Weekly Weird: April 2nd-8th (Rats, Birds, Anniversaries and Adventure Time)

April 2nd

Well everyone, Weird Stuff That Happens has made its first complete run around the sun. I'm writing this ahead, but I've already gotten more out of this funny little website than I could have ever imagined. I feel like I've developed a solid readerbase and all the feedback I've received has been great. I do feel like working on this site has brought me closer to this site's lovely crew. Mouse, you've done so much for me every month editing the daily articles. David, I think everything you've had to share here has been amazing and I can't wait to see what you work on next. Ariel, I'm sorry I didn't get you involved earlier but I'm glad to have you on the team. I couldn't do this without all of you on the writing stuff and moral support. I love you guys.

I've also met a lot of great people on this site, especially Calexta. Even as one of my friend's cousins, I don't think I would have ever met them without this site. Cal, you've become a spectacularly important person to me in a short amount of time, and I'm glad I'll have you by my side for this next year on this site. Joey, I'm glad we are better friends now then we were last year, you're a sharp dude and a good movie night pal. And Pim, I'm glad you found an online stomping ground you like even if you can't stand me or something. And to anyone who has started reading WSTH in this first year, thank you so much for your support, and thanks for taking a chance on all this.

With this new year, I decided I wanted to do something a little bit different with the site's format. Last year I did daily articles, something I lost a little steam with at the end. In this second year of the website, I'm going to mix things up. The Friday features will stay intact, but instead of daily articles I'm going to be trying out a weekly article format where the week's dailies all come out Sunday. And this is the first of those Sundays.

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April 3rd

Today is National Film Score Day. Film scores are definitely an underrated form of art. Now for some clarification on today's topic, a film's score is different from, but contained within, a film's soundtrack. While a soundtrack refers to all of the music present in or written for a film, the score exclusivity refers to background music written or reworked to accompany a film.

A good film score is incredibly powerful, and can give every action in a scene a powerful punch it wouldn't otherwise have. There's just something from it you just don't get in stock music, having every note click with motion. I always appreciate when musical scores get public releases. I rarely give homework, but I'd say today, go out and see if your favorite movie has its score online or on record, and try to listen to it if you can.

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April 4th

Today is World Rat Day, and I'm going to use this as an excuse to talk about a goofy meme I like. Yes, I'm going to talk about the rat movie. "Rat Movie: Mystery of the Mayan Treasure" is a 2014 short film by self proclaimed "Internet Clown" Jeremy "Jerma985" Elbertson. Made in 3D Movie Maker and holding over 3 Million views on YouTube, This short is the borderline nonsensical story of some rats and some robbers and treasure.

The video is best known for its first 20 seconds which has a little song that the rats sing about themselves. Rat movie has a sequel, "Rat Movie 2: The Movie", that has an equally memorable rat birthday song and a meta plot about the production of the video's sequel. I recommend watching both rat movies and don't ask me questions.

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April 5th

Today is the birthday of a strange yet beautiful cartoon. Adventure Time first premiered on Cartoon Network on this day in 2010, and ran for 8 years, 10 seasons and nearly 300 episodes. And that's not including shorts, specials and spin-offs. The show even has another continuation, "Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake", currently in production.

Because I don't want to get into spoilers, I have a meta fun fact about this series. It was originally planned for a different network. The pilot for the series appeared on Nickelodeon's Random! Cartoons, an animated anthology series produced by Frederator. With the objectively well animated but mix reviewed "Fanboy & Chum Chum" being the only other segment from Random that got a full series, it feels very interesting that Adventure Time went all the way by swapping networks.

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April 6th

Today is Fresh Tomato Day. Personally I like my fresh tomatoes a particular way so I have a short and simple recipe to share. You'll need a Tomato, your favorite vinegar or vinaigrette , some garlic and some dill. Drizzle the vinegar and the herbs over the tomatoes in a small bowl and mix it together. If you want you can chill it and it tastes even better but I like it warm too. It's not much of a recipe but I like eating it.

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April 7th

Today is International Snailpapers Day. The funny thing about International Snailpapers Day is that "Snailpapers" is not really a phrase outside of this holiday's name. It's supposed to refer to print media delivered to people, like how some people started calling mail "Snail Mail" after email was invented. That being said, Snailpapers feels like a very redundant phrase because people don't really call digital news coverage papers. I agree that print media is important, I still get my Readers Digest every month, but I can't get behind the phrase Snailpapers.

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Snailpapers is a good screen name, or perhaps an okay indie rock band.]

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April 8th

Today is "Draw a Picture of a Bird Day", and I like to give myself an art day at least once a month if I can help it. Yes it was drawn in MS Paint.

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And i just want to say it again, thank you a million to all of the Mods and everyone who's helped me or checked out the site over this first year. I'm looking forward to at the very least another year of Weird with all of you.