You ever hear voice actor Robert Axelrod talk?  I have, after attending the anime convention Kuzuricon in Battle Creek, Michigan, over the weekend.  It was actually a pretty awesome convention, even if I spent most of my time there feeling like the creepy old guy in the room.  I swear, if it weren’t for my press pass they would’ve wound up putting me up for Carousel.

Anyway, Robert Axelrod.  You might not recognize the name, but you’ll know his work a whole lot more.  He’s the guy who voiced Lord Zedd, among a great many others, and if you don’t remember Lord Zedd then I don’t know where you were in the 1990s.

He delivered a pretty sweet panel, in which he gave the history of his voice acting career, and how it extended upward through years of work.  Interesting points:

1. Robert Axelrod owns a thirty-year-old chunk of his own hair.  It’s a huge ponytail from his musical days.

2. The band “John Castle and the Junkyard Angels” had only one Junkyard Angel.  It was Robert Axelrod.

3. There are actually several ways to get into the Screen Actors Guild.  None of them are simple.

All of these interesting facts and more were part of a terrific panel, so kudos to Robert Axelrod for putting on a great and deeply informative show.  And there’s actually a fair chance he’s reading this since I gave him the link to us, so if you are reading, sir, hello again and don’t we all wish you could’ve stuck around for the Rumble Roses tournament.  It might have even gone off that way.