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Ryan Gosling reading Fuck Yeah! Ryan Gosling is the new James Franco kissing James Franco.

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Oooh, shit.

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A harmonica cannot play itself (that's either too meta or a perpetual motion machine). Clearly, this is not a self-playing harmonica — this is a harmonica-playing vacuum cleaner.

In fact, it's barely that. Isn't "audible sound" one of the requirements of music? If there was even a chance that I could hear the harmonica over the 1990s inkjet, the giant machine that's trying to suck every particle out of the room certainly prevents that.

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Meta ain't nothing new: Bringing things to a "later stage of development" — as meta is defined — is, in some ways, the definition of the Internet itself.  Everything old is new again, and everything new is newer than ever before.

Therefore, Casey Kasem was way ahead of his time when he brought you his America's Top 40 way back in 1970 — a numbered list that predated our obsession with numbered lists.

And the world of meta-humor recognized that fact, when, in 1993, Casem did a Top Ten list of his Top Ten favorite numbers for late night king David Letterman (as seen above).

But can we take meta up one more level, please?

Sure.  Because yesterday, a link to the above video made page 1 of Digg Offbeat — therefore making it one of 2009's hot links.

Um, that's meta of meta of meta, right?  Right??  A 1993 video, posted in 2007, becoming popular in 2009???

Ahhhhh…   My brain hurts.

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Nevermind the grammar here. This 2nd-grader has stumbled upon a whole philosophy! How do you clean a dustpan? How do you throw out a trash can?

Please, commenters, resolve these disputes…