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[ Comments Off ]Posted on June 19, 2008 by admin in Music
Thursday, June 19th, 2008A review of Okkervil River’s The Stage Names in less than 25 words.
A friend challenged me to take Pitchfork Media’s Top 50 of 2007 and review each artist in 25 words or less. I accepted. When the little Amazon gizmo loads below, take a listen for yourself.
Okkervil River – The Stage Names
The singer from Rusted Root gets a larynx transplant from Ian McCulloch and joins the Strokes.
Las ultimas palabras de la Pequeña Hillary Clinton
[ 1 Comment ]Posted on June 19, 2008 by admin in Politics, Popular Media
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Little Hillary, the disturbing Chilean cross-dressing midget, says goodbye.
Adios, Little Hillary, we barely knew you…
Some Quick MetaBlog Highlights
[ Comments Off ]Posted on June 19, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Thursday, June 19th, 2008A quick roundup of amusing posts on today’s metablogs.
On Slate: 13 New Obama Rumors You Should Forward Right Now . My favorite: “Barack Obama buys AMERICAN STUFF. He owns a FORD, a BASEBALL TEAM, and a COMPUTER HE BUILT HIMSELF FROM AMERICAN PARTS. He travels mostly by FORKLIFT.” On TV Squad: The G4 Network is introducing a show this summer called Hurl, which “combines speed-eating with intense physical challenges.” Idiocracy
The Meme Generation
[ Comments Off ]Posted on June 18, 2008 by admin in Lifestyle & Culture, Popular Media
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Memes and Internet Memes 101: From the Smiley Face to Rickrolling
Have you ever heard of a LOL cat? Rickrolling? All Your Base Are Belong To Us? Goatse? (I’m not going to link that one, it’s really disgusting) The Star Wars Kid ? Chocolate Rain? Little Superstar? Numa Numa? The Flying Spaghetti Monster ? YTMND? Demotivators? You haven’t? O RLY? Then you really haven’t seen the web in all its glory. Web phenomena like these are called Internet Memes, and become a pervasive part of heavy Internet users’ lingo and thinking. It’s hard to track just how a meme originates sometimes, but they often come from discussion board threads or people just naiively expressing themselves. In any case, I think I just witnessed one being born. On a fairly obscure discussion thread the other day, this dialog occurred. Within 24 hours, we already we have these interpretations, quickly repurposing other memes. Before you know it, someone will create a t-shirt on Cafe Press, and: voila! An Internet Meme is born. A piece of advice if you ever find yourself in the midst of a meme-birth: Trademark it! Don’t be like Harvey R. Ball, creator of the Smiley Face Icon, who only collected his original $45 fee…
Why Do You Think They Call Him Dick?
[ Comments Off ]Posted on June 17, 2008 by admin in Politics, Popular Media
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Dick Cheney explains why we shouldn’t invade Iraq.
Dick Cheney explains why, if the U.S. had continued to Baghdad in the first Gulf War, there “…would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq…” and how it would have been “…a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq…”