Now that we’re moving into an actual house, my mom decided to pawn off this box containing artifacts from my youth. It has things like my baby book, cards written to my mom from her students when she left to have me, finger paintings from age 3, and the like. It also has birthday cards. One such birthday card was an unopened copy of a CAPTAIN ZOOM BIRTHDAY RECORD. It’s a single-sided paper thin 7″ record with a drawing to color in, some lyrics, and an order form. I was expecting to take a bunch of pictures and rediscover this obscure treasure, but it gets 302,000 hits on google and the makers still sell custom CD’s with the same damn song, including a WEDDING version. (wtf?)
Some people considered listening to the Zoom song every year to be a tradition. Beware, flickery backgrounds ahead.
