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Ten years ago I began a series of Throwback Thursday posts in this blog about an animation series I attempted back in the 1990s called The Unicorn With An Attitude. I did the posts after I uploaded each episode on to YouTube. I kept at it for a year until I reached the last episode I did for that series. I’m only mentioning it again because the first episode in that series was a parody of the O.J. Simpson murder trial and Simpson has died today from cancer at the age of 76.
Way back in the 1990s I had this idea of trying to make it as a computer animator. The World Wide Web was in its infancy, there were a bunch of BBS boards that were run by hobbyists plus there were three major subscription services–CompuServe, America On Line (which was later shortened to AOL), and Prodigy. Social media as we know it today just didn’t exist. It was a time when people experimented with being creative online and trying to create all kinds of interesting content. Granted not everything worked out or was even very good but it still counted for something that people were being experimental and that was what made that period so exciting.
I decided to try an animated series of my own. It was called The Unicorn With An Attitude and it was a satiric series. The animation was crude by today’s standards and it was made on a shoestring budget using whatever hardware and software I could afford. The first episode of my series was a parody of the intense media scrutiny surrounding the murder trial of O.J. Simpson. To honor the occasion of Simpson’s death today, here is that animation where I parodied his trial all those years ago.
By the way you can read about the entries about the making of each episode in the series by searching on The Unicorn With An Attitude tag. You can also view my entire series at the YouTube playlist below. And, as for O.J. Simpson, R.I.P. (Rot Into Pieces)
Back when the old Greenbelt Makerspace still existed I used to go to the weekly animation meetups that was led by a professional animator and illustrator named Ola Betiku. I still have memories of when I took extensive photos of the place when I attended the last animation meetup that was held there before the Greenbelt Makerspace closed its doors for good. (A few people are attempting to revive it in a new location but this new version of the Greenbelt Makerspace is strictly a tool library only. As of this writing I have visited it only once and the place is way smaller than the old Greenbelt Makerspace so I can see why it’s only a tool library. I still may pay the membership fee since that tool library has tools that I would like to occasionally use but I would never purchase for myself because I don’t use that tool frequently enough to justify buying it then having it take up space in my townhouse.)
The animation meetup became defunct after the original Greenbelt Makerspace closed but I still occasionally kept in touch with Ola via Facebook. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 I purchased this face mask that he designed from his online store.
So moving to the present, a few months ago I saw that Ola had landed this really cool and prestigious gig. Rapper turned entrepreneur Master P had collaborated with another rapper, Snoop Dogg, on a new line of breakfast cereal known as Snoop Cereal. Ola was hired to create the cartoon characters who would grace the cereal boxes. For the past few months Ola would post work-in-progress drawings on his cartoon characters and even interviews with Master P, who would mention Ola’s name. Here’s one video he made where he discusses the Snoop Cereal characters that he animated.
The other animation he did is basically a promo video for Snoop Cereal.
One night I happened to be shopping at Giant when I came upon this shelf space filled with boxes of Snoop Cereal.
It was wild seeing my friend’s artwork on these boxes of cereal. I purchased one box of each of the three different flavors that are currently available and brought them home with me. Not too long afterwards I saw more boxes of Snoop Cereal on sale at Target.
I thought it was so unusual to actually know the person who did the artwork on the cereal boxes that I made a short video about it, which I uploaded on TikTok, Clapper, Instagram, and YouTube.
Having tried all three cereals, I have to say that I really liked the taste of them. I was most surprised by the Frosted Drizzlerz flavor because that cereal is similar to Kellogg’s Frosted Mini Wheats and I expected that cereal to be just as extremely sweet as the Kellogg’s cereal. However, I found that the Frosted Drizzlerz was less sweet than I expected, which I think is a good thing.
The bottom line is that I really liked all three Snoop Cereal flavors. I definitely would buy them again.
I’m pretty happy for Ola that he landed such a visible gig. I know he had been struggling to find creative work for a while so hopefully those cereal boxes could lead to even bigger opportunities for him. If you want to learn more about his animation work, check out his two YouTube channels: @arttron and @olabetiku.
Today is Easter Sunday and this day also happens to be in the middle of two other religious holiday seasons—Passover and Ramadan. Things have been relatively calm for me this spring with flowers starting to bloom and the days are starting to get longer.
