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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 10^th 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.