So at work during my off times I’ve been powerwalking on the treadmill whilst watching cartoons on the Family Channel. In my 45 minute workout I get to watch the last half of ‘Recess’, all of ‘Phineas and Ferb’, and the first half of ‘The Weekenders’. The first is a caricature/social comentary of elementary school life; The last is a slight more instructional in nature, insisting on spelling out the morals throughout the episodes via a fourth wall breaking comentary, but still manages to pull its weight enternainment wise with well rounded characters and rather sophisticated humor. ‘Phineas and Ferb’ by contrast is pure oddball humor and form plots (every episode, basically the same things happen. The stories revolve around two brilliant, industrious brothers who take on a new impossible task every day. Every day they succeed, and every day their work is destroyed after they finish. Phineas’ catch phrase is “I know what we’re going to do today, Ferb!”
I know it’s just a cartoon that I shouldn’t take too seriously, but I can’t watch the show without feeling guilty fot being more productive.
Today though, I had a similar moment with my little brother. We made root beer by first boiling equal parts brown sugar and water, then boiling until reduced by half, Removing from heat, and steeping fennel and anise leaves in until cooled. A couple spoonfulls in a glass of ice and soda water, tastes basicaly like root beer…