There was an interesting article in The Guardian not too long ago about why more US churches have closed their doors in recent years (due largely to the younger generations becoming increasingly turned off by organized religion) and how the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated this trend. My own Unitarian Universalist congregation have got caught up in something similar. We switched to 100% virtual services back in 2020 when the pandemic began. A few months later there was a fallout between the minister and the Board of Trustees and the minister left. Then the person who was the church administrator left. Then the person who was in charge of the Sunday school program for children also left. And the wooden deck that leads to both the Meeting House (where Sunday services and other events, such as church suppers, were held) and the Religious Exploration building (where Sunday school classes were held) had deteriorated so much that no one can go on the deck anymore because it has become a safety hazard. (Ironically, shortly before the pandemic struck, our congregation had planned on a capital campaign to raise enough money to build a better deck and to make improvements to both buildings that would’ve dealt with problems, such as the frequent appearance of mold in some of the rooms.)
And if all that weren’t enough, we’ve had a number of longtime members die in the three years that this pandemic have taken hold of this country. Many of them were over 70 but it’s still sad to see them gone.
Our congregation wasn’t very big to begin with. Over the years that I have been a member (my then-husband and I joined that congregation a just few months before we were married by the then-minister at that congregation), the numbers had basically stayed anywhere between 115-125 members. (I think there were a few brief years in the late 1990s when the numbers had surged to around 175 members and that was when our church became among the religious organizations in the Washington, DC area that promoted LGBTQ rights along with legalization of same-sex marriage.)
I used to chuckle at all those news stories over the years about how people of my generation were embracing these megachurches with memberships of at least 5,000 while my then-husband and I were bucking that trend by attending a small-sized church. I was initially raised in a Roman Catholic parish that had around 1,000-2,000 members with four masses that were held each week (one on Saturday evening and three on Sunday morning at 9, 10:30, and noon) and I felt like I was literally lost in the shuffle with so many people. With a smaller church, I found it much easier to make friends and many of us actually had lasting close friendships. I’ve done volunteer work for that congregation over the years on a variety of tasks ranging from serving as a greeter on Sunday mornings to teaching Sunday school classes for a few years to teaching English to recent immigrants as part of my congregation’s Social Action Committee. I found it easier to take on these tasks because other members were eager to user my talents and enthusiasm because we were such a small congregation. (In fact there were times when I had other members encouraged me to volunteer for certain things.)
I don’t think I would have fared as well at a megachurch that the news media claimed that people of my generation were attending in large numbers. I probably would’ve had to compete more for the opportunity to serve in certain volunteer positions in a megachurch simply because there would’ve been more people who would’ve wanted to volunteer for those same positions that I might have been interested in and I might have been turned down due to too many people wanting to do a certain volunteer position. I made my only visit to a megachurch back in 2017 because I was attending a networking event that was held there. I explored that building after the event ended and it only made me more grateful that I belong to a small church because that facility was so huge that I felt overwhelmed at times.
The downside of a smaller congregation is that it doesn’t take much for a church to become decimated since we’ve had a number of members either die or have simply left. Due to the current situation with the deck, we’ve had to rent another church and move our Sunday services to 3 p.m. (since the church that owns the building has its own Sunday morning services). We’ve moved to hybrid services where people can either attend in person or via Zoom. I’ve gone to a few in-person services and the attendance is a far cry from the pre-Coronavirus pandemic days. A lot of times I would count around 20-25 people in attendance.
As a result, the Board of Trustees has voted to put the entire church property up for sale. To say that it’s such a blow to our congregation is an understatement. The short answer is that our congregation has been hemorrhaging members and paid staffers over the past few years to the point where we can’t even afford to make the upgrades to the property that we desperately needed to make. For now the emphasis is on gathering records, files, and other things that could be moved and putting them in storage.
Right now it’s up in the air as to whether our congregation will end up surviving as a congregation or if it will merge with another UU church or even completely disband. That congregation was originally formed back in the 1950s, which was long before I was even born. I’ve always thought that this church would be around after I am dead. So the idea that I might see my own church disintegrate in my own lifetime seems so weird and sad to me, especially since the majority of friends I’ve made since I graduated from college have come from that congregation.
