Now because I look for funny opportunities I decided to do some caption play.

I noticed that when you drag the mouse cursor across the vote you can not only change the Tankman's expression on it, but animate it seamlessly with it. So for kicks I tried something out:

Enjoy.

Been busy the past couple of days, but not to worry, things are good, but I felt bad not giving something out so here's something funny I came up with.

Proper English To Real English Phrase Guide:

For Those of High Class Vocabulary Having Difficulty Understanding The Common Person.

Chapter 1: Common Greetings and Phrases.

Proper English: Salutations, tis a fine morning indeed, is it not?

Real English: How's it going? Is it hotter out here or is it just me?

Proper English: Pardon my intrusion, I was inquiring if you could inform me the directions to the local athenaeum. I wish to return some literature there.

Real English: Hey, do you know where the library is? My books are fucking overdue.

Proper English: Would you care to join me in the local tavern for a pint of their exquisite lager, which is certain to inebriate us all?

Real English: Wanna go to the bar and get fucking wrecked?

Proper English: I owe you the deepest sincere of apologies. I realized that I have made an error.

Real English: Sorry. I fucked up.

Proper English: Welcome to my humble abode. Make yourselves comfortable, but please remove all footwear, I've just cleaned my finest of carpets. There will be hell to pay, if but a speck of dirt molests it. (For those who don't know and have a dirty mind, the word "Molest" in this context means "To bother".)

Real English: Hey guy's, come on in, have a seat. If you drag your dirty shoes on my rug I'll fucking kill you.

That's all I could think of for now, but I'll think of more.

I just took a recent look at my Pico Day contribution:

Something must have really clicked because no song of mine before had this much reception:

Wait a minute:

Oh crap. Ok to any Clone Trooper watching this do not stare at that numb....too late:

In all seriousness, I never thought anything I done would get rated this high and I once again thank you all.

I first heard of Ito through his most well known stories:

From Tomie.

To the hopefully coming soon Uzumaki:

So needless to say, I was expecting some scary moments when this came out:

I went to watch it, to see how they handled Tomie. Needless to say they didn't disappoint. But there were other stories that were just as, if not more scarier than his famous work.

Stories like Ice Cream Bus:

Which has a new level of Stranger Danger.

As well as Hanging Balloons:

A lot of these stories really amp up the terror and despair that Ito is most famous for. Watch if you dare. Muhahahahahaha.

So I wake up later than usual, feeling groggy and doing my usual routines, food, weed, personal hygeine. I turn my computer on one day and go on here:

Happy Pico Day!

@TomFulp as usual updates us on Pico Day and other events Newgrounds related. So I have a looksee and find that the first winners he announces are those whom participated in the Pico Day Writing Contest. Whose entries along with mine can be seen here. Now this contest as far as I know, has no prize, but that doesn't matter. The reason I bring it up, is because for the first time ever on this site, I Shane, aka S.T. Musician of CIEIRMusic have won a contest on this very site as well as won a contest in general:

Now I didn't come up with the title "Glorified Destruction Machines" myself, that was a line taken from my story. So I thank @DannyGoodShirt not just for hosting the contest, but coming up with a kick ass title for mine. I did not expect to win, let alone be in the top 3. Congrats to @Royal-Harmonica and @Yazza for making 2 and 3 respectfully. Be sure to read their stories as well as the stories of runner-ups @DGbythepolice @ZombieGhost and @JunesBlueNow.

@DannyGoodShirt also came up with a poll for the community to vote for their favourite author as seen here.

I myself voted for @Royal-Harmonica.

Now you're probably wondering the reason for my title. Because while I never gave up, the past year's I've been on the site, what with my infamous protest of the Art Inspired Music contest, my getting into fights with people on forums and newsposts and at least a small fraction of the site thinking I'm some kind of monster, based on how I view things and who I defend. I was for sure believing there was no chance in Hell, not in a million years that I'd achieve some form of success. But in the past couple of days, I've gotten a huge taste of success here.

First my song for the Pico Day Audio portion of the contest gets Frontpaged. Even if I don't win, that's an accomplishment on it's own.

Then I reach level 24 not too long after.

And now for the first time in all my years on this site I won a contest. There are people out there that would kill each other for the mass injection of good luck that got pumped into me those days.

But I don't owe this success merely to myself, I owe it to all of you. Be it fans, friends, enemies, detractors. Each and every one of you played a part in shaping who I am on this site today and I have you all to thank for helping me get this far. You all deserve a win on your own.

