Singing Demolition Derby

Recently I've gotten into the habit of listening to music while driving. Specifically, Hank Green's music. I didn't think anything much about this, until last week I suddenly realized one of the songs in the playlist: Demolition Derby.

I'm not sure if I should be concerned about the fact that I've been singing along with a song that's about drivers intentionally smashing their cars up. Especially since I'm singing it while driving down the road myself. I mean, shouldn't I be singing about safe driving, not about totaling cars?

Then again, a song about driving safely doesn't sound very exciting.

I've found two YouTubes of the song. If you only want to listen to one, I'd suggest the first since one because of the visuals.



...that being said, this second one is what's on the CD, and it's a much better recording.



Do you listen to music while driving? Audio books? Something else? Or do you drive in silence?

Norovirus and vomit

Have you heard of the norovirus? I have. I learned about it a couple days ago, and wish that I were still blissfully ignorant of it.

First mom got the norovirus on Thursday evening, and then spent the night throwing up. Luckily she began to feel (sorta) better the next day.

But now Tall One is throwing up. And I am afraid that he will continue throwing up the rest of the night.

Bad news: I am not good at dealing with people throwing up.

Good news: I haven't had to do cleanup duty (yet).

More bad news: I'm afraid I may yet become a victim of the norovirus.

In an attempt to not be thoroughly horrified, and in trying to keep a sense of humor, I turn to the Vlogbrothers to see what they say about vomit.



I am glad to say that neither my mom nor my brother have thrown up in anyplace that John Green mentioned. Or anyways, to the best of my knowledge they haven't. Though I think mom did throw up in a parking lot.

Nerdy awesomeness

A new neighbor moved in downstairs a month or so ago, and my iPhone found their wireless network name.

iPhone screenshot

Yep, that's right. It's The_StarShip_Internets.

I haven't met them, but they seem to be nerds. Which means they're probably awesome. =)

And yes, the background of the iPhone screenshot is an e-mail notification of a new Vlogbrothers e-mail...proof of just how nerdy I am. ;)

DFTBA

Puppet theater: Embarrassing moments

No, not my own embarrassing moments. Hank Green's.

In case you don't already know about the Vlogbrothers (I shared two of their videos recently) they are Hank and John Green, and they make vlogs. And if they don't make a vlog on time, or otherwise break their rules, then they get punished. For example, John once had to wax his chin.

That's where the embarrassing moments puppet theater comes in. I found it earlier this week while I was watching some of their older videos, and just had to share.

Hank had a few options for his punishment, a few of which are mentioned first thing in the video. But I'm rather glad that he wound up choosing this one. Those sock puppets are cute!



What's wrong with guys wearing makeup?

And in case my blind reader(s) had trouble following the first embarrassing moment: Hank walked up behind his room mate and started kissing him, then they both screamed and Hank ran out of their room. I for one would be very interested to know how their next conversation went.

Another post on gay marriage

Simply because the Vlogbrothers are so awesome, I want to share another of their videos about gay marriage. This one is by Hank Green, and it's the one that the video I shared yesterday was a response to. So yeah, I'm sharing them out of order. Oh well.



I looove his comment, "The Bible is not a legal document." It's an awesome read, but I sure wouldn't want my laws based on it.

Also, saying "Why can't people be commited without marriage?" is pretty much the same as the argument that I think used to be used in favor of segregation: equal but separate.

Traditional marriage

With the latest discussions about whether gays (and bisexuals who fall for their own gender) should get married, I think it's important to address what traditional marriage really is. After all, that's what all the fuss is about, right? Keeping the traditional marriage intact so that it isn't destroyed.

So I've decided to share a video about traditional marriage made a few months ago by John Green. I'm fairly certain he's a Christian, and unless my memory fails me he wanted to be a minister at one point.

I'm sorry, there are some visuals that my blind reader(s) will miss, where he illustrates his points with kid toys. Yeah, John's a dad, and he uses what's on hand. :)



And he didn't even mention Jacob, who married both of his cousins and also fathered children by their slaves. That's another example of traditional marriage for you.

On a related note, I have wondered how gay employees of Chick-fil-A have been handling things lately, and I found something written by one of them. You might want to follow the link, it looks pretty horrendous.

Another for the Evil Baby Orphanage

A couple evenings ago my dad asked a question: if you could change anything in our country, what would it be?

We came up with a few answers, and I eventually decided that I liked my dad's idea of removing bullying from our culture. That would solve a lot of problems! But my first gut instinct response was something very different. I wanted to send a particular person to the Evil Baby Orphanage*.

The individual who I have in mind is John Watson (1878-1958). He was a behavioral psychologist who made a lot of advances in the field, and he successfully taught a baby to fear a harmless white rat. However, as bad as the rat incident is, the reason I think he is worthy of the Evil Baby orphanage is for another reason all together; after a scandal that made Watson leave his job at John Hopkins University, he took up a career in advertising.

Yes, this guy brought all his knowledge of behavioral psychology to advertising. And that is a sin that cannot be forgiven. I didn't like this guy when I read about him last fall in my psychology class, and he's the first thing I thought of when dad asked what I would change.

*The Evil Baby Orphanage is a place for evil babies to go so that they can just annoy each other and leave the rest of us alone. This would probably include people such as Hitler and Osama bin Laden.