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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.​


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I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory


they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"


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PropagandaRock
@PropagandaRock

Originally Aired: March 24th, 1973
Written by: Bob Dorough
Performed by: Bob Dorough

Shel's Review

Music: 🎡🎡
Animation: πŸ“Ί πŸ“Ί πŸ“Ί πŸ“Ί
Pedagogy: πŸŽ“
Accuracy: 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
Yikes Factor: 😬😬

Back to the All Bob Show. This song is really boring. I can't come up with anything to say about it, it's just so very nothing. I love the visuals in this one. It's so incredibly retro-70s in such a beautiful way. There's a very cute puppy and the funky number characters are fun. Pedagogically, it sucks ass. It spends so much time talking about multiplying by eleven, but not actually teaching us anything, and then during the brief moment where we're doing math, Bob doesn't even get through eight equations before he says "You better pick up-a on the pattern because I don't have time to tell you any more." Maybe we'd have more time to explain the pattern to the 7-year-olds watching this if you spent less time repeating the chorus!! Maybe if you say "Never gave me any trouble til after 9" a couple fewer times you'd have time to actually teach us what comes after 9 so we wouldn't have any trouble! Bob!!!

As far as I can tell this is indeed how math works. For those curious, the pattern is that 11 times 1X is 1(Y+1)Z. Easy to figure out as an adult but when I was 7 years old watching this one I had no clue what was going on and I just felt stupid because Bob told me he didn't have time to teach me. There's a lot of angels and smiling white men in this one, slightly unsettling. Giving an extra yikes point for the "Girls are good until after 9:00pm" joke June pointed out.

June's Review

Oh god, this one.Β 

Music 🎡🎡

I don't like this song. Remember how last time I was talking about how much I loved the gimmick of "nine is a fucked up an evil number" being portrayed by a big fucked up cat guy? Well here we have "eleven is a nice number." Not only is it not that funny, but they're specifically going "Girls are always good till after 9:00, wink wink" which sucks!! The song isn't fun, the jokes aren't funny, it just doesn't work. I don't like this one.

Animation πŸ“Ί πŸ“Ί

"So Bob, how are we going to portray that 11 is a safe and friendly number?" "Well, I think we should portray it with a dog, a guy on a tricycle, Joni Mitchell, a guy who just came out of HateChurch and the world's absolute worst most fucked up number shaped monsters that you've ever seen in my life. You know, things that make you think kind and nice."

Pedagogy πŸŽ“

This song spends 80% of it's time going "you don't need a multiplication table here for this one! Hell you don't even need a song! We're useless!" And then at the very end finally does some stuff about going past 10, gives you some random numbers, and then goes "there's a pattern here but good luck finding it lol I don't have time for that we gotta do the terrible chorus again!" Fuck off.

Accuracy 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

Well, I mean. It's still numbers!

Yikes Factor 😬😬😬

I made my point about the way this song directly associates "good" with "that white guy down your street and a smiling angel", which has... problems, but i want to really focus in on those number guys. The "double digit dougies" as Bob calls them. I do not like thinking about them. Please rewatch the video so you can understand why. Fucked up and evil.

BONUS

Congrats to Schoolhouse-Rock-Totally-Not-Joni-Mitchell for being number THREE on the most smashable schoolhouse rock characters poll! Not super surprising, except for the fact that she has less than, like, 10 seconds of screen time. Also... "badly drawn angel girl" is a bit of a gender for me.

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in reply to @PropagandaRock's post:

what on earth, this has to be the most forgettable schoolhouse rock song ever. i watched so much schoolhouse rock as a kid, and before seeing this post i was expecting to vividly remember every song posted on this blog

im lowkey convinced this is just some elaborate joke and this never actually existed

wow I didn't even remember just how much this one Sucks!! it's so repetitive and forgettable, and it doesn't even teach anything useful beyond "look, multiplying by single-digit numbers is a piece of cake! please do not ask any more questions"

I'm thinking about what song comes up next and realizing: wow there really are a lot of SHR bits that feel like a barely-disguised fetish, huh

Iirc for 2 digit numbers x 11, you add the two digits of the number you’re multiplying by eleven, and that sun goes between the first and second digit. 11 x 22 = 242, where 2+2 is 4, which slots between the first and second two. 11 x 47 = 517, in cases like this, you take the ones place of the digit sum and add the tens place to the tens place of the original number to find your hundreds place. 11 x 94 = 1034, if your hundreds place spills over, you just go to the thousands place. Also technically the same pattern as 11 times one digit numbers if you view them as 11 times β€œ0X”

I kinda like this song. It doesn't really work as schoolhouse rock but it's just kinda nice to listen to as background music? ... yeah, that's not great. And this would have been a perfect time to reinforce breaking down bigger numbers using addition! 11Γ—15=11Γ—10+11Γ—5=110+55=165. The pattern is easier to see when you show how it comes about rather than just list some examples. But then, I would say that, I learned arithmetic after New Math.

Pedantry time! You don't capitalize non-Proper words in Toki Pona, it should be "jan Misali". Literally something like 'the Misali person'.

I suppose it depends on the rules you use for words being borrowed. Toki Pona doesn't capitalize the first word, and as such "Jan" reads as English /'dΚ’an/ to me rather than TP /jan/.

Also, yknow, jan Misali always writes it jan Misali even in cases where English would say it should be upper cased.

In English, when you talk about Shinzo Abe, you write Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; not Abe Shinzo-Shusho or Abe-Shusho. We also write Germany instead of Deutschland. Even Proper Nouns, once loaned into another language, are prone to the grammatical rules of those other languages.

See also my name changing from Χ©Χ€Χ¨Χ” to Shel in English and to 谒利 in Chinese; and in ASL I don't have a name at all. All of which are pronounced quite differently and must follow different typographic norms for each language.

Also, the auto-correct when I write these posts auto-capitalizes the first letter in each sentence, and it's a pain to fight with it. So there.