YouTube Tuesday: Brain Candy

Here is posed the eternal question; when a few spare minutes are found, do you a) feed your brain with healthy, wholesome, enriching facts and information or b) gorge on brain candy? Well, there are many factors to consider when making this decision. What time of day is it? Past a certain hour of the evening, my brain will not retain (hee-hee) anything of worth. First thing in the morning, I feed my gray matter with the stuff of champions; Slate, NYTimes, Drudge, MSN, etc. (And even some of that is fluffy.) But there is a point that you reach and your brain just needs some "lighter stuff". Ah, cue the intro music . . . . . . . . oh, sorry, I couldn't find the rockin' guitar riffs that roll before the beginning of "THE SOUP"!! Yes, I guess you could count this as a dirty little secret #3, but I'm really not that ashamed of it and um, I think we can just chalk this one up as a "Gee Whiz Fact on Lydia". I love The Soup. But the fact that it's combined something else I wanted to talk about this week in the clip, well, we just hit the double clip dip!



So, about all these cartoons from my childhood being made into full length movies; I don't like it. We have seen the cartoon choices available to our children these days and it's pathetic. I will admit, SpongeBob is occasionally entertaining in a train wreck sort of way. But the artistry, content and overall presentation of Saturday morning or after school cartoons is awful. Whatever happened to a good theme song? (see last week's Y.T.T.) Or do they care if the characters look like something that crawled out from under crazy cat lady's back patio? My husband and I have not been delinquent parents. We have been "The Best" and bought all of our childhood favorites on DVD. Gummi Bears, Smurfs, Transformers, Dungeons & Dragons, Jem, etc. So what really bugs me is when my son talks about how he loves Transformers, adults either a) patronize him, nod their head in agreement and whisper behind their hand, "Sheesh, what ELSE do his parents let him watch." thinking he's referring to the movies or b) if Gummi Bears are mentioned, they think my kids are asking for candy. Oh people, it's not your fault you've been poorly educated. Here, enjoy these introductions.