It's some kind of Scooby Doo curse, or just being old. Good bye to another great of the animation world. Here's an AP photo of the Scooby-Doo balloon in the 2006 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
SMC is a very, very neglected blog so don't expect many posts constantly. I mostly use this as a venue to talk about cartoons I'm watching with my son or my growing obsession with current and old anime. For more blog posts on what I'm doing, please see The Accidental Environmentalist, my less-neglected blog about living environmentally.