My Coincidence
The internet has a tendency to throw bizarre cultural references under your wheels without warning, usually when you’re supposed to be getting on with some actual work. Check out this series of links which has ensured that an event in 1980’s television history which I only became aware of yesterday will forever be taking up space in my brain:
A couple of weeks ago, PATV linked to the site of the artist who provided the music for the current episode. I liked the tunes so I clicked through, downloaded some stuff and went on to something else, leaving the site open in a tab to come back to later. Make a note of the image next to “Eat People 123″. I didn’t notice it at the time, and I didn’t go back to that tab until yesterday.
Probably at around the same time I came across John Dies At The End while looking for web fiction to read, or at least see what kind of things people were doing in that area. The story isn’t available on the site because it’s being published, but I did read some of the stuff the author had available, including an article on cracked.com about how monster myths are a reflection of humanity’s general shittiness. I read a few more articles on cracked.com by other people, decided it was pretty funny and I’d like to read more later, and left the tab open.
Yesterday I went back to the cracked tab, clicked through to the main page, and this article about crazy whacky broadcasts caught my eye. #3 might look familiar if you made notes earlier when I suggested it… Here’s the full video:
That this unhinged individual was able to hijack a television broadcast is pretty astounding and interesting to learn about, though I would have forgotten about it quickly. But when I switched back to the headlessbarbie tab and discovered that a reference that meant nothing to me had been explained by another series of links with no apparent connection within a short space of time, that became impossible.
