the sidewalk is hungry

Scientists in the Netherlands have created cement that will clean the air for us because it eats smog!

It’s basically regular cement, but they add titanium oxide to it. I guess, for some scientific reason, titanium oxide “neutralizes air pollutants.”

How cool is that?! They could do this in big cities everywhere and help give us clean air!

This is a pretty huge idea because there is cement, like, everywhere. If we used this in sidewalks and buildings and trees and oceans and puppies, the air would be so much cleaner!

The only thing that could be a problem is if all the smog is gone. What will the sidewalks eat next?

Humans.

It’s inevitable! That’s what everything eats when it gets too hungry! I’ve seen it in millions of movies!

We won’t be able to leave our homes. Hopefully your house is made out of something uncement. The cement would evolve into a giant cement creature that will eat people and take over the world and make everybody learn how to knit and make sweaters and stuff!

Or something just as scary!

I should make a movie about this. To warn people. I’ll call it “Where the Sidewalk Ends…YOUR LIFE.”

Humanity's last hope is the light in the attic and the giving tree. If we can convince them to come out of retirement and help us.

I’m off to walk on the side.

Enjoy Everything.

-dj

bells of the ball

This past weekend, Notre Dame got some new bells. I don't know much about history, but I DO know that I can make up funner history and pretend it's real!

Emmanuel is a bell. A lonely bell. For many years he had Nine friends to play with. They would ring all the time in their Notre Dame home.

Then, during a revolution, people didn't like bells anymore. They couldn't find any Reason for bells. Emmanuel and his friends disagreed. But nobody listened to them. (Because they were bells.)

All of Emmanuel's friends were taken away and Emmanuel was left alone.

He would ring as belly as he could, but it was never the same.

A few years later, four new friends came to play, but they didn't know how to stay in tune. Emmanuel didn't hang out with them often. They were kinda jerks.

Then, when people were done revolutioning and ringing jerkily, a birthday came! A Sesnocentennial!

From the magical lands of Normandy and Netherland, Jean-Marie, Maurice, Benoit-Joseph, Steven, Marcel, Dennis, Anne-Genevieve, Gabriel, and Mary came to play again!

The bells rang loud and Emmanuel was happy.

They also decided to get super powers and fight anyone who decided to hurt them during revolutions. Now they fight crime as the Decabells. And use lasers and swords and fire balls on evil dissonants and dissonance.

They ring for justice! ...and to tell time...

I'm off to ring my bell.

Enjoy Everything.

-dj