The Internet amazes me. Here we have a technology that is as revolutionary a means of storing and disseminating information as anything we’ve come up with in a couple of centuries, and what do we mostly use it for? Preserving the media detritus of our childhoods in the 1970s and ’80s. Case in point: I mentioned pirates in the previous entry, which started me thinking about other pirate-y things I have loved in the past, which called up a dusty old file somewhere in the adolescent stratum of my personal wetware memory bank (that’d be my brain, kids). I did a bit of searching on Ye Olde YouTube, and behold, a Budweiser commercial that I saw at some point in high school and which has remained lodged in my head ever since:

As best I can recall, this ad only ran during Friday Night Videos and other late-night programs, and I don’t remember that it ran for very long… a few weeks maybe. I’ve thought about it from time to time over the years, and tried to describe it to friends who have invariably responded with blank looks. But now, thanks to this wondrous, science-fiction thing we call the Internet, I can finally shout to the heavens, “You see? It did exist! I’m not mad! I’m not!”

Seriously, though, isn’t that a weird commercial? I don’t know about you guys, but it doesn’t make me want to go for a Budweiser… maybe go plunder some booty or something, but not drink beer.