I love this video! I just can’t stop watching it! Snow explodes off of the top of a semi truck. It really looks like one of Steve Spangler’s science experiments to me. I’m so glad I found it on YouTube so that I could share it here – and so I can keep watching it myself.

And on a totally and completely unrelated note, my FAVORITE Super Bowl ad:

OMG, I can’t freaking stop laughing over that one!

And with that, I’m out, peeps. Gotta call home and then go read my super groovy ghost story book and then get some ZZZZZ’s……

Have a GROOVY night!

It is so interesting nowadays how people are coming into fame in ways that never would have happened even ten years ago. Like the little boy, David, who just went to the dentist. His dad takes a video of him on the medicine given to him for the procedure, because it was funny – uploads it to YouTube…and boom bam bing! Fame! And a full time income for the dad! Wow!

GAWD I JUST LOVE THE INTERNET!!!

Ok, so I thought this just happened a couple weeks ago, but, actually – it happened back at the end of July. This guy named Antoine (who really goes by his first name, Kevin, at home) heard his sister screaming in the middle of the night and ran into her room to help her. A strange man was in there, who had climbed in the window, and was trying to violently assault her. Antoine stepped in and the dude ran back out the same way he came in, leaving behind a t-shirt and fingerprints.

The next morning, Antoine and his sister were trying to get some attention to the issue, but, no one would listen to them. They live in the projects and so they just were not taken seriously. The housing authority actually laughed at them. Geez! Eventually one of the TV stations got wind of it and went out to the apartments to check things out. And the following interview is what transpired:

I saw the interview after it happened and I felt bad, but, I was dying laughing. Well, apparently I wasn’t the only one laughing. I mean I definitely felt bad for his sister – but, I just loved this guy! He was hysterical!! And a lot of other people think the same thing. Very soon after the original video was released, a song was made out of his rant. Here’s the song:

The song is for sale on iTunes and Antoine and his family are getting half of all the money that comes in and are now going to be able to move out of the projects! They also are receiving donations through Antoine’s new website: Antoine Dodson where people are loving to keep up with everything that Antoine is up to! He also has a busy Facebook page: Antoine Fan Page

You can find him on Twitter, too: @antoinedodson24

And you can also get Antoine Dodson t-shirts

And, of course, he also has his own YouTube channel: Antoine Dodson on YouTube

P.S. OMG and the funniest thing!! I just found out there is an ‘Antoine doll’!! Seriously! For sale on eBay! Well, the lady who makes them is out of them, but, I think she’s making more. You can see him here: Antoine Dodson doll Now that is just hysterical – I love it!!

I’m always singing, “Slinky, Slinky, what a wonderful, wonderful toy!” And one day I was talking with some friends about it and we were thinking that maybe that’s not how the commercial went and maybe I was mixing it up with the Felix the Cat theme song. So of course, I headed right over to YouTube to see what chaos was happening in the blender of my memories in my silly brain!

And guess what I discovered? Even though I was wrong, they do sound quite similar! And I really did just kind of “blender” them in my head!

Check it out:

Felix the Cat –>

Slinky Commercial –>

It’s so much fun having all that history on YouTube! I’m always looking stuff up – and often bugging my kids with it! We have quite an advantage that our parents didn’t have, in that we can now show our kids that “really cool show we used to watch” …or “that commercial that we just loved” …or whatever it is!

More ways to drive my teenagers bonkers? Awesome! You gotta love that!

We’ve already been over the fact that my teens are obsessed with “His Cheeseburger”, well here’s another really good one as it’s one of Larry’s Obscure Broadway Showtunes. I just completely and totally and wholly love showtunes!!!

So here you go – “Where Have All The Staplers Gone?”…….

Veggie Tales are just the bomb diggity!

P.S. You can get 25 Favorite Very Veggie Tunes via mp3 download right here:

I’m so glad that I finally got to see some episodes of this show that my daughter keeps telling me about. I was offered a review copy (for free) so that I could check it out. What I received was the last two episodes, “Mattress” and “Sectionals”

Episode Twelve, “Mattress”

In this episode, the Glee Club gets omitted from the school yearbook. Rachel, one of my favorite characters, gets the team cast in a local commercial for mattresses to help them climb that evil social status ladder. Unfortunately, that gets them disqualified from competing at sectionals. The director of the Glee Club, Mr. Schuester, finds out that instead of actually being pregnant, his wife is wearing a fake baby bump.

Episode Thirteen, “Sectionals”

In this episode, the last of Season One, the Glee Club goes the big competition at Sectionals. They pull off an amazing feat there and it was awesome to watch. There is also plenty of romantic drama, some of which surrounds pregnant Glee Club member, Quinn, and her boyfriend, Finn – and the boy who is really the father of her baby, Puck. Let’s not leave out the teachers, though – there is plenty of crazy romantic chemistry going on there, too!

