If you have ever unironically referred to the general public as “sheeple,” then definitely don’t worry about not being a douchebag.
I realize that this isn’t some brilliant forward-thinking new concept, but I just spent an hour reading Digg comments in the politics section, and it is not pretty.
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Get it??? It’s a pun.
This shirt is only on sale for the next twenty-two hours, so buy it now! I would, but I still don’t have a job and this website doesn’t make me any money (because I suck at websites).
New layout theme. I’m not done with it yet, so whatever.
I have almost no use for the fancy functionality IntenseDebate offers, but I like the way the comment box drops down out of the post like that. I made it so you have to log in to comment. Why? Because I want to force Stu Shoe and Spiff to have an avatar on their comments. Might the increased effort reqired to post deter them from commenting at all? Maybe but that is a risk that I am willing to take.
Hit up Apple for the HD version.
I’m just posting this trailer because this movie comes out later this month and I don’t think enough people know about it. I’m pretty psyched for some old fashion Raimi horror antics (Army of Darkness was seventeen years ago and Spider-Man 3 was all too recent) and the I’m a Mac guy has grown on me ever since he played a gay adult film actor in Zack and Miri Make a Porno. I do have one question about the trailer: if that old lady had all those hell powers, you’d think she would have been able to make some money off of that, and not have to flake on her mortgage payment all the time. If nothing else, a Hellcurse for Hire business would be a huge boon for the corporate world. That shit would be recession-proof.
Been better. Better days are coming!
I think that there is a whole subset of people my age (early-mid twenties) who were the victims of overparenting in the 90s and were thus deprived of a cultural touchstone: The Simpsons. I was talking to a girl in my Sociology class today who told me that she was not allowed to watch the show as a child, and had actually only ever seen one episode. This is not an uncommon occurance at all. I seem to recall a large number of children my age who were told not to watch the show. I can’t imagine what was so terrible about the early humanist seasons that offended these parents so much, but it was obvious for me and the other second graders in my class that this was some series adult material. Who could forget the episode where Bart had to study really hard to pass his history test, but was tempted to go out and play because it was a snow day? Trully a threat to our nation’s youth.
Bart was a sassy and rebellious character in the early seasons. Was it really so recently that we were only afraid that our kids would be sassy and rebellious? Can’t let Timmy watch The Simpsons or else he might end up modeling himself after a lovable scamp! Is the whole “mercilous little killing machines” thing just a 21st century occurrence? If so, can we blame Bush?
Parents rolled the bones on this one and they came up fucking snake eyes. The Simpsons was not just entertaining to us as kids. As we grew up, the show grew up with us (even if the characters didn’t. Barring episodes like “That 90’s Show,” the characters have been stuck in this “the 70’s were ten years ago but it’s 2009″ time dilation field for a long time and it’s only getting weirder), and it began to reflect the culture in a way that nothing else did for us at the time. I remember the first time I saw the episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” and understood the references to Pulp Fiction. I never did get the reference to “Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould” on my own, but I ended up learning enough Spanish to understand what Bumble-Bee Man was saying in the sketch where he tells his wife about his day (”iAy! iUn candelabra precarioso!”).
The same girl who claimed to have only ever seen one episode of The Simpsons was telling me that she was a huge fan of Family Guy. Now, I don’t want to speak negatively about anyone’s hard work, but Family Guy is a near-worthless piece of garbage programming and isn’t the cultural touchstone of anything except lame Bros who read Maxim and quote Borat.
Hey, that was a little more negative than I had intended. Fine show, fine show.
My point is that maybe parents should look less at the annoying characteristics that children can learn from some programming and maybe check out the positive, enriching experiences that are available to connect the next generation into the larger culture. But then, how is anyone supposed to know the difference?
