I saw a post about this on Lamebook and decided to try it out for myself. Apparently getting from Nashville to China involves driving my car across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii, where I then ditch the water-car and kayak my ass over to China.
Thanks for the tips, Google!
Awesome on so many levels. If that were me standing to the side instead of her friend Hillary, this picture would be a perfect allegory for our sisterly relationship.
I was telling my coworker Ben about my love for Keanu Reeves (shut up), and the discussion spiraled (elevated?) into how Point Break was the best movie ever because it combined Swayze, Keanu and Gary MFing Busey.
Later, Ben sent me this picture for consideration as our official wolfpack logo. Obviously it was approved.
I love that my desk is starting to resemble a demented college kid’s dorm room and nobody seems to care. My coworkers rule.
So you know all those annoying hipster kids that run around drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon “ironically”? You know, the beer that the rest of us drank when we were broke-ass college students barely making rent and it was either that or Natty Light? The beer that fills the styrofoam coolers of our redneck brethren at family barbecues or tailgates? But these kids drink it because it means “anti-mainstream” and “I do my own thing, I don’t follow society’s rules”?
Back in 2004, Pabst executed a highly effective word-of-mouth campaign that made the long-declining brand an “ironic downscale chic” choice for bike messengers and other younger drinkers who viewed the beer as a statement of non-mainstream taste. —adage.com, as reported on freewilliamsburg.com
HAHAHA.
So all you kids drinking PBR because you think it makes you look cool and ironic and like you’re bucking mainstream? Yeah, you’re really just part of a corporate marketing campaign and you’re doing exactly what The Man intended for you to do.
Enjoy your shitty beer.
From the Nashville Scene’s Nashville Cream blog post “Kings of Leon at The Sommet Center, 10/16/09″:
Can’t we all get along? Stop this arguing. There’s too much sand in your collective vaginas. This world should just be one finger-bangin’ party, where angular haircuts, men in capri pants or “lands end sweaters” and girls in fresh “American Apparel hoodies” and “tote bags bigger than their midsections” can cohabitate with rock critics and rock stars. You know, ride the minivan people–two fingers up front, three in the back!
Amen, brother. A-fuckin’-men.
Dear WGNS Radio,
I think it’s great that you’re on Twitter. A lot of old media (newspapers, AM radio, etc.) seem to be resistant to the idea that Twitter is important, but I can assure you that nerds early adopters like myself get a lot of their news—especially breaking news—from the platform. So I’d like to commend you for not turning your nose up at it, as many have been wont to do, and instead embracing it and using it to drive people to your website.
However, the point of Twitter is to have a conversation with your audience. (FYI, this includes me). So when I tweeted yesterday about finding funny your tweet about boys buying girls’ jeans and commented that your website has grammar issues, you had several options of how to respond.
You could have taken the opportunity to let me know why you don’t feel it necessary to ensure your website, a news outlet, is grammatically correct. You could have told me that you don’t have a copy editor, or maybe that the guy who posts to your site never went to J-school and doesn’t understand AP style, or maybe even basic syntax and grammar rules. You could have called me out and asked me to point out some places where I found errors.
But you chose to respond with snark via direct message, letting me know that you’re radio people and you can’t spell. (I get that you were joking with “right,” but do you also realize that “thanks” isn’t spelled “thank’s”?)
And when I tweeted about your reply to me, you sent me another direct message telling me that your reply “wasn’t that crazy” (I never said it was), and that AP style is “for the papers” (technically it’s used by many more news outlets than just newspapers). So I guess you’re saying that crappy grammar is the official style you’ve adopted then?
Oh, and telling me “Bye-bye,” and removing me from your followers?
Way to add to the conversation.
But see, you’re not just radio people. You have a website, so you’re web people now. You have a Twitter account, so you’re social media people now. People don’t just listen to your radio station for the news—they come to your website to seek out stories and information. And I would think, seeing as how you are in the news-gathering and news-disseminating business, you would understand the importance of spelling and grammar.
