The ages of our toons!

Alright, hi people who I doubt are actually there! First off, I would like to admit that it just occurred to me that a lot of people who blog about personal stuff usually write things when the things are actually there to be blogged about, instead of keeping a deadline for how many posts they need to write in a certain time period (e.g. once a week). Now, I intended to use the latter system, y'know, to keep myself committed to this blog, but then I realized...

...I had nothing to talk about. How about that!

Even so, since I dream of becoming a writer I need to accustom myself to writing a certain amount of stuff in a certain amount of time, but I also need to write sincerely because I have something to write about, instead of just randomly blabbering. This means I need to combine the two systems above. How am I supposed to do that, you ask? Well, surprisingly I found the answer pretty quick: I just need to go out often and get an inspiration to write! Simple. But not that easy, especially since I'm a slave of a very cruel mistress named LAZINESS! :(

Still, I actually do have something to talk about today, so yeay, a topic! :)


Now, I was born in the early 1990s. People my age whose family owned/owns a television and subscribed to several famous international channels should know what I'm talking about when I mention Catdog, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, 2 Stupid Dogs, Hey Arnold!, Yakkity Yak, Rocko's Modern Life, The Angry Beavers, and more. These are some of the 90s cartoons that I used to watch and love, and I know for a fact that a lot of other people around the world share my sentiments. Then

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came several more, such as Cartoon Network's famous Cartoon Cartoons group of, well, cartoons! These include Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, Ed Edd n' Eddy, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Sheep in the Big City, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and my personal favorite Codename: Kids Next Door. Other enjoyable past cartoons (for me, at least) are Fillmore, The Proud Family, Invader Zim, Dave the Barbarian, Lilo and Stitch, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Chalk Zone, American Dragon: Jake Long, The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Mucha Lucha, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Class of 3000, Xiaolin Showdown, Megas XLR, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Samurai Jack, and Kim Possible, in no particular order and just to name a few.

Ahh yes. Good times. Good times. Boy, I'm getting such a premature midlife crisis here.

What's that? What am I trying to say here? Oh right, I need to explain this. Ahem! OK, so basically, the cartoons I mentioned above are old cartoons. By "old", I mean they were at the top of their game (most of them, anyway) during the late 1990s to the early 2000s. All of these cartoons, as far as I know, were aired on either Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, or Nickelodeon, and most of them have either finished their run or were canceled, with only a few of these cartoons airing reruns nowadays and even then on obscure time slots.

Personally to me these old cartoons were great! Some of them, like Samurai Jack, Xiaolin Showdown and Kids Next Door, were beyond great that they reach the level of pure awesomeness! :D And again, I know for a fact that a lot of people in my generation (that is, the kids of the 90s) think the same. To us, these cartoons were some of the best TV shows ever! They were our loyal companions throughout our childhood; always there even when the bullies have taken all our lunch money, the teachers unfairly giving tons of homework, and the parents grounding us for no logical reason. OK, maybe not everyone experienced those but I hope you get my point. Basically, these cartoons were our not-so-imaginary friends, and they stick with us through the good times and bad. Recently, I've been going through the opening themes of all of these cartoons on a certain video-sharing website (it's YouTube), and MAN IS NOSTALGIA POWERFUL! :'") Seriously, taking a walk down memory lane is frightening in that it could make you feel really sad and really happy at the same time. I know that times change and all, but if I could I'd wish I could watch these cartoons all over again. Just to waste my lif - I mean, just for old times' sake.

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However, if you have ever been to YouTube, you'll know that all videos have a "comments" section. This can be disabled at the uploader's leisure, but the vids for the opening themes of these old cartoons that I watched still had their comments. And the majority of those comments are something along the lines of "the cartoons of the old days/90s were the best" or "cartoons today suck; kids don't know what they're missing" or "[insert profane curse here] Cartoon Network/Disney/Nick for canceling these shows!" and a lot more stuff that you can find on your own. Now, not that I disagree with the general public on this matter, but in my opinion, people need to start growing up. I loved these cartoons too, believe me I do and will always do, but they've passed and we need to move on. Yes, I know today's cartoons don't match up to the old ones, and yes, I know what the kids of today are missing, but don't you think that's a relative thing? By that I mean it's a matter of personal preference. What kind of cartoons we like is just what we like, and that means other people, the younger generation in particular, don't have to like what we like. We of the 90s need to let the past go here, people! Things change and that change isn't necessarily always up to our personal standards, but they might be the peak of excellence to other people, or in this case, people of another generation.

