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About Me

You have reached the profile page of Todd P. Emerson. Yes, THE Todd P. Emerson. Not a clone. Not an impersonator. Not a hoax, a dream, or an imaginary story. If I'm the one you're looking for, here I am. You've found me. The official, authentic, real, classic, original TODD P. EMERSON. I am the genuine article. Accept no substitutes.
If you're still unsure if I'm the Todd P. Emerson you're looking for, peep this: I was born and raised in Sacramento, CA. Attended Edward Kemble and Thomas Jefferson Elementary Schools (but not at the same time). Kit Carson Middle School. Graduated from Sacramento High School in 1985. Attending the Art Institute of Seattle from '85 to '87 while living in the dorms at Seattle University.
After art school, I moved back to Sacramento, where I worked for a year at a publishing company in nearby Rancho Cordova. I spent most of my time there building ads for local telephone directories. I also created ads and drew editorial cartoons for the newspapers of the two local USAF bases.
I moved back up to the Seattle area in the fall of 1988. Longest-lasting job there was at Sun Sportswear in Kent, WA, creating artwork to be screenprinted onto various garments.
In July of 1999, I found my wife-to-be, Candi, on an alumni website. (We had attended the same schools from 3rd through 12th grades, but were never anything more than "just friends.") One thing led to another, and we got married in Sacramento in 2001. She moved up to Washington State in the summer of 2000, then we both moved to Renton (WA) in early 2001. Our first son, Jack, was born in late 2002, and his brother, Neil, followed in mid-2005. We all moved back to California in late 2007, settling in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In summation, I was a former professional cartoonist, now I'm a stay-at-home dad. Grey hairs increasing at an exponential rate. Wrinkles appearing at an alarming rate. Spare tire growing larger with each passing day. Old Man Cynicism beating down Young Man Optimism. I've now outlived Hendrix, Belushi, Christ, Dean, Monroe, Cobain... Hope to outlive Burns, Thurmond, and Hope. That's just about the shortest possible life story I can manage right now. Further details are available upon request, and knowing is half the battle.
PLEASE NOTE: My Top Friends will change every so often. The current list showcases some of the celebs on MySpace who have actually written BACK to me more than once. Which makes them eve more cool than I had previously thought. (If you're a celeb who remembers carrying on a conversation with me here, and you're not in my Top Friends, then remind me and I'll add you. Apologies in advance!)

My Interests

Family, friends, comics (books AND strips), cartoons, movies, TV, cool websites, stand-up comedians and other funny folks.

I'd like to meet:

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Roscoe's Oriental Rug Emporium is going out of business:

My All-Time Favorite Bit from "Sesame Street":

World's Most Awesomest TV Commecial:

"Stairway to Heaven," Beatles-style:

Original classic 60-second Tootsie Pop commercial from 1969:

Current 30-second CGI version. Feh!

Music:

Judas Priest, Metallica, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Richard Cheese, Spike Jones, Allan Sherman, Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, Hayseed Dixie, Beatallica, Anthrax, Indigo Girls, Spinal Tap, Blues Brothers, Metal Church, Megadeth, Pantera, The Rutles, Slayer, S.O.D., Testament, The Wiggles, Ellen James Society, Enya...

Movies:

Airplane!, Aladdin, Alien (1 & 2), Animal House, Annie Hall, Bananas, Blazing Saddles, The Blues Brothers, Caddyshack, Chasing Amy, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Dogma, Dr. Strangelove, Duck Soup, Easy Money, Finding Nemo, Full Metal Jacket, Godfather (1 & 2), Goodfellas, The Incredibles, the Indiana Jones trilogy, The Iron Giant, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, It's a Wonderful Life, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Kentucky Fried Movie, King Kong ('33 and '05), Lilo and Stitch, The Little Mermaid, Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies shorts, M*A*S*H (but NOT the TV show!), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, The Naked Gun trilogy, Predator, Raising Arizona, Robocop (first one only!), The Rutles: All You Need is Cash, Shrek duology, Sleeper, Spider-Man (1 and 2), Star Wars (all six!), Superman: The Movie, Take the Money and Run, Terminator (all 3), This is Spinal Tap, The Three Stooges shorts, Toy Story (1 and 2), Used Cars, What's Up Doc?, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Wizard of Oz, X-Mens (including Last Stand!), Young Frankenstein...

