Avi Kaplan

Well, this post was supposed to go up yesterday but I figure my follower will forgive me (I got big jokes). Today let's discuss Avi Kaplan.  He's one of the members of Pentatonix, and here's what happened: The other day I was listening to music but my phone doesn't go very loud.  I put YouTube up on TV so I could hear it all over the house while I cleaned.  As I walked past on one of my trips, I got distracted (my natural state) and watched a minute or two of a music video.  This popped up:

In the midst of a perfectly normal day, this face is startlingly attractive.  It was, like... jarring.  I enjoyed it.  Now you can, too. 

Candyman

I'd like to share with you quickly a little bit about my relationship with scary movies. As I mentioned, I started reading Stephen King when I was nine years old, and I've been watching horror since long before then. As an adult, not many scary movies can keep my heart racing all the way to the end but when I was a kid I was much easier to hold. I've always loved being frightened by movies, and I've always kind of chased that high of being terrified to turn the light off bedtime. If you've read my posts up to now (particularly this one) you'll know that the town I grew up in was an hour from civilization in the two closest directions so I can literally count on one hand the movies that I saw in theaters between '86 and '92. Candyman, Death Becomes Her, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Who Framed Roger Rabbit are the only ones that come to mind. Of those four, only one left me terrified at bedtime, and as a matter of fact I was terrified at all times! Even though I was plenty old enough to have been jaded about the genre in general, I guess seeing it on the big screen really affected me and I was scared enough to even pee with the door cracked open for probably a full week. It remains the most afraid I've ever been of a movie and it holds a very dear place in my heart. 

Now. Recently I discovered Tony Todd, the Candyman himself, is on Twitter. I followed him immediately and tried to come up with some way to put all of this information into 140 characters but before I could, I found that he's one of the celebrities who follows the fans who follow him! Obviously, he doesn't know me from Adam on Twitter but still... he followed me! He's my Twitter follower and he seems to read fan tweets often. This is a big day for me and I'm going to use it wisely! He's getting a link to this post in addition his fan letter, and hopefully he'll read it. Keep checking back on Twitter, folks! I just may receive a mention!

Demi Lovato

Hey, pals.  I have a question for you.  Have you ever listened to Demi Lovato?  Because I hadn't until recently.  I hadn't heard anything bad about her or anything, it's just that I'm 35 years old and it had never occurred to me to give her a try.  Then one night on James Corden (I watch the show the next day because who can stay up that late?) she sang Stone Cold.  You guys, it was simply gorgeous.  Her voice was beautiful and the lyrics, which she co-wrote, were touching.  Every once in a while I find myself Googling that video to listen to while I do whatever I'm doing.  I'll link it here and let you all judge for yourselves.  Gimme those comments down below, folks!  Let me know if you like it too.

Dr Seuss

One of the fairly obvious things about me is that I love kids.  I've taught preschool and kindergarten, I've worked at summer day camp, I've got my own two boys and I'm obviously a bit obsessed with kids' books and movies.  As I'm sure everyone on the planet knows, kids love being read to.  My favorite books to read aloud to kids are Dr Seuss books.  The rhymes fit perfectly in my mouth and the silly topics and made-up words make it just that much more fun.  The absolute best one to read is Green Eggs and Ham.  I like to start out pleasant and polite, but get progressively more annoyed and upset.  The kids get all worked up and they really invest in the story.  It's so much fun! Today I'll leave you with a few pictures of my arm to look at.  I've got some Seuss ink that I hope you enjoy.  It goes over really well with little kids!

All this work was done at Eternal Buzz in Huntingtown, Md

I don't think that's a thing anymore.