Funny Strange

This is happening.....#weirdfood

Spam is really branching out this year....

Still funny.

Where I Teach You to Make Your Website

I am going to take a break from the snarkiness and strangely-named food, today only, so I can tell you about this project I just finished that I am actually proud of because I think it’s going to actually help people.   I would love it if you would tell ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE about this, only because I think it is so super important to have your own website in this day and age, especially if you have something you’re trying to do, like sell books or market music or have a small business or (and this one is huge) take control of your reputation management, which is “what you see when you Google yourself.”

I will not describe the embarrassingly long process of making this video, but I will say that I now have a whole new respect for Stephan Cox, the actual Voice of God, because OMG DID YOU KNOW THAT VOICEOVER IS REALLY HARD?

So, even though this video is on the short side and I tried to be really to the point and boil everything down so that it would be so simple and inexpensive to get started with your own website. I think this is really important, especially if you’re feeling like you want to get started with something but you’re intimidated. I want you to take the first step!   Here is a whole video to help you get started!

See, you can tell I am excited to be getting this video out there because I am using A LOT OF EXCLAMATION POINTS AND ALL-CAPS SENTENCES.

I will settle down now. Watch the video, make a website, and please do not let anyone tell you that you have to know how to code or have a lot of money to start a website.   Not true!   You can do it!

Whoops.   More exclamation points.  Here's the video.   Please watch it and make a website while I try to calm down.

 

This packaging seems oddly cannibalistic to me...

Warning: Super Scary Clown Costume Ahead

I have posted this in some photo comments on Facebook and I know some people are really scared of clowns, so I want to just say:  if you scroll down further, there is a photo of a super-scary clown costume I saw at Walgreen’s recently.   This is one of those classic “Funny Strange” moments where I am just absolutely amazed that this made it out into the world, and it’s so funny to me because I feel like this design, which is SO over the top scary and inappropriate for a drugstore, had to pass through at least an entire committee of people at Walgreen’s corporate as well as designers and marketing people, and no one once said “You know what?  Maybe this is a little too scary.”

I discovered this terrible tragedy of bureaucratic slovenliness last week when I went into Walgreen’s to buy some random thing, walked up the Halloween aisle, and was stopped in my tracks by this clown costume, which was made even more hilarious to me because some thoughtful Walgreen’s employee has put it FRONT AND CENTER on the hanging rack, exactly at little kid eye level.    I am not joking when I tell you that I laughed until I was actually crying, right there in Walgreen’s, just about how freaking scary this clown is and how many people had to approve it before it got mass-produced and showed up there in my store.   Just….why?  Why the bloodshot eyes?  Why the creepy grin?  WHY THE LACK OF AIRHOLES?    

Also, I bet Stephan wishes I would stop texting him this creepy clown photo at random times.  I know that because sometimes he will reply STOP THAT or GOOD CHRIST, and this makes me laugh even more, because I am weird.

And so, in closing, I REALIZE THIS CLOWN IS SCARY, and the reason why it is so funny to me is because no one at Walgreen’s seems to have concluded this, even though it is so very, very obvious to me and everyone else who sees it.   Are you ready?  

What.  The.  Actual.  Eff, Walgreens?  This does not belong in a store!!! 

Please reply with your phone number if you would like me to randomly text this clown to you. 

Can someone please explain to me why pecans need to be pecan pie flavored? THEY ARE ALREADY PECANS. #funnypictures

Silly Me

You know, all these years doing this blog and building websites and such, and I never realized that when people get the email of the blog’s feed, it doesn’t include embedded code (not expecting you to know what that means, it was just a sudden realization for me). 

So that you can make sense of what I’ve been referring to for the past week or so, here are the links to the things I have mentioned:

Funny Strange Week in Review, episode 1: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7wdGxcdti4

 Funny Strange Week in Review, episode 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN2xxgHA-Nc

 Stephan’s lovely version of “Father and Son,” a duet with his 10 year old self:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic70reIvsbQ

Also, I am in the process of submitting the podcast to iTunes, but that takes awhile and I wanted to soft-launch the show on YouTube. 

Is it just me, or has Goosebumps gotten a lot scarier since we were kids? #funny #kidsbooks

Father and Son: Duet With Younger Me

Just wanted to put this up so everyone could find it-- this is a duet Stephan did a couple of years ago as a Christmas gift for his parents.  He was cleaning out old tapes and found a recording of himself at 10 years old, singing the Cat Stevens song "Father and Son," so he mixed it down and recorded a modern version with himself as an adult singing.   I think you'll agree, it is very amazing and touching.