Which was the complete opposite of my own Roman Catholic mother. She made the bulk of her friends through her job when she worked at a now-defunct life insurance company, first as a secretary then later after being promoted to office manager. She didn’t make many friends through the suburban Roman Catholic parish that I was raised in. With me, I was happy that I made friends from that UU congregation because the coworkers at the various places I’ve worked over the years were formally cordial and less friendly. I’ve encountered too many people who had no issue with being friendly with you one minute then turning around and stabbing you in the back in an effort to get ahead and move up the corporate ladder. I never had to worry about the people from my UU congregation taking whatever I might have told them in confidence and try to use that information to backstab me. Thanks to my church congregation, I was mostly shielded from experiencing something similar to the woman in this TikTok video who talked about why it’s so hard for adults to make friends after college.
Last Sunday was Palm Sunday and my church decided to do its first in-person congregation-wide social event since the pandemic. We held a potluck reception after the service where we brought something edible to share. I think that there might have been a few more people who attended that service but I’m not 100% sure. But it made that Sunday more livelier as people sat around tables that were set up in the lobby and we talked amongst each other in person for the first time in a very long time.
As for my contribution to this meal, I found this Peeps Cake Kit at a local Target for only $7. I purchased it because it was Peeps and I thought it would’ve been hilarious to bake a cake that looked like a giant version of the marshmallow Bunny Peeps.
It came with a baking pan and a cake mix. I needed some things that weren’t included with this kit, such as an egg, milk, oil, chocolate bits for the bunny’s face, and cake frosting. I purchased some pre-made Pillsbury frosting in order to cut further on the preparation work. I also purchased an extra pack of marshmallow Bunny Peeps to use as a garnish that I placed around the sides of the cake. Here’s the result.
I also made a short video of the whole baking process, which I uploaded on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. As for the response, I had a few members laugh at the idea of a Peeps-shaped cake but people did take small slices of the cake along with the marshmallow Peeps garnish.
The baking kit came with a marshmallow-flavored cake mix and I have to say that it was very tasty. At least that cake mix was a definite improvement over that marshmallow Peeps-flavored Pepsi that I recently tried and found it to be so sweet that it tasted disgusting.
With the Peeps Bunny-shaped baking pan, I could try different cake mix flavors in the future. Who knows, maybe I could make a new annual tradition of baking a Peeps cake around Easter. I would only do that if I could share the cake with others (such as bringing it to my church’s Palm Sunday social event) since I live alone. I found that baking a cake around Easter is far more tranquil than the times I’ve baked Christmas cookies and other Christmas treats in the past. I think there’s something about the warm weather and the increasing daylight hours that makes me feel far less grumpy and stressed than baking around Christmas. I think part of the reason is because there’s less of an emphasis on people (especially women) coming up with the “perfect Easter” complete with baking tons of sugared treats than what goes on around Christmas.
I know that writing about my church’s current woes have made this Easter post more melancholy than it would’ve been otherwise. In order to balance it out, here’s a special Easter cartoon that Stephen Colbert showed on his comedy show that’s hysterical to watch.
Well, in any case, I’ll just sign off with wishing everyone either a Happy Easter, Happy Passover, or Happy Ramadan (depending on what you celebrate).
Last December I ordered a sweatshirt from a Ukrainian website, which didn’t arrive until a few weeks ago. Of course the delay was due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine but it arrived nonetheless. I’m pretty happy with it so far. (I’ve only had it for about two weeks.) The quality seems pretty solid and it has held up after I washed it once. It’s too early to determine how well it will hold up to normal wear and tear.
I made a quick unboxing video of that sweatshirt that I uploaded on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
The sweatshirt depicts a dog who is probably the second biggest famous Ukrainian behind President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. His name is Patron (whose name means “bullet” or “cartridge” in Ukrainian) and he is a landmine sniffing dog who is trying to do everything possible to undo what the Russians have done to their land by burying those awful landmines that only exist to either kill or blow off the limbs of any random unsuspecting person (including a child) who’s unlucky enough to inadvertently walk on one.
Patron has become so famous for his landmine sniffing work that he has his own Wikipedia page. He has a huge following on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. He has a Patreon account where 100% of the funds will go to sappers like him (both human and canine) that will help support their effort to eliminate all buried landmines from Ukraine. A Ukrainian band known as Karta Svitu has recorded this incredibly catchy song about him called “Pes Patron” (whose title translates as “Dog Patron” or “Patron Dog” or “Patron the Dog”).
