Author Archives: DrUsual

Songs With No Chorus, Part Deux

The songwriter of the mentioned songs, such as “Color My World” by Chicago and “Dancin’ Shoes” by Nigel Olsson, opted not to use repetitive lyrics to convey their message. However, the lyrics of “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” by Glen Campbell seem to depict a timeline that raises questions about the plausibility of the events, suggesting a disconnect between the characters.

Hello From Around The World

This is simply a nice puzzle. I actually stumbled upon this at Ollie’s “Good Stuff Cheap” discount store. It’s a great puzzle if you’re trying to up your completion speed — with the “partitioned” nature of each stamp and contrasting background colors for each one I figured this would be a good one to tryContinue reading “Hello From Around The World”

White Tiger

This is the first puzzle I used for learning how to do stop motion assembly videos. It’s a short one at only 100 pieces, but it’s also a great puzzle to do with my younger daughter. The pieces are large, so there’s enough art on any given piece to make it pretty solvable for her.Continue reading “White Tiger”

Movies You Must See: Godzilla Times Kong

Or “The New Empire” or something like that. I assumed this meant that Godzilla and Kong are now part of the Star Wars universe, but apparently it’s not that complicated. After all, these are kaiju movies, and all you need for good kaiju battles are a couple of kaiju and a lot of buildings toContinue reading “Movies You Must See: Godzilla Times Kong”