Ramil Blog

So, I have this roommate Tash (who you met in "Ramil Climbs to the Top of the Duomo"), and she has many, many talents. Among singing and hula-hooping, she also has many cool gadgets. The other night, we had fun playing with one of these gadgets - a flaming wallet! Yes, it's a wallet that can spontaneously combust. It's nothing really groundbreaking, but I made for a cool short video, "Ramil Plays with Fire:"

Also... here's something I like on the internet. But first I have to introduce it, because it has come to my attention that not everyone goes on YouTube.com as much as I do. So, there's this internet creation called the "Lolcat" (LOL + CAT), and it's just funny pictures of cats with captions in a cat language called "Kitteh," which is how cats would speak English if they could talk. The lolcat phenomenon was initially popularized by a website called icanhascheezburger.com, and has since spread to not only different media forms, but also to include other animals.

Another thing that I like is the "Yes We Can" video by will.i.am supporting Barack Obama. I know it's very cheesy, but it makes me feel good inside.

So, people began using their own skills to show support for Obama, as well. And apparently, many of the lolcat image creators are also Barack supporters. As a result, some political websites were created, following in the footsteps of will.i.am and barely political (the Obama Girl studio), to express support for Barack Obama in their own way:
Yes We Can Has
Lolbama
I Can Has Nomination

To help further illustrate the development of the lolcat/lolbama phenomenon, I've created a flow chart:

UPDATE: The creators of the site, Yes We Can Has "had not made a single lolcats image before [they] made this site, and lolbama.com actually came a couple days before [their] site." While this new information does affect the accuracy of the flow chart, I will not be publishing a retraction.