Songwriting With Kids: Holiday Parodies
Be creative with your kids and write a holiday song parody based on a fandom character. Here’s a step by step guide to songwriting that will bring some laughter to your family this season.
Continue ReadingBe creative with your kids and write a holiday song parody based on a fandom character. Here’s a step by step guide to songwriting that will bring some laughter to your family this season.
Continue ReadingWho doesn’t love Washington politics? The infighting, the committees, the lies, the philandering, the dumb decisions… no, NO, wait, don’t go! I’m leading somewhere here!
Continue Reading‘Unbelievable!!!!!’ is a sci-fi parody film featuring 40 ‘Star Trek’ actors, Gilbert Gottfried, a marionette that looks more or less like Captain Kirk, and a Gorn. And it gets weirder from there.
Continue ReadingThis is just brilliant. Even if the rest of it weren’t also great, it would be worth watching this just for the Yoda – er, Groda – part. Trust me, it’s five minutes of your life you won’t regret spending.
Continue ReadingThis month, no video can compete with the brilliance of combining parody music and grammar geekiness. Thanks, Weird Al!
Continue ReadingDr. Who and The Time Warp, the cutest little volcano, kids trying to figure out a 1980’s computer, and crossing Cyndi Lauper with Star Wars. It must be the monthly video playlist!
Continue ReadingHey, here’s a Frozen song parody (not “Let it Go” for once) that I can really get behind.
Continue ReadingTake a break, sit back, and enjoy some videos.
Crazy photoshopping, and a sky all aglow…
Parody artist Insane Ian isn’t that insane with Grand Theft Audio, though he is quite amusing.
Continue ReadingOne of my favorite geek music duos, Debs and Errol, want to make a geeky music parody EP. To do this, they need your help! Enter their Indiegogo campaign.
Continue ReadingI have no idea if Chad Morton, father of five, is a geek. That said, I’m willing to concede my spot on “Sexiest Geek Dads of the Galaxy” to him, based on this hilarious video.
Continue ReadingI am sure there are a lot of people out there who have never watched Big Trouble in Little China. And of those who have, some may not have quite enjoyed it. If you are of either of those camps, …
Continue ReadingMy kids have moved on to things like The Legend of Korra and now, thanks to Cartoon Network’s MAD show, they can have the best of both worlds in this gem of a video. Dora fights the bad guys, teaches Spanish and bends water, all without breaking a sweat!
Continue ReadingHow often to you get to see those blue polo shirt-wearing engineers busting a move? Never. But this video has them dancing and singing and doing what I’d imagine happened after the cameras turned off once the Curiosity landed.
Continue ReadingWhile the place of Cookie Monster version of “Call Me Maybe” will be hard to usurp in our geeky hearts, this take on the ubiquitous Carly Rae Jepsen song is likely to give The Dark Knight Rises fans a …
Continue ReadingIn this spoof, we see what a butt-kicking, real life Dora the Explorer movie would look like with Ariel Winter of Modern Family as the lovable Dora. The way she takes care of map when he starts singing made me love her all over again.
Continue ReadingYou may recall the first video I posted in early April from our friends at USC’s graduate school of film. It dealt with the story of one man’s preoccupation with Mass Effect 3 and how it affected his marriage. So …
Continue ReadingYou may have read a recent piece on this blog about Hawkeye. Jim MacQuarrie’s brilliant (if we do say so ourselves) article from last Thursday has been reprinted and quoted all over the internet, it seems — agree or disagree …
Continue ReadingThey’re pulling out all the stops this time, even parodying… well, you’ll see. For my money, that’s the best trailer for The Muppets yet. I can’t wait to see this film!
Continue ReadingI have to admit that I’m still reeling from the news about Steve Jobs passing away. So it seemed a little surreal when I got the mail and it had a copy of Goodnight iPad in it. Goodnight iPad is another parody of the ever famous Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. This one, by […]
Continue ReadingImage via Wikipedia Paleontologists recently unearthed bones, likely in Montana or Wyoming, of a new dinosaur species dubbed Stochastisaurus. “Based on surrounding species and the fossils themselves, there’s an approximately 88% chance that Stochastisaurus was an herbivore,” says the lead …
Continue ReadingHave you ever heard a song so many times in a short span of time that you found yourself rewriting it in your head just to keep yourself sane? It’s a condition that (I find) often strikes this time of …
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