Just like it’s important to pronounce words correctly on air, it’s important to relay your online news with grammatical correctness as well. Because if you don’t, you lose credibility. And if you lose credibility, people won’t take you seriously. And then they’ll stop visiting your site. And fewer visitors to your site means fewer advertisers, and we all know what that means.
WGNS has been on the air since Dec. 31, 1946. You’ve made it through the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, Desert Storm and whatever this bullshit we’re doing in Iraq is being called lately. You’ve been around longer than Barbie dolls, the Frisbee and birth control pills. You’ve outlasted 11 presidents, the Studebaker and telegrams from Western Union. Hell, is there even anything older than you in Murfreesboro? (Oh, right: Bell Jewelers.)
Look, WGNS, I like you. I visit your site to get a hyperlocal take on the news that often I can’t get from the DNJ or the Murfreesboro Post (I don’t even bother with The Tennessean for Murfreesboro news anymore). I try to look past much of your poor style, which includes your penchant for reporting the race of (non-white) individuals involved in accidents and crimes and your inexplicable need to affix a dash after almost every number (“3-Arrested on Drug Charges Near MTSU“).
But I implore you, WGNS: You’ve been through so much in your 61 years. Is it really too much to ask that you report the news on your website with grammatical correctness?
Over the last week or so I have been getting random e-mails from old acquaintances and seeing Facebook postings/status updates, etc., that refer to Barack Obama as “Hussein Obama” or otherwise try to convince me that he is Teh Evil Muslim.
I would like to respond to this asshattery with two points:
1. Muslim does not equal evil, and insinuating such just makes you look like a racist asshole.
2. Just stop. You are smarter than that. There are actual, valid reasons to not vote for Barack Obama, and you have got to be able to come up with something other than “His middle name is the same as Saddam Hussein’s last name!”
Sending along these e-mail forwards just makes you look stupid and uncultured. Do you not realize that Saddam Hussein was only a kid when Obama was born? Why the hell would his parents name him after some random-ass Middle Eastern kid they had never heard of?
But more importantly, do you really think there is only one Hussein in this world? You do realize it’s a very common name, right? And so, to illustrate the monumental idiocracy of your “he’s named after a bad person!” shtick, I’d like to play a game with John McCain’s name—another very common name—to help point out how stupid you are. I tried to play it with his middle name, Sidney, but apparently that name sucks so bad there’s nobody besides Sidney Poitier who’s got it. And he’s not really all that bad. So instead, I bring you:
Famous Assholes Named John That John McCain Is Named After and Therefore You Should Fear Him
John Wilkes Booth: Shot Lincoln
John Dillinger: Violently robbed a shitload of banks in the 1930s
John Hinckley, Jr.: Shot Reagan
Jon Bon Jovi: Has been committing acts of terrorism on our eardrums since the 1980s.
See also: John Michael Osbourne. Better known as Ozzy Osbourne. I think he’s pretty cool, but you McCain-voting types probably don’t like devil worshippers too much.
But you see?? You see how stupid that game is? Shit, the last three didn’t become famous until after McCain was born. I guess he technically could have been named after John Dillinger or John Wilkes Booth, but I’m not going to waste my time perpetuating that myth because I AM NOT THAT DESPERATE. I can think of real reasons not to vote for him. I don’t need to resort to made-up ones.
So please, people. If you aren’t going to vote for Barack Obama, do it because of the issues. Don’t resort to some made-up bullshit excuses that just make you look like a fool grasping at straws.
That’s it. I’m done. Fuck this poll.
Apparently some people have been finding my blog by searching, “Bill Gates + Idiot.”
This really amuses me.
I mean, I know he’s a smart dude.
But almost everything about Microsoft blows, and Gates’ new commercial with Seinfeld?
That really does make me wonder if he’s an idiot.
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