Thurl Ravenscroft and the SLA

Thurl Ravenscroft, supreme Basso Profundo vocalist, has died. His was the voice that sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch," that gave voice to Tony the Tiger, and to many of the attractions at Disneyland/Disneyworld. As good an opportunity to link to this awesome mp3 (scroll down to the bottom) of his duets with Roberta Lee on "Wing Ding Ding" and "You Wanna Talk About Texas."

PBS aired a very cool documentary on Patty Hearst last night. It's probably in poor taste to make light of such a tragic episode, but it was really hilarious just how smalltime, incompetent and deluded the SLA were. There's some hilarious footage of some law enforcement representative being asked at a press conference how large the SLA is. "We have no way of knowing," he replies, "but we do know that they are growing larger every day." No doubt the people watching this were freaking out at the idea of an underground army of crazed hippies preparing to launch a violent revolution, when in fact the whole operation consisted of about half a dozen people.