Television:

24, 30 Rock, Addams Family, All in the Family, Amazing Race, America's Got Talent, American Idol, The Apprentice, Arrested Development, Black Adder, The Bullwinkle Show, Cheers, The Colbert Report, The Critic, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Dancing With the Stars, Deal or No Deal, The Electric Company, Fairly Oddparents, Friends, Futurama, Gilligan's Island, Green Acres, King of the Hill, Last Comic Standing, Late Night/Show with David Letterman, Mad TV, Mary Tyler Moore, Match Game, Monty Python's Flying Circus, My Name is Earl, Red Dwarf, Saturday Night Live, Scrubs, Seinfeld, THE SIMPSONS, Star Trek, Survivor, Taxi, Will & Grace, WKRP in Cincinnati, World Series of Pop Culture...

Books:

In no order whatsoever...NOVELS: 1984 / Animal Farm (George Orwell), 2001 / 2010 / 2061 Odyssey trilogy (Arthur C. Clarke), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator / James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl), The Eyes of the Dragon / The Stand (Stephen King), Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), Journey to Fusang (William Sanders), Jurassic Park / Timeline (Michael Crichton), Splinter of the Mind's Eye (Alan Dean Foster)...COMICS: Asterix series (Goscinny / Uderzo), Astro City (Busiek / Anderson / Ross), Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Miller / Janson), Batman: The Killing Joke (Moore / Bolland), Batman: Year One (Miller / Mazzucchelli), Batman vs. the Incredible Hulk (Wein / Garcia-Lopez), Bill and Ted's Excellent Comic Book (Dorkin), Bloom County collections (Breathed), Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson), Complete Far Side (Larson), The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Spiegelman), Complete Peanuts (Schulz), Concrete (Chadwick), The Cowboy Wally Show (Baker), Daredevil (Miller, Bendis / Maleev, Brubaker / Lark), Dork! (Dorkin), Fantastic Four (Lee / Kirby, Byrne, Waid / Ringo!), Fearless Fosdick (Capp), Give Me Liberty (Miller / Gibbons), The Goon (Powell), Groo the Wanderer (Aragones / Evanier), Hate! (Bagge), INCREDIBLE HULK (Mantlo / Buscema, David / Keown), JLA/Avengers (Busiek / Perez), John Byrne's Next Men, Jungle Book (Kurtzman), Kingdome Come (Waid / Ross), Little Annie Fanny Vols. 1 and 2 (Kurtzman / Will Elder), Mad Magazine (Usual Gang of Idiots), Marvels (Busiek / Ross), Micronauts (Mantlo / Golden), Milk and Cheese (Dorkin), The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Eisner), Rising Stars (Straczynski / Anderson), Sin City (Miller), Superboy (Kesel / Grummett), Superman: Secret Identity (Busiek / Immonen), Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man (Conway / Andru), Superman vs. Muhammad Ali (O'Neill / Adams), This Modern World (Tom Tomorrow), Thunderbolts (Busiek / Bagley), Ultimate Spider-Man (Bendis / Bagley), Watchmen (Moore / Gibbons), Uncanny X-Men (Claremont / Byrne)...OTHER: America: the Book (Daily Show writers), The Areas of My Expertise (John Hodgman), Bartholomew and the Oobleck (Dr. Seuss), Big Book of Urban Legends (Jan Harold Brunvand and various artists), Blinded by the Right (David Brock), Cruel Shoes (Steve Martin), The Death of Common Sense (Philip K. Howard), English as a Second F*cking Language / Watch Your F*cking Language (Sterling Johnson), Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser), Fungus the Bogeyman (Raymond Briggs), A Hotel is a Very Funny Place (Shelley Berman), Humans (Mike Dowdall and Pat Welch), Imponderables (series by David Feldman), Last Chance to See (Douglas Adams), Life / Love / Work is Hell (Groening), Naked Pictures of Famous People (Jon Stewart), Nickel and Dimed (Barbara Ehrenreich), Our Dumb Century (Onion writers), Science Made Stupid (Tom Weller), The Simpsons Guide to Springfield (Groening), The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error (FAIR), What's the Matter with Kansas? (Thomas Frank), When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden (Bill Maher), Wiseguy (Nicholas Pileggi), Without Feathers (Woody Allen), and the writings of Dave Barry, Peter David, Mark Evanier, Al Franken, James Lileks, and Michael Moore...

