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Phone it in Friday LI: YouTube Roundup VII

The Portly Politico4 Comments

My YouTube channel is growing nicely.  At the time of writing, I have seventy-four (74) subscribers.  I’d love to see that reach 100 in the next few weeks, so if you haven’t already, mash subscribe.

The arcade cabinet video I featured in the sixth installment of YouTube Roundup has over 1200 views at the time of writing—absolutely astonishing!  If you missed it, you can watch it below:

This week I’ve got a Nativity scene; some scribblings; and an eerie clarinet and celesta duet.

Nativity Bricks Build and Review

Back on Epiphany (6 January 2024) I built a Nativity from Nativity Bricks, a company that makes Christian-themed LEGO® knock-offs (I also composed an Epiphany-inspired original piano composition):

If you want to purchase the Nativity Bricks Nativity, you can pick it up on Amazon here:  https://amzn.to/48GLDaC

It’s $52 on Amazon, but there’s a promotion to get another Nativity—the Asian or African variants—for free!  $26 per set is excellent, and after you build one, Nativity Bricks will mail you a free Moses minifigure!

“Scribblings I: Post-Christmas Concert Scribbling”

Some scribblings I jotted down after my school’s Christmas Concert on Friday, 8 December 2023. I was exhausted, but found scribbling down some brief musical ideas to be rejuvenating.

“Moonstruck”

“Moonstruck” is a brief meditation for clarinet and celesta, although the celesta part could easily be played on piano in a pinch. I conceived of the piece because it features notes that are easy for beginners to play on the clarinet.

I have been learning to play the clarinet, so I wanted to write some literature for it that I would enjoy playing. I hope you do, too!

Sheet music is available for purchase from the following fine retailers:

Happy Viewing!

—TPP

Some of the links in this post are Amazon Affiliate links.  If you purchase anything from Amazon through those links, I receive a portion of the sales revenue, at no expense to you.  Thanks for your support.  —TPP

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4 thoughts on “Phone it in Friday LI: YouTube Roundup VII”

  1. Well, I guess that’s it; teaching career gone, relationship gone. But who needs all that stuff when you’ve got Arcade PacMan and sustenance! 😂😂😂😂

    Seriously, that looks great dude! If we ever get over there, I reckon 99.9% of my time with you will be spent evading ghosts. Tina will have to pry my cold, dead hands away from it! 😂😂

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    • It’s Pacmania at Portly Manor, that’s for sure! My neighbor plays when he comes over to check on Murphy while I am at work. His fourteen-year old dog passed peacefully in her sleep Monday morning, and he reached 10,000 points on Pac-Man that afternoon. He said playing it helped him deal with the grief. Perhaps Pac-Man Therapy can be a good way to cope with loss.

      If y’all ever make the trip, you can play Pac-Man and its various permutations to your heart’s content—if not to Tina’s, haha!

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