Watch This! (April 2019)

This year has just been flying by, and I keep forgetting to make one of these posts. I'm glad I decided to just cut these back to whenever I feel like making one, because between work, and everything else I've had going on, I have not had time. And then the past month I have been putting it off because I said I wanted to make a new graphic for every post. I haven't had time for that either. But tonight at work, it was slow, so I decided to just go ahead and make the post, and then maybe I'll be more incentivized to sit down and make a logo when I get home.

For those curious, it took me six days between writing this post and making the logo. 😆

So to begin with, I updated a previous post with a new video, so if you are a fan of Studio C's Lobster Bisque series, then check that out, the new video is at the bottom. And if you've never seen Studio C's Lobster Bisque Series, then check out the post and watch all the videos! 😆

The Lobster Bisque Post

Next we have a video from Poppy, which is just about everything I love about her. A smidge of weirdness, a dash of fake innocence, and whole lot of biting sarcasm presented as sincerity. 😆



This video from Walk off the Earth is so good, but rather bittersweet, considering it was one of the last videos they shot with Beard Guy before he passed away at the end of last year.



Another amazing video from World Order! Side note, is this their first song in English? I feel like their songs have all been almost exclusively in Japanese up until this point, save for a word or phrase here and there. Either way, I loved this video.



One of my favorite "Genres" of Peter Hollens video is when he does Disney songs, and his villain songs are always great. This one of Be Prepared from The Lion King is no exception.



One of my other favorite Hollens genres is Middle Earth music. This one is amazing.



Postmodern Jukebox recently did a jazz version of the theme song for Pinky and the Brain, featuring the real Pinky and the Brain, Rob Paulsen & Maurice LaMarche!



In February, Mike Tompkins covered one of my favorite Panic! At the Disco songs!



Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was one of my favorite movies from last year, and a bit of what made it so great was the music. Kurt Hugo Schneider arranged an amazing version of Sunflower to promote the home video release of the film, which I have to say, is one of the best examples of a brand integration video I've ever seen! I wish more studios would take this approach to marketing their films!



And then we got another Kulning video from Jonna Jinton. I don't care how many of these videos she makes, they blow me away every time.



This next video from Pomplamoose was one of my favorites, and it was only made as a ridiculous April Fools post. 😆



One of my favorite things is when a Muppet character shows up on a late night show, especially when it's a Sesame Street character. Oscar the Grouch appeared on The Late Show with Steven Colbert to promote his new book. And it worked. I bough a copy. 😆



We'll end on a high note, with my favorite music video so far, this amazing cover from Pentatonix.

700!

This is just a quick post to say, I have hit the big 700! Is that a traditional milestone? I don't know. I forgot I was even counting these milestones, it's been so long since I've hit one. I don't post anywhere near as frequently as I used to back in the day, and I literally almost missed this one.

I had just finished putting up my internship post, and I was taking a walk back down memory lane, clicking on the different tags, such as "Life Update" "Iowa State University" etc. Just seeing what I'd written years ago. Which is the main reason I even keep this blog. It's basically the digital equivalent of a diary, except I let everyone read it. :p

I was reading my 666 Cake Tricks post, (Which I still think is hilarious BTW, click HERE if you want to read it yourself. :p) and I realized that I had tagged it, "Posting Milestone" because I had written it as my 666th post.

I thought to myself, "Oh yeah! I forgot I used to do that." So I clicked the tag, and saw that the last "Official" posting milestone post was for 600, back in January of 2017. I had done one for every hundred I'd hit till that point. I wondered where I was now, so I checked and saw that I had 698 published posts! I was so close to a milestone that I figured I'd better just keep up the tradition, so here I am!

That's really all this post is. I'm sure it doesn't mean much to any random readers, but like I said, the main reason this blog exists is for me, so I'm just writing this post for me. :)

#TrueFacts (April 2019)

Did you know that there is a species of porcupine that is more closely related to cows than to pigs? They’re called beefupines. #TrueFact

Did you know that in the 60's, the Mars candy company introduced tie dye colored m&m's? They were extremely popular within the hippie community until the 70's when they were banned by paranoid lawmakers at the start of the war on drugs. #TrueFact

Did you know that fish never pick their noses? Isn't that crazy? #TrueFact
Wait, what? They don't even have noses?!

Did you know that you can't iron out the wrinkles in an olderly person? Believe me, I've tried. Opal packs a wallop with that cane of hers! #TrueFact

Did you know that the ancient Chinese had a name for the orca that roughly translated to "Giant Panda Whale"? #TrueFact

Did you know that the invention of the TV was inspired by a toaster? Titus Vyleeman, the inventor of the TV, was making toast one morning when he caught a glimpse of his face, moving in the reflection on the shiny metal surface of the toaster. "By Jove!" He exclaimed to himself! "This should be a thing!" So he decided to invent the TV, just so he could watch his own face. Titus was rather vain. #TrueFact

Did you know that the Chalupacabra is by far the most delicious of all Cryptid-based Mexican dishes? The Tacolope is a close second. #TrueFact

Did you know that in some countries, children who cannot find their names on novelty gift store souvenirs and keychains, were at one time thought to be messengers from the gods? Some of these children were even revered and worshiped! #TrueFact

Did you know that 90's radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger once ran for president? Her campaign slogan was a promise to change America's diaper, but for some reason she didn't get very far in the polls. #TrueFact

Did you know that mayonnaise used to be used as a medicinal cure-all? Medicinal mayonnaise was so popular that some doctors used to use it exclusively, to the point that there was even a hospital named for the congealed condiment. Even though mayonnaise-based treatments have fallen out of favor in today's era of modern medicine, that hospital is still in operation, and to this day you can still travel to Minnesota to be cared for at the Mayo Clinic. #TrueFact