It's 420 day, and even though I never touch the stuff, I am re-sharing this "Calvin and Hobbes" manip me and my brother collaborated on!

0:04 is what I say when I have to slam on the brakes for a pedestrian gesturing to cross and wait until I’m a few yards away to step into the street in front of me!

I just did a vlog discussing this: youtu.be/NdtZz3vuRy0

Testing out carrying around my Audio Technia Sound Burger record player while in fursuit! Need a bit more practice in doing so before I bring this to @furpocalypse.org with its Rock and Roll theme this year!

Hmmm, something familiar here...

When I am walking around in Boston and I approach a crosswalk with the walk signal on, I start hurrying to the curb as I chant "Please stay 'walk!' Please stay 'walk!' Please stay walk!'" so I can get into the crosswalk before the signal starts counting down.

First time riding one of the new Red Line trains with me NOT wearing my Sam Valentino fursuit!

For #ThrowbackThursday, I thought you guys would like a closer look at what's on my "physical media video" shelf you've seen in the background of my fursuit vlogs! #FursuitEveryday youtu.be/iSXWUwldGLs

Happy 74th birthday to Billy West, a very prominent voice of my childhood!

Swapped out the original 80 GB hard drive in my PowerMac G4 Mirror Drive Door tower with a 160 GB hard drive I cloned the system (both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger) onto. I'm really going to miss the age of user-upgradeable Macs, now that Apple killed off the Mac Pro...

People who run the red light, especially if they do it real slow:

Happy 30th anniversary to the Simpsons episode "22 Short Films About Springfield," the episode that brought us the famous "Steamed Hams" sequence! To celebrate, I am sharing my take on the meme here where I turned it into a "Picturemation" Golden Book Video from the 80s! youtu.be/1PRlWNnFoMk

When you are shaving and the razor goes over a scab of some kind...

"Gerald McBoing Boing's Symphony" (1953) was the first UPA cartoon I ever saw when I was 14 and just getting into animation history. I quickly figured out how much UPA influenced animation, even "stylized" cartoons of the 90s onward from artists like Genndy Tartakovsky and Mo Willems! #MeTVToons

Crazy to think this M1-chip MacBook Air (8-core graphics, 16 GB of RAM) is even slightly faster than this 2019 16" MacBook Pro (2.6 GHz Intel 6-core i7 processor, 32 GB of RAM, AMD Radeon Pro 5300M graphics with 4 GB dedicated VRAM)!

Another one of my random crazy video ideas that popped into my head from Neptune. Rabbit of the Jungle, strong as he can be... watch out for that tree!

Looks like at this year's Furpocalypse I will be hosting a panel about the Kroffts and their influence in the media...

For those curious, I had Flow illustrate the aftermath of the naked boogie, again sourced from the original "Slumber Party" book...

Same overseas animation subcontractor behind these:

I can't believe I made my first fursuit head ten years ago now. Naturally, I've come a long way since then!

The fakest horse costume ever, and it's hilarious! (From 1945's "A Gruesome Twosome.") #SaturdayMorningCartoons

Happy National Farm Animal Day! *snort, oink*

Another instance of me adding Ted Nichols's "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" music to another scene. In this case, the "Mine Your Own Business" score to when "Muppet Babies" did a similar "fake train in a mine tunnel" bit. Gonzo even runs like the Miner '49er!

If "What's Opera, Doc?" were made in 2003 instead of 1957, with the typical sound design stylings of Warner Bros. Animation's output of the Sander Schwartz era...

If Paramount-Skydance succeeds with their hostile takeover in buying Warner Bros. Discovery, then both would be under the same ownership! That would be really cruel irony...

When a pedestrian sees you driving up while waiting to cross and enters the street when you're several yards away...

You know, when the Mac OS "server connection interrupted" error comes up and ruins transferring files between computers over the network, it just doesn't seem quite complete without the Finder also crashing. So I manually crash the Finder when that happens, and hope it also locks up the system!

