In an interview with The Huffington Post in 2016, Burns addresses the rumors about his departure: "People think I left the show to pursue a music career. That didn’t happen at all. I left the show because it was just simply time to go. I was pretty much playing a boyish, older-brotherish kind of character on the show. I was getting older; I was losing my hair; a lot of the original people on the show, like the people who created it, were all moving on to other careers. It just felt like time. I just had a gut feeling like it was time to go." Burns still owns the original Thinking Chair, which his non-animated dog Mickey reportedly loves to sit on.
Burns worked on material for his first album, "Songs for Dustmites", for two and a half years at a small studio in his home in Brooklyn before it was produced by PIAS Records in late 2002. He started work on the album after he left "Blue's Clues" in 2002, and it was later released in 2003. He posted eleven songs on his webpage, and then realizing he needed help with drums and arrangements went to Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips for advice. Drozd assisted Burns with six tracks, Lips bassist Michael Ivins engineered the album, and longtime Lips producer David Fridmann produced it. One of the songs from the album, "Mighty Little Man," is used as the opening theme for the CBS series "Young Sheldon."
Burns started a band, Steve Burns and the Struggle, and completed his second album, "Deep Sea Recovery Efforts", which was released in 2009. Members of the Struggle include Drozd and Ryan Smith of A Million Billion.
Burns acted in the 2007 horror-comedy film "Netherbeast Incorporated" with Darrell Hammond and Dave Foley, playing the part of a vampire. In 2008, he played an astronaut in "Christmas on Mars", a science fiction film from The Flaming Lips. In March 2012, he appeared in the YouTube comedy series "The Professionals".
In late 2016, Burns released a children's album with Drozd, titled "Foreverywhere". They released a video of the album's first song, "The Unicorn and Princess Rainbow".
Toby Kebbell
Tobias Alistair P. "Toby" Kebbell (born 9 July 1982) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in the movies "Dead Man's Shoes", "", "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", "War Horse", "Wrath of the Titans" and "".
Kebbell won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the British Independent Film Awards for "Control".
Ludwig Von Drake
Professor Ludwig Von Drake is a fictional duck. He is one of Walt Disney's cartoon and comic book characters.
Von Drake first appeared in "The Wonderful World of Color" in 1961. Paul Frees was the original voice actor.
The Professor is a scientist, psychologist, and road traveler. He is from Vienna, Austria. He enjoys learning. When asked for help from other characters, he usually has a university degree about the topic.
Paul Frees was the original voice of Ludwig Von Drake. After Frees' death in 1986, Walker Edmiston and Albert Ash took over the role. As of 1988, Corey Burton has voiced the character.
George Givot
George Givot (February 18, 1903 - June 7, 1984) was an actor in movies, television and radio. His strength was speaking in several ethnic dialects. One famous role he played was the voice of Tony in "Lady and the Tramp".
Givot was born on February 18, 1903 in Omaha, Nebraska. He died on June 7, 1984 in Palm Springs, California at age 81.
Junius Matthews
Junius Conyers Matthews (June 12, 1890 - January 18, 1978) was an American movie actor.
Matthews voiced the Tin Woodsman in a radio version of "The Wizard of Oz". He also had many supporting roles in radio programs. Matthews played the role of Rabbit in the Winnie the Pooh movies produced by the Disney studio from 1966 to 1977. He voiced Archimedes in The Sword in the Stone.
Matthews died from natural causes in 1978 in Los Angeles.
Fish lice
Fish lice are the family Argulidae, or 'carp lice'. They are a group of parasitic crustaceans in the class Maxillopoda.
Although they are thought to be primitive forms, they have no fossil record. Argulidae is the only family in the order Arguloida (occasionally "Arguloidea"), although a second family, Dipteropeltidae, has been proposed.
Edward Canby
Edward Canby (November 9, 1817 – April 11, 1873) was a general in the Union army during the American Civil War. He was born in 1817 in Kentucky. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1839. He fought in the Mexican-American War. After moving around to different army posts, he became commander of the U.S. army units in New Mexico in 1860.
Canby was a colonel at the start of the Civil War. He helped defeat a Confederate force during the New Mexico Campaign in early 1862. At the end of March 1862, he was promoted to Brigadier general. He was reassigned to the eastern United States. In 1864, he became commander of the Union forces along the Gulf of Mexico. He captured the Confederate city of Mobile, Alabama in April 1865.
Canby commanded U.S. army units in the South during the Reconstruction of the United States. In 1872, he was sent to the Pacific Northwest to fight the Indian tribes. He was killed in 1873 while trying to make a peace treaty with the Modoc Tribe in northern California.
Milton Bradley Company
Milton Bradley Company is a American company that makes toys and board games. It was formed by Milton Bradley in 1860 in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Milton Bradley company was taken over by Hasbro in 1984. It is still part of Hasbro today. Milton Bradley has made board games like Battleship, Connect Four, Jenga, and Yahtzee.
Seal of Wisconsin
The Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin is the state seal of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
The seal has the words "Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin" at its top. At the bottom, it has a cornucopia alongside bars of lead, above 13 stars, one for each of the original 13 states. Also at the top is "Forward", the state motto, and a badger. There are a sailor and a miner to represent mining and shipping, which were major industries when Wisconsin was established. On the four corners of the shield are a plough, a pick and shovel, an arm and hammer, and an anchor. In the center of the shield is the United States shield with the motto E Pluribus Unum.
The state flag features the state seal on a blue background.
Alireza Soleimani
Alireza Soleimani Karbalaei (, 2 February 1956 – 21 May 2014) was an Iranian super heavyweight freestyle wrestler.
He was the first and the only Iranian, to this day, to win the gold medal in the Superheavy Weight of Freestyle Wrestling. He won the medal at the World Championship 1989.
He was born in Tehran, Iran. Soleimani died from a heart attack, aged 58.
Seal of Montana
The Great Seal of the State of Montana is the official seal of the U.S. state of Montana. It was adopted in 1865, when Montana was a United States Territory. When Montana became a state in 1889, it decided to use the same seal.
The outer ring of the seal has the words "The Great Seal of the State of Montana". The inner circle shows a landscape of mountains, plains and forests by the Great Falls on the Missouri River.
Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles
Sherman Oaks is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, founded in 1927 with boundary changes afterward. The neighborhood includes a portion of the Santa Monica Mountains, which gives Sherman Oaks a lower population density than some other areas in Los Angeles.
A partner of the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company, Gen. Moses Hazeltine Sherman, developed Sherman Oaks. The company had subdivided of land that would become Sherman Oaks. In 1927 each acre was sold for $780. Sherman's other major venture was the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad.