Month: February 2025

Mythology, Folklore, and Musical Comedy

I’m five hundred posts into this blogging thing – insert cheering here – and it’s only just occurred to me that alongside talking about artists, I can post about individual songs! I don’t know why this hadn’t occurred to me earlier, given the patchwork composition of my playlists, but it has now and here we are!

I’m Sorry Trojans is an excellent example. How did this wind up in my life? Unknown. Am I glad that it did? Hell yes! A sort of narrative nonfiction/literary analysis comedy duo about the Trojan Horse, complete with OSP-style info-packed art. Along the same vein of Greek mythology (in multiple ways – hisss), Plaything of the Gods is the story of Medusa, featuring the cutest head-snakes and Medusa’s own perspective, and not of Greek myth but similarly narrative/chaotic/quietly ethically ‘eh…???’ is Three Kobolds In A Trenchcoat! Once again, adorable – all of these animators seem to have had a delightful time. And as a fan of 9th Level Games’s Knuckle Sammich – also about Kobolds – this one is doubly entertaining for me. Their Kobolds would do that! Regardless of context, though, it’s both a journey and a bop.

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Sesame Street Autocomplete

My exposure to Sesame Street has largely been background radiation; a mention of Big Bird here, a mention of Cookie Monster there. The Elmocize DVD. So it never really held the nostalgia for me that it does for people who were raised on it.

…This is my new favorite Sesame Street anything.

They got the cast (read: Muppets) to do the WIRED Autocomplete Interview, featuring questions like “How does one get to Sesame Street?”, and the amount of comedy and consideration they packed into an eight minute video promises that those kids who do grow up with Sesame Street are having a good time. With absolutely zero prior emotions attached to this concept, I went back and watched it again! And then watched the second one! I liked the first interview more – Cookie Monster’s comedy especially – and if this was a cornerstone of your childhood, I expect you’ll enjoy them both!

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Mammalian Mammals

Previously, I mentioned a blog I follow on Tumblr, @herpsandbirds, which covers animal photos and fun facts for, more or less, any animals that aren’t mammals. As a counterpart to that experience, I also follow @mammalianmammals, which exclusively covers mammals and has had some really odd ones recently! My favorite of which may be Demarest’s Hutia, pending changes. It’s cute, it’s educational – it’s a good time!

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Humor and Realities of a Medical Profession

In which a real-life EMT does sketch comedy about it! What’sGoodMedia is, first and foremost, hilarious – the pacing, physical comedy, and “just rolling with it” attitude can always make me laugh. Some such examples include How EMTs enter the Emergency Room, Things I say as a Music Festival EMT, and POV: Getting into a music festival, in which he’s scanning tickets. At times, he also posts more serious videos, like how first responders might reach someone in a crowd; all told, it makes for a really cool combo of down-to-earth, hilariously specific, and genuinely helpful to know. Most importantly to me, though, is the reminder that EMTs are just people – maybe exhausted, maybe a laughing a little, but most of all they’re here to help.

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