Mappin' the Land: Intermezzo

Surprise! This post is not about maps. Instead, it is about Internet video memes that date from the early 2000's--that is, my area of expertise.

I have realized that the memes I am about to enumerate could never have been popular in the era of YouTube. Perhaps they couldn't even have been conceived. YouSee, YouTube is useful for the transmission of what are now called "viral videos," like the interview with the boy who likes turtles and the news story in which a newscaster mixes up blindness and homosexuality (I don't blame her--who doesn't?). These newer "viral videos" are of finite length, since that is the format YouTube stipulates.* However, endlessness is an integral quality of the memes I was familiar with in my pubescence. What could a middle school-age nerd desire more than to sing along with her computer screen for a half hour? Forty minutes in a row? Three hours?

So, without further ado, here are the memes.


Oh, seventh grade. Oh, cocker spaniel hair. Oh, badgers. We can all relate to these things--and by "we all," I am, of course, referring to the group of persons born between 1989 and 1993.

I watched the Llama Song today for a little bit too long to admit. I think my superior recall of its lyrics attests to the power of the human memory. The question that remains, however, is what links together llamas and ducks. Yes, they are both chordates, I suppose...

Don't you hate it when lists only contain two items? Oh--I'm sorry.



*Not that that's a bad thing! I love you, Google! I will even have children with you. They'll be half-corporation, half-human, like Rupert Murdoch.