Well that's upsetting! At Anthro New England 2023 when I hosted this panel about cartoon train safety (the con's theme that year was "Trains!"), for the pre-show sound check I used the funky music track from the Union Station/Amtrak scenes in "There Goes a Train"... youtu.be/QnyTz2x0__0

It's been a while, but with the release of the MacBook Neo comes a new Wrapper/GoAnimate parody of the "Get a Mac" commercials! #MacBookNeo youtu.be/85yD2hnexSM

I relaxed my body too much last night and had this nightmare, and after waking up screaming I was afraid to relax my body again, not falling back asleep for nearly an hour and a half.

Another really RARE instance of AI "slop" from me, but for parody purposes, i.e. a book cover for a hilarious parody of "The Berenstain Bears and the Slumber Party" me and my brother co-wrote! www.fanfiction.net/s/7418131/1/...

I have now had my M1 MacBook Air for five years, and it's STILL going strong! With the 8-core graphics and 16 GB of RAM, it still renders audio and video products pretty quickly (compared to the baseline M1 Air and even the MacBook Neo!)

When I ride one of these ancient MBTA Red Line subway trains (1500-1700 fleet), I never know if it’ll be the last time I ride one before they’re all retired in favor of the new 1900 fleet trains. #AnimeBoston2026

I got Jonah Scott’s autograph! #AnimeBoston2026

Of course @animeboston.bsky.social is so crowded, I’m seeing double here! #AnimeBoston2026

Sam Valentino brushing up on his shooting skills in @animeboston.bsky.social’s retro arcade! #AnimeBoston2026

It isn’t Anime Boston without fellow recurring cosplayer Pikachu in a Pikachu! #AnimeBoston2026

Sam Valentino has an appropriately foxy con practice: start with a fresh water bottle at the start of the day and keep refilling it at water coolers throughout the day, then start with a new bottle the next morning. It saves money AND the environment! #FursuitFriday #AnimeBoston2026

Sam Valentino with Xante and @chiendnorth.bsky.social at Anime Boston! #FursuitFriday #AnimeBoston2026

Sam Valentino re-meeting with fellow recurring @animeboston.bsky.social cosplayers, including the live RickRoll! #FursuitFriday #AnimeBoston2026

Sam Valentino can’t believe how they renovated the Hynes Convention Center. It reminds him of a black-and-white noir scene… #FursuitFriday #AnimeBoston2026

Sam Valentino is ready to solve a potential mystery at @animeboston.bsky.social 2026! #FursuitFriday #AnimeBoston2026

The mood in getting up earlier than usual to catch the train for @animeboston.bsky.social ...

When you're shaving and the razor pulls on your hairs for a split second and then it hurts when they come out as if you cut yourself.

The foxy private toon detective Sam Valentino talks about why using AI to upscale and "remaster" a TV cartoon from the 80s is NOT a smart idea... #MeTVToons #SuperMarioBros youtu.be/DCBMtCgcjlc

Regarding rubber masks with some kind of opening in the back, I like it when after wearing one for a while and sweating in it, the inside is so lubricated I can just slide it off without unzipping or un-velcroing the mask! *SCHLORP!* "Surprise!"

I want to apologize, not knowing this little AI-generated April Fool's joke of mine would be such a big hit. Disney likely wouldn't make the "Goofy Movie" Speedo Pete into a meetable park character, but I could see them making a plushie of him! #AprilFoolsDay

Furby's idea of an April Fools joke... #AprilFoolsDay

They say there's a difference between April Fool's pranks that are just harmless fun and pranks that can actually hurt people. I guess Rhonda of "Hey Arnold!" didn't know that. #AprilFoolsDay

Today is also the 50th anniversary of when Conrail was formed! The freight railroad that used to serve my area, until going defunct in 1999 when CSX took over. As such, they both have some presence on my HO-scale model train layout!