What this means for you is that the portfolio section of the site will be incomplete for a while but will update very slowly as I have a chance to make new pages. I’m not doing them in any logical order, just as I feel like it.

On the plus side, instead of a boring old list, the new portfolio pages are pretty slick. Each one lists the project (TV show, movie, etc) that Jim Cummings was in, who he played and then (wherever possible) pictures of the character, video clips and where you can get the DVD or download (if the item is available on DVD or download) and then a section for comments so that you can add your favorite quotes or other memories of the characters making it interactive. It’s a lot more work per show than a simple list but I think you’ll really like the result.

A few random pages are up already so if you have a chance, why not take a look at them and let me know what you think.

Here’s what’s up so far:

The site was down for about 5 days there but we managed to fix it and only lost a little data and a few years off my life.

I will replace the articles that were eaten later today. Thank you very much for your patience and for sticking with us!

However, since we only just set up this ad space today, they don’t have any traffic stats set up for this website yet. While they start collecting traffic stats to use to sell our ad space, we wanted to give loyal readers a chance to get a piece of the action.

The current bid to advertise on our site is… $0! That’s right, free! You can try it out for a little while and see if the ads are worth it with no charge whatsoever until something bids at a price higher than you. Pretty cool, right?

If you want to sign up for one of these free ads, you can do so here.

Update: We are still playing around and working on getting the bugs out with this service so we apologize for any trouble this caused for those that signed up before.  The free ads now get even more exposure as they appear above the fold (woohoo!) but they are also a little smaller so that we could extend this opportunity to more sites. To do this, we had to cancel the existing bids so you may need to set up your ad again (sorry!). Also, on the navbar you will notice a nice new, very large skyscraper sized ad. This one we are actually charging for so, while it’s not free, it is very cheap. You can bid on that space here.

Thank you very much for your support of this site!

That said, if anyone at Disney wants to crack down on movie piracy I *highly recommend* that they set up an alert on Google Blogs for the keyword “Jim Cummings.” With a few exceptions (this blog included) just about every result is a Disney or similar movie available for illegal download.

Exhibit A

I mean, not to be a spoil sport, but they are being really obvious. Seems like a really easy way to catch these people if you ask me. . .

Until today. See, there was a new version of WordPress a few days ago and when we upgraded the site software, it deactivated all of our plugins, one of which is helps you to subscribe to our feed.

If that is Greek (or, in this case, geek) to you, no worries. All it really means is that you may have been accidentally unsubscribed from the site because of this. I have set up a page that has several of the ways that you can subscribe to this site (including email which we had not offered before) so if you want to be notified whenever this site is updated in any way, please select one of the options here.

Thanks for your patience while we work these kinks out!

I have some really good stuff to post next week so stay tuned!

His fanmail address has been updated accordingly so please double check that you have it right before sending it out.

A very huge thank you as well to the Tiggerific reader who passed this info on!

The Cut of Cummings is a club and community for Jim Cummings fans so whether you run a site about a JC show or other voice over actors or just love Jim Cummings, anyone is welcome to join! If you are one of those people who doesn’t do anything without wondering what is in it for you, membership means that you get access to additional features such as message boards and more and it also gives you a chance to promote your website as your link will be featured on the site each time you visit or leave a comment. Pretty cool, huh?

Instead of The Jim Cummings Fan Club, though, we are now The Jim Cummings Fan Portal. Very web 2.0 of us, right? In other words, we hope to be your first stop for all the best JC information and to help you lead to the other related good stuff on the web.

In the old days of the site, I used to have to manually add each new member but, thanks to Yahoo’s MyBlogLog, you can go ahead and get started without having to wait for me. Just click here and you can sign up.

I look forward to seeing you there!

Once you get there, use the drop down menu at the top to narrow your results.

What sort of stuff can you find there?

• Box sets of your favorite Jim Cummings cartoon shows on DVD
• Feature films and direct to video favorites
• Vintage and hard to find VHS tapes of shows that starred Jim Cummings but haven’t made it to DVD
• Talking toys (such as Winnie the Pooh) that feature Jim Cumming’s voice
• Video games that feature Jim Cummings
• CDs and MP3 downloads of Jim Cummings singing including movie soundtracks as well as other Disney and Warner Bros albums
• Unbox downloads of specific episodes. (Why waste money on the entire DVD box set of the Powerpuff Girls when you can just download the few episodes with Fuzzy Lumpkins and get your JC fix that way?)

Best of all, a small portion of every purchase that you make through a link on this site (even if it is for groceries, clothing or something else completely unrelated to Jim Cummings) goes back to this site so we very much appreciate your support!

Now, get shopping!

So we created The Cult of Cummings, called so because of the secret knowledge my brother and I shared, the small look we would give each other when we knew, without a doubt, that the voice on that commercial or in that cartoon was JC. We felt like part of a secret organization, all devoted to the worship of this talented man; a man that was everywhere but that it seemed only a secret few knew about.

For a while, the site was very popular. As the first and only Jim Cummings fan site, we had tons of visitors each day and I was swarmed with emails and applications to “Join the Obsession.” Even people we hardly knew off-line would approach us with amazed expressions as they said, “I stumbled upon your website. I had no idea all those voices were Jim Cummings!” We would smile at this, knowing we had increased awareness and appreciation of Jim Cummings’ incredible talents.

In 2001, I got a job as a web designer and the more skilled in website making I became, the more I realized the free web templates I had used to design the original site made it look ghetto and I took it down for repairs. Then four years passed.

Somehow in that time I had, unfortunately, developed some sort of a social life and suddenly that seemed more important that my various websites. But have no fear! It will never happen again as I have now sworn my life to the geekdom I had previously abandoned. So now, after nearly 4 years of being down for re-designing, I have “revamped” the site with this pathetically boring design. Before you chastise me, let it be known that I had a much more exciting design going with the “cult” theme but people told me it look like I was a stalker, so I decided this boring design was better than nothing until I have time to teach myself flash. Rest assured the content of the site is all reorganized and brand spankin’ new and it’s only a matter of time until the design catches up.

We will be under construction for the next few months (years?) so I appreciate your patience. I look forward to converting a whole new legion of JC fans to the cuase and getting to reconnect with some of you that I knew from the early days of the site. I think you will find that all manner of interesting things have been going on in my life as well.

I appreciate your taking a look and your help in getting this site back up to its former glory!

~Hillary DePiano, Site Owner