That said, in light of this recent win, I decided to take the time to advertise my lesser known lesser updated site. CIEIR Literature. I have been an author for a long time, seldom writing and publishing books on Amazon's Kindle Direct Plus. A lot of my stories would come across as cringe to some people, just a heads up. But if you're all interested in how batshit insane I can really be as a writer look no further than this. The only one not on there is Mom Of The Dead, because I haven't updated the site recently.

Of course as usual, be sure to checkout my bandcamp and Ko-Fi.

I was gonna wait until I reached Level 30 and do it by 10 levels each, but the pun was too tempting. I have reached Level 24 and too my surprise the weapon of that level is a three-ball Mace. Oh my god. Excuse me for a moment:

Ok now that I gotten that out of my system. My luck is going further up. First a front page, now a new Level. Everything's coming up S.T.

First of all, I want to wish everyone a Happy Pico Day and the best of luck to whomever wins this year. Second of all I only have one thing to say regarding the recent events.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!

I only released this song:

At 1:30 AM my Timezone. Within exactly nearly 12 hours since, I checked and saw this:

Not since this:

Have any of my audio (That I know of at least.), been front paged, but on top of that it's the first ever song of mine that gotten the frontpage. I don't know what I did to deserve it, but to whomever liked my song enough to warrant that:

THANK YOU!!

At this point I don't care if my song wins any prizes, that there is a major win all it's own. I'd like to thank the good people at Newgrounds, but most importantly I'd like to thank my fans for getting me this far. This means a lot to me.

Thanks for reading this. Be sure to checkout my bandcamp and Ko-Fi.

For those interested, here's the whole playlist:

Pico V Piconjo Playlist

This one it one I've been meaning to do for some time.

When people usually think of families, it's often the classic Nuclear Family. Wife, Husband, son, daughter. Mainly blood relatives that stick together and try to get through life. However over the years I've found that family isn't that simple as one would think.

Some people grow up with only one parent, whether the other is dead or divorced.

Some people grow up in families that society used to deem as abnormal, but is now wildly accepted, such as same sex marriages and the adoptions that follow.

In my case, I was raised not just by blood relatives of mine, but people whom under normal circumstances would be complete strangers to others, but I've known them long enough to be family.

Now as a kid I thought that family was strictly blood. I was taught by idiots that happen to be my own flesh and blood, that that was the lesson and that everyone else no matter how genuinely kind they were to me, could fuck off. Over the years I realized what bullshit that was, because there have been many people in my family life, non-blood related whom have done things for me, that my own family would never do. Just last year the coming August, I lost one of those people. This person, was one of the first faces I've ever seen when I first arrived in my town when I was 6 years old. But the man's kindness and cool headedness and his extensive family have watched my back ever since. He was the first person to teach me, that family isn't about blood. It's the heart that pumps it.

For those who say "You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family." I call bullshit. I can choose my family, I can choose who goes and who stays in my life.

Point being is my views on family even back then were way ahead of their time and those who try to claim that what I had was anything but family. Downplaying it claiming they're glorified friends or some bullshit, then you better unfollow me now.

For those who think being abused is a normal part of it, seek help!!

For those who think family should strictly be blood or hetero, turn off your FOX News app and go outside.

For those who agree, you're a lot more evolved than people give credit for.

Let me know if you know someone you view as family regardless if you're blood relatives or not.

Today I mourn the loss of a controversial yet extremely popular talk show host. Now if you're someone like me who grew up in the 90s to the mid 2010s, you may have tuned to Fox television and heard a very familiar chant:

JERRY JERRY JERRY JERRY!!!

This was the immortal chant of the lowest common denominator. People who find trash entertaining and to this humble musician, this was well worth the watch. Nowadays trashy talk shows are a dime a dozen, but back then this was one of a kind, often imitated but never duplicated. This show covered many topics ranging from sex scandals, politics and even had a hand at both glorifying and battling racism, as the KKK among many supremacy groups was one of Jerry's long time archenemies. To the point where a member on his death bed cussed him out on national television.

The formula goes as shown. Whatever the topic, Jerry interviews one person, they tell their side of the story in a calm, somewhat vulgar passion depending on the topic and story. Then Jerry brings out the other party in this story, whom often always comes out with more than just words:

Which often requires restraint by the security guards. Formally headed by Steve Wilkos, a former member of member of the Chicago Police department. Normally they do their job fine, hold the fighting parties back until they are calm and can resume the show, but as seen above, security isn't that lucky even with Steve on board. Other times if a fight gets extreme like say a husband threatening his wife, Steve or another security guard restrains them again with a not so subtle threat.

