There once was a shipping vessel then And the name of the ship was the Ever Given She turned too far, got stuck on shore Can someone call a backhoe?
Still is the Evergreen stuck To make international commerce fucked One day, when we dig her back up We’ll right her way and go
She was not even halfway through When down on her, a sandstorm blew Despite the courage of the fearless crew They had nowhere to go
Still is the Evergreen stuck To make international commerce fucked One day, when we dig her back up We’ll right her way and go
The others ships went ‘long the shore A detour 'round the African Horn It cost nine billion bucks or more That’s quite a lot of dough
Still is the Evergreen stuck To make international commerce fucked One day, when we dig her back up We’ll right her way and go
For six long days, we watched this scene We made dumb jokes and posted memes Though they did free the Ever Given We encourage them to get stuck again!
Still is the Evergreen stuck To make international commerce fucked One day, when we dig her back up We’ll right her way and go
Still is the Evergreen stuck To make international commerce fucked One day, when we dig her back up We’ll right her way and gooooo…
a sequel, a sequel for the ever forward!
there twice was a ship that stuck shorewards, and the name of the second was the ever forward; she missed a turn when the waters churned, so the voyage ain’t on the go.
the ever forward doesn’t live to its name, now chesapeake bay is a bay of meme fame; beware the tides of march, o baltimore’s baywatch, take note!
scarcely had the crew pulled up the anchor when she ran aground, which almost sank her; 'all tugs to the aid!’, the captain swore his furrowed brows lour and dour.
the ever forward doesn’t live to its name, now chesapeake bay is a bay of meme fame; beware the tides of march, o baltimore’s baywatch, take note!
the ever forward’s been stuck for a fortnight, and thank the stars! the traffic’s alright, yet the rescue teams’ knuckles went bone white for the ship’s no child’s play, no.
the ever forward doesn’t live to its name, now chesapeake bay is a bay of meme fame; beware the tides of march, o baltimore’s baywatch, take note!
for fourteen days the memes did boom, as the evergreen bosses huff, puff and fume; still the ever forward has not moved, and the company’s cursed, ho!
the ever forward doesn’t live to its name, now chesapeake bay is a bay of meme fame; beware the tides of march, o baltimore’s baywatch, take note!
the ever forward doesn’t live to its name, now chesapeake bay is a bay of meme fame; beware the tides of march, o baltimore’s baywatch, take noteeeeee~
There once was a shipping vessel then And the name of the ship was the Ever Given She turned too far, got stuck on shore Can someone call a backhoe?
Still is the Evergreen stuck To make international commerce fucked One day, when we dig her back up We’ll right her way and go
She was not even halfway through When down on her, a sandstorm blew Despite the courage of the fearless crew They had nowhere to go
Still is the Evergreen stuck To make international commerce fucked One day, when we dig her back up We’ll right her way and go
The others ships went ‘long the shore A detour 'round the African Horn It cost nine billion bucks or more That’s quite a lot of dough
Still is the Evergreen stuck To make international commerce fucked One day, when we dig her back up We’ll right her way and go
For six long days, we watched this scene We made dumb jokes and posted memes Though they did free the Ever Given We encourage them to get stuck again!
Still is the Evergreen stuck To make international commerce fucked One day, when we dig her back up We’ll right her way and go
Still is the Evergreen stuck To make international commerce fucked One day, when we dig her back up We’ll right her way and gooooo…
a sequel, a sequel for the ever forward!
there twice was a ship that stuck shorewards, and the name of the second was the ever forward; she missed a turn when the waters churned, so the voyage ain’t on the go.
the ever forward doesn’t live to its name, now chesapeake bay is a bay of meme fame; beware the tides of march, o baltimore’s baywatch, take note!
scarcely had the crew pulled up the anchor when she ran aground, which almost sank her; 'all tugs to the aid!’, the captain swore his furrowed brows lour and dour.
the ever forward doesn’t live to its name, now chesapeake bay is a bay of meme fame; beware the tides of march, o baltimore’s baywatch, take note!
the ever forward’s been stuck for a fortnight, and thank the stars! the traffic’s alright, yet the rescue teams’ knuckles went bone white for the ship’s no child’s play, no.
the ever forward doesn’t live to its name, now chesapeake bay is a bay of meme fame; beware the tides of march, o baltimore’s baywatch, take note!
for fourteen days the memes did boom, as the evergreen bosses huff, puff and fume; the ever forward has not moved, and the company’s cursed, ho!
the ever forward doesn’t live to its name, now chesapeake bay is a bay of meme fame; beware the tides of march, o baltimore’s baywatch, take note!
