Month: June 2026

How Sweet!

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Back in 2007 or maybe 2008 a friend of mine posted this clip in the comment section of my blog as a joke.

Turns out I ended up loving the song, I’ve gone on to share it with my Granddaughters and when I remember, I post it at Halloween because Gummy Bears are a candy- a candy that can sing and vamp it up in music videos:

I never really did a deep dive into the history of the song, because it was about Gummy Bears- I figured it was a commercial or something along those lines.

I was wrong,  it wasn’t a commercial at all.

It was written by  Christian Schneider, and he just  happens to be the CEO of Gummy Bear International and he’s written candy related songs before.

I’m sorry I missed this one:

Christian Philipp Schneider (also credited as simply Papabär and Gumi Papa) is a Serbian-born composer, producer and writer for most of the songs of the Gummibär series. He is the creator of the Gummibär character and the successful song I Am A Gummy Bear. A resident of Germany, Christian would later found the company Gummybear International, which would be charged to produce a large amount of Gummibär-related products.

Christian found inspiration for Gummy Bear song while w enjoying his beer  in a bar Germany.

A female patron  told him he was her gummy bear, and his first reaction was ‘No…what?” ,  And his response was ‘I’m your gummy bear.’

The interaction was enough for a light bulb to go off in his head. A tune was born and he recorded it on his Walkman.

Here is the version in German, which if you ask me is pretty sweet too:

Death of A Mermaid

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When I worked across the street from this building and looked out of our window and into their window I used to see this, I think it’s a Mermaid’s tail.

Photo AM Moacoso

I used to wonder what happened to the rest of her.

Were her poor mutilated remains on display in the art gallery below? Did people stare into her flat dead eyes and call them ‘art’

 

My thoughts about the Mermaid’s tail were dark and fanciful….Until, that is,  I saw the same thing hanging in a shop that specializes in knives and cutlery a few blocks away from where the company I work for moved.

Now I’m wondering if we have a serial killer who hacks up Mermaids and turns their tails into art.

I wonder who the killer is and where she finds her victims.