Also, this is something that's been on my mind for quite a while. Don't you think that these cartoons were so great to us because we grew up with them? I mean, when we're still young, we absorb things much quicker than when we're grown-up, and also we tend to take in the things we see and hear and incorporate it into our own points-of-view. I don't know about you, but to me this means that the cartoons we of the 90s love are loved by us partly because they were aired when we were young enough to be impressed by them, not necessarily because of good quality. In retrospect, I'd call a lot of the above cartoons pretty stupid and nonsensical, but I'd still watch them nonetheless because of sentimental reasons. Do you understand what I'm saying? By extension, it means that the kids of the mid-to-late 2000s (2005 and after) will love many of the cartoons they're growing up with and will presumably hate the newer cartoons that will come out after they've reached adolescence in much the same way as we hate the cartoons of today. If you doubt me, then try to find people of the older generation, like our parents or uncles and aunts, and ask them what they think about our cartoons. The way I figure, not a lot of them will say they liked it, or even understand what it's supposed to be about. That's because they had different means of entertainment when they were young, and those aren't necessarily better or worse than our form of childhood entertainment. That also explains why a lot of old people like to shove "when I was your age..." stories down our ears so much: because, when they were our age, they saw, heard and did things that are sentimentally still attached to them. Now I hope you get my point.

In conclusion, I would just like to say that, first of all, I think I'm a terrible blogger, 'cause I don't write about stuff that good nor do I write often D: And second, about old cartoons. Remember: we of the 90s love them so much because we grew up with them, and the generations above and below us like different things because they grew up with something else. That something else might not be so bad nor good, but in general we just don't like them because they weren't our not-so-imaginary friends from way back when.

Ummm, hello there. Who am I again?

Ah, that's right. I'm the guy that abandoned this blog for a few months. Well, to anyone who's actually following what I post here (not a lot) and to those who wants to know (also not a lot, I bet), I can explain. No seriously, I can explain, so just stop pointing your fingers and throwing all the blame at my direction!

OK, so listen up: I had come up with a sort of ingenious plan. A few months ago I started to embark on creating a large and secret project that I needed to do by myself. The brilliant idea that I had at the time was that I was gonna use my next post to announce the project when it's finished HERE, on my blog! :D Well, that was the plan, anyways, but I'm very ashamed to admit this (not really) that laziness got the better of me and, though I am three-fifths of the way to my project's completion, made me took a break and I have yet to resume working. Granted, I did have a few things to take care of, but they weren't really anything major, so I'm not making any excuses and hereby admit to the whole virtual world that I. Got. Lazy. Lazy lazy lazy lazy lazy. And because my project wasn't finished yet, I restrained myself from posting anything new.

Well, there it is. Ta-dah! The reason behind my absence. See, I told you I had an explanation. OK hey, I never said it was a GOOD explanation. Whether you find it stupid, pitiful, amusing, impressive or whatever, that's all I can say, really. But! Rest assured, I have now (planned to) start working again, because a certain date is coming up and I would like to present my finished work to a special someone on their birthday (oops, you didn't need to know that!). So there! Instead of announcing my finished project, I am now posting to announce that I have beaten the crap out of my laziness! Hah-hah!

In a somewhat related news, I have decided to create a second blog, right here on blogger! Why, you ask? Because in case you haven't noticed, this blog is simply for random personal things in my life, and I had some other interesting ideas that are much more thematic, so I made the second blog as a place for me to ramble about those thematic ideas. I don't have to give you the link to it, because I'm a total jerk!

Psyche, not really. I haven't actually made a post in my new blog, so you don't have to bother checking it out. Yet. And besides, I'm pretty doubtful that a lot of people would come and visit my new blog, so yeah, I'll get to posting my first post and I guess I'll see what happens from that point on.

Well, that's all I have to say, for now. But, just to add something to this post to showcase more random personal stuff from my life, I'll throw in one extra topic: the Red Hot Chili Peppers' new album! To those who don't know and have the slightest interest, the Red Hot Chili Peppers (RHCP) is a band, a funk-rock band from the USA. Well, they have combined multiple genres during their career actually, but anywho, what I'm trying to say is that I have a fascination with this band. In fact, I have repeatedly named them as my third favorite band. If you've read a previous post of mine, you'll know that Linkin Park tops my list, but I haven't mentioned which band is the runner-up. I'll post about that later.

