Linkelodeon!
Dude, you know someone at Mattel got fired over this “Oreo Barbie“, which has since been recalled. Hopefully Mattel has since hired at least one person of each non-white race in which they make the dolls, so stuff like this won’t happen. Seriously, though – why didn’t at least one white person there know what Oreo means when used to describe a black person? I’m not black, and I know. Weren’t they using that term on The Jeffersons a hundred freaking years ago?
All of a sudden, everybody’s talking about this YouTube thing. My boyfriend showed it to me last week, and I can tell already that it’s going to revolutionize my life. At the most bacic, it’s like being able to share any song with anybody, without having to download MP3s. Plus – the videos!
Look. This was the most influential music video of my youth. God, I so wanted to be Dale Bozzio and marry her keyboard player.
Here is a sample of the kind of dialogue that takes place between me and my boyfriend every night now, while he’s home on his computer and I’m home on mine, since he found YouTube.
ME: Oh my god, I heard this old-ass ’80s song on the HD radio today, but I don’t know who sings it.
HIM: How does it go?
ME: The guy’s like, “No one can stop me now… Tonight I’m on the loose!” and then, “No one can tell us how… TONIGHT YOU’RE ON THE LOOSE!!” And he’s kind of like Peter Schilling, but kind of like Loverboy?
HIM: Hmm. I don’t remember it.
ME: Come on. The keyboard’s like, “Doo doo doo-doo, doo doo doo doo doo…”
HIM: No.
ME: And the guitar’s like, “DUH! Duh, nuh, nuh-nuh NUH!”
HIM: Is it “On the Loose” by Saga?
ME: Uh…
HIM: I just sent you a link.
ME: Oh my god! OH MY GOD. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. YOU FUCKING RULE.
You can use it for videos that aren’t ’80s music videos, too. Or so I hear…
