Hailing from Nagoya, Japan, the Toho Marching Band made its second appearance at the Pasadena Rose Bowl Parade this year and wowed the audience with a fancy turn set to Queen’s ‘We Will Rock You’. If you’re into fancy marching band maneuvers, this is the video for you. For everybody else it’s probably skippable. I’m kidding, it was the highlight of my day so far, beating ‘spilling hot coffee on my pants in the car’ by a long shot.

Keep going for the video, which should auto-start at around the time of the turn, but feel free to rewind and watch the whole performance because it’s Friday and it’s not like you were going to work anyways.

This are a couple videos of giant anteater (he’s giant, not the ants he eats, although I bet he could huff some pretty big ones) King Bumi opening wrapped presents gifted to him at the North Florida Wildlife Center in Lamont, Florida. Honestly, the way he moves I’m not totally convinced he’s not a person in an anteater costume. I like how he just paws those little presents off the top and goes straight for the big one. That’s like me on Christmas morning. Except this year there weren’t any big presents. Or little presents, presumably because I was terrible all year. “You didn’t even let up for a second.” Alright, that’s enough out of you, Santa.

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Because with enough patience, glue, and small mirrored tiles, anything can be a disco ball, Etsy shop AMCLUBShop is selling this 22″ shark disco ball. The $550 reflective fish (I’m in the wrong business) is sure to be just the thing to add that certain extra something to the stage in your rumpus room. I mean you did already install a stripper pyramid, right?

34 years after the game’s debut, the original Tetris for the NES has officially been “beat” by a human (it was previously only beat by AI), with 13-year old Blue Scuti breaking the game (it reaches a freezing killscreen) during a semi-finals match of the 2023 Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC). Blue also took home three world records as a result, including highest level reached (157), highest score (6,850,560), and most lines completed (1,511). Damn! And I thought I was hot potatoes for making it to level 9. I guess it’s time I blow off the old cartridge and get back to work. And by get back to work, I mean the exact opposite of working, just to be clear. I’m talking about laying around and gaming, probably with an afternoon nap.

Released by HBO Max to remind you they have the majority of Studio Ghibli’s feature films available on their streaming service, this is a 30-minute Youtube ‘screensaver’ of relaxing animations from various Ghibli movies. It is max level chill, possibly even an 11. And I thought falling asleep to that reef aquarium with all the tropical fish last night was a treat, I can’t wait to fall asleep to this. Just imagine the dreams I’ll have. “Probably the same nightmares as usual.” Where the bog witch steals my eyeballs?!

As a good riddance to 2023 *spits for dramatic effect, hits pant leg*, this is a 32-minute compilation of news bloopers from the year. There are some goodies in there. There are also some not-so-goodies. Still, it’s a great way to waste 30 minutes at the office like I just did. Of course waste is subjective, because this was a far more productive use of my time than anything else I would have done. Food for thought. God willing, the bag of Cool Ranch Doritos that’s been stuck in the vending machine since yesterday afternoon.