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Ever find yourself thinking "I wonder how my favorite Star Wars characters celebrate the holidays?" Of course you do. Admit it. As always, the answer to your deepest questions can be found on You Tube...the Magic 8-ball of the internets.

You can see the pain on these actors faces as they chew the scenery.

Keep this around the house in case you run out of Ipecac Syrup.

I love to cook. Especially around the holidays! Here's a recipe my dear mother left me. I do hope you enjoy it.

Jose Cuervo Christmas Cookies

1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup or brown sugar
4 large eggs
1 cup nuts
2 cups of dried fruit
1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila

Sample the Cuervo to check quality. Take a large bowl,

Check the Cuervo again, to be sure it is of the highest quality,  pour one level cup and drink.

Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.

Add one peastoon of sugar Beat again. At this point it's best to make sure the Cuervo is still ok, try another cup just in case.

Turn off the mixerer thingy.

Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.

Pick the frigging fruit off the floor

Mix on the turner .

If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaters just pry it loose with a drewscriver.

Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.

Next, sift two cups of salt, or something. Who geeves a sheet. Check the Jose Cuervo.

Add one table.

Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.

Greash the oven.

Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.

Don't forget to beat off the turner.

Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the Cose Juervo and make sure to put the stove in the wishdasher.

Cherry Mistmas !

A little Christmas treat for the fans of voice artistry...

(Assembled by our friends at DG Entertainment Studios in Hollywood.)

A ninety-second spot? What? You mean I actually have time to work with? In this age of squeezing 45 seconds of copy into 30 seconds, sometimes the writing becomes secondary to fitting everything in. So a well-written spot may or may not sound as good as hoped after it's produced. 

Not this time! I had the privilege of working on a fun ninety-second spot for the Renewable Resources Coalition with our friend Art Hackney who opted to make his point in an entertaining way. This nod to Sci-Fi was especially fun for me. I'm a big fan of the Force, can do a reasonably good Yoda voice and always wished they taught the Vulcan death grip in gym class.

Tommy Sanders performed all the voices, beautifully as always. Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed producing it. My Yoda voice I wish I got to do, though.

Our local PBS station aired “Blue Man Group: Inside the Tube" last night. It was fascinating to hear the three original founders of BMG discuss their beginnings, their influences (Jackson Pollock, for one) and the creative process they use to stay fresh and relevant. If you've seen them perform, you know they share a love of all things musical and technological. And the touring rock concert is pure entertainment: incredible, extraordinary, spectacular...I need a thesaurus to continue.

The best part? Blue Man Group: "How To Be A Megastar" Tour is touring again! They are scheduled to return to Little Rock in April 2008. Check your local events calendar to see if they'll be in your area.

Here's my favorite, "I Feel Love" with Venus Hum.

The Phone Recording Archive has a great collection of phone company recordings, including some oldies but goodies from that lady on the Bell system and that guy on US West. This one still gives me chills, probably from watching one too many horror movies. Not what you want to hear when an axe-wielding murderer is running loose in your house.

Did you know radio waves might cure cancer? Doctors at MD Anderson in Houston are exploring that possibility, and clinical trials could be as close as three years away. All thanks to former radio engineer, station owner and leukemia patient John Kanzius. After seeing children suffer when he went in for chemotherapy treatments, he decided there had to be a more humane way to treat the disease.

When asked what made him think he could cure cancer, Kanzius said, "What made me think I couldn't cure cancer? Nobody else was doing it."

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Just in case you didn't have a song running through your head today, um, now you will. Also, any lyric involving a reference to a unibrow: two thumbs up.