He is even the star of his own animation series that is available on his YouTube channel. The animation is in Ukrainian but it has English subtitles.
If you like the sweatshirt I featured in my own short video, you can order it—along with lots of other Patron swag like hats, keychains, and t-shirts—from Patron’s own online store. All of the proceeds from the sale on that website is going to help support sappers like Patron—both human and animal. If you’re not in the mood to buy anything online, you can still help out Patron and his fellow sappers by either making an online donation to the Patron Dog Fund or by becoming a paying member of his Patreon account.
This week Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, has totally destroyed his own career by claiming that African Americans were part of a hate group and white people should “get the hell away from them.” That remark has prompted a lot of newspapers across the US to drop that strip.
I am not surprised that Scott Adams is a dickhead. Even though, on the surface, his Dilbert comic strip seems to support white collar workers who are at the mercy of their corporate bosses, in his private life he has favored the same corporate downsizing that his comic strip has lampooned. This was why, back in the 1990s, when I was trying to make it as a web animator with my The Unicorn With An Attitude series, I made an episode that lampooned Dilbert.
You can read more about the making of this particular animation right here. You can watch the playlist of the entire series below.
In the years since I did my Dilbert parody Scott Adams has proven himself to be a total asshole. He has created his own blog where his true colors really came out. He has compared women wanting equal pay for equal work to children demanding to eat candy for dinner. He has come out as a Donald Trump supporter. He also claimed that unvaccinated people came out the best when it came to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
But it’s his statement about white people should stay away from black people that has proven to be his undoing. I’m glad that he has lost his career with so many newspapers canceling his comic strip. He’s been garbage for many years. My ex-husband was such a huge fan of Dilbert that he used to cut out his favorite strips to post on the refrigerator door in the kitchen. He also purchased many of the books that reprinted those comic strips. As for me, while I initially found Dilbert to be funny at first, I stopped reading that comic strip when Scott Adams came out in favor of corporate downsizings in the 1990s. As someone who has held a variety of clerical jobs in corporations that had undergone downsizings (and sometimes I was caught up in a round of layoffs), I was alienated from Scott Adams’ stance on favoring corporations over worker rights. I don’t regret giving those Dilbert books away (mainly to the local PTA, which holds a used book sale as part of the Greenbelt Labor Day Festival each year) when my husband walked out on me in late 2011.
Good riddance to bad rubbish!
I’ve originally purchased this articulated Sonic the Hedgehog action figure doll way back in 2012 and, with the exception of taking him to seeing the blooming cherry blossoms and the annual Sakura Matsuri festival in downtown DC, he’s mostly been sitting on a shelf in my home ever since.
But then I purchased this energy drink that had Sonic the Hedgehog printed on it at Walmart and I was inspired to take my Sonic doll down from the shelf and play with him again. First, I made a short video that was strictly about the many articulation points of that doll. I uploaded it on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
But then I decided to get silly with my Sonic doll by doing this stop motion animation where he seems to drink the energy drink that has his image on it and he has a reaction to it. I uploaded it on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube.
Last month Disney decided to release a new Nuimos based on Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who is best known as the cartoon character that Walt Disney originally created and worked on until he lost the rights to that character and he ended up creating Mickey Mouse in the wake of that loss. (Basically had Walt Disney been able to maintain the legal rights to Oswald, Mickey would have never existed at all.)
There are two probable reasons why Oswald is now a Disney Nuimos: 1) This year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of what is now known as The Walt Disney Company and 2) Lunar New Year was scheduled to arrive soon, which ushered in the Year of the Rabbit.
As for the Year of the Rabbit, I already own a Disney Nuimos rabbit character, Judy Hopps. I decided to order Oswald even though I had sworn to myself that I would only purchase new Nuimos if they were on sale. (With shipping and handling, I ended up paying $25 for Oswald.)
Oswald arrived just in time for the start of the Lunar New Year so I decided to do this stop motion animation that’s a combination of an unboxing video (where I had Judy Hopps opening the package) and a Chinese New Year’s celebration where the two rabbits dance together to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit. You can view my short animation online on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
This is the third year in a row that I’ve done stop motion animation featuring a certain plush animal for Lunar New Year/Chinese New Year. Here are the previous animations that I did:
The Year of the Ox featuring a small plush ox I purchased from Walmart (2021)
The Year of the Tiger featuring my Disney Nuimos Tigger (2022)
Since today is Groundhog Day, I’d thought I’d dedicate this blog post to a different type of creature. Unlike the groundhog, this creature is entirely fictional but he’s pretty cute.
