| Quackstyles of the Rich and Famous |
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A Gallery of Famous Friends of the Duck |
Fuzzy Duck Laughs It Up with Fuzzball |
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| NOT looks up in awe at the height of Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, even when he's sitting. Mayhew was much more articulate in person, with a lot less grunting. NOT didn't find out what Mayhew feels about the "Chewbacca Defense" however. |
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NOT May Be Strange but This Guy is Bizarro |
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"And I thought my adventures were strange. But your world is just bizarre." NOT confers with Dan Piraro, creator of the comic Bizarro and tries to get into the man's head to understand what makes him tick. It's a scary world. |
EX-TER-MI-QUACK! |
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| NOT discover how good a "friend of NOT" can be in a tough situation. He meets a Dalek (from Doctor Who) but "friend" Mark Cohen sacrifices NOT to the Dalek's "plunger." |
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NOT "Flips" for the Mayor |
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While Boston mayor Tom Menino may have just gotten back from a trip down under, NOT's not quite sure why he's suddenly upside down. Is this any way to treat a constituent? |
This Just In...NOT is Cute |
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| Hobnobbing with "New England's top political analyst" Jon Keller, NOT asked why the 2008 presidential race had to start 18 months before the election. Jon, though a perceptive analyst, could offer no reasonable answer. |
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This Duck is Juuuust Right |
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Blade, the mascot of the Boston Bruins was friendly, but NOT felt he was being eyed a little too bit hungrily. |
Where's NOT |
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| While not like looking for the minority in the Abercrombie and Fitch catalog as postulated on Family Guy, NOT is small and often hard to find in his own pictures. So he definitely spent time commiserating with Waldo, once he found him. |
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Mr. Peabody and his Duck NOT |
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While not a flesh and blood "celebrity," NOT gets up close and personal with a Peabody Award (or more properly a George Foster Peabody Award) in San Francisco. The Peabody celebrates excellence in radio and television broadcasting. Seeing how NOT spends little time on television or the radio, this is probably the closest he's going to get to receiving one of these on his own. |
You Don't Quack Me Yet (But Give It Time) |
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| Getting Literary, NOT meets up with Jonathan Lethem, author of novels Amnesia Moon, Motherless Brooklyn, Fortress of Solitude, and most recently You Don't Love Me Yet. Luckily for NOT, Ducks happen to be Lethem's favorite, so he was willing to pose with the duck-arazzi. Now if ducks could take a prominent role in future novels.... |
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I Oppose! |
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Getting political, NOT met Tony Leon while in South Africa. Leon is the leader of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's main opposition party, and as such is the leader of the opposition in Parliament. |
A Nobel Endeavor |
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| NOT gets to hang out with more than just celebrities from
stage and screen, but occasionally the academic type also. He
recently got to meet Dr. Peter Agre, 2003 Nobel Laureate in
Chemistry,
who is now at Duke University. Dr. Agre shared the prize with Dr. Roderick MacKinnon
for their work in
aquaporins.
If that was not enough, Dr. Agre has also been a visitor to The Colbert Report. You can view his visit online. Part 1 — Part 2 (Pictured are a well wisher who remains anonymous, Jason Howard, Agre and Joanna Downer, Strategic Services Associate Senior) |
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Unaccompanied Ducks? Or Just a Freak? |
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NOT chats with Paul Feig, creator of the TV Show Freaks and Geeks (gee, how appropriate for NOT), Undeclared, and has directed episodes of similarly cult TV shows, such as Arrested Development, as well as the recent holiday movie Unaccompanied Minors. |
I'm a Duck. And I'm a P.C. |
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| Daily Show resident expert, author and This American Life
contributor John Hodgman stopped off in October in Chicago on the tour for his
book The Areas of My Expertise (along with his troubadour
Jonathan Coulton (below). During the meeting he gave his opinion of
NOT, as Best Duck. (Not quite Charlotte's Web level, but
damned good.) John is also known by many as the P.C. in the
recent Apple commercials.
