{"id":510,"date":"2011-10-31T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butlerblue2\/?p=317"},"modified":"2013-01-17T10:17:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T15:17:59","slug":"tour-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/2011\/10\/31\/tour-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hi, I&#8217;m Blue II and I&#8217;ll be Your Tour Guide&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that in addition to &#8220;official mascot&#8221; I might need to add &#8220;tour guide&#8221; to my job description because I sure have been giving quite a few tours lately. Don&#8217;t tell the Butler University <a title=\"Butler University Office of Admission\" href=\"http:\/\/www.butler.edu\/admission\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Admission<\/a> though because I kind of like just taking naps all day and with their tour schedule, my poor paws would be worn thin!<\/p>\n<p>So why the tours, you ask? Well, for special occasions, of course, but you know I am going to give you the scoop. And, fortunately for you these tours have been captured on film so you&#8217;ll get to experience them as well!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Party at My Crib!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the Office of Admission, they have a little <a title=\"Butler Cribs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.butler.edu\/cribs\" target=\"_blank\">contest<\/a> on campus for students to create video tours of their Butler &#8220;cribs.&#8221; The winners get a prize for their efforts and prospective students get a glimpse of what residential life at Butler is all about. Pretty clever, except, someone had to explain to me that a &#8220;crib&#8221; is more than what my Baby Bro sleeps in at night. Oh, the kids and their slang.<\/p>\n<p>So I figured I&#8217;d get in on the act and show everyone my Butler &#8220;crib&#8221; which is really just my office, but whatever. It&#8217;s where I eat, sleep and generally reside when I&#8217;m on campus, so it counts. So without further adieu, I present to you, my Butler &#8220;crib.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u3iHD42zOd8\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, what do you think? I know, you were expecting pantries full of Holistic Select, refrigerators loaded with ice cream, lush dog beds, and toy chests spilling over with rawhide bones and squeaky toys, but this isn&#8217;t <a title=\"MTV Cribs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/shows\/cribs\/series.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">MTV Cribs<\/a>, this is Butler Cribs&#8230;we&#8217;re on a budget.<\/p>\n<p>Just make sure you go here and give me a vote: <a title=\"Butler Cribs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.butler.edu\/cribs\" target=\"_blank\">www.butler.edu\/cribs<\/a> Thanks!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do You do with a Jimmy Fallon on Your Back?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, the other tour and this one has a longer back story, but I&#8217;ll sum it up by saying that I&#8217;m shamelessly stalking <a title=\"Jimmy Fallon on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jimmyfallon\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a> and the <a title=\"Late Night with Jimmy Fallon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Late Night with Jimmy Fallon<\/a> staff. Reason being, Jimmy is bringing the Late Night program to Indianapolis for the Super Bowl and filming four shows while he&#8217;s in town.<\/p>\n<p>It just so happens that its been 10 years since Jimmy last set foot on Butler&#8217;s campus when he did a stand-up comedy routine in <a title=\"Clowes Memorial Hall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cloweshall.com\" target=\"_blank\">Clowes Hall<\/a>. Thus the Twitter hashtag, #JimmyBacktoButler and our effort to get him to include Butler on one or all of those shows.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, I&#8217;m portable and seem to be a boost for television ratings, so I&#8217;m letting it be known to Jimmy and friends that I&#8217;d like to personally make an appearance on the show&#8230;you know, to help him out and whatnot. That&#8217;s where the Twitter hashtag #Blue2onLateNight comes in.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re basically trying to make it impossible for Jimmy to ignore us. We did this <a title=\"The Bulldog Bernie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/butleruniversity#p\/u\/14\/S5QyQB90yh8\" target=\"_blank\">dancing video<\/a>, have had some <a title=\"Jimmy Fallon love from Butler University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.butler.edu\/jimmyfallon\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy riddles<\/a> on campus and now we&#8217;re writing thank you notes to the guy too. All schmooze, but why not? We&#8217;re not playing in the Super Bowl, so we might as well get on late night TV!<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, what do you do when you find yourself with a Jimmy Fallon on your back? Well, you give him a campus tour, of course!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bd5tlp9oKbI\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned as we keep working the Jimmy Fallon &#8211; Butler University connection. I really want on that show, so I&#8217;m pulling out all of the stops.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, well, I&#8217;m not planning any more tours, so for the rest of campus, I give you the <a title=\"Butler University Campus Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.butler.edu\/campus-map\/\" target=\"_blank\">campus map<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Go Dawgs!<\/p>\n<p>Blue II<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that in addition to &#8220;official mascot&#8221; I might need to add &#8220;tour guide&#8221; to my job description because I sure have been giving quite a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52506,52520],"tags":[52525,52524,52487,8758,52526,52523,235148,52521,52522,52527,23],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-events","category-jimmy-fallon","tag-blue2onlatenight","tag-jimmybacktobutler","tag-butler-blue-ii","tag-butler-university","tag-clowes-hall","tag-cribs","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon","tag-mtv","tag-office-of-admission","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler-blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}