The city and the brew.
Have you watched this video of C.T. from the Real World yelling at Wes for 12 hours straight on one of those MTV challenges? I’m torn between my favorite quotes: either “YOU JUST JUSTIFIED IT FOR ME TO RIP A MOTHERFUCKER’S HEAD OFF” or “All I do is smash heads, bro” or the simpler “DIE! DIE! DIE!” Videos like this remind me that I am not a man, and possibly never will be.
Say you black out at a party or at the bar or, hey, wherever, it’s your life. Say you black out drunk and you wake up in a barely remembered living room on this. On this iridescent bitchpants sofa, its reflection glinting electric blue radiance into your irises. The problem with blacking out is that you tend to find yourself on perfectly ordinary sofas: slightly grody and basically forgettable. Or, worse, you find yourself back in your own bed, a place you are tediously accustomed to. Friend, I want to be in a position to guarantee you a bleary awakening upon chubby lamé. My want of wealth is limited to this.
Geeks →
I think the reason I find geek culture so obnoxious at times to engage in is because the people are for the most part the same privileged dips that inhabit mainstream culture, but with the added detriment of a victim complex. They’re still largely white and center their race, they’re still largely straight and center their sexuality, they’re still largely cis men who center their gender. They challenge nothing about the status quo and what bodies get to be placed at the center of it, they offer nothing radically different to the typical narratives about which groups of people are and are not important and they can be just as hostile to groups who try to find a place in their space as the mainstream is, in some cases even worse. But for some reason they think the fact that they like Battlestar Galactica instead of Monday night football makes them radical alterna-gods who are too good for this sinful Earth.
There’s that, too.
Yo, not to interrupt the high-fiving but I am not really sure what this generalization is really serving: the all-white, all-male, all-straight ideal of geek culture is so obviously obsolete and outmoded that it’s not even worth doing the research to fight off the easy consensus. I mean, yeah, you can look at the 60-40 male/female split at Comic Con, the same ratio for gamers, the same ratio for people who saw Batman Begins, the proliferation of gay gamer groups, the “white” thing being so specious that you can simply just go to Best Buy or the comic book store or GameStop and just people watch for thirty minutes…. I mean, come on. Where do you want to go with this? How much time do you have? It’s almost like there are jerks of every type in almost any kind of field who can ruin a good thing for others. I worked at a comic book store for five years and regularly dealt with customers of all shapes, genders, colors, sexualities, ages, political affiliations, however you want to break it down. Mad anecdotal and I live in liberal gay ass Chicago, but really, it’s a spectrum. There are rude people everywhere! News at 11.
(I get that the operative word in the original post is “largely” but unless we’re taking that to mean any kind of majority over 50%, it doesn’t seem to be very accurate.)
Tucker Max Is Tucker Max No More →
Can tigers change their stripes, drivers their engines, playboys their condoms?
JEREMY GORDON! I love this post.
Aw, well (blushes, falls down a flight of stairs)
jakec asked: What the hell is a Rock 'n' Roll McDonalds? I'm imagining Hamburglar dressed up like Nikki Sixx and instead of sundaes they've got Billy Holidaes and so on.
It was a McDonald’s in the center of downtown Chicago that was filled with rock and roll memorabilia (Jimi Hendrix’s guitar, Elvis’s white suits, etc.) and had a giant glittery guitar outside to announce its presence from miles away. Everything was a little bit more expensive, because tourists didn’t know any better and high school kids from the area didn’t give a shit. A few years ago, it got torn down to make way for a Modern McDonald’s, this high-tech building where they experiment with new products and customer service things and whatnot. It sucks a lot more. This song explains everything I forgot in my Saturday haze: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWWsWP9bPAg