John Frusciante. Courtesy of Google Images.

So, back to RHCP's newest album. It's their first album since their longtime guitarist, John Frusciante, left RHCP, which made many fans around the world worry about how RHCP is going to turn out. Long story short, John was an invaluable member of the Chili Peppers, with whom the band made their best-selling and most successful albums, but he's gone now and there's nothing we (I) can do about it.

Josh Klinghoffer. Courtesy of Google Images.

To fill in John's shoes, a new guitarist has joined the ranks of the Chili Peppers, a young fellow by name of Josh Klinghoffer. Now, Josh was an old friend of John's and has toured with the Chili Peppers before, so I believe RHCP knew who they were choosing, but that still didn't reassure most fans, primarily because RHCP's bassist, Michael Balzary, better known as Flea, is almost-universally acclaimed to be one of the best rock bassists that has ever existed, and some people worry that Josh wouldn't be able to keep up with his skills the way John managed to for the last three albums. Now that their newest album, titled "I'm With You", has been released, and after listening to it nonstop for the past week, I hereby declare, with all the power of an anonymous person vested in me by the Internet, that Josh Klinghoffer is an EXCELLENT guitarist and deserves his spot on the Red Hot Chili Peppers! Note that I refrain from saying "replace John", because frankly, even though I'm not much of a guitar person, I respected John very much and the synergy he brought to the band, and I feel like he will always be, at least in spirit, a part of the Chili Peppers to the very end no matter what, so no, he will never be replaced, but Josh is an exceptionally good addition. OK, I know I can't really decide all that just by listening to one album, but he's doing good so far. Keep it up, Josh! :D


To end tonight's nonsense, I wish to personally thank you for no reason whatsoever. If you're willing to keep reading my posts in the future, please bear with my random silliness as that is, as I have been told, one of my stranger but more effective charms! ;) So thank you very much, sorry that I have been a lazy bum, and see you later, friends!

- Writer, to readers.

"The Boss"

So there was this body. One day, all of the body parts were having an argument. They were trying to decide who gets to be the boss of the whole body, but the thing is everyone wanted to be the boss.

"We carry you guys everywhere all the time. We carry your weight, and without us you can't go anywhere. So we should get to be the boss." The feet said.

"But without us, you can't do anything; you can't write, you can't type, you can't grab stuff. We deserve to be the boss." The hands argued.

"Ah, but I do all the thinking around here. Without me, you wouldn't have a clue as to what to do. And is that not what it takes to be the boss?" The brain continued.

More and more body parts complained. The eyes said that without them, the body can't see the world. The mouth said it was the most important thing in communicating with other bodies. The tongue said it was key to enjoying food, and played a role in digestion. The nose said it smelled everything, and without it the body can't get oxygen. On and on it went, and no one seemed interested in relenting.

Among the wave of voices, the anus spoke up as well. "I should be the boss, because I expel all the dirty and harmful stuff from our body." It said, proud and loud. Upon hearing this, everyone, all of the other body parts, burst out into laughter. All of them found the anus's exclamation to be hilarious, and none of them took the anus seriously. I mean, hey, an anus? They all couldn't stop laughing at it, thinking it was a foolish statement.

The anus was deeply offended by their reaction, so it did the simplest of things in response: it went on strike. How? Well, it shut itself. Literally; the buttock's two cheeks now stuck themselves to each other, so that nothing could pass through. In no time at all, the body became purple and fell really ill, because it could not excrete anything. So, in order to appease the anus (and so the body wouldn't die of not pooping), they let him be the boss.

The moral of this story is: you don't need brains to be the boss; any asshole would do. All he does is just sit there and pass out shit.

You can also change the anus into the penis. Then, the moral of that story would be: you don't need brains to be the boss; any other dickhead would do. All he does is just stand around and piss you off.

Writer's note: Sorry for the offensive language, but I'm sure you all know that it's necessary for the joke to work :p By the way, a teacher told me this joke and he said he got them from somewhere else, so it's not mine, got it? Lastly, I hope you all find this amusing and inspiring!

Dedicated to all the people in the world whose underlings believe they are incompetent and/or just plain annoying.