Along with the two really fun episodes, this disc also has a pretty big list of extras. Check ‘em out:

• Welcome to McKinley!
• Glee Music Video
• Full Length Audition Pieces
• Fox Movie Channel Presents Casting Season
• Deconstructing Glee with Ryan Murphy
• Dance Boot Camp
• Jane Lynch A to Glee
• Meet Jane Lynch
• 5 Things you don’t know about Cory
• 7 Things you don’t know about Cory
• 6 Things you don’t know about Amber
• 7 Things you don’t know about Chris
• Video Diaries

That is a lot of extras! I’m really enjoying this show – it is so funny! And the woman that really piqued my interest when I saw the commercials was, you guessed it – Mrs. Grumpypants! She is Sue Sylvester and she is the head coach of the cheerleading squad and she got it in for the Glee Club! Just look at her uber grumpiness:

One of my favorite lines from this show so far is one of hers. She is talking about her latest cosmetic surgery (or, I should say – gloating, bragging, being a bitch about!) and she says,

“And while they were in there, I told ‘em to go ahead and yank out those tear ducts ….wasn’t using ‘em…”

Crazy cranky pot woman! I guess she’s kind of the female “House”.

Let me tell you what, though, some of these kids CAN SING!!! Oh my gawd!

The show is definitely a lot of fun to watch and you can get the whole first season, including the disc that I was talking about here: Glee, Vol. One: Road to Sectionals

Image credit: Wikipedia

“Mom, why are you always saying that?” says lovely daughter to me last night as we were doing laundry together last night and I had, one more time, tossed that line in her direction. Haha!

“It’s some song from the 80s, I don’t know, we’ll have to look it up.”

I’ve just always liked that line, it stuck with me since the freakin’ 80s and I wind up saying it all the time. I was just ‘lambasted’ yesterday on a webinar about my ‘hanging on’ to things of the past! Ha! It’s true. Guilty. Guilty as charged.

Anyhoo – here’s the song, the reason I constantly annoy my kids with that line:
(NSFW)

Takes me back, oh yes it does. I’m smiling like a crazy woman right now, remembering fun times hanging out with friends, thinking I knew everything and my parents just. didn’t. understand.

Bwahahaha!

iJustine has just released a behind-the-scenes video teaching how to make videos. She goes through process, step by step, and lets us know exactly what she does!

And there are more tips and a listing of her equipment on her blog post: How To Make A Video

This afternoon, I thought I’d share one of my very favorite TED Talks with you. It’s actually really hard to have a favorite TED Talk, as they are all so fascinatingly interesting. Jill Bolte Taylor’s 18 minutes really had an affect on me, though.

Here is the introduction from the site:

Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. An astonishing story.

A horrible experience, for sure, but, what she got out of it – and shares with others, most importantly, the scientific community – is simply amazing.

I found this totally awesome and super cute and adorably funny video on my friend, Julie’s blog – Julie’s Journal – Whack-A-Kitty. I saw that on her blog in June and had meant to post it over here, because, I loved it so much. And then life got in the way. So now here I am ….giving you joy and giggles:

But wait! There’s more!

I couldn’t leave you hanging with just that! There’s more kitten goodness! Whack-A-Kitty 2! He wanted to show us ‘the making of’ and clearly show people that the kitties were not harmed in the making of this video. And this one is just as cute as the first one!

And for the ‘cherry on top’, I give you – “Kitty in a Coffee Cup”:

I just love that one!! And ever since I saw one of those ‘coffee cup flower pots’ on my sister-in-law’s back deck – I’ve really, really wanted one! I think they are so cute! And now that every time I see one, I’m going to be thinking of a little kitty popping his head up out of them, well – it just layers the cute! Like ‘Compound Cuteness’! Ha!

And now, because, I am clearly the nicest blogger you know, and maybe the coolest and craziest and goofiest and maybe should be hauled off by men in white coats one more uber doober kitty cuteness video. This one is called “i are cute kitten” and you are just going to love it!! I am not kidding.

why anybody not right me?

I love that line! So sweet!! I think that’s my favorite part of the video! Hard to be sure, though, since it’s just totally full of ‘Compound Cuteness’ like CoffeeCupKitty!!

Hmm ….. Compound Cuteness …I should probably Trademark that. Wonder how I could squeeze ‘kitty’ in there, though? Compound Kitties? Nah, sounds like the kitties you find at David Koresh’s place. Hmm….may have to keep thinkin’ on this one. I’m kinda sleepy, though – maybe I’ll just watch the videos again!

You’re gonna love this! I’m serious! It is so cool! Here, I’ll shut up – you just watch:

Isn’t that the coolest thing? I just love it!!! I’m going to call the girls in here (my 12yr old daughter and her 6 and 8yr old cousins) and tell them I want them to see how a baby is made. Can you IMAGINE the looks on their faces? Haha! Especially my daughter!

The video was made by Cassidy Curtis and Raquel Coelho. They tell us all about how they did it on their site: How To Make A Baby

I’m so glad I stumbled across this while I was sitting here enjoying my salad. Someone tweeted it – I tried to backtrack and figure out who I saw tweet it, but, it so many people tweeted it – I have no idea whose tweet it was that I saw. That’s what I get for trying to give some credit. Ha.