3 posts tagged “humor”
I find the utilizing of other people's material like cheating. It makes me sick with rage when I see bloggers depending on other people's creative output like a crutch!
Thinking about the statement above, it might be based in pure jealousy (no, it's definitely based in jealousy). In short, I've always wanted to be the one people cribbed off of. Not that I want to be the lightsabre guy or the "Numa Numa" guy, it's just I want to be loved like I've grown to love the guy who made this film.
It's funny, really funny. Enjoy and forward along as much as you like. If nothing else, I can help realize the broadcast dreams of the creators of this piece and maybe live vicariously through its passing along.
Something is happening to the children. An evil influence. The black veil has been pulled over the little ones. A veil called "summer."
During the school year, both kids had structure around them. This created strong, able little citizens that understood the idea of going to school and the privileges of doing well in life. There were time restraints. We would try to get them into bed by 9pm and out of bed by 7am. There were duties. We came home to do our homework or spent the hours after school doing activities and sports (with expectations that our children will become professional dancers and/or baseball players).
Then summer came. With it, I've seen a frightening fraying of the school year's sense of order. In the Kallenberg household, it's been like watching "Lord of the Flies." T and D have gone from bright-eyed little rule-followers to dirty little natives with a keen sense of "survival of the fittest" and how flexible their non-violent, coddling parents can be.
The kids started going to bed later and this sparked midnight conversations based around how "school sucked" or why "that kid is a crap head." This devolved into Daisy listening to Hannah Montana really loud and finding Tobias spending his summer reading time "learning about life by using my Wii." Now, the kids have started to dictate that every other night is "pizza and ice cream night." The nights in between those nights have been reserved for "watching PG-13 movies and drinking Coke Zero."
What next? Who knows. The summer is just beginning. All I know is that both kids have taken to Googling things like: "Anarchy Johnny Rotten How", "Martial Arts Fatal Self Defense Parents Bossiness", "The Who Teenage Wasteland" and "Endless Summer Surfing Babes." As they further descend into the orderless chaos of the season, I'll keep you posted. Until then, pray for us.
What's more important to a child's development than the lesson that the Vikings branched out their cultural influence by raping, pillaging and burning their adversaries? These are life lessons that these kids will benefit from when they have to continue their life in the real world.
Tobias had the opportunity to participate in this event. He was a "bad guy" from the Middle Ages. Another great civilization to learn from. Tobias' dance number pondered whether or not to take children on the Crusades. One lyric states, "But kids can't hold up the armor/ and that's a big deal/ No matter, says we/ They make great shields."
All in all, it was a great show. The kids had fun and learned a lot in the way of civilizations and the fact that you have to not only take up arms, you have take up arms and kick major ass. Next year, Tobias gets to be Ghengis Khan and Daisy a ruthless, but benevolent Nephrotite.