Stay in School from Clay Parker Jones on Vimeo.
Because I’ve never shared this video on this blog (you’ve maybe seen it on my Tumblr, Vimeo or even on the video cassette that I still own), I’d like to take a few moments to embarrass myself. In 2002—my sophomore year of college—I was on an MTV program called “Taildaters”. The premise was as follows: two people go on a blind date. Four of their friends (out of 10 names supplied by each) follow the date in a recreational vehicle, watching the tomfoolery unfold onscreen. They use two-way pagers (really!? pagers?) to contact the daters throughout the date. The tailers’ identities remain private until the end of the episode. I was paid $50 to go on the show and I had the time of my life.
And, in an all-time first for me, someone at my friends’ wedding recognized me from the show. It was a marvelous moment for my ego.
I hope you enjoy it.
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In other news: my, I’ve grown up since then.
Haha, this is great.
to qoute “if she has a pulse and looks like that she is his type”
So true.
There are so many good things about this video I don’t know where to begin. Your 2 friends really need to step up their pager game though. Whatever dude cut this together and added the descriptive text was obsessed with her friend patricia.
Dude, that is heeelarious. I’ll have to dig up my old judge judy tape, too. We’ll have a bad television debut duel.