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Yeardly Smith talks about her 20 years on the Simpsons as Lisa Simpson (can you believe it!) and her new novel “I, Lorelei”.

-Floyd Bishop

If you’re anywhere near Washington, DC from October 8-12, you can catch the classic one man theatrical mash-up that is MacHomer.

“Rick Miller brings you 85% of the Bard’s original text delivered by over 50 familiar voices from The Simpsons…”

The roots of the show are found in a short skit performed at a Canadian cast party for a “Shakespeare in the Park” staging of Macbeth, way back in 1995. Rick Miller had the not-so-choice role of Murderer #2, but now he roams the globe as the star of MacHomer, which has been seen by half a million people in 140 cities over the last 12 years. It was revamped with new songs and technical enhancement on the occasion of its 10th anniversary.

For a glimpse of this Tour De D’Oh, this page has some video excepts from an older production, along with an interview. More creator chats are here and here.

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Conspiracy theories come to Springfield when Homer tries to vote for Barack Obama for President. 

Have YOU registered to vote yet? The deadline to register is coming up fast in several states.

If a guy like Homer Simpson can do it, so can you!

-Floyd Bishop

Tonight’s airing of “The Simpsons” will mark the start of it’s 20th season on the air. This ties the record held by “Gunsmoke”. The series is still going strong in the eyes of Emmy voters, picking up it’s 10th Emmy for Outstanding Animated Series.

To put the longetivity into perspective, I was in 8th grade when the series started after a run of hilarious short segments on “The Tracey Ullman Show”. I’ll be 33 this year. That’s an impressive run.

Watch America’s favorite yellow family when they start their new season tonight on Fox, 8 ET/PT.

-Floyd Bishop

Via E! and AOL
I knew that eventually the tabloid industry would begin their assault on folks in the Animation Industry and begin treating them like actual celebs. I just didn’t know how soon…
And I loooove how the press doesn’t even use their names in the titles.

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