Another Day at the Office

I had planned to work a half-day today. It didn't happen. I won't go into all the typical corporate machinations as to why, but suffice to say, no way was I bailing at noon today. Aren't Fridays during the summer supposed to be a little more manageable? Sadly, no. They make me bitter - Patty Bouvier, DMV hostile bitter. See below:

Just all kinds of bitter and odd. That being said, you gotta love Patty Bouvier. The lady, and I use that term in the loosest possible terms, is a little rough.

So on the drive home, I started thinking about what 80's gems would go into the blog tonight. I thought that would distract me and it did. I had quite a list going by the time I got home. Upon getting home and logging on, I made my way to stupid YouTube and it was there that I was reminded why it's a tool of corporate devils (so much for the "do no evil" motto, Google owners). Apparently, it is now nigh unto impossible to embed music video content from YouTube. I tried a half dozen videos that are under the watchful eye/greedy hooks of SonyBMG, Universal and a couple of other companies and all have embedding restricted. That's a recent restriction. Way to go, YouTube, for cracking under the pressure. You blow. I find it ironic that they (stupid YouTube) can restrict embedding legitimate music videos but have no problem with all manner of borderline and blatant porn being posted on their site ad nauseum. Nice behavior, you corporate tools. Awesome job, Google, with living up to the "do no evil" theme.

Anyway, there's still plenty of music content out there, and so tonight I give you the first video ever played on MTV (there was a time when MTV played nothing but music videos instead of the steaming pile of who-knows-what they program now - my 40's are showing, I know). I give you the Buggles and "Video Killed The Radio Star":

This also ends the Summer of 80s Videos posts. I hate to end it early but stupid YouTube gives me no choice.