peanut butter badgers

Last night a couple of guys - one probably 17, the other maybe in his thirties - connected in a magical way by discussing two current online treats: the Peanut Butter Jelly Time song, and the Badger/Mushroom/Snake song. To give you a sample of the latter's lyrics, they go something like this -

"Badger, badger, badger, badger,
badger, badger, badger, badger,
badger, badger, badger, badger,

Mushroom! Mushroom!"

And so on. They are infectious and funny and terribly cute if terribly cute "does it" for you.

Simply seek them in any search engine by trying the words "badger, mushroom" or "peanut butter jelly time"...because I can't even recall what the URLs were.


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Brick is an awesome piece of film. Rian Johnson, the director, has created a dead-on bit of noir pulp played out in a southern California high school. It is well worth your time and money to see, so rush right out and find it.


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The ever-prominent delays in blogging have mostly been poetry-related. The slam venue I read at has been coming down to its final qualifying weeks before the big slam-off where a national team will be chosen. I am in the top ten, though the realist in me knows I will not be in the final five. We'll see how that turns out.


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CURRENT GOOD STUFF

Wonder Showzen, Season 1 on DVD: Subversive, hilarious and deadly dark. Not for children, and really, not for a lot of adults.

Robot Chicken, Season 1 on DVD: Not in the slightest bit subversive, but really funny, and in brief, bite-sized morsels, direct from Adult Swim to you. The work of Seth Green, when he's not suckling at the teat of Mike Myers.

Inside Man: Spike Lee without race-based drama? Huh?! A terrific caper film that falls back lovingly on the crime dramas of the seventies.



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