the ever forward doesn’t live to its name, now chesapeake bay is a bay of meme fame; beware the tides of march, o baltimore’s baywatch, take noteeeeee~
PROTAGONIST: I got skills, they’re multiplyin’ PROTAGONIST: And I’m taking control PROTAGONIST: ‘Cause the power you’re supplyin’ PROTAGONIST: It’s intensifyin’
GODDESS: You better shape up GODDESS: 'Cause I need a champ GODDESS: And my heart is set on you GODDESS: You better shape up GODDESS: You better understand GODDESS: To my heart I must be true GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Nothin’ left, nothin’ left for me to do
GODDESS: You’re the one that I chose PROTAGONIST: You’re the one who chose me GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey GODDESS: You’re the one that I chose PROTAGONIST: You’re the one who chose me GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey GODDESS: You’re the one that I chose PROTAGONIST: You’re the one who chose me GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey GODDESS: The one I need PROTAGONIST: The one I need GODDESS: Oh, yes indeed PROTAGONIST: Yes, indeed
GODDESS: If you’re filled with conviction GODDESS: You’re too weak to convey GODDESS: Meditate on your direction GODDESS: Feel your way
PROTAGONIST: I better shape up PROTAGONIST: 'Cause you need a champ GODDESS: I need a champ GODDESS: Who can keep me satisfied PROTAGONIST: I better shape up PROTAGONIST: If I’m gonna prove GODDESS: You better prove GODDESS: That my faith is justified PROTAGONIST: Are you sure? GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Yes, I’m sure down deep inside
GODDESS: You’re the one that I chose PROTAGONIST: You’re the one who chose me GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey GODDESS: You’re the one that I chose PROTAGONIST: You’re the one who chose me GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey GODDESS: You’re the one that I chose PROTAGONIST: You’re the one who chose me GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey GODDESS: The one I need PROTAGONIST: The one I need GODDESS: Oh, yes indeed PROTAGONIST: Yes, indeed
GODDESS: You’re the one that I chose PROTAGONIST: You’re the one who chose me GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey GODDESS: You’re the one that I chose PROTAGONIST: You’re the one who chose me GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey GODDESS: You’re the one that I chose PROTAGONIST: You’re the one who chose me GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey GODDESS: The one I need PROTAGONIST: The one I need GODDESS: Oh, yes indeed PROTAGONIST: Yes, indeed
GODDESS: You’re the one that I chose PROTAGONIST: You’re the one who chose me GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey GODDESS: You’re the one that I chose PROTAGONIST: You’re the one who chose me GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey GODDESS: You’re the one that I chose PROTAGONIST: You’re the one who chose me GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey GODDESS: The one I need PROTAGONIST: The one I need GODDESS: Oh, yes indeed PROTAGONIST: Yes, indeed
GODDESS: You’re the one that I chose PROTAGONIST: You’re the one who chose me GODDESS & PROTAGONIST: Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey GODDESS/PROTAGONIST: You’re the one that I chose/You’re the one who chose me
Everyone please check out our dear friends youtuber JohnnyFerno awesome first MLP song parody ft. Youtuber MuseScript! now up on his Youtube Channel JohnnyFireFlame! Very happy to have done the artwork for this! How could we not when he got us into the original song? Johnny and Muse you both did awesome!
The next page of the comic where the avatar of the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 sings about how awesome being a hurricane is. (And to the tune of “Comet” from Steven Universe…because for some reason when I heard that song my mind was immediately like “this would be even cooler if it was about a category 5 hurricane bragging about himself.”)
Labor Day definitely thinks his life is a very entertaining and wild ride, but the exhausted sooty terns on the bottom panel probably disagree after having been thrown around his eyewall.
Seabirds becoming trapped inside hurricanes is a real phenomenon, and sometimes they end up being blown hundreds of miles inland. There are photographs of ships in the eye of a storm being mobbed by hordes of tired birds looking for a place to rest their wings.
Here’s the second page of the comic involving the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 strumming on a guitarfish. I imagine he has a hobby of writing and performing rock ballads, which is not at all the sort of hobby you would expect from a Category 5 hurricane with a mindset that weather is warfare.
The song is basically a rip-off parody of “Comet” from Steven Universe but I imagine Labor Day’s singing voice to be closer to Billy Joel. Either way, it’s very much nicer than his usual voice, which is basically a cross between drill-sergeant yelling and a freight train.
The final page of the comic series where the avatar of the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 sings a parody of “Comet” from Steven Universe.
People are probably not in the mood for silly hurricane comics after Ida, but I was working on finishing this one from before the storm happened. And after I completely blanked out on the whole “the San Andreas Fault runs for president” story arc after page 18, I really wanted to have at least one comic series colored and finished.
In these two pages, Labor Day is singing about how hurricanes are essentially Carnot heat engines, entities that draw their power from the difference in temperature between the ocean and the upper atmosphere. Hurricanes are immense heat-transport machines, and are thought to play an important role in the transfer of heat and water in the Earth’s atmosphere and hydrosphere.
But of course, this mechanism of power, so dependent on high evaporation rates at the ocean’s surface, means that hurricanes, in spite of their power, are rather delicate things. Once they hit land, they rapidly die like a giant beached fish. It is only in the most particular of environments that they are able to maintain the overwhelming force they are known for.
For this reason, the life of a hurricane is short. A rapid rise, a brief moment of category 5 glory, and then a cataclysmic fall. I was trying to capture that in this series…though more from the hurricane’s perspective than from the human perspective.
(to the tune of Bo Burnham’s “How the World Works”)
The simple gameplay displayed in DDLC is just there So you feel safe and comfortable before the big jumpscare Don’t you know that this game is filled with death? And suicide! And self-mutilation!
The stereotypical characters essentially function To give the dating sim genre a dark deconstruction And Sayori there hung herself and died!
Yuri’s kinda shy and rather depressed And Natsuki’s tsundere and manga-obsessed And Monika’s aware that this is all just a game She kills the other girls and tries to keep the player in chains
Thaaaaaat is how the game works! That is how the game works! It starts outs cute and slow, then goes completely berserk That’s hooooooow… it works!
We interrupt your Shakespearean bingo cards to bring you a song to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday tomorrow! (If you’re not familiar with the tune, get caught up here first.) ALL TOGETHER NOW!
For more fun Shakespeare birthday content, check out my brand new Man From Stratford archive page!
If you’ve been following my work here for a while, you know I love writing musical parodies. Seriously, I can’t get enough of it. And now you can browse all my musical parodies in one place!
In related news, I got a ukulele last year and am planning to put together “The Song Book of Shakespearean Parodies That Are Particularly Easy to Play on the Ukulele” sometime in the uncertain future. Don’t hold your breath, but it’s going to happen.
