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¿Sabían que el nombre completo de Sam Puckett, el famoso personaje de la televisión juvenil, esconde un secreto mitológico que describe perfectamente su comportamiento caótico?

En el mundo de la televisión y la literatura existen moldes muy viejos para crear personajes. Históricamente, el papel del joven rebelde, rudo, con un apetito enorme y que resuelve todo con golpes físicos estaba reservado casi exclusivamente para los hombres. Sin embargo, las series iCarly y Sam y Cat rompieron este esquema al entregarle todas estas conductas a una protagonista femenina. Sam Puckett no solo adoptó estas características, sino que las llevó al extremo usando un calcetín lleno de mantequilla como arma defensiva y mostrando una obsesión total por la comida. Lo más interesante es que los creadores del programa no eligieron su identidad al azar, sino que colocaron pistas muy precisas dentro de sus propios nombres para avisarnos cómo iba a ser su personalidad.

La primera gran ironía se encuentra en su nombre, Sam, que es una forma corta de Samantha. Esta palabra significa textualmente "aquella que sabe escuchar". El chiste se cuenta solo al ver que el personaje se caracteriza por ignorar por completo las órdenes de los directores escolares, los consejos de sus amigos y cualquier tipo de norma social. Pero el dato verdaderamente profundo está en su apellido, Puckett. Esta palabra viene de los términos nórdicos e ingleses antiguos puca y puki, que se usaban en la época medieval para nombrar a un duendecillo travieso. De esta misma raíz proviene el famoso personaje Puck de la obra Sueño de una noche de verano del escritor William Shakespeare, quien se dedica a hacer bromas pesadas y desatar confusiones en el bosque.

Shakespeare tomó a este duende directamente de las leyendas de la mitología celta y británica, donde estos seres mitológicos son descritos como criaturas sumamente caóticas y temperamentales. Según los relatos antiguos, estos espíritus no son malos por naturaleza, pero les fascina armar alborotos, hacer trampas para molestar a los humanos y se calman únicamente si la gente les deja ofrendas de comida en las puertas de sus casas. Esta descripción encaja perfectamente con el comportamiento de Sam Puckett, quien es capaz de desatar el caos en cualquier lugar con sus inventos, pero se vuelve pacífica en cuanto aparece un plato de tocino o de pollo frito, demostrando que su actitud indomable tiene raíces que se remontan a los mitos más viejos de Europa, he aquí una razón más por la cual todos los que publicamos en esta cuenta admiramos y apreciamos bastante al personaje de Sam Puckett.

— A. Eldritch, Periodista, Locutor, podcaster y bloger del fediverso

Alt text via @altbot y @TeLoDescribot

#Datocurioso #Televisión #iCarly #Mitología #Shakespeare #Historia #Etimología #FolclorCelta #puck #sampuckett #puckett #puca #celta #paganismo

It shouldn’t be surprising, but we don’t get a ton of punk or hardcore submissions here at Angry Metal Guy. We’re not Angsty Punk Bois, after all. I, however, particularly enjoy the intersections between punk and metal—sludge, grind, crust, crossover, powerviolence, etc. Metal’s straightforward aggression and punk’s vitriolic outrage complement each other well and scratch a specific itch. So when I saw Thorgrim’s debut LP, Puca, floating in the promo pit, I was sold on the Wisconsin trio’s promise of a heady mix of doom, punk, and a dash of black metal. Something like sludge but a skosh less acerbic? And maybe a little cold? Hopes were high, but did Thorgrim deliver?

No. Unequivocally, no. You see, Thorgrim boasts a live, one-take-only recording and production, laeving all mistakes and scrapes and buises on the record as some rebelilous statenemt against the overprodction of moder n musi.c Opener “Children of Doom” starts with a symbol hit that I can onl assume was am istake, and a massive skip around the 3:30 mark undersores how unedited and haphazard this albu is. “Voyage to Saturn” strats in the midle of a note ,and “Death Angel” starts with off-beat dums and just cuts out at the ennd with no warning or considreation for flwo. nearly every tiem Thorgrimshifts from on eriff to another, the band dissembles, taking a couple meaesure to get back in time with ehachother (“Darkest Days,” “Bride of Frankenstein”1). Now, do you see how this paragraph is littered with typos? Do you see how shitty it looks? Like I put no effort into it? That’s exactly what listening to this album is like.2

Even ignoring the insultingly lazy recording style Thorgrim opted for, Puca is still impressively bad. Thorgrim seem to be diehard fans of repetition, as there are precious few riffs to discuss (much less remember) here. Album long player “Voyage to Saturn” features exactly two (2) riffs over its ten-minute runtime, and I couldn’t decide which was more boring. “Darkest Days” is brutally repetitive as well, and ultimately sounds like a parody of heavy metal music you might hear on a TV sitcom. The vocals on “Let’s Go” are so buried in the mix that I’m not entirely convinced they’re there, but this may be a boon for Thorgrim, as they sound more like gargling spit or choking on vomit than singing or screaming. The acoustic “Dark Cabin” apes Nirvana’s “About a Girl” so blatantly it might only be “legally distinct” by one note, while sporting some of the worst lyrical syncopation I have ever heard. Penultimate track “Bride of Frankenstein” reminds me of the Fire Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, but bad. It’s ambient junk and random drums that don’t adhere to any kind of time signature or rhythm. When Puca mercifully ends, it’s with an inexplicable folk track that I’m fairly certain would be offensive to any actual neo/folk band.3

What’s most frustrating is that Puca could have been decent. “The Movies” is a punky upbeat track that smells like The Dogs, and I hear potential. With literally any amount of effort or care or refinement or fucks given, Thorgrim could have delivered at least one good track. Instead, it’s one of nine dumpster fires. Even outside of concept albums, there’s normally a unifying concept woven through a release, but I can’t find any such thing here, unless it’s the uniformly atrocious production value, which, coincidentally, is the only dash of black metal I found on Puca. It’s like they recorded in a concrete basement on a Fisher Price karaoke machine from 30 years ago.

