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The following is an excerpt from Your Daddy's Car-Tunes it Aint

Dateline November 4, 2008
Los Angeles, CA


For me the year was 1999 and the vibe was doom and gloom.  The talk of the town back then was Y2K.  Everyone was fearful of the bug.

On the late night show on NBC, Cone-Naan and his friends pioneered a skit in which guests would dress up in black robes and would have white light shining in their faces as talking heads of Supreme Judges in the future, forecasting...hold on to your seat dear viewer...past events.

At least that's how I remember it.

The skits were run all year long with guests and Conan invoking a sweet tune that started with the line "In the Year 2000, in the year 2000...".

Of course in the year 2000 disaster did strike on election night.  I went to bed thinking that our next President was Al Gore thanks to a prediction made by none other than NBC's anchor at the time, Tom Brokaw (or was it Dan Rather?), who then apologized profusely and was severly berated.  Regardless of who said what, I was watching Tom Brokaw on NBC who made the projection for Al Gore.

Low and behold I got up in the morning, around 4:00 am, and the pundits on CNN were congratulating President Bush.  I was baffled.  Over the next few hours and over the next few days the battle took shape and legal maneuver after legal maneuver was made as unknown to the public, old and very rusty "precedents" in the Constitution and other federal archives, were invoked in cutting a decisive outcome for the American public.

Was the Conan Show foretelling fiction or was it a prelude to the entertainment the public was treated to in the Year 2000?  We shall never know but as I go to bed tonight, on the eve of a brand new Presidential Administation for 2008, the time on the West Coast is almost 9:00 pm and the pundits on national television have made a sweeping declaration for President Obama.

Let's hope 2008 won't be the venue for 2000 EL-Ate Deja Vu.


Miguel "Tiny" Gomez
Editor for the West Coast Midnight Run

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