February 2012
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“The Great American Novel will be reduced to The Great American Gchat, if Tao Lin...”
– The internet
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In Somalia, the beatniks were called the beat-shits (beat-hars) because of an urban legend about how, beyond the pretentiousness, beatniks were ostensibly dirty, with bacteria and poop in our unkempt nails. Meaning, they were of the devil because, in Islamic mythology, the devil would sneak in through long nails, taking residence in the soul (located in the nail bed). According to legend,...
“I have known many beatniks. I have been accused of being a beatnik myself—...”
– My dad’s friend from college said this to me in an email once.
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I can’t wait for Snooki’s forthcoming memoir, If Snooks Could Kill.
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Q: Who is Michiko Kakutani's favorite athlete?
wrongthinking:
A: JEREMY LIMN
WatchCree Summer recently produced a video with her creative collective, Robohippie. The video is set to Tom Waits’ “Hoist That Rag.”
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I don't proofread before I hit send. It's part of...
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The Complete Guide to the Jewnicorn-Gawker Beef of...
Did you know The Social Network has become slash/RPF fodder? ‘Slash’ is homosexual pairings in fanfiction, ‘RPF’ is real person fanfiction. Both genres, when melded together, inform the subcategory of The Social Network fandom known as ‘Jewnicorn.’ Members of the Jewnicorn fandom ship Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield.
On February 2nd, Gawker acknowledged the fandom. With the exception of...
fatwa: literary street cred
Rapper Names
Blo-rida: A rapper who raps about his litany of first world problems, like his cocaine addiction. Lil’ Hegemony: A rapper who is self-aggrandizing in a way that reminds you that he studied postcolonial theory at the graduate level. Lil’ Bane: The self-proclaimed “Most Annoying Rapper in the Game.” Young Tweezy: The first viable mainstream MPDG rapper. I.T.: David Karp...
All Alliteration Aside: The Male Gaze, Mad Men,...
Below is my first Cinema and Media Culture blog post.
The male gaze is a concept introduced in Laura Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Rendering women subordinate to men, the male gaze reinforces heteronormativity, and sexism by constructing an uneven power relationship, which implicates the female spectator in their own othering, and subordination. Mad Men employs the...
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“You’re like Malcolm in the Middle, you’re about a 5.”
– I say this to dudes who overestimate their own attractiveness, and intelligence.
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I interviewed Broad City for Thought Catalog. →
I'm going to make art out of floppy disks, and...
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Made a new Twitter account. I followed too many people on my other one, and it was totally anon.
“Add me on linkedin.”
– These words signify the beginning of a dangerous partnership.
(I don’t even have a Linkedin because I’m not profesh like that. I carry invisible business cards wherever I go.)
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greej asked: I never imagined that the Jewnicorn fandom was capable of this much hate, but your ask box looks terrifying. I'm sorry the world is, as previously expected, full of assholes. : (
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Flash of brilliance was really just my lack of...
I was just sitting here, thinking: OHMYGAWD. I SHOULD HAVE A PODCAST/BLOG/THING CALLED ‘ALT THINGS CONSIDERED.’ THAT’S SO FUNNY, AND PUNNY, AND ORIGINAL, MAN.
Much to my dismay, the name is already shared by this person, and this person. (They could just be the same person.)
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Thought Catalog things
The founder of Thought Catalog is hot. Thanks to various sources in the alt-lit community, I already knew this, but now that dude has been photographed by Noah Kalina, dude’s hotness is public knowledge. Noah Kalina, of course, is like Terry Richardson minus the rape. Noah has photographed every alt celeb from Tumblr-famous Ned Hepburn to Tao Lin. (You’re no one until you’ve...
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Fandoms are great because they give you access to...
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aglennosaur asked: personally I think you should make a scrapbook of all your fandom asks....ahhh memoriessss
“Hi Pilot, I’ve been looking for a place to submit a very serious...”
– sometimes I receive an e-mail and I want to cry because I’m just so proud of the internet. (via synecdoche)
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The World of Today: Today I Learned What a... →
worldoftoday:
Here is a lengthy email I got from Safy-Hallan Farah over Ryan’s post on Gawker about the surprisingly vibrant The Social Network fanfic community. (She mistakenly thought I wrote it.) Safy took issue with his characterization of the work of the community as ‘Mark Zuckerberg fanfic.’ It’s really about the relationship between the actors Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield, she...
Anonymous asked: Idk if you're already doing this and I have no idea what you've done, but you may want to just lay low and let the rest of the fandom sort things out. You can't change what you've done, and it pissed off a lot of people, so just try to ride it out and accept the consequences. Good luck