Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Although I had a superb illustration of the Aqua Teen’s home ready in the chamber to go with a yet to be written post about the Aqua Teens, I went with another topic. Rushed the graphic material too to get this thing published before the end of the month. I know there is no score to be kept by turning these things in by some timely fashion. Be that as it may, I do not like to see the links on the left side of the blog page seeing a month with just one single blog post. There is so much opinion stuffed inside of me! There must be more than one 1000’ish word screed per month inside of me. Note: I did not make the end of the month deadline. Hopefully next month will be fat with blog posts.

I have more than a thousand words brimming inside me about the recent PC game Jagged Alliance 3. (Maybe the game is also available on video game consoles. Frankly I don’t care. PC gaming has been my modus operandi for quite some time.) The third volume of the turn-based strategy series Jagged Alliance was made by different developers than the original two, and was released more than twenty years after the release of the first two.

When you make a sequel to a movie who’s last iteration was decades ago, often you get dreck. You can still get the original gang of creators back and often you will still get a terrible movie. That is not the case for video games.

Fallout is a famous example of a bygone video game having new life breathed into it. Fallout is now a...

Since the last blog post dedicated to one particular actor is a well established precedent now on the fredlambuth.com blog- lo and behold let’s talk about George Lowe!

Amazing announcer turned voice actor best known for being the spirit behind Space Ghost. The only one for me. I did watch a few of the originals, but they did not leave any lasting impression. Any more than Birdman or The Meteor Men. If anything, I thought Space Ghost was lame until his talk show host reincarnation on Cartoon Network in the 1990s.

Sadly, Mr. Lowe is the subject of a blog post because he recently passed. A young man of sixty seven. I regret that there are not more years to enjoy that buttery smooth voice of his.

Might as well make it seem intentional, so let’s state it now. This will be a two-parter. How do I know that? Because I made the editorial decision to publish the graphic material I have available now as two blog posts. I have enough to put together my visual memorial for George Lowe. However, I do not have the right inspiration to finish it just now. Instead I wanna just talk about him and his impact on my life with cheap text. Later I’ll talk about the Aqua Teens as their own semi-related blog post. George Lowe playing himself on the Aqua Teens is how this actor penetrated into my psyche as himself and not just a pretty voice.

Of that graphic material I mentioned, I painted the foreground and the background separately, so they’re going to be...

An unprecedented blog topic! A bit controversial I might say. At least when it comes to topics for the fredlambuth.com blog. I would know about just what is controversial in this tiny media landscape. Based on my web traffic, I would guess that I am at least fifty percent of all visitors to this god forsaken blog. Oh well. Nobody’s perfect.

I do not foresee too many other ‘actor’ tagged topics for the fredlambuth.com blog. Instead this one will probably be lumped into the ‘series’ category. It could also go to the ‘film’ category on the strength of our blog topic’s subject’s career. What is that subject? Or unofficially (in the data model so far) who is this subject?

Judd Hirsch! Accomplished actor of stage, screen, and broadcast! An actor that has given me a touch of familiarity every time he appears on screen. They just do not make actors like this guy anymore. Maybe some of the more neurotic actors of my generation will age into this type of acting archetype. Judd Hirsch was born to be an old funny wise Jew from New York City. Until that happens, he is the best among current actors for striking the balance between laughter and tough wisdom.

You know, I think I did set a second field for ‘subcategory’ for the blog_post model. Having film+actor or series+actor, or even series+film could be done. Geez, I wish the management of the fredlambuth.com developers could get their shit together. The talent that provides the content on the blog has...