Not too long ago, while I was decluttering my home, I came across this unusual plush known as Marsupilami. Here is some background: I remember it was during one of the many trips that my then-husband and I had made to Walt Disney World in Florida and I saw these unusual looking creatures on sale in many of the shops known as a Marsupiliami. He looked incredibly cute with his impish smile, long curly tail, and his bright yellow with black spotted fur. but I didn’t buy one while I was in Florida. It was after we returned and I happened to be in one of the since-closed Disney Stores when I saw that the store had a shipment of these creatures and I ended up buying one on impulse.
It turned out that there was an animated Disney Saturday morning TV show that aired on CBS called Marsupiliami. (I know that Disney now owns ABC but this cartoon went on the air in 1993—three years before Disney bought ABC.) My husband watched an episode and we liked it. It reminded me of the Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoons I used to watch as a child and my husband laughed as well. Here’s the original intro to the show.
Each Saturday morning we made an effort to wake up in time so we could watch the show. On a rare occasion when we would be out of town, we would program the VCR to record the show for us so we could watch it when we returned. We were that hooked on that show.
I still remember when a line of Marsupilami Valentine’s Day cards went on sale at a local Hallmark store and I purchased one for my husband that had the cute creature saying “HOUBA! HOUBA! I LOVE YOU-BA!” (Marsupilami used to frequently shout “HOUBA!” on the TV show.)
Sadly the cartoon only lasted one season, which was a big letdown. Years later I discovered that Marsupilami had originally started as a character in a Belgian comic book series and Disney had to obtain the rights to create that cartoon series in the first place. Even though Marsupilami seems to be forgotten in the US today, he has staying power in Europe. Marsupilami went on to starring in a joint French-Belgian animated series that lasted much longer than the Disney series. He also starred in a movie that’s known in English as Houba! On the Trail of the Marsupilami and in French as Sur la piste du Marsupilami. Most recently he starred in his own video game called Marsupilami: Hoobadventure, which is available for Xbox One, Playstation 4, PC, Mac, and Nintendo Switch.
What makes my vintage Marsupilami plush so unique is that he has a spring in his long tail, which is why his tail is curled up. The spring isn’t very bouncy despite the fact that his animated counterpart used to frequently use his springy tail if he needed to travel long distances very quickly. I decided to make a short video of my plush (where I demonstrated how bouncy the spring in his tail really is), which I uploaded on to TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
I can’t believe it’s 2023 already. This time last year I had hopes that the COVID-19 pandemic will further recede from being the major threat that it was in 2020 and 2021. I wanted 2022 to be relatively placid in terms of bad news.
But then Vladimir Putin had to ruin it by deciding to launch his stupid invasion of Ukraine on February 24. (Yes, next month will be the one-year anniversary of that disaster.) The Ukrainians are fighting back way harder than the Russians expected. It’s gotten to the point where there’s no way Russia can achieve its goal of conquering Ukraine but Putin isn’t listening to reason. I’ve heard rumors that Russia is going to do another mass mobilization of young men to send to Ukraine pretty soon. Never mind the fact that the last mass mobilization has resulted in numerous Russians fleeing to neighboring countries like Georgia and Kazakstan.
Basically Vladimir Putin is hell-bent on reconstructing the former Soviet Union no matter how many Russians get killed, no matter how many economic sanctions that other countries have placed on that country, no matter how often people are comparing him to Adolf Hitler so much that I’ve seen his name written as Vladof Putler online. He’s so determined in his unrealistic dream (and, yes, it is unrealistic—if you look at the history of the USSR, you’d realize that there’s a reason why Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakstan, and other former Soviet Republics had declared independence when the Soviet Union fell apart back in the early 1990s) that there is even a phenomenon of members of the Russian oligarchy who have died under mysterious circumstances last year. There’s even a Wikipedia page devoted to this bizarre and deadly phenomenon. Some of the oligarchs were apparently unenthusiastic about the idea of Russia invading Ukraine and they ended up dead.
