The Joshua Yoder Blog

 WOW! This television special is over 40 years old and honestly, it is just as fun now as it was when I was a little kid. The other day, my twin brother Chad and I decided to watch the Garfield Halloween special to get into the Halloween season. The special was created by Jim Davis who had created the Garfield comic strips and was directed by Phil Roman. It also featured the voices of Lorenzo Music as Garfield, Thom Huge as Jon Arbuckle/Binky The Clown, Gregg Berger as Odie/TV Announcer, C. Lindsay Workman as Old Man and Desiree Goyette as Woman at the door. Also big shout out to Lou Rawls for providing some incredible songs like This is the Night (Trick or Treat) and Scaredy Cat. The story follows Garfield who looks to get as much candy as he can during trick or treating. He tricks poor Odie into helping him get more candy saying that dogs must help cats get candy and if he does, he will get a single piece of candy of his own. Together, they search through the attic with all sorts...

This one is quite an interesting blog post for me because it recently has come to my attention that this year marks 15 years since the merging of both Lewistown Area and Indian Valley high schools here in my hometown. Growing up as kid here in smalltown USA, all I ever really known was Lewistown Panthers versus Indian Valley Warriors. From the late 80s to 2011, these two schools competed in several different sports whether it was football, baseball, etc. Heck! Every Friday night during football season felt like a special occasion, mainly because we all got to travel down to our Nan and Pap's house for some food and then we all head on up to Mitchell Field to witness the football game between the two schools. My cousin Greg played on the football team At Lewistown, my cousin Andy wrestled, while my other cousins Nate and Jodie went to Indian Valley. For me and my two brothers, we ultimately ended up being Lewistown Panthers. Honestly, it went beyond football as the rivalry between t...

 It was a dark and spooky night, my twin brother Chad and I were walking through the streets of McVeytown. Suddenly, we were bombarded to the lights and sounds of the McVeytown Halloween parade. Prior to the event, Chad and I decided to grab ourselves some amazing Pizza and cheesy garlic bread from the local OIP. It was quite chilly walking around McVeytown, getting to see others who were arriving around the Rothrock library, signing in to be apart of this lovely parade. People wore some pretty cool costumes during the evening and some even decorated their vehicles. You got one vehicle who was pulling a trailer that had some people on it looking like they were climbing up a tree. You had another one who was filled with people dressed up as Star Wars characters. There was even people dressing up as monsters pretending to drag a "dead" body. We got to see plenty of our friends like Sarah Stiver, Andrew Moist, among several others. We also got to see a friend who we haven't ...

 With a brand new Street Fighter movie out, I wanted to look back on the original live action Street Fighter movie which hit the theaters back in 1994. Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Colonel William Guile and Raul Julia (RIP) as the evil M. Bison. The film also features Ming-Na Wen as Chun Li, Damian Chapa as Ken Masters, Kylie Minogue as Cammy White, Bryon Mann as Ryu, Grand L. Bush as Balrog, Robert Mammone as Carlos "Charlie" Blanka, Gregg Rainwater as Thunder Hawk, Peter Tuiasosopo as E. Honda.  For the Shadaloo Warriors, there is Andrew Bryniarski as Zangief, Miguel A. Nunez Jr as Dee Jay, Jay Tavare as Vega, Wes Studi as Sagat and Roshan Seth as Dhalsim along with some original characters made for the movie. The plot of the film follows Guile and the others as they attempt to track down M. Bison and his organization who hold several A.N. Relief Workers hostage and demands the world pay 20 billion dollars within three days or he will kill the hostages. Now, I must say...

 It is no secret that myself and my twin brother Chad are fans of the Power Rangers, so when I found out that one of my personal favorite rangers Johnny Yong Bosch (Adam) had written and directed his own movie called Spades. Now obviously I am little bit behind in terms of watching and reviewing this film but, nonetheless, here it is. When Chad and I saw an opportunity to watch it, we took it and am I glad we did because I really enjoyed the film. For those who don't know, Spades stars Jason Narvy as Detective James Bishop a War Veteran dealing with a heavy dose of trauma after losing his friend Jimmy during the war and the later his wife, discovers that a vigilante named Spades is running around killing criminals. To make matters worse, his daughter who he was trying to reconnect with, ends up being kidnapped by a group of traffickers and must find a way to rescue her. I must say, I really had a fun time watching this movie. I have always appreciated seeing people trying to make t...

 Well this weekend surely was quite eventful for me and my twin. For one, our little niece and nephew Lukey and Ava came down to visit from Long Island along with my older brother Codeman and his lovely wife Christine. While Cody went with some friends to check out the Penn State White Out game against the USC Trojans, Me, Chad, Christine, Lukey, Ava and our mother went down to the McVeytown Fire Company for their Pumpkins and Prevention event. Lukey was pretty excited to carve a pumpkin, but even more excited to be coloring Halloween characters like ghosts and bats. Ava tried to walk on a feet a little bit, she is getting so much closer to being able to walk on her own. We got to see plenty of our friends at the event as well. As we walked into the Fire house, Chad and I got to see a face we hadn't seen in a while. His name is Ronnie Yoder and he was helping out his kids carving out a pumpkin. Ronnie was always a creative guy and it was pretty cool to see him and his kids being cr...