First, Ed Cone was reading my book so he could interview me. Then, Amanda Congdon was dropping in on Ed to record a promo for the ConvergeSouth conference. Congdon was thumbing through Dreaming in Code at the start of the promo, so they worked in a little reference to the book. I found it amusing and posted it on my blog.
Now George Coates and his dramatic crew at BetterBadNews have taken this brief video clip and deconstructed it in a bizarrely funny way. “‘Dreaming in Code’ is probably one of those rare works of literature of the sort that you really have to read to enjoy,” the deadpan announcer begins. By the time the commentators have done picking the clip apart — “A dog? A guy without a head?” — we’re in David Lynch-land.
This tickles me in multiple ways, partly because I know Coates’s work from many years of covering the multimedia extravaganzas his theater company used to present, but mostly because I love the process by which this little meme has propagated — and now, mutated. (Thanks to Dave Winer for the link.)
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