Showing posts with label boy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boy. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Boy Wonder
Boy Wonder
Here is a picture of my Boy Wonder with his cousin, Chloe. Chloe was 8 days old when this was taken on Christmas Eve. Ive got his fuzzy feet done, and will have a picture of them soon. His HP PoA scarf is next on the needles.
BW with cousin Chloe
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Thursday, July 20, 2017
Boy Band Party Playlist
Boy Band Party Playlist
Although I’m still a few months out from my wedding, this weekend I’m traveling to celebrate with some of my girlfriends for a bachelorette party. In the grand spirit of celebration, potential inebriation, silly sashes, and age-inappropriate tiaras, a collection of 90s mood music seemed in order. What better way, I figured, to get into the celebratory mood than with a boy band pregame playlist? No way better, of course.
Truthfully, the notion for this playlist stemmed from my friends’ slightly embarrassing request that I bring my iPod (my vintage pink 2004 mini model) to the weekend’s festivities. I warned my friend that since I lost the cord to update the iPod sometime around 2005, the playlists have been virtually frozen in time. While she assured me it would be fine and to bring it anyway, I mentally calculated the cheese factor of my carefully constructed party playlists. Deciding the nostalgia appeal outweighed the inevitably embarrassment of these decade plus-old songs, I figured I’d bring out the big guns. By guns, obviously, I mean synthesizers and impressively pitch-perfect prepubescent harmony compositions.
I’ve opted to share the most incriminating of these playlists here with you, with the understanding that you may feel free to mercilessly mock my musical mindset. Go ahead, I can take it. I also promise not to tell if you choose to reconstruct this playlist on your own music device and dance to it alone in your room in preparation for a night out, though I retain that you should probably cite you found the idea here somewhere in your footnotes or elsewhere in your music bibliography. Feel free to fear for my future wedding guests and the inevitable 90s pop-packed playlist I’ll probably roll out for the occasion. For now, though, get pumped up with some of these cornball boy band jams. You’re welcome.
Quit Playing Games with my Heart
This is the closest thing to a slow jam you’ll find on this list, and it serves as a nice transitional warm-up to build momentum for all the cheesy 90s dance music that’s to come. “Quit Playing Games” beat out several veritable contenders for this coveted warm-up spot, including 98 Degrees “I Do (Cherish You)” and All 4 One’s “I Swear.”
(You Got It) The Right Stuff
It’s physically impossible to hear this song without breaking into a hearty chorus of “oh-oh-oh-ohoh! oh-oh-oh-OH!” Seriously, try to stop yourself. It’s like a knee-jerk reflex for 90s children. This song is too magically catchy not to sing along, and that dancing in the video is just too ridiculous to hate on.
When the Lights Go Out
If I’m ever looking for inspiration for creative license for spelling, I should just remind myself of the 90s boy band 5ive. I may not agree that a number is an appropriate substitute for the first letter of that same number spelled out, but I will defend their right to make ridiculous faux-hip hop pop songs with inane lyrics and pulsating beats. That’s just common sense.
I Want it that Way
Judging by the 29 milllion YouTube views on a song that premiered long before we’d ever heard of YouTube, I’d say the Backstreet Boys have a pretty well-established 90s fan base. Their ability to gaze pensively into the camera while dressed in matching monochromatic ensembles isn’t bad, either.
Summer Girls
I’ve posted this video on this site exceedingly more times than is remotely justifiable, but I can’t deny my love for it. It never fails to put me in the mood for summer, plus it kind of makes me want to beg my parents for $79 for obscene cutoff shorts and overpriced shirts that simply read “Abercrombie.”
Tearin’ Up my Heart
NSync - Tearin up my Heart by SUUZAN
These old *NSync videos are pretty compelling proof that if you’re as good looking as Justin Timberlake, you can someday recover from the corniness of being a teen boy band star and reinvent yourself as cool. To the other guys, sorry. At least you had your moment of looking soulfully into the camera for three seconds before the attention deficit music video director cut to a shot of one of your bandmates being more attractive and interesting than you.
