Or, MamaCat finally updates her reel.

Just had the most amazing conversation with Lau Lapides about NEVO 2024 and other plans for future goodies. Yesterday I recorded an episode of “My Own Mistake,” a podcast by my friends Stacey Kimble and Christy Spadafore. Couple days ago, I had a studio consultation with Uncle Roy Yokelson of Antland Productions. I am about 20 months into my three-year plan to… not so much resurrect my old voiceover career, but rather to birth a whole new animal.

Why does it always come back to animal husbandry with me?? 🤣

So, yeah, it’s breaktime. Leftovers for lunch and a few excellent videos by Miniminuteman, a New England YouTuber who debunks horse manure, la caca del toro, and other poor science. My kinda guy.

So I have a handful of scripts downloaded for my upcoming video game & animation demo. This is a thrill. I’ll be working with Rachael Naylor and her production team, London to Minneapolis via the miracle of the internet. I have met and worked with Rachael at several VO events, and she has pulled out of me amazing characters and performances. So what could be more unexpected than an animation and gaming demo from a nice old lady who currently only rocks a milquetoast commercial demo? It’s a nice Midwestern boring demo of niceness. Allow me to shock you.

So I also have a working document where I’m re-writing all the scripts these trained professionals wrote for me. Because, Lord love ’em and bless their hearts, this is the most boring and predictable copy I’ve seen since radio killed itself. All my custom characters as written are either maudlin, sad, or scared. The scriptwriters, to whom I’m paying a pretty fabulous sum, wrote for an old lady.

Not for a Captain Janeway. Not for a Minerva McGonagall. Not for Dame Judi Dench’s “M”. They wrote dull, sad, boring copy for Granny. They have one kaljillion examples online of who and what MamaCat is capable of. And they wrote my expensive custom scripts for Auntie Dull. That ain’t me. You could ask the Parkins!

So, if you’re reading this and you’re on my demo team… and I know you’re not… this is high-stakes and expensive. Let’s get it hot. My re-writes are on the way. Love you, respect you; but the positioning statement is meant to be Steel Magnolia with a Sword. Not Goodnight Nana. Even Mrs. Weasley gets radical towards the end. Pussy Galore had a fleet of her own henchman pilots. Moira Rose as a Starship admiral. You dig?