Hello fellow FA Artists, Writers, Crafters, Photographers, Poets, Dreamers, ANIMATORS and other highly creative people.

Maybe I'm easily amused, but on FB and YouTube there was a "Bootleg" animated short called "Timmy gets a boo boo" which was animated by some clever person who made the mistake of using the dialog from the original video, which is from a series featuring an adult acting out roles of a young boy going through the minor crises that most of us faced as we grew up. The animated version "Starred" an animated wolf type character who spoke his lines in a thespian manner, while his "Mother," A sad eyed sort of Fennec tended his injuries. What caught my attention was that the illicit clip featured animated funny animal characters, and I felt it was actually more humorous than the original video clip which the dialog was stolen from.

Silly me.

But I told you that story to tell you this one. Last month as my friend Jim, his wife Carol and I were driving down to Westminster for the Jedi meeting, we were in the diamond lane, and a small car pulled in front of us with a custom license plate reading SCDRAMA. Jim, a stage actor at heart and I started joshing about College Drama classes we took many years ago, and I cut loose with the dialog, "AAAAAARRRRGH! THE VERY HORNETS OF HADES HATH DESCENDED UPON ME!!!" We exchanged a couple more faked up Shakespearian quotes, mainly from Mad Magazine, and had a good laugh. Then suddenly, at the height of our "Performance," the brake lights of the "SC" car went on. I could even see the two occupants of the car looking back at us with expressions that hinted both Jim and I must have thoroughly lost our minds.

Shakespeare at 67 MPH on the Southbound 605!

But anyway, I felt the bootleg version was funnier with "Funny Animal" computer generated characters, but I understand why the clip was pulled. So, I'm sorry it was yanked from both FB and YouTube, but I understand that the dialog was directly cribbed from some other artist's original video. Unfortunately, plagiarism is quite a common practice these days. I just thought I'd share this story with you folks here on FA as I felt a little touch of humor might help brighten your day.

"Exit... Stage Right!"

"Peace."