U+Me=Us
This song fits in so well on this list, it’s almost difficult to remember that it’s a parody. The satire of MTV’s 2ge+her is so spot-on that without listening carefully to the lyrics, it’s tough to differentiate it from its allegedly serious real life boy band counterparts. Actually, the lyrics aren’t even that far off, if you go on cheesiness and generic content alone.
I Want you Back
Where exactly do I go about getting one of those super-cool zip-front crewnecks Justin and JC are sporting in the opening shot? Those are pure 90s goodness, though the shiny jackets in the next cutaway come in a close second. I imagine someday our kids will watch these videos and tease us mercilessly that we once idolized this kind of incredibly ridiculous dancing and even bought Darrin’s Dance Grooves to try to replicate them in the privacy of our own homes. Wait, who am I kidding? Our kids won’t even know what music videos are. Someday we’ll wax poetic on the virtues of TRL and they won’t understand a word of it.
Step by Step
Scratch that whole thing about the last video being the cheesiest in the bunch. Rewind a few years and the dancing gets much, much more cornball. This video also has a little cameo by Donny’s little bro, aka Mark Wahlberg, right around 3:45. You might miss it and get distracted by the miming of the violin that follows it, as that is pretty awesome as well.
Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)
This list has made it painfully obvious I was something of a BSB fan back in the day. What can I say, I appreciated their artful music videos. You know, like this one, where their tour bus breaks down and they stranded at a haunted house. It’s the very very poor man’s “Thriller,” except the song has nothing whatsoever to do with what’s going on visually in the video.(Note: the original music video was causing annoying ads on the blog, so please enjoy the lyrics in lieu of actual video.)
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Friday, June 23, 2017
Boy stuff NEW towels
Boy stuff NEW towels
There is definitely a lack of cute boy stuff out there.
If you go to a boutique or craft fair you know what I mean.
There are usually 100 vendors selling cute bows, skirts, aprons, dresses, headbands, jewelry, etc. etc.
If are lucky you can find a handful of vendors that are selling fun, cute things for boys.
Well Im on a mission to change that.
One towel at a time.
Haha. Not really, but I do have some cute new boy fabrics available in the shop.
They were all personally picked out by my boy (and I got a ton of requests for them at Queen Bee Market) so hopefully you and your little guys like them too.
Also...dont forget to enter our giveaway if you havent already.
Maybe you will win one of your own!
It ends Friday so dont dilly dally.
NEW Star Wars print on a dark grey towel
NEW Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle print on a lime green towel
NEW Superhero print on a black towel
*This print was previous sold on a grey towel but Im switching things around and will now only be sold on black. I do have a few left on dark grey in the shop though if you prefer it on that.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017
BOY SCOUT MERIT BADGE BOOKS DOWNLOAD
BOY SCOUT MERIT BADGE BOOKS DOWNLOAD
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Boy at the Window Richard Wilbur
Boy at the Window Richard Wilbur
Guest poem submitted by Steve Chernicoff:
(Poem #1885) Boy at the Window Seeing the snowman standing all alone In dusk and cold is more than he can bear. The small boy weeps to hear the wind prepare A night of gnashings and enormous moan. His tearful sight can hardly reach to where The pale-faced figure with bitumen eyes Returns him such a god-forsaken stare As outcast Adam gave to Paradise. The man of snow is, nonetheless, content, Having no wish to go inside and die. Still, he is moved to see the youngster cry. Though frozen water is his element, He melts enough to drop from one soft eye A trickle of the purest rain, a tear For the child at the bright pane surrounded by Such warmth, such light, such love, and so much fear. |
Apropos of Martin's submission of "A Barred Owl" (Minstrels Poem #1849), here's another by Richard Wilbur that I like. It deals with the same themes Martin mentioned in his comments on the other poem, the "domestication" of a child's fear and the "stark sense of the violence that lurks in the mundane." Wilbur's image of the mutual pity between boy and snowman is quite moving. One thing I particularly like about Wilbur is his formal discipline. In an age when most poets can't be bothered with such niceties as rhyme and meter, Wilbur's poems are as rigorously and precisely structured as anything from a Milton, Keats, or Tennyson. An exemplary illustration of Robert Frost's definition of freedom as "moving easy in harness." --Steve
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