Tuesday 22 April 2008

CNN Scrapes The Barrel's Bottom



For Earth Day, King Features asked its cartoonists to do a cartoon on the environment. CNN did a story on those of us who complied and since I live in NYC, I was lucky enough to get tapped for an on-screen interview. Of the couple of hours of footage they got while making my house look like a crime scene with blazing bright lights and equipment trucks, they used only a couple of quick sound bites, of course. I'm happy they used the one about animal agriculture being more damaging to the environment than all transportation. (See link beneath video for more info.)

Here is a picture of me mesmerized by my own image, and a video clip of my interview, which I taped right off the TV with my digital camera. Most of my family missed the original airing of the show, so I'm hoping the CNN police will let me keep this on here for a while.

For the record, I don't normally look as much like a serial killer nerd as I do in this clip. Sitting five feet from a bank of 1900 watt bulbs on stilts will do that to a guy.


combined.http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20772&Cr=global&Cr1=environment

Four to Read for Tuesday, April 22

* The Comics Reporter: 50 Observations And Notes From The Floor Of The New York Comic-Con, 2008

* Dave's Long Box: Closing Time

* Space Chimps Trailer

* w craghead: petals, a spell (via Dirk)