Not quite two weeks later he was in San Francisco, and lifted a snifter of Brandy to NOT again, as well as his picture with NOT from Chicago. Holy Redux! No word if he still felt NOT was Best Duck, but we'll assume it was still true. |
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Is NOT suffering an Identity Crisis? |
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Novelist and author Brad Meltzer does not think that NOT would fit into the new Justice League that he is helping relaunch. Maybe NOT will fit into one of his New York Times bestselling books in the future. Until then, NOT will have to enjoy Meltzer's critically acclaimed Graphic Novel Identity Crisis. |
Duck is Folk(s). |
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| Folk rock singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton contemplates the duck as he sits at a table next to John Hodgman (above), whom he accompanied on the track 700 Hobo Names for Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise. |
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Am I Blue? |
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Blue Men contemplate Green Duck. NOT also got to meet the non-Blue founder of the group, Chris Wink. |
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Up, Up and (almost) Away! |
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Astronaut Christopher Cassidy met NOT on a trip to the Boston Children's Museum and agreed to take him back to Florida for a visit. While NOT did not (YET!) get to go into space, we're hoping that Astronaut Cassidy may someday get to bring him along to give him an experience out of this world. At this point the closest NOT got was to get a closer view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis before its launch in the fall of 2006. |
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Ducky! You Eeeeediot! |
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Animator John Kricfalusi, best known as the creator and father of Ren and Stimpy and often known as John K. seems to contemplate the animation value of a small stuffed duck. Maybe Ren and Stimpy and NOT is somewhere in the future? (NOT's friend J.J. understands being known with just the last initial that considering his last name is Kwashnak). |
Shhh! NOT was asleep! |
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| Dave Attell, comedian and host of Comedy Central's Insomniac meets a very awake David, and a somewhat sleepy NOT on his recent stop in San Francisco. |
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"Say, Can You Quack Me On N.P.R.?" |
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Sarah Vowell, author, journalist, New York Times Op-Ed columnist, contributor to NPR's This American Life, and movie voice actor (she was Violet Parr in The Incredibles) was a bit surprised and bemused at meeting NOT Duck. . |
Welcome to San Francisco NOT Duck |
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| NOT meets Marian and Vivian Brown, known as the San Francisco Twins. The pair are beloved icons of the city and serve as goodwill ambassadors. In 2000 they were voted second place as "Best Local Character". They are known for their signature identical outfits. They have appeared in a cameo role in Nine to Five and have done numerous television commercials. And apparently they like NOT, who's a goodwill ambassador of his own. |
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Attack of the Ghost Ducks? |
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On a dark, rainy, November evening, Michael brought NOT Duck to a
talk and book signing by award-winning writer and fellow Tufts alum
Christopher Golden and his co-author, the multi-talented former "Buffy"
star Amber Benson, promoting their new book based on the "Ghosts of
Albion" series. Both were thrilled at the opportunity to meet the duck
wonder, while NOT is fascinated by the idea of ghost ducks in Victorian
England.
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NOT Has Problems Flying Forward, Much Less Backwards! |
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Famous author Tom Robbins didn't write his new book about NOT, but don't tell him, NOT likes to feel he's important. |
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How Can I Become a Quacking Head? |
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Mo Rocca - famous for his career not as an actor, but as a talking head social commentator on VH-1 and other stations. No comment on the Duck's culture.
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Conservatives Laugh? |
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Conservative Commentator and humorist P.J. O'Rourke finds something funny about NOT. Or is it the hairline of the guy holding the duck? That "guy" happens to be Peter Sagal of NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. |
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A Rose by Any Other Name |
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NOT and friends got a chance to see 'ol Charlie Hustle himself, Pete Rose. Unfortunately you had to pay for a nice piece of memorabilia for Pete to sign to get to meet him, and NOT doesn't' need another piece of clutter around. So they just hung out nearby to get a brush with fame. |
| Last Updated: September 2007 |