Aw, shucks, thanks, AdrianBlack! It was super-awesomely cool, I can tell you. Marv is such an amazing guy. It was a fun time to be in animation. Glad to see you also appreciate fine irreverent humour.
>> ^AdrianBlack:

Thank you so much for mentioning the tags. I appreciate the help giving credit where it's due.
How super-groovy-frigging-cool you worked for International Rocketship. No wonder you have such excellent taste.

Thank you so much for mentioning the tags. I appreciate the help giving credit where it's due.
How super-groovy-frigging-cool you worked for International Rocketship. No wonder you have such excellent taste.
>> ^taranimator:
AWESOME!! haha.. you're so right -- this is the film that kicked off the whole 'Sick and Twisted' movement of the 80's. I think this deserves an "International Rocketship" tag.Marv Newland was the super genius behind it all. I actually worked for them way back when. Those were the days.

Your food looks great!

I would come to Vancouver just to eat at your restaurant.

As an aside. My lady friend and I went to New York for my first vacation in 4 years. My goals were:
1) to eat at Carnegie Deli( or Katz's, Russ & Daughters)
2) have an H&H bagel
3) go to Gray's Payaya
4) see a show
5) go to central park
6) to eat at a Mario Batali restaurant (My #1 goal, a tasting menu for two)

So we made reservations at Del Posto (we asked too late to get us something at Babbo, and Lupo). My fiancee and I love great food, in a way fine dining is one of our hobbies. Once month we go out and try a new nice restaurant.

A Batali restaurant is high on my list of places to try. I have to say, I was not impressed. The service was good, though I have had better. Our table was dirty and the server was slow. My biggest problem was the palette we were given was less than spectacular and not cohesive.

My lady had the monk fish and I had the duck. The fish was overcooked and the duck was not pleasant. The biggest problem was the Duck however,

Duck Breast on a bed of polenta, padded with coarse toasted corn meal with black olives.

My friends it was no good. The polenta was overcooked, the olives were too astringent, and the toasted corn meal gave the duck a cereal taste that was not appetizing. I know what you are thinking, who am I to tell Mario Batali what does and doesn't work. Seriously, though this was not a good dish. It was bad take on a french dish I have had before. No good, friends and certainly not for the price tag at $300.

Moral of the story, all is not what it seems on TV.

http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Text/Riptide.html

RIPTIDE
(1984-1986)

The RIPTIDE is a white boat with orange trim, formerly the "Mary Aberdeen." She was cursed; six people and one poodle died on her. Nick Ryder bought her from Tiny Tommy's in 1981. She is docked at Slip 7, Pier 56, in King Harbor, next to Mama Joe's tourist ship CONTESSA. (Mama Joe, played by Anne Francis, has an entirely female crew, all young, all in bikinis; the boys ogle them but Mama Joe does her best to keep the girls away from them.) Living on the RIPTIDE are three private investigators: Nick Ryder, Cody Allen, and Dr. Murray Bozinsky. For the traditional $200/day plus expenses, they will solve your case/protect you. They provide security for the pier in exchange for their docking there. They drive a red convertible with orange flames painted on sides, license plate IEAZ219, and the jimmy. The EBBTIDE is a small powerboat, owned by Cody.

Riptide (1984-86) - TV action series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo, this is about two Vietnam buddies who become private investigators. The show co-starred Joe Penny as Nick, the pilot of "Screaming Mimi," and old Sikorsky S-58T helicopter. Painted pink with a garish mouth on front, it was shabby, unreliable US Army surplus.