Weekend Open Thread

Wow folks ... what a week. We had one of the greatest speeches I've heard come from a President, the shampeachment was tossed in the garbage, we had another great speech from the President, we had JoJo's Bizarre Adventure crossover memes with Trump take over threads, and we just took out another high level terrorist. The cherry on top for me is that Phish Summer Tour tickets go on sale this weekend and I plan on grabbing a few this year. It's been two months since we've had a full on Open Thread with all of the bells and whistles, and I can't think of a more perfect week to bring it back! So with that, let's get started.

What's this JoJo's Bizarre Adventure you speak of? ... a few of you have asked ... in your head maybe, but not to me personally. Yes, this is the part where I ramble and weird stuff happens. "JoJo's" is the anime response to toxic feminism. Take masculinity and every stereotype about it and dial it all up to 11, then square that, and add a further dash of hyperbole and cool ... that gives you JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. It follows not a single character, but a family over the generations. Each season focuses on a character in a new generation and has its own arc, but there is a series arc that is generational, and the previous generations are present as the new JoJo namesake comes on the scene. If anyone kept Netflix after Obama started using it as his personal video toilet, they have the first two parts of the story on there dubbed in English. At least watch the first arc. It's not all that long. Get in on the meme. You know you want to. Try something different. C'mon, everybody's doing it ... well me and Believe It! are engaging in the meming. I'm just saying it would be cool to have more folks in on the jokes.

In a carryover from the first segment let's take a look at some of these memes. The first of these is Trump's Bizarre Presidency: Kekistani Crusaders. This is a riff off of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, which is the third story arc in the JoJo series. It introduced a power called a stand. (don't worry we'll cover that and meme about it later). Anyways before the ADHD kicks in too hard, please do enjoy this crossover meme.

Alrighty, now this next one is a crossover from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, which is the fourth story arc. Please enjoy, and don't for get recommend this OP and comment below.

This next one is from an iconic fight. I memed about it a few weeks ago with a cat fight which I'll post in the comments for reference. This one is pretty hilarious. Instead of JoJo vs Dio ... we have Trump vs Hillary.

Lastly we have the "to be continued" meme. JoJo ends with the song "Roundabout" by the band Yes. The animation stops, the colors fade and the "to be continued" graphic comes on the screen. It's been memed so much at this point that the meme could be memed about. I still find it hilarious. For your viewing pleasure...

TIP OF THE WEEK

Alright fellow OP writers who use Blogger. This week I've got a really great tip for you. I'm sure anyone who has put together a blog post on Blogger knows that Bloggers font selection is very limited. Not only is it limited, but the choices are not even good. It's the most generic collection of fonts there is. Well, what if I told you that you can use any font you want from Google fonts? It's true. any font on the site can be used in a blog post on Blogger. Here is how to do it:

The first thing you'll need to do is go to Google Fonts. From there just find the fonts you want and click the red + to add them to your queue. Here is what it looks like:

As you can see there are options to single out the type of font you're looking for such as serif, sans serif, script (handwriting), and a few others. You can add as many as you like; however, the more you decide to use the slower a page takes to load. I usually keep it down to one font family and a few variations of that font.

So how do you select font family variations? Well, it works like this. After you've selected your fonts click on the box in the bottom right corner of the screen that says "____ Family Selected." This will bring up the following window:

From there you want to click on where it says customize, as is indicated on the picture above. In this window you can choose the version of the font you want to have access to. It also has an indicator that shows how this affects the loading time of the page it will all be applied to. Here is what the customize window looks like.

So now that we have selected a font and the variations we want to use it's time to load it into our blog post. In the example above you will see the two things we are going to copy and paste into our blog post using the html editor. The first code is what imports and links to the fonts on Google Fonts. Copy and paste this at the very top of your blog post in the html editor. The second code it gives you is for applying the font to a paragraph. It will have to be applied to each paragraph. Below is an example of how it will look in the the html editor.

<span style="font-family: 'Asap Condensed', sans-serif;">below isBelow is an example of how it will look in the the html editor.</span>

If you're like me, you are not a coder, but like the freedom that coding lets you have while putting together a blog post. This is why I keep a text document saved that is a cheat sheet. In it I have copied and pasted all of the codes I like to use. I can't remember all of these things so I keep this to copy and paste from, changing out the variables such as color code, text size, etc. as needed. Here are the codes I keep on hand. The div codes work for an entire set of paragraphs and can be closed out at the end of the blog post. The span codes only work for one paragraph at a time. So they will need to be closed out and reapplied for each paragraph. Here is an over-complicated looking screenshot of this OP in my text document showing where everything goes and what it looks like.

Now that the technical stuff is out of the way,
let's get to the music!

Since we heard a snippet of Yes in the meme segment above, I think starting out with my favorite Yes tune is appropriate.

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Since we were talking about Bizarre Adventures earlier I think this one is also appropriate. As the obligatory Phish post, this version of Split Open and Melt gets way outside of the box and then brought back in. It's worth a listen if you don't mind an adventure in sound.

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