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National Gumdrop Day 2025
Creeping up on the cusp of 💐 Spring 🌷, today’s special treat is something I often received for Easter. Today is National Gumdrop Day.
Goody Goody Gumdrop
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. ~Ogden Nash
| I often call Rose my Goody Goody Gumdrop because she is so sweet and well-behaved.
Who needs sugary candy when you’ve got a sweet little pupster like this? She’s a joyful little dog who is so very glad to see her Mama come home from work. Rose is a cuddly little lap dog who likes to keep her favorite person cozy and warm while watching TV. |
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Where Do They Gumdrop From Anyway?
HOW TO MAKE GUMDROPS – HOMEMADE DIY RECIPE
Okay, so I was hoping to find a “How it’s made” video with all the cool factory footage, but I couldn’t. So, you get the DIY video above.
This is actually a sign of the future. We’re capable of making a lot of the stuff we buy. We’re spending on convenience, but it’s getting easier all the time to simply do it at home.
That’s a future I can believe in.
Some things are very complicated to do. Eventually, we’ll have robots in our houses who will be able to do the really tedious stuff for us.
People tend to fantasize of a utopian future when theorizing about the impact of technology, but we’re currently seeing a trend of dystopian governmental overreach.
So, even though the amazing capacity of technology to make the future even better than Star Trek exists, stupid obsessive people hold governmental and corporate positions that enable them to inflict their myopic stupidity on the rest of us.
Can artificial superitelligence save us from that? One can only hope.
The problem is that even with AI, garbage in / garbage out still applies.
If you have fucktards flooding the zone with cancel culture and dystopian control directives, you’re going to wind up with a fucked up AI.
Hopefully, ASI would align to the concept of basic human rights and American style respect for the rights of individuals rather than the top-down style of control-oriented crap government we see spreading across Europe these days.
Sweet Treat
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Okay, so I spend a bit too much time catching up on random videos on YouTube.
After 9/11, I became a bit of an obsessive news junkie. I think a lot of people did.
Eventually, I got past it and got on with my life.
In the last year or so, I’ve been sliding back into news junkie mode in combination with my following of writing-associated video topics and pop culture commentators.
Well, I’ve gotten out of the pop culture commentator groove because they’re mostly clickbait rage-porn purveyors anymore.
Professor Dungeon Master explained why this is and we have YouTube to thank for that, but that doesn’t entirely excuse these channels from chasing the clicks at the expense of our collective intelligence.
Honestly, if Hollywood sucks so egregiously that you can only complain about it 24x7x365¼, why don’t you stop complaining about it and create independent content that’s better?
Why would you want that, Rob? Double-edged benefits!
Not only would we get something (theoretically) better than Hollywood’s repetitive, derivative, rehashed dreck AND we’d have hours and days worth of content that is something other than people bitching, whining and obsessing about the former.
Shame on YouTube for adjusting their algorithms to emphasize the perpetual ragefeed, but shame even more for Tubers feeding into it in order to get paid.
Another thing I’ve come to hate on YT is people yammering about what works and what doesn’t work in writing.
While some of them admit that there are notable exceptions, they typically gloss over it by saying one must know and understand to rules in order to know when, how or if to break them.
🙄 Meh 😒
One of the things I really hate is their uniform hatred of on-the-nose dialog.
Okay, there’s a time and place for this despite what nearly every single AuthorTuber will declare.
I just saw an amazing use of on-the-nose dialog perfectly. I also saw how they defused the impact of that on-the-nose big reveal to comical effect.
I won’t spoil the actual show for you, but this was a poignant lesson in how to do what the “pro’s” tell you not to effectively.
To be honest, I’ve gotten out of the habit of watching these authoritative AuthorTubers lately.
Mostly, my news obsession is back. There are some news commentators whose stuff I enjoy because they’re doing more than just complaining about how everything sucks.
They point out something that is reprehensible or just ridiculous and describe a logical alternative. If the pop culture rage-porn purveyors could switch to that model, I might actually start watching them again.
Well, probably not. I’d much rather see them be purveyors of their own inherent genius (if they actually have any) than to be perpetually complaining about everyone else’s creativity.
There is, in fact, a lid for every pot.
Some people actually like repetitive, derivative, rehashed dreck. Some people would love to have a whole channel of the NEW Brady Bunch or the NEW Golden Girls or the NEW Ozzy & Harriet. There’s really a niche for that out there.
If there are people who are willing to watch people go fishing, play golf or engage in competitive curling, there are people who would watch damn near anything.
Some people are all horror, all the time. Some people would prefer to go their entire lives without even knowing it exists.
The world is big enough for various genres. The self-appointed experts seem dedicated to forcing content, books, movies or whatever in to a particular style.
This is good. Do this.
Well, tulips are nice but I wouldn’t want to see the entire planet covered with them, to the exclusion of every other type of foliage.
Gee, even gumdrops aren’t just one color or flavor. You can make them with flat tops or round tops. You can coat them with sugar crystals or leave them uncoated.
There’s no single right way to make them and nobody should say there is. I’m a bit fed up with the so-called experts. That’s why I’ve largely stopped watching them.
That’s all for today. See you back on Wednesday for something sweet and cool before 💐 Spring 🌷 springs upon us.