One of my favorite shows to watch with Baby Boy Scribbler is PBS Kids' Peg + Cat. However, there are days when the show can be called Everybody Loves Ramone because the young brother is so helpful to everyone and always returns a thank you with "I do what I can". So as I'm watching the "I Do What I Can: The Musical!" episode, the parent in me watching an innocent celebration for an awesome kid with his son gives way to the 21-year-old "adult" in me beginning his "blunder years" (I explain that theory here in case you care to read a throwback) and loving really ignorant gangsta music. My twisted brain immediately goes to the "Out There Part 2" skit on Project Pat's Mista Don't Play - Everythangs Workin album where one of the dudes says, "F--k that, boys do what they can, men do what they want!" Instantly I thought, "Well, Ramone is a boy and not a man yet, so....I'm just sayin'." Hence, I have managed to ruin the reputation of the coolest character from one of my son's favorite TV program. Good job, Poppa Scribb...good job. Considering what social media has been doing to the cast of Arthur lately, I better get to the rest of my "RANDOM THOUGHT ALERTS!!!" before another fine PBS Kids cartoon get slaughtered...
I know...this series should be renamed "The WMATA Chronicles" instead of "RANDOM THOUGHT ALERTS!!!" as often as I refer to D.C. Metro, but bear with me for a moment as I elevate my geekdom a smidge. Although I have been fascinated with Metro since 1985, I have never really been as obsessed over Metrorail as I have been with Metrobus...until now. Between the AM General buses of the 1970s and the New Flyer XDE40 (aka the "sexy boosas"), Metrorail's shiny new rolling stock manufactured by Kawasaki Heavy Industries is proof that you must have swagger to be part of any WMATA 7000 series. One day when taking a drive, I saw an eight-car configuration leaving Takoma in the direction of Silver Spring and was actually mad that I was in my car. (As abysmal as Metrorail has been as of late, that shouldn't ever be the case.) Lo and behold, my wish was granted a few days later when I was on my way to work and this thing of beauty came rolling into Silver Spring. So what does the resident H.M.G.I.C. (Head Metro Geek In Charge) like me do when this happens? Why, snap a 15-second video and convert it into a GIF, of course! What else would you expect from your ninth favorite blogger?!?! Come on, the trains just sound like an intergalactic spaceship of epic proportions, slim...and the rest of y'all D.C. folks know y'all feel the same way, too; I'm just dorky enough to admit it. Now that I've cemented my nerdiness and perhaps put some of you to sleep, I have four more pinches...