Meanwhile COVID-19 is still around. There’s now a new variant called XBB.1.5 that’s on the rise. What’s really frustrating is that I still continue to wear masks whenever I’m in an indoor public place but there are fewer people wearing masks these days. This is what happens when some anti-maskers had filed enough lawsuits that most public places have given up and now make mask-wearing optional (but still recommended). I’m only still wearing a mask despite being vaccinated because I’m trying to avoid getting the Coronavirus. So far I’ve been lucky in not even getting infected.
For this year I’m just not going to hope for anything because they’re just going to end up being dashed. The only hope I have is to find a steady day job so I won’t have to rely on the payment from my late mother’s life insurance to keep me afloat. I’ve heard a lot about the Great Resignation plus there are fewer workers overall because so many of them had perished in the COVID-19 pandemic. (At least the Coronavirus death rate has slowed down since Joe Biden became president. The death rate has stabilized at 1.1 million dead Americans.)
My only New Year’s resolution is to cut back on social media because I’d rather be artistic in creating new things than just scroll through posts after posts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. That’s the main reason why I haven’t tried going on the Twitter alternatives that people have flocked to since Elon Musk purchased that platform a couple of months ago and has been running amok ever since. I just don’t want to have one more thing to get hooked on.
And some of the newer social media sites just don’t even excite me at all. One example is this much-hyped new platform called BeReal. The idea is to move away from those perfect curated photos that Instagram promotes in favor of photographing yourself in the moment with no filters to manipulate the photos. Sounds good on the surface but there’s a catch that I’m not too keen about. Apparently every day you’ll get a new notification at a random time of the day that says “Time to BeReal.” As soon as you get that notification, you have two minutes to take a simultaneous selfie and back camera photo of what you are doing at that very moment. If you choose to wait to post a picture later in the day when you look better or are doing something fun, all your friends will be able to see that you waited and aren’t being real.
Here’s my problem with this. Suppose I’m so busy doing something else that I don’t have the time to take a picture at that moment that BeReal tells me to take one. That issue will come up if I’m working a day job or if I’m doing a side project with a deadline and I simply don’t have the time to take a BeReal photograph. Suppose I’m driving a car when the BeReal notification comes up. I don’t think the state of Maryland would like the idea of me taking a BeReal photograph while I’m driving at the same time. (The state already has a ban on talking on cell phones and texting while driving.) I’m sure other states would take a dim view of taking BeReal pictures while driving as well. Suppose I have a day when I feel less than perky and I’m simply not in the mood to take a BeReal picture. Suppose I get a BeReal notification while I’m sleeping. Am I expected to wake up and take a photo of myself looking exhausted with messy hair?
BeReal is a hard pass for me. I’d rather submit content online when I want to than have some app tell me that I need to submit new content within two minutes of a random notification.
Today I made a short video featuring my Disney Nuimos. It’s basically an online Christmas card using reindeer and sleigh props that I found at Target for $5 each. I also have a small Christmas tree that I purchased at Target for around $5 two years ago with small ornaments that I found at Walmart for $5 last year. I even found a small bottle of raspberry-flavored sparkling wine imported from Italy that was in a bottle that was small enough for 1-2 glasses. (Which is good enough for me because I was spending the New Year’s holiday alone so it didn’t make sense for me to buy a big bottle. By the way, the sparkling wine tasted very good.) I wanted to make such a video sooner but with the bad weather (such as the heavy rain that plagued New Year’s Eve yesterday) and the Arctic chill that plagued the entire region over the Christmas holiday, I wasn’t able to finish my video until today. (The temperature reached a high of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, which I loved.) I uploaded my video on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
I’m going to end this post with a hilarious animation I found that was originally aired on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert a few weeks ago. It features Santa Claus fighting Vladimir Putin with a little help from Joe Biden and it’s a hoot! Enjoy!
Every now and then I try out a TikTok filter. During a recent trip to Walmart I decided to try the filter that has Alice in Wonderland dancing. So I did this short video where Alice is dancing to The Archies song “Sugar, Sugar” in the middle of the grocery section of Walmart I uploaded it on to TikTok then crossposted it into Instagram and YouTube. Enjoy!
And speaking of The Archies song “Sugar, Sugar,” I looked through YouTube for the heck of it and I found that there are two official video versions of the same song. One is a live action video where it looks like the same guy is singing and playing all of the instruments.
The other is an animated version that takes clips from the old Saturday morning TV cartoon show Archie. (Of course the cartoon was based on the long-running comic book series of the same name.)
Sagittarius Dolly 
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