 2010, and that you should bring both of said eyes to the theater, because it will be seen in 3-D. You can read the full article over at the wonderful Animation Magazine’s website.

Bill Oakley and one of the shows’ writers of Sit Down Shut Up (“aka Class Dismissed”) did not agree to the “compromise contract” between the creators/writers of the show and Sony Pictures TV. Josh Weinstein and the rest of the writers have remained on the show. You can read up more about the temporary break-up here and here.

I am very interested in how this will affect the series. Mission Hill was the show it was because of their collaborative effort. But since it’s going to show on Fox, we all know how it will go. Maybe a couple episodes will be shown in random order and regardless, a fan-base will grow around it but then it will be canceled.

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Zach Braff has only one more season of Scrubs in him, at least as a starring role. When reached for comment, Bill Lawrence, producer of Clone High, said “The end of the show will be about J.D. leaving the hospital.” As you may already have known the show was not picked back up by NBC, but thankfully CBS did pick up the show and will air mid-season 2008-09. Read more about it here.

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If you are a fan of the cartoon show MTV Downtown, which I have never mentioned on this blog before, well then you’re in luck, because for $25 dollars, you can get an “official ‘promotional’ dvd of all episodes with some commentaries” from the creator, Chris Prynoski, on his new blog. I have ordered received mine and I haven’t even seen one episode yet other than a quick clip on YouTube. If you’re a fan, get it, if you’re like me and haven’t seen it, check out some clips, or wait for a review or two.