{"id":3800,"date":"2013-10-17T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T15:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=3800"},"modified":"2013-10-18T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:26:24","slug":"on-pop-tarts-and-sock-puppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=3800","title":{"rendered":"On Pop-Tarts and sock puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to start this post with an &#8220;if you&#8217;ve been reading this blog for a while&#8221; intro, but I feel like I do that a lot. Maybe even too much? Or maybe I don&#8217;t and just think that I do? I have no idea!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, there&#8217;s no doubt in my mind that as a person who has spend much of his life being perceived by others as &#8220;creative,&#8221; I am not nearly creative enough. Oh sure, now and then a spark will ignite and I&#8217;ll pop out something that shows a little thought, but mostly I just coast on doing the same thing that the people I see as inspirations do, but with my own half-assed twist.<\/p>\n<p>I thought my Pop-Tarts Review videos were pretty creative, even if there are a dearth of people with the same idea on YouTube. The whole project started because I just needed an outlet for my silliness (God help you if you take those videos seriously), because I find it hard to express directly to other people. I don&#8217;t even really like talking to people about the Pop-Tarts videos, because it makes me feel embarassed and weird.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as time dragged on, I got kind of bored with the whole idea, and felt like it needed a shot in the arm. That&#8217;s when I developed Sockstopher.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xdtJdjXlORY\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\u00a0<\/center>Sockstopher is&#8230; not the grand slam I was hoping he&#8217;d be. Oh, people like him alright, and that was\u00a0always the goal, but his video is one of the less popular in the series, as far as\u00a0the view counter\u00a0goes. Whether this is because I&#8217;m a bad puppeteer or because people are just getting tired of the whole Pop-Tarts Review schtick, I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>I really like Sockstopher though. I think he&#8217;s a fun character to have around, and I&#8217;ve been desperately trying to find a way to work him into more stuff. I just haven&#8217;t\u00a0been able to\u00a0find a good fit for him yet. I do have one plan for him, but it requires a box of Pop-Tarts that I don&#8217;t have.<\/p>\n<p>On the whole, the production side of the Pop-Tarts Review series has come to a stall because I have run out of flavours and so far\u00a0the few people\u00a0who have claimed that they&#8217;d bring me some when they take a trip down to the States have flaked. I&#8217;m not offended or anything because I&#8217;m asking for handouts here, but I&#8217;d be eternally grateful if someone actually followed through.<\/p>\n<p>I do have a few more episodes that just need to be uploaded, if you&#8217;re into that sort of thing. Problem is, my internet speed has been unfairly chopped down to a fraction of what it once was, and\u00a0those 5ish-minute videos now take like two hours each to upload. It&#8217;s pretty ridiculous. Hooray for capitalism!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to start this post with an &#8220;if you&#8217;ve been reading this blog for a while&#8221; intro, but I feel like I do that a lot. Maybe even too much? Or maybe I don&#8217;t and just think that I do? I have no idea! Anyway, there&#8217;s no doubt in my mind that as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=3800\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Pop-Tarts and sock puppets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foodstuffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}