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| Jonathan Slusher is a Garden State native seldom inflicted with inexplicable feelings of optimism and caffeine induced semi-euphoria. He is currently a full time stay at home father and part time writer/wannabe. He holds an MS in Environmental Science and has also scored over 100,000 points on the super speed arcade classic version of Ms. Pacman. Jonathan's short stories have been published in Pure Slush, Bartleby Snopes, Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, Paper Darts Magazine, and The Battered Suitcase. He also recently appeared on KQED Radio's Perspectives. His debut novel Water Landing can be found at Amazon and is also free to download at Lulu.com jonathan@waterlanding.net subject: bulbasaur |
Happy Birthday Charlie Bit Me! I've only watched Charlie bite his brother once or twice. And its interesting that we never even learn the brother's name as he is the true British accented super star of the famous video. It has topped 436 million YouTube views with more to come after celebrating its five year anniversary yesterday. So, Charlie bites his brother's finger, the brother cries, then they all end up laughing about it. Don't forget the naughty tone in Charlie's giggle at the very end. I'm a lukewarm YouTube fan, for me it's just the occasional blooper video, treadmill accident, angry dad shooting his daughter's laptap, or giant Tube Worms at the bottom of the ocean. The latter which has recently led to many a nice scientific discovery with the kids. Giant Chinese Salamanders, who knew? Now that you think I'm covering up for a hidden YouTube fetish let us direct the power of that image away from the dark side and towards something optimistic, heartwarming, and make your day uplifting. What you need to do now--once you're in the proper mind set--is to imagine yourself as Charlie's mom posting the video of your son biting his brother on YouTube. What bravado she has! Internet trolls, bitter ex friends, grouchy educators, and child psychologists be damned! She uploads a video that could make her instantly infamous. She just sat there and video recorded her son biting her other son? And they all laughed about it? What sort of lesson is this for young Charlie? Someone should call child custody on that mom! Maybe some of these comments actually appeared, but there's just not enough time to do the proper research right now. I told the kids two Scooby Doo episodes and the second mystery is getting close to wrapping up. I have to keep moving... I suppose perhaps that Charlie's mom could have been new to YouTube and too naive to even worry about what might happen when she decided to go public. On the other hand maybe she channeled some super genius future predicting clairvoyance and knew that the video could be a big hit. But could she have ever guessed that it would rake in half a million dollars? I'd like to believe that Charlie's mom is a no nonsense--if you don't like my parenting technique go bugger off--type of mom. She's a good parent, but tough. She cares what others think, but she also doesn't let this feeling dictate how she wants to raise her kids. Zoinks! Scooby Doo is all finished. Two episodes was the deal. I'll just quickly write a little reminder, to remember what I was thinking and then I'll come back and finish this up later someday. Don't forget that it would be good to add in a link to Charlie Bit Me, a treadmill accident or two, Giant Tube Worms, etc. I also have to remember not to forget the whole point: Charlie's Mom took a risk. The trolls and haters were silenced. It paid off big. Good for Charlie's Mom! Good for Charlie and his big bro. Nice job everyone. |
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Play Date
Jonathan Slusher
KQED Radio
Nov. 17, 2011
Jonathan Slusher
KQED Radio
Nov. 17, 2011