Also, Just The Mere Fact That Conservatives Are Getting Up In Arms About Green Day, Freaking Green Day

Also, just the mere fact that conservatives are getting up in arms about Green Day, freaking Green Day of all bands, getting political?

Like... did you guys miss the memo on what American Idiot was about? Or "Minority" before that? They've been political for ages. Same with Rage Against the Machine. This isn't some recent thing.

Reminder that Tom graduated from Harvard with a degree in political science and Chaya has... a real estate license.

Anyway, yes, Weird Al is great.

I am SICK and TIRED of seeing so much hate towards Al! Al hasn't done ANYTHING to hurt ANYONE! Al is harmless!

But I can already hear the Al haters out there!

"Al isn't original!" No shit, Sherlock! That's what we love the most about Al.

"People aren't supposed to look like that!" That sounds like a problem between you and God, and frankly, plenty of people like the way Al looks.

"Al is just too WEIRD!" Have you ever thought that you might be to NORMAL to actually appreciate Al?

I think you all need to apologize to Al right now!

APOLOGIZE TO HIM

APOLOGIZE TO WEIRD AL RIGHT NOW!

Okay, I wasn't going to reblog this post, because I am making a very lengthy video about all the Rudolph movies and I don't want to spoil anything, but when I saw this addition I felt I had to respond, as someone who has dedicated way too much time learning about this character.

Yes, it is true that Rudolph was a marketing mascot from Montgomery Ward. It is also true that Robert L. May created Rudolph and wrote the original book, although it's debated how that came about and whether he created the character for Montgomery Ward or whether he came up with Rudolph first.

However, there is a happy ending to this story: In 1946, Montgomery Ward president Sewell Avery directly gave the copyright to Rudolph back to May. And for the rest of his life, May owned the copyright to the Rudolph character and thus directly profited from sales of the book and the many animated specials.

Sources:

Rumore, Kori. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created in Chicago: Here's how the story became a book, song and TV special." Chicago Tribune, Dec 24, 2021.

"The History Of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." NPR, Dec 25, 2013.

"Did Montgomery Ward Give the Rights to “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Back to the Story’s Author for Free?" Legends Revealed, Dec 20, 2012.

There are many issues with the Rudolph story and Rudolph as a character, and it is okay to take issue with them! I just wanted to clear this up to make sure all the facts were being shared.

somebody has got to stop the santa claus thing btw. It's getting out of hand. we keep yes-anding new additions to a lore that became outdated a century ago. Most houses don't even have chimneys anymore and nobody wears stockings. At some point we accepted the idea that Santa Claus watches children while they sleep and now we have elf on the shelf to deal with. Honestly we should have put a stop to the whole thing with rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. "Hey so what if there was a reindeer born with a congenital condition that makes him the worlds first known bioluminescent ungulate, and because of this he experienced reindeer ableism" who comes up with something like that

Update on my next video

Hey, guys. Unfortunately, I don't think I'm gonna get my next review out by Christmas.

I'd finished the script early this month and scheduled out my time in a way that I figured would allow me to complete it on time, but unfortunately I fell very sick after I did the primary filming, so I'm only now managing to complete the voiceover narration. (This development is unfortunate since it is a Christmas-themed review.)

I'll try to finish the video before New Year's at least!

~Spaceman

I had never heard of this James Somerton guy before Hbomberguy and Todd both made their videos, but from people I've talked to this sounds like #ChangeTheChannel for gay people.

Like, a popular YouTuber with tons of fans has been revealed to be a lying, thieving piece of crap, leading to his platform being destabilized and his entire fandom falling into disarray after the reveal? My sympathies, I know how that feels.

To quote one of my favorite Rush songs:

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

Anyway, vote, dammit. And enjoy the tunes while you're at it.

You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".

Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.