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The Friday Finisher: Right Now, You’re Reading a Blog Post

May 2, 2008 – 3:32 pm

Rest in Peace, Friday Funnies. Welcome to the Friday Finisher… a dumping ground for links, videos, and all the half-baked ideas I had during the week.

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I have no idea why the Spanish version of the Blossom theme is funny. It just is.

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Lozo has acquired a bad case of grammarnazitis. Being afflicted with such a condition myself, I know that the road to recovery is a long one. The simplest treatment is an immersion therapy where the subjects are exposed to written communication exclusively by text message.

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I watched an episode of The Jetsons on Boomerang last week. In the episode, Jane Jetson is offered driving lessons. Her instructor immediately cowers in fear upon learning that he will be instructing a woman. The lesson is a disaster, and results in Jane’s unknowing aiding and abetting of a criminal, despite the fact that her “instructor” was abruptly replaced with one who carried a bag of money out of a bank. The key lessons learned in the episode (which originally aired in 1963): women are stupid, women can’t drive, and in the end, women are better off in the kitchen serving dinner to their macho husbands. I definitely watched these episodes as a kid. It’s no wonder I still fear getting into a car with my mom behind the wheel.

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Does anyone remember thinking how cool this video for Peter Gabriel’s “Steam” was back in 1993? I used to swear that it was the best music video of all time. Upon revisiting it today, I think the producer’s concept was, “hey, let’s take every piece of technology available to us to make a creepy music video with a ton of obvious sexual innuendo.”

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Ever have one of those dreams when you’re back in high school again without any explanation? Usually, they’re just flashbacks, but in my dream last night, I received a call from someone saying that because of a fluke, my and my classmates’ diplomas were deemed null and void. We had to go back to high school. And you know what was the most intimidating part of the dream? The awkward social situations? The cruelty of other classmates? No, the schoolwork.

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And since nearly everything in this Friday Finisher is a flashback to my childhood, here’s a kickass music video to kick your weekend off right:

Funny thing is, virtually everything in the video still holds true. Among those that hold true, unfortunately, is “Right Now, Van Halen is planning a world tour.”

Avagoodwon. See you back here Monday for a preview of Triviotic.