This week i am going to review an article in a magazine called Plushie Pals. I started getting Plushie Pals about six months ago when Neopets: the official magazine stopped it’s printing. Plushie Pals is a magazine that has articles on lots of different types of virtual pet websites, lit Neopets, Club Penguin, Webkinz, and Beanie Babies 2.0. I mostly read the Neopets articles in the magazine because that is the only site I play and the Neopets portion almost always has a game guide thats interesting! 

I’m going to write my review on one of those game guides! The game guide I’m going to talk about is a Snowmuncher game guide written by Rebecca Bundy. 

This article is written very well and doesn’t just use little words… which is something I didn’t expect in a kids magazine! She states and explains all the things you should know about the game before playing it and some tips on practicing the game very clearly. I also like that she decided to put down the points breakdown in her article, and gives a great description of when certain things show up and what they look like and which ones you should aim for getting first.

And last but not least she explained an easy way how to score 5000 points to get the Snowmuncher avatar, that was my favorite part!!

Play the game here

I’m going to write my post this week on an darticle about Wierd Al Yankovic located here. Wierd Al is a comedian who sings. he has been around since 1979 and has made it his living to do spoofs on popular songs by rewriting them and singing them to the same tune. The article in Wired mentions many different YouTube videos which are very great and I will be talking about them.

The first video the article mentions is the video for Hey Ricky this was his first popular song making fun of the popular song Micky by Tony Basil. It is shot to be like I Love Lucy and I give it three stars out of five.

The second video that is mentioned is Another One Rides the Bus This is a parody of Another One Bites the Dust by Queen. This song is played to the tune of Another One Bites the Dust, but with just a accordion and a few other knick knack instruments. I’d give this remake a four out of five stars.

Another song that is played like Another One Rides the Bus is My Bologna copied after the song My Sharona by The Knack. I think this is a very hilarious remake and I give it a four out of five stars.

The next song the article mentions is Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch. It is based after the popular song Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper. This song actually has music with it and I think it is a very good parody, I give it five stars!

The last video in this article is Couch Potato making fun of the song Lose Yourself by Eminem. This is the best parody video they mention in the  article and I give the video five stars. It was going to be made into a proper music video but Eminem wouldn’t allow Weird Al to make fun of him like that though.

Many artists have though, and probably the most popular parody so far has been White & Nerdy which is a parody of Chamillionaire’s Ridin’ Dirty.

Weird Al isn’t also known for his parodies, he also makes his own comedy songs, like Weasel Stomping Day off of his newest C.D., Straight Outta Lynwood.