Afterwards the audience is asked to participate, mostly to tell people off:

Then after everything is dealt with Jerry ends the show with a final thought:

Which is often summing up the end of the topics at hand and concluding with his memorable catchphrase "Take care of yourself and each other."

The show became a surprise success with a wopping 27 seasons and was one of many to spearhead the trend of talkshow hosts from the 90s to the 2000s. Shows like The Maury Povich Show, Ricky Lake, Jenny Jones, Montel, Oprah (Who came before him) and Sally Jessey Raphael.

Some of these shows actually tried to jump into more serious topics, but got booted because they weren't out there like Jerry. Others have tried to mimic Jerry Springer's success, but they didn't have that touch. The fact that he managed to outdo them 5 years ago, when it cancelled, while others called it quits is an accomplishment on his own.

Eventually over t he years the show got retooled to the point where Steve Wilkos went from head of security to occasional guest host the show in his stead called Steve to The Rescue:

Which got so popular that it eventually became the Steve Wilkos Show:

Which much like the previous show does have fights, but unlike it, Steve takes the topics seriously and even introduced topics close to home such as domestic violence, rape and murder.

That said Jerry was more than just a trashy talk show host.

He was a political adviser to Robert F. Kennedy. Yes THE Robert Kennedy. That was in 1968.

Ran for Congress in 1970, but lost.

Was elected to the Cincinnati City Council, in 1971 and later became mayor of Cincinnati in 1975 and even tried to run for Governor of Ohio, before his political career was put on hold.

In his university, the Univeristy of Tulane in New Orleans Louisana, he was an ungraduated host for WTUL, then while he was still mayor, ran a segment called "The Springer Memorandum" on WEBN-FM. These moments alone back then became the precursor to a long and successful career later on. He later became a political reporter for NBC's affiliate WLWT, in which the origin of his catphrase "Take care of yourself and each other." came to fruition. Now this had a huge accomplishment, because that station was NBC's lowest rating and he brought in said ratings.

It wasn't until September of 1991 where we met the Jerry Springer many know and love. I was but a 5 month old baby at the time, but while I was dealing with baby crap that year and month, Jerry aired his first episode. Now before Jerry Springer became what we know as of now, it did start as a serious show:

No fights, no nude scenes, no overtly stimulated audience, not even need for security. It was a politically oriented Talk Show and as much as others prefer what came after, I believe this is the number one reason to respect Jerry regardless of how far below the show has gotten.

It wasn't until producer Richard Dominick, taking over from former producer Burt Dubrow, that the show got revamped to what we know and love/hate. So ya, if you want someone to really blame if you hate the show that much, blame that guy. Jerry may have continued without him, but it started with him.

Jerry also was one of the hosts for shows like America's Got Talent, replacing Regis Philbin at the time. As well as hosted other events such as Miss World, Miss Universe, WWE Raw and even live hosted an episode of the Price is Right:

Which Adam Sandler is lucky he didn't pick a fight with. If you think Bob Barker is bad, check out what Jerry did to Dr. Evil:

His last work before cancer got him in the end, was on Judge Jerry. Now Jerry has made it no secret, that he hates his old show, he hates his guests, he hates his audience despite the latter loving him so much. So the chance to do some serious television was something he was eager to do. Too bad it was around the time the TV Judge Craze was coming to an end:

Judge Jerry only lasted from 2019 to 2022. Being cancelled last month of last year. Which sucks because when Jerry tones down the comedy and this has happened on his own talk show two, he can get pretty scary when he gets serious.

In light of this specific person I shall not call this a conclusion, but a final thought:

Most people only judge what they see, because behind closed doors, people can be anybody. Case in point Donald Trump. People mock him, rightfully so, because all we have to go on is what he says on TV or on his twitter, yet for all we know, behind closed doors, the man could be a genius level supervillain, using public stupidity as his weapon.

In the case of Jerry Springer, a lot of us growing up watching the show sees nothing but sleaze and violence. But if you all took the time to look into this guy, both faults and all, you'd know he'd lead a very interesting life even well before he became the man we knew, loved and/or today.

Jerry, wherever you are, the world became more cynical without you and unlike that death bed ridden Klan fuck, I don't think I'll see you in Hell. I wish you nothing but the best in the next life.

As for the rest of you, as the man always said, take care of yourself and each other.