The Mid Bimonthly Weekender Weekend Weekender

I'm unsure if the joke is going to make much sense to people outside the NYC metro area, but here's an attempt at background: the NY Times runs TV ads advertising "the Weekender". The ad feels like a distant cousin of the old Apple "Switch" commercials, in that you have "regular" people talking about how many great things they can do by subscribing to a Friday/Saturday/Sunday edition of the Times.

I would embed a clip of it, but it is apparently too worthless an ad for anyone to even have put it onto YouTube.

So with that in mind, this ad from the newly opened 92Y Tribeca may fall flat if you haven't seen the original:

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Dan Dickinson is a 29 year old living in Jersey City, New Jersey. He works at the strange intersection of collaborative technologies, education, software development, and medicine. His passions include finding unexpected paths and connections, music/rhythm video games, interesting food, and backchannels. This has been his primary (vivid) weblog since February of 2000.

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