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Hearing Edge of Forever -- The Dream Academy

Everything I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned by Watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off


Well, this guy thinks so, anyway. And speaking as a Friend of Ferris myself, I'm hard-pressed to say he's completely off his rocker on this one. (note: some PG-13-rated language at that link, which makes sense because that's what Ferris was rated).

Fun fact: I was occasionally referred to as "Ferris" in college, because I had a tendency to mess about at what is generally thought of as a real grind school. And then, at graduation, when all my friends were freaking out about grad school or what sort of job they could get with a degree in Russian Lit, I got a job being a film critic at a newspaper. Yes. Ferris-licious, that was. And now, of course, I spend all day writing on blogs and making up science fictiony stuff. There are worse ways to spend a life.


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