Hey, Tom Tomorrow just YouTubed an old This Modern World cartoon, created back in the early go-go (until-crash-crash) days of the Interweb.

I started doing the voice of Sparky shortly after Tom and I met in person for the first time. He’d done my old radio show on several occasions, but it wasn’t until we hung out face-to-face while covering the 2000 GOP convention in Philadelphia that he thought I sounded exactly like a mildly pissed-off left-wing penguin.

The fact that I took this as a high compliment tells you a lot about where my head was at back then.

Anywho, it’s a little dated, but not badly. We clearly had no sense of just how much more surreal the lunacy in Washington would soon become. Sigh.

PS As you see, the cartoons were produced by Flickerlab, who have gone on to become an excellent and successful commercial animation studio. We might cooking something fun for next year. More if/when it happens.