captain_slinky | The Age of The Instant Expert (Reply)

I've heard this phrase and sentiment floating around for a few years now, and it's partially why I started up my Saturday Morning Historical Reenactment Society posts. In today's day and age, it's awesome that you can become an Instant Expert on pretty much any obscure corner of knowledge with just a few mouse clicks and a quick trip to Wikipedia. Who did the voice of Sunni Gummi on Disney's Adventures of The Gummi Bears? Let me just Google... oh! It was Katie Leigh! Let me just read the Wiki here... WOW I now know every obscure voice she ever did in cartoons and movies, as well as knowing all about her personal interests, birthday, marital status and how devoted to Christianity she is! If you want to know anything about Katie Leigh, I'm the guy you should come talk to!

The SMHRS is an exercise in actual acquired knowledge for me. It's all stuff I know from a lifetime of being a devoted fan of cartoons. Reading books, going to conventions, buying magazines, talking to and working with professionals, gathering bits and pieces of what is largely an unrecorded history and jotting it all down before it all slips my memory. I'll use Google and Wikipedia to confirm or deny certain details and/or names involved, but for the most part what you see in that blog is what I decided to waste my life on thus far. All I'm doing is making it tangible :)