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Top 5 Animated Christmas Specials

I LOVE Christmas specials! Especially the animated classics from my youth.

Here are my top 5 favorites that I have to watch every Christmas season ::

5. Mickey's Christmas Carol


4. Fat Albert's Christmas Special


3. A Chipmunk Christmas


2. He-Man / She-Ra - A Christmas Special


1. Christmas Comes to PacLand

classic cartoons

In a previous post I listed my top 10 cartoons of all times, check'em out HERE and feel free to share you own list!

socializing

It's been a while since I've blogged, but I have been very active otherwise on the intreweb.

I have had multiple myspace accounts for a few years now, but I've been very gunshy about embarking on the whole facebook thing...but I finally caved. I still don't have a clue what I'm doing on there, but I'm up for trying new things.

I've also set up a Twitter account for chicken pop pod, for which I also have a myspace account. So I have successfully done my part to clutter up the web...how about you?

What social networking sites are you a patron of?

the wild world of podcasting

Since November of 2007, I've found myself obsessed with listening to podcasts. I used to be the guy who has to have music playing all of the time, but now I substitute said tunes with some random people's ramblings. This gave my left brain a bit of an epiphany, why not make a podcast your own dang self? So I gathered my faithful friends, and we came up with the idea for a pop culture podcast that was so random and funny, people wouldn't be able to resist it's charm. Thus the "chicken pop pod" was born. 

We've produced a weekly podcast for 8 weeks now, and it's been a lot of fun for all of us. We've recently started gaining some interesting momentum in the pod world that frankly, I'm a little surprised by. A little over a week ago, iTunes featured us on a short list of "new and notable" podcasts in it's comedy section...pretty cool considering the thousands of podcasts submitted every week. Also, today we reached our highest subscription total, along with an absurd number of downloads. I think it's funny, but I honestly didn't believe that anyone else would. 

I'm not blogging this to brag, well...maybe a little, but I'm actually amazed at what a little effort and creativity can accomplish in this day and age. Information is abundant, but unique expressions are constantly sought after. So get up and get out there! Blog, podcast, write, speak, paint, draw, film, whatever...we need more creativity!

[pastopher]

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a few random items for your amusement and education ::

• Cloverfield is a stupid awesome movie...go see it immediately 
• I'm totally into the podcast universe, listening and creating...check out my new podcast along with some buds called "chicken pop pod"
  
• Berkeley turns 1 on February 12...the first year has flown by!
• I'm going high def as of Thursday, I've put it off long enough (just in time for Lost)
• I'm pumped about the relationship series happening @ church (Sundays and Wednesdays)
• I can't wait until February 4th, the debut of our new discipleship meeting "Cente[r]ed...it's going to blow people away!
• The iPod touch makes me happy
• I've been craving a good old fashioned bowling outing
• The new American Gladiators is great television
• Read 1 and 2 Timothy!

my top 10 favorite cartoons from the 80's

10. Alvin and the Chipmunks














9. Bravestarr














8. Mr.T














7. Pac-Man














6. M.A.S.K.














5. Silverhawks














4. Transformers














3. Thundercats














2. G.I.Joe














1. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

mysteries of the entertainment universe

Here are my personal random observations of things that befoggle me about Hollywood (these are my personal observations and are meant to be mildly amusing...please don't criticize me for lacking spirituality or for this being a stupid thing for a pastor to write...again)

• At some point, someone lead Carlos Mencia to believe that he was funny.
• America cheered when Brad Pitt left his wife for Angelina, but now criticize them for adopting children and saving them from a life of poverty.
• People continue to pay money to watch Owen Wilson movies.
• South Park is still on, and people still think it's entertaining.
• There have been 18 Land Before Time movies.
• Ben Stiller has made a career of playing the exact same role in countless movies.
• Shakira sounds like she's going through puberty.
• When did Gwen Stefani get street cred.
• American Idol is weak this year.
• Jon Heder is only entertaining as Napoleon Dynamite.
• Heroes is the best show ever!
• There's no music on MTV, only desperate and probably a little smelly 19 year olds.
• Lost is the second best show ever!
• Way too many songs on the radio have the word "club" in it.
• Did I mention that Heroes is the best show ever?

Again, these are my personal views, they do not reflect God in any way...except for the comment about Heroes, that show was His idea

[pastopher]