Heroes:

Harvey Kurtzman, Hugh Hefner, William M. Gaines, Rob Halford, George Carlin, Sergio Aragones, Stan Lee, Gene Gene the Dancing Machine...

My Blog

2008/09/29 - Knot Quite

Due to the inescapable coverage devoted to the upcoming U.S. Presidential election, I've noticed something that is really starting to bug me: I can't believe the sheer number of politicians, anchorme...
Posted by The Official Authentic Real Classic Original TODD! on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:16:00 PST

2008/09/26 - The Comedy Stylings of Emerson & Emerson

So, about an hour ago, I picked up my oldest son from kindergarten. He comes out of the classroom, and the following exchange occurs:ME: Hey, Jack! Guess what? I parked in the shade today!JACK: I...
Posted by The Official Authentic Real Classic Original TODD! on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:49:00 PST

2008/09/25 - Nothing Original

Last night, when Senator John McCain opted to temporarily suspend his Presidential campaign and postpone the upcoming debate (due to the ongoing financial crisis affecting the U.S.), I was reminded of...
Posted by The Official Authentic Real Classic Original TODD! on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:04:00 PST

2008/08/29 - King Crabby

I'm all fired up. Although I'm supporting Senator Obama currently, I was still willing to give Senator McCain a chance. While nothing in his campaign made me want to vote for him (and the more I lea...
Posted by The Official Authentic Real Classic Original TODD! on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:52:00 PST

2008/08/25 - Back in Black

This week marks both the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech and Barack Obama's official nomination by the Democratic Party for U.S. Presidential candidate.A lot...
Posted by The Official Authentic Real Classic Original TODD! on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:57:00 PST

2008/08/19 -

I have nothing to say.
Posted by The Official Authentic Real Classic Original TODD! on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:10:00 PST

2008/08/07 - Miss the Parents

I can't believe that - as of today's date - it's already been nine years since my parents died. Almost a full decade. Time has just flown by since then. It's even more amazing to me that it's alrea...
Posted by The Official Authentic Real Classic Original TODD! on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:18:00 PST

2008/07/23 - Why So Serious?

Way back on August 1st of 2006, I aired my concerns pertaining to the casting of Heath Ledger as The Joker in THE DARK KNIGHT. I didn't think he was right for the part thanks to other movies in which...
Posted by The Official Authentic Real Classic Original TODD! on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:30:00 PST

2008/07/16 - Sharp-Dressed Man

Would it be considered a fashion faux pas if I wore my Spider-Man T-shirt and Incredible Hulk boxer shorts when I see THE DARK KNIGHT this weekend?==========I'm Todd P. Emerson, and I can dance the Ba...
Posted by The Official Authentic Real Classic Original TODD! on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:49:00 PST

2008/07/14 - The Frogs Have Croaked

Brewery titan Anheuser-Busch has been sold to InBev, a Belgian company.Does this mean that I now get to call Budweiser a "crappy foreign beer," rather than a "crappy American beer"? Either way, I'll ...
Posted by The Official Authentic Real Classic Original TODD! on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:00:00 PST