Review: Everything is Terrible!

By: John Bozic

Summary:

          In my opinion, Everything is Terrible! has created some of the funniest shows on YouTube solely out of everyone else's hard work and effort. Everything is Terrible is a video blogging website featuring clips of old VHS tapes, based in Chicago, and was founded in 2000 by a group of Ohio University friends. The idea was every weekend, the friends was storm local thrift stores in search for the trashiest,low-budget, and weird tapes of commercials, kids shows, and game shows, and piece them together to make a new movie.

          In website, everythingisterrible.com, was founded in Chicago in 2007, and one goal is the amass the largest collection of Jerry Maguire on VHS. Not only has the website and idea gained popularity, but the gang also performs live shows, wearing "Lady Gaga-like" outfits, they talk about and show there new discoveries they have created.

          In 2009, the website released a movie called, Everything is Terrible! The Movie, and it absolutely won over media critics like The A.V. Club, Paste Magazine, and Wired Magazine.

Clips:

          One of the most popular video's released has be the instructional clip titled "So Your Cat Wants A Massage?", which the title basically speaks for itself on what it is about, but it is a "How-To" video and those always seem to gain viral popularity very quick.

          None of the published work on the YouTube channel contain malls or shopping centers, but has gained my attention for being something very funny to watch, something that does deserve praise and a network deal for sure and how it VHS tapes have come back from the dead and formed into new entertainment again, something that at one time, was the only thing to bring a family together on the couch, to watch a VHS tape.

Thank you for reading and remember to ask questions and comment below.

-TTTM

Independence Day

National Mall- D.C.

          Today, nearly 240! years ago, this nation was granted independence, when the founding father's met in Congress in Philadelphia and created the document that states the 13 American Colonies would no longer be apart of the British Empire and declared themselves a new nation- the United States of America!

          Today we celebrate the birth of the country with barbecue and fireworks, bring each other together as one, much like the country, we operate the best as one.

Happy Fourth of July!

-TTTM

FLASHBACK: Zany Brainy's Chicago area Locations

          I have touched base on the subject back in March, when I posted Childhood Memories: Zany Brainy, which basically summed up the company, when they started, how the chain Five Below evolved from them, and specifically what was "Chicago" about my favorite childhood store.

          I came across a property website featuring past building projects they completed, and some of which featured a Zany Brainy store in the picture. Each one of these stores I remember too well of going into in the past, all of which are now closed and several other stores have been in the store fronts since, many of which are seasonal Halloween stores and other defunct specialty shops.

     The stores were in Schaumburg, Northbrook and Oak Brook, Illinois, some of Chicago's best suburbs.

Thank you for reading and remember to ask questions and comment below.