{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "I was in a bar playing Friday on a TV, and I got to thinking - Harold and Kumar, Soul Plane, Half Baked, How High - stoner...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/149908770783/", "html": "<p>I was in a bar playing <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_(1995_film)\" target=\"_blank\">Friday</a> on a TV, and I got to thinking - Harold and Kumar, Soul Plane, Half Baked, How High - stoner comedies are like our accepted idiom for telling stories explicitly *about* race and class. Kind of what vaudeville used to be (tho I guess some of that mojo carried on to professional wrestling too)</p>\n\n<p>Legacy of Cheech and Chong, I guess</p>"}