OK, you can stop now: new 'stupid things' thread

[dieblucasdie]

haha, "Ni"

[coldforge]

Decorations of birds are so The Entirety of Human History Up Until 2010

[elpollodiablo]

But now, given our deep sense of national shame, they'll probably never sell another memo book or wedding invitation again

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

Chuck Klosterman's review of the Lou Reed & Metallica record is on Grantland and it is, yep, A New Stupid Thing by Chuck Klosterman.

[coldforge]

I ran out of steam by the penultimate paragraph but I actually thought everything up till that was spot on. I assumed by your description that he'd like it. But instead he says it's admirable for the kooky irrationality of its conceit and entirely unlistenable. Which sounds about right to me.

[Thermofusion]

The first time I went to Grantland, the featured articles that day were by Klosterman, Bill Simmons, and Carles. I've never been back. I don't understand who the audience is supposed to be. The three people on the planet who read McSweeney's and also like the NFL and can tolerate Bill Simmons?

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

I ran out of steam by the penultimate paragraph but I actually thought everything up till that was spot on. I assumed by your description that he'd like it. But instead he says it's admirable for the kooky irrationality of its conceit and entirely unlistenable. Which sounds about right to me.

Well, I mean, my issue with Klosterman is less about how right he is and more about how he's a lazy thinker and a gross stylist.

Like this:

the closest artistic equivalent would be what might have happened if Vincent Gallo had been a script consultant for The Room. To be fair, the end of the album does have one song that's mildly OK — a dreamy, unaggressive, 20-minute exploration titled "Junior Dad" that will probably resonate with Damien Echols. There's also a track called "The View" that's pretty mind-expanding if you pretend the lyrics are literally about watching The View. But the rest of Lulu is as appalling as logic demands. If the Red Hot Chili Peppers acoustically covered the 12 worst Primus songs for Starbucks, it would still be (slightly) better than this. "Loutallica" makes SuperHeavy seem like Big Star. But this is what happens in a free society. Enjoy your freedom, slaves.

Like, that's a paragraph full of "zing!"s.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

The first time I went to Grantland, the featured articles that day were by Klosterman, Bill Simmons, and Carles. I've never been back. I don't understand who the audience is supposed to be. The three people on the planet who read McSweeney's and also like the NFL and can tolerate Bill Simmons?

A+ Thermo.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

oh yeah also full disclosure i'm a fan of the loutallica record

[Bernard]

I think I first saw the put a bird on it meme here: http://thephoenix.com/boston/life/121181-look-at-this-fucking-hipster-wedding/
(see p 2)

I still need to watch Portlandia. The bird thing is pretty funny to me, because omg yes it's true.

They could spend an evening in search of what makes them special as a couple. Do they take public transportation to work because they live in a city? They could make their invitation a subway map!

Yup!

[coldforge]

That link led me to a wedding blog with a pictorial of a kind of goofy looking dude whose white tie and matching blue groomsmen I was scornfully deriding up until the paragraph at the bottom explaining that he has terminal brain cancer and his dying wish was to marry his soulmate before he goes. So! Bad person.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

http://www.observer.com/2011/12/meet-marie-calloway/?show=all


leavin this here

[dieblucasdie]

He was affiliated with The New Inquiry, a brainy online journal that recently made its debut in a New York Times Styles profile.

hahaha, those fucking people

[elpollodiablo]

Undoubtedly that thing and pieces mentioning it are gonna be constant presences in this thread going forward.

[Greg Nog]

What a fucking tease, to not even say the name of the dude.  Bah!

[Dick]

I looked at that article and understood nothing. Like there's a whole other internet out there I've never even heard of.

[jebreject]

You're better off. I mean, you know that. But it bears repeating.

[Good Intentions]

“I think in part because they pose a threat to the social order, which relies on women’s embarrassment to keep them either silent or writing in socially accepted modes.”

Yes, that's what the patriarchy is for, to police the type of writing that gets done.

I can see why you guys are wigging out about this... thing.

[jebreject]

Send it to Twisty

[Good Intentions]

Like her obstreperal lobe hasn't suffered enough.

[elpollodiablo]

Gah Troy Patterson is the absolute worst

[dieblucasdie]

Some people seem to dig Game of Thrones (HBO), as I learned when I confessed it didn't do that much for me, earning a scolding in the nerdosphere and a few flowery death threats in the comments. Apparently, your correspondent, a "popped-collar troglodyte," ought to be “slapped,” and he deserves to "rot in hell."

Sounds about right

[Greg Nog]

Who's that now?

[elpollodiablo]

Slate's "TV critic who’s careful not to watch too much television"

[coldforge]

What could you possibly hope to gain from reading that stuff?