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Bridal Dog Wins Costume Contest at Readers Digest

Isn’t it true that the hard videos are never as popular as the easy ones. This video of Rusty and Triscuit (pets of babysitter of nalts) was viewed nearly 700,000 times on Yahoo Video. But my more recent video, “Confessions” was far more complicated, and has been seen 25K views. 

Well congratulations, sweet Rusty. You won the Readers’s Choice Award on Reader’s Digest.com!

And here’s your celebration video. Which was shot when Zipster decided to send Locomama to babysit our kids.

So that wraps up my 3-part series for Reader’s Digest. Thanks, RD! Do you suppose this will increase the odds that they accept one of my jokes or stories? I’ve been trying for more than 2 decades. 🙂

 

 

Happy Monday: Real-life Thumper and Bambi

The trick to being happy is to feel good. So watch this albiet archain video showing a real-life Thumper and Bambi. This deer and rabbit get along wonderfully. Now relax and feel wonderful about your week. Yey! Thanks, Jan. We don’t know how you find these, but love that you keep sending ’em.

Speaking of animals, I spent about 3 hours this morning editing a future video that’s a battle of the cutest Halloween contests… it’s BabysitterofNalts’ Rusty (a pug) versus Triscuit (a cute cat with sharp teeth). Various cute costumes, lovely music and voiceovers by Nalts and Wifeofnalts. Certainly has viral potential. Of course I won’t be including the shot in which Rusty took a bite out of Triscuit’s tail, and Triscuit clenched her teeth on babysitterofnalts’ finger, which is now in some strange cast. Sorry Jen.

Animals are so gosh darned cute, though. Even cuter than the pale, hopeless, corporate faces I encountered in my walk into the office today.

 

 

 

 

Rusty’s Song (and he doesn’t care if it goes viral)

Rusty from Rusty’s Song videoRusty is our babysitter‘s dog, and this is his song (see video). Woke up at 4 a.m. with a compelling urge to write it. Don’t ask.

We found our babysitter because she was working at Applebees, and recognized my wife (wifeofnalts) and son (Charlie) from YouTube. And although her cookies taste like chunks of coal, you gotta admit her dog is pretty cute.

Lyrics:
His name is Rusty and this is his song
He’s pekingese but not from Hong Kong
He knows 4 languages but doesn’t do tricks
Please don’t ask him about his ticks

He likes to lick but never smokes
He’s tired of Yoda and Gremlin jokes
He’s not mean but he’ll bite your behind
If you say he looks like Zelda Rubenstein
That’s the lady from Poltergeist and you probably missed that if you were born after the 70s.

He’s voting for Obama and he’s definitely not gay
He believes in God but sleeps on Sunday
Though he can’t use a phone if he did he might
Vote for David Archuletta or Brook White

His name is Rusty and this is his song
We don’t think it’s an ear worm but maybe we’re wrong
Rusty doesn’t care if you think he’s lame
His esteem is too strong to need Internet fame