Youtube and cute puppies

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blogging, computers, cute, postaday2013, puppies, videos, wasting time

My hubby and I have spent a rare relaxing Sunday together entirely upstairs, reading and writing. The babies are either away at school or working. Jack has divided his time either wrestling with my iPad trying to inch his way onto my lap or wiggling his way onto my hubby’s lap. Either way Jack got his way, some kind of personal contact and that is all he wants, a leg, an arm or a hand and he is happy.

I was flipping through the Huffington Post and went to see what the Comedy section was offering and there they were, two articles featuring cute animal videos.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/winston-the-tap-dancing-bulldog_n_2924885.html
This is the one that I clicked on and Winston is the cutest bulldog, tap dancing away to his heart’s content. The Youtube website is great because it shows, on the right hand side, clips of similar videos so my hubby clicked on a bulldog puppy video and that completely that grabbed Jack’s attention, the bulldog puppy was barking, growling and then whimpering, just like a baby clamoring for attention and trying out all the sounds to see which one will get him what he wants, attention. Jack kept cocking his head back and forth trying to figure out how to get to the puppy, he even went around the iPad to see where the puppy was lurking. Jack was being just as entertaining as the puppies in those videos.

We watched the marathon of the Viking series that had been produced by the History channel. We both liked it but I was put off by the senseless violence that the Vikings bestowed upon a poor community of pious monks on the English coast when they posed no threat to the Vikings who came to their lands to plunder for gold and other riches. I understood that the Viking culture was one based on raiding other communities, but the other communities were armed and defended themselves, here the monks were defenseless and to see them slaughtered by the Vikings was awful. I am not sure how accurate the producers are with the history but it does make for drama. This is the same channel that has produced The Bible which has been very successful with its viewership, I have watched three episodes and they make for good storytelling.

Later on we are going to watch Once Upon a Time, a modern fairy tale replete with every single Disney character that you can think of, from Snow White to Captain Hook to Pinocchio, this series is one that I really like a lot.

The ultimate superhero

Describe in great detail your ultimate superhero. What is their unique super power? Get creative!

The latest big bang action movie that my hubby, my son, my daughter and I went to see together was the Avengers movie. Here we got to see a variety of heroes and their super powers, giving us the opportunity to see who was more powerful and who had what type of weakness easily exploited, trust me, it makes for interesting conversations. The kids were extremely informative, there are shows and video games devoted to putting super heroes up against each other in battle. Superman, apparently, is almost impossible to beat. He has every power and only one weakness. My son was educating us as to the extent of the variety of mythologies engaged in these face offs. Pokemon heroes and villains, which I hadn't even thought of, were involved, my son did lose me when he was talking about how superman beat this one and that one because it has been years since I had paid any attention to Pokemon. I tell you the realm of heroes and super powers is extremely rich and complex, as intricate as anything in the real world. Do not dismiss the imagination required to build these fantastical universes. It is amazing.

I myself have always liked Thor, the Norse god of thunder. Mythology has always been my thing. However, I think that the Greek gods were too heavily invested in their own drama and their human worshippers to try to be super heroes. Thor seems to be the only one, willing to assume the mantle of super hero.

One of my favorite scenes in the movie Avengers is when Thor and the Hulk are walking side by side and the Hulk just throws a side punch to Thor and Thor goes flying off screen. Another entertaining scene is when the Hulk tries to lift Thor's hammer and finds his own weakness for the first time, he can't lift something made only for a god.

We mere mortals have always looked to the heavens or some fantasy land for something or someone either better or infallible to aspire to and watch over us. It shows that we know that we are smaller than the entirety of our experience in the world. Sometimes, I think that the smallness, can be overwhelming and so superheroes are welcome in our world.