In the first installment of Snuggets I talked about Blingo, burning a grilled cheese sandwich, eating bugs for protein, the inventor of the slow cooker and finally the chocolate shell topping.
For those who don’t know, a snugget is a cross between a snippet and nugget of information. Not quite snippet and not quite nugget, “snuggets” are somewhere inbetween and may end up being great water cooler conversation starters. Typically I like to let my mind wander a bit and just let these thoughts freeflow, as if I’m one of those beatnik poetry guys sweating beads under a blue-tinted spotlight.
Plugging
No, I don’t mean yanking a plug out the wall and waving it around your head like a plastic lasso. Instead, I’m referring to plugging, or advertising a third-party service, book, album, web site or program. When did it become a social crime to “plug”? Especially considering that most if not all of the successful companies in existence today benefited from some form of plugging by a close associate or admirer of said service or object.
With that said, Paul Davidson recently announced his new book, The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison. It answers the question, “What if famous historical figures could blog?”. It’s something I hinted at eons ago in my post, E=MC Blog, which pondered what it would’ve been like if great minds of our time “blogged”.
Rocko’s Modern Life and Joe Murray
Admittedly, I miss the mid-1990’s Nickelodeon cartoon, Rocko’s Modern Life. The creator, Joe Murray, is still active in the realm of cartoons and mischief and recently created Cartoon Network’s Camp Lazlo, an equally off-kilter and mildly amusing take on juvenile camp life.
Toy Story’s 10th Anniversary
Hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since this Disney/Pixar movie was released. Touted as the first full-length computer-animated film, Toy Story was leaps and bounds beyond anything that had ever been seen before. Sure, CGI (or Computer Generated Imagery) had been utilized extensively in films prior to Toy Story, but never to the extent that was used here.
Helmed by John Lasseter, the late Joe Ranft, Andrew Stanton and Joel Cohen, this family movie was appealing to both children and adults due to its colorful world and somewhat adult laden humor.
As it’s been said, time and time again, the truly successful component of Toy Story wasn’t the eye candy so much as the poignant buddy story wrapped in a toy’s come to life adventure, which makes it one of my all-time favorite films.
Wow really? 10 years? I can still remember sitting in the cinema on the day that it was released.
Yeah, amazing, isn’t it?
I also remember sitting in the first few rows in the movie theatre with my Dad on one side, my Grandma on the other and my brother wedged somewhere inbetween.
At the time I couldn’t believe my eyes, mainly because it was something unique, but also it just looked fantastic.
Welcome back “snuggets,” we missed ya! :P
I never did see Toy Story in the cinema, but rather on cable. Can’t believe its been 10 years. It’s amazing to see how more and more CGI has been used in more and more movies.
My favorite scene from the Toy Story movies is when Mr. Potato Head takes his lips off and presses them on his butt. Yes folks, that’s my kind of humor.
It’s funny, I wasn’t prepared to love Toy Story, but it was smart, so funny, and so well done. I am an un-apologetic Looney Tunes/Merry Melody fanatic. I can tell you who directed any of those cartoons. I can also tell you who did the music (Carl Stalling rocks!). But, times change and I’m totally into “Ed, Edd, and Eddy,” “Courage the Cowardly Dog,” and anything from Pixar. “Camp Lazlo is cute, but ya gotta love the Eds. Thanks. Great site.