Bar Snacks with Kyle T. Webster (Episodes 37 through 40)
Sometimes, in spite of their better judgment, friends choose to join us in the bar. One of our drinking buddies is frequent artist, occasional sax player and current German (formerly North Carolina) resident Kyle T. Webster.
Kyle is an illustrator, designer, Adobe digital brush wizard, children’s book author and university art instructor. When he was younger, he wanted to be either a professional tennis player or a professional actor. He is not tall enough or handsome enough for either of these jobs. Fortunately, he can draw. He spends a lot of his free time practicing card magic, learning obscure facts about Tintin, reading Agatha Christie novels, and trying to get somewhere with the guitar.
Feel free to gobble these all up at once or a bite at a time. We’re not here to judge.
E X T R A S :
Part 1
(Some of Kyle’s Part 1 favorites, from top to bottom): MAD’s Alfred E. Neuman, the Puma logo, Bugs Bunny
Part 2
(Some of Kyle’s Part 2 favorites, from top to bottom): Poster for Superman II; The Michelin Man through the years; The Kool-Aid Man; Snap, Crackle and Pop; some of the many characters from Hanna-Barbera
Part 3
(Some of Kyle’s Part 3 favorites, from top to bottom): Colorful mood lighting, bourbon, egg nog, the movie poster for A Room with a View, set in Florence, Italy
Part 4
(Some of Kyle’s Part 4 favorites, from top to bottom): “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits, Super Mario Bros. 3 and Street Fighter 2 video games, tennis and its little brother table tennis, caricature art and “Trash” by Alex Gross
Topics of Conversation
- Kyle mentions his love of The Adventures of Tintin. You may be familiar with the books or the animated cartoon.
- Here’s the Puma logo’s cameo in everyone’s favorite fantasy martial arts action-comedy film, Big Trouble in Little China. (Appears at around 1:03.)
- This article answers the question of where The Kool-Aid Man came from. (Mental Floss)
- Kellogg’s has a whole timeline devoted to Rice Krispies and Snap, Crackle and Pop.
- The Hanna-Barbera cup, bowl and plate set from 1978 Elliot mentions.
- Mr. Magoo was animated by United Productions of America (UPA).
- The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends was animated by Jay Ward Productions.
- The alligator character none of us could think of is Wally Gator from—yes—Hanna Barbera.
- We mention the artists Mark Ryden, Mark Todd and Wayne White.
- We talk MegaMan, Return to Zork and Myst. (YouTube videos)
- Here’s the trailer for the “Beauty is Embarrassing” documentary and the video for “Tonight Tonight” by the Smashing Pumpkins.