Prepare yourself and bring the rhyme! Yesterday, the class I share my library with had a rap battle. Cats vs. dogs, Minecraft vs. Roblox, summer vs. winter, and Garfield vs. Calvin and Hobbes, and books are good vs. books are bad. The teacher asked me if I could help out by doing battle with the Garfield side of one battle, and I accepted the challenge. It's not that I don't like Garfield, but let's be honest; before Jon got a girlfriend, he was even more depressing and boring than he is now. Garfield beating on Odie is a one-trick pony, isn't it? Garfield's not even cute; that's Nermal's department. At any rate, I prefer Calvin and Hobbes, and came up with some half-decent rhymes to praise C and B and diss Garfield.
My opponents came up with some pretty good points about Calvin spending most of his time in his head. The little dude's six, after all. Let him expand his imagination as far as he can for as long as his childhood allows. I was in that boat too at that age, I expect. Anyway, if given a choice of Garfield or C and B, I will choose the latter every time. Kids don't expect their librarian to have a loud voice... unless said librarian is yelling at them for silence. I haven't had to do that this year thanks to COVID-19, so my bellowing out my pseudo-sick rhymes was summat of a shock to them. At any rate, I won that rap battle. It might have been unfair to my opponents. After all, you would need to put all four of their ages together to match mine. They weren't around in the days of Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, Maestro Fresh-Wes, and other early masters.
Still, they took their bit of flesh out of Calvin and Hobbes, and I salute them. The second rap battle I part of, the Books one, was a battle I was glad to lose. Every battle needs a bad guy who goes down in searing flames, and I was perfectly happy to be that bad guy. The audience was even more shocked to hear their librarian dissing books. A battle needs a bad guy, and I wanted a challenge. It was very hard for me to trash my end all, be all. I rooted for the teacher as she praised books and got the cheers from the audience. Some of them did clap politely for me at the end of it, but they cheered and whistled for my victorious opponent. It was a lot of fun. The teacher does this every year around this time. Maybe, if I have a free period next year (assuming we go back to what passes for normal), I'll volunteer for the experience again.
I've done a lot of reading lately (which should surprise nobody). With the coming of Spring Break, I expect to do a lot more reading. I just wanted to post about the rap battle today. Another post will be along before long.
BYE.
