4) Girl Flies Into Lake Off Bike Jump
There is a template for this kind of video. It involves a girl pedaling in high speed toward a ramp, slamming directly into the ramp, and sinking into a nearby body of water. What sets this one apart is the hang time the girl gets. Check it out. That’s a full Wile E. Coyote.

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3) How To Deactivate A Cat
I’m proud of this one because I came up with that title, which has become the defualt title for the video across most video sites and blogs. It’s amazing because we all have cats, and I’m pretty sure none of realized that we could just pause them. I think I’ve got a Chip Clip and a cat around here somewhere…

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2) The Kenny Powers K-Swiss Uncensored Video
In my humble opinion, it’s rare that an advertisement online crosses the line to must-see viewing. This video, though, goes all out and deserves every single view it receives. I’m not even that big a Danny McBride (he’s funny, just not a fave) fan, but this is great.

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1) Fox News Jet Pack Fail
This video is my favorite of the week. It’s everything a viral video should be. It’s a news blooper. It’s short. And it’s got a catchphrase “AND IT STARTS RIGHT NOW!” It’s not the most popular video of the week, but it is by far my favorite. I’ve watched it at least ten times.

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In 2000, I had two connotations for hipster. One was positive. It was from “Last of the Spiddyocks” by Digable Planets. There’s a line where Ish (Butterfly) raps “You down with Digable Planets you’s a hipster,” and it sounded so cool that I couldn’t imagine why anyone would want anything other than to be a hipster. The other contemporaneous usage was derogatory and came from Seinfeld. Jerry Seinfeld’s neighbor, Kramer, was often described as a doofus hipster. It is that usage of doofus that informed my own usage of the term. Kramer had a signature look: thrift store pants, bowling shirts, quirky hair. It was a look that was adopted by a lot of people my age. Even after the show ended, there were still people who maintained that look or at least an evolved version of that look. In particular, there were a bunch of guys who hung around outside the English Department at the University of Oklahoma in 2000 who maintained that aesthetic. My little brother called them “Weird Beards” because most of them had bears that were intricately trimmed and maintained like topiaries. They were generally smart guys, but they were the hardest core of the determined-to-be-different lot. I began referring to those guys as hipsters because they were to my mind latter-day Kramers. Well, needless to say soon others began using the appellation, and before too long it must have spread from Norman, Ok, to all points North, South, East and West.

At first, I wanted to stop the spread and use of the term. I could see that the term was quickly being perverted to include people who would more accurately be described as scenesters. Maybe there were some things I could’ve done: aggressive pamphleteering, an edutainment series on public television, or unrestrained tsking whenever I heard the term being used. The spread of the word had just gone too far too fast, and I had to learn to let go. Otherwise, I would have spent years fretting my nights away. Now it appears hipster is here to stay. For that, I just want to apologize. I will try to be more responsible in popularizing words, music, tv shows, and anything else that I might regret later having made trendy. I also apologize for “Like A G6″ which I made popular with one tweet early in 2009.

I’ll keep my remarks brief because I know we all want nothing more than to get out of here, and also the rapid blood loss from my temple is making it difficult to remain coherent. As I look out across a sea of smiling and somewhat swollen faces, I think to myself, “these are the leaders of the future.” When I told my parents I felt that way, they both burst into tears, but once they stopped banging their heads against the furniture, they too agreed that they could see a future in which our graduating class was in power. That caused a brain aneurism for my father, a brain aneurism of joy, I’m sure.

Just four years ago, many of us didn’t know each other nor did we have any idea that we would be trying out for the same spots on our sports teams, in our debate clubs, and with our local gangs. Yet we came together, got to know each other, hatched a plot to kidnap the school board, beat up the snitch who told our plans, and really just learned what it meant to call each other friends. But that was the past, and we’re interested in the future. It may be the delirium setting in, but I expect good things from this graduating class. Whether it is jail or college, many of us already have commitments for the next three to five years with time off for good behavior.

Webster’s Dictionary defines Success as “Jacob Henry sucks big ones” because our library’s copy had not been cared for. And you could look at that as vandalism, or you could look at it as just another example of our class’s unwillingness to be bound by the definitions and rules of those who come before us. We have learned to think outside the box because solitary confinement is a dangerous place to be alone with your thoughts. I will bring my comments to a close because my tooth has just fallen out, and I hear the sound of blood rushing in my ears. Yesterday is over; today is drawing to a close; and tomorrow is just over the horizon. If we use tomorrow to rest and heal, we should be ready to go out into the world, the day after tomorrow, for arraignments resulting from the spread of the cellphone video of tonight’s fights. Thank you, graduating class of 2010!

Looking back, some of the work was juvenile and some of it was very funny. It was a mixed bag from which, if I ever publish another compilation, I might retain about half the work. I’d completely lost track of the book until I was on a Writing subreddit and noticed that someone had made a digital version of their book available for free download in order to receive feedback. I did the same. The reason I bring it up here is if you’d like to download a copy of a six-year-old book, filled with the ramblings of an 18 to 25 year old me, now is your chance!

You can download a digital version of “Party Tricks! The Book” for free from lulu.com. I promise the next book will be a grab bag of slightly higher quality. Oh, and the download is a PDF so it will work in your E-Book readers!