{"id":7942,"date":"2012-01-30T08:37:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=7942"},"modified":"2012-01-30T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T16:37:14","slug":"mind-blown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/mind-blown\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind = Blown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apologies that real work (to the extent that what I do can be called “work”) has gotten in the way of substantive blogging. But I cannot resist sharing the amazing things I learned this weekend — amazing to me, anyway, although it’s possible I’m the only one here who wasn’t clued in.<\/p>\n

Thing the first is that Morgan Freeman, many years before he went through the wormhole, was a regular on The Electric Company<\/a><\/em>, along with performers like Rita Moreno and Bill Cosby. (Via Quantum Diaries<\/a>, of all places.) This was public television’s show from the 70’s that was meant for kids who had moved on from Sesame Street — I was more of a Zoom<\/a><\/em> kid myself, but I must have seen Electric Company episodes with Freeman playing hip dude Easy Reader.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5u8MY7PjSXU<\/a><\/p>\n

Thing the second is that Easy Reader’s theme song, sung in the clip above, is a dead ringer for Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab.” Flip back and forth between playing them if you don’t believe me. So much so, I am told, that DJ’s in clubs will sometimes mix the two tunes together. Not at the clubs I go to, I guess.<\/p>\n

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Amy Winehouse - Rehab<\/div><\/div>
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