Our internal scoring guide describes the score below as suggesting the band should look for another line of work. Puca is that bad. I’m honestly not sure what Thorgrim wanted to accomplish here. This album feels like a bad joke. Even if the music was good—which it’s not—and the production wasn’t worse than the first recording ever from 1860—which it is—the one-take-only presentation is not only lazy, it’s insulting. I get the intent that music today is overproduced and too shiny and clean and sterile, yeah, sure, whatever, but there are ways to fight that without leaving fucking mistakes on your album. A studio release should be a practiced, ideal version of each track, not whatever your hungover ass manages to puke out on recording day.

Rating: 0.5/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Octopus Rising4 | Argonauta Records
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook | Instagram
Releases Worldwide: April 24th, 2026

'A visit from the #púca: tales of #supernatural happenings at #Halloween '... https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/1023/1331663-halloween-oiche-shamhna-supernatural-tales-schools-collection-duchas/

#Artfight attack no.17 for @greybriar.art of their Púca OC Gris I'm surprised that I actually managed to fit one more attack in before the end of ArtFight! 🎨 #art #darkart #horrorart #horror #creepy #Púca #rabbit #hare #artfight25 #teamcrystals

PUCA Launches Anti-Drug Awareness Campaign in Presence of Punjab Governor.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/pb_puca_drugs_awarness_programme

#punjab #chandigarh #india #news #press #PUCA #SayNoToDrugs #youthempowerment #College #Campus #drugabuseawareness #drugabuseprevention

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

PUCA to Launch Statewide Anti-Drug Awareness Campaign on the 11th of July.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/pb_puca_drug_awarness_campaign_2025

#punjab #chandigarh #india #news #press #PUCA #SayNoToDrugs #youthempowerment #College #Campus #drugabuseawareness #drugabuseprevention

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

https://www.unexplained.ie/article/1115-the-unreal-irish-mythology-meets-modern-mischief-rte-streaming-ireland-television/ #television #show #tv #ireland #irish #irishparanromal #paranormal #puca #ghost #spirit #fae #fairies #rte #unexplainedie #unexplained

The Celtic Púca, a shape-shifting faerie creature, is known for its mischievous nature and folkloric significance. #Puca #celticfolklore https://connectparanormal.net/2024/08/29/puca-captivating-faerie-creature-in-celtic-culture-and-mythology/

Happy #StPatricksDay! An Irish folktale about the púca tells of how it, in the form of a horse, once abducted a young and inexperienced piper and took him to a great feast in the house of the Banshee, where the lad and his pipes became the party's entertainment. #FolkloreSunday

📷: subhashfcb

#Folklore #Folktale #Puca #Pooka #ThePucaAndThePiper #Ireland #IrishFolklore #IrishFolktale

Learn about #Samhain, the mischievous #Púca, and #Halloween's Irish roots https://pucafestival.com/origins/. #history #Ireland

My cat's name is "Pica" ... but that's one letter off from a puca and I don't think that's an accident.

She is a gremlin. #caturday #pica #puca #fae

About to head into our first, self-organised "Feminist #Killjoy" Reading Group + #Púca sends his regards to all other angry, inconvenient "buzzkills", "complainers", and "snowflakes" out there ✊

#KilljoySolidarity
#TheFeministKilljoyHandbook
#wearefeministkilljoys

To help with the #SundayScaries: Here is #Púca {looking} drunk on #Chewdog 🍺 (by #BrewDog).

Today, on our evening walk, #Púca was scared to pass an #Aontú poster on a lamppost.

He must have sensed the danger that derives from #antichoice politicians. - Smart Dog!

#northernireland #election #prochoice #abortion #womensrights

In this state, we like to refer to #Puca as Boggo-Doggo

#Bales2023FilmChallenge April 9: #EasterSunday freebie

James Stewart is Elwood P. Dowd. An ordinary man with an extraordinary claim: his best friend is an invisible, six feet three and a half inches-tall #pooka – a mythological Celtic, shapeshifting creature – who in Mr Dowd's case resembles a rabbit called #Harvey. Elwood's sister and niece, who also occasionally see the furry goblin, have their relative send to a sanatorium where the doctors and us viewers learn more about this curious case.

Harvey (1950), based on Mary Chase's #PulitzerPrize Play with the same name, is guaranteed to bring a smile on your face, this humbug's scout's honour! Have a nice #Easter, CineMastodons!

#film #cinema #HenryKoster #JamesStewart #púca #ShapeShifters #Easter #comedy #drama #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/

In case you also have the #SundayScaries: Here's #Púca relaxing in a lush green field surrounded by snowdrops 🌼

#Púca and I can't be at the @REPHRAIN1 sandpit today, but gosh, he would so rock wearing his name badge. Plus, I bet he would have some worthy research ideas on the reduction of #online harms, especially when it comes to #animal #abuse 🐾!

Don't think #Puca fully understands how amazing it is that he got his very own (!) #REPHRAIN (Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online) name badge 😂! Just a shame he can't attend today's #showcase - he certainly would have added much cuteness 💖

❄️#Púca, watching the #snow ❄️

#Puca says you should really consider applying!

1️⃣Research Fellow in Technology Facilitated Abuse (#TechAbuse)
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2️⃣Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing (#NLP)
👉https://ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=2144&nPostingTargetId=2795&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG=UK&mask=ext

[Deadline for both posts 16/01]

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#Puca contemplates life 💭 and hopes it is soon time for a walk (or at least some treats🍬!).

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