Free-For-All Friday Thread #2!
Welcome to our second Free-For-All Friday Thread, where you’re encouraged to talk about whatever the hell you want in the comments section.
(Yep, after last Friday’s thread was such a success, we’re gonna try to make this a weekly thing.)
Talk about new or old pop culture nonsense, chat about plans for the holiday weekend, randomly make your pitch for the best-ever breakfast cereal… whatever, it’s up to you!
If you’re a lurker, don’t be afraid to join in. We have a good group here!
…and here’s a little background noise for tonight. Six hours’ worth of serene aquarium footage, set to music that would’ve been perfect in Ecco the Dolphin.
Happy Free-For-All Friday! 😈
Midnight Misadventures.
We were out of food. Not in the hyperbolic sense that’s most often meant; I’m saying all we had left in our cabinets were cans of Fancy Feast and a box of Pumpkin Spice Cheerios.
So it was off to 7-Eleven for two handfuls’ worth of garbage.
I love going to 7-Eleven late at night. Hell, I love going ANYWHERE late at night. Doesn’t matter if it’s a supermarket, a department store, a bar or one of those Cash 4 Gold places. If you’re open after midnight, let’s play.
And with that, tonight’s survey:
Say it’s after midnight and you desperately need to get out of the house.
Where do you go?
Spill stories about your weird all-night diners and one-of-a-kind Walmarts, in the comments!
And seriously, if you’ve never done the post-midnight going-out thing, try it. It’s fun.
(No video tonight. The survey must carry us.)
Cheesy Blockbuster Training Video!
Here’s an incredibly cheesy Blockbuster training video from the 1990s:
(Or an “amazingly bad” one, according to the uploader!)
It’s hokey as hell and so worth watching.
Gotta admit, I miss the hell out of Blockbuster. I know I’ve gone heavier on covering the mom & pop-style video stores on Dino Drac, but I have loads of nostalgia for Blockbuster, too.
(One neat thing about Blockbuster is that so many of the chain’s old locations still stand. While they now have new occupants, many retain subtle hints of what they once were. I love spotting them out in the wild.)
1980s Shark Documentary.
In honor of the just-dropped episode of The Purple Stuff Podcast, I’m gonna borrow the show’s theme for tonight’s video. Get ready for SHARKS!
There are a billion shark documentaries on YouTube, but this one is soooo ‘80s. It was apparently released on video, but it’s exactly like the shark docs I grew up devouring on television.
You’ll notice a marked contrast between this and today’s documentaries, which so often over-inflate the “drama” to make for more exciting programming. (Heck, even Shark Week gets criticized nowadays for trading science for sensationalism.)
I get why that shift had to happen, but it’s still nice to see an old school doc that’s pretty much all business. In 4×3, no less! Pass me the Pizzaria chips and my Gobots sleeping bag.
