Everyone remember when this happened?
Do you remember how it was followed by a whole lot of this?
Posted in celebrity, feminism, media, music, sex, Shame Day
Tagged America, Blurred Lines, Culture, Disney, feminism, Hannah Montana, Lady Gaga, marketing, media, Miley Cyrus, MTV, open letter, performance, recreating an image, Robin Thicke, sales, sex, shame day, slut, slutty, society, television, Twitter, VMA Awards, Wrecking Ball
Readers, I do what I can to keep my fame days contemporary, but with Switzerland pretty much legalizing apartheid, bloody crackdowns in Egypt, and network giant Cisco cutting 5% of it’s workforce, finding something positive today just isn’t happening. So I figured I’d reach back a bit and pull out a shining beacon of hope from days gone by- my favorite music artist of all time, Johnny Cash.
Yes, he is looking at your soul.
Posted in America, Fame Day, morality, music
Tagged Carter Cash, cash, country, drugs, Hurt, Johnny Cash, June Cash, man in black, Metallica, music, native americans, NIN, nine inch nails, nixon, prison, San Quentin, social justice, song, Trent Reznor, Vietnam, vietnam war
Exactly one week ago I was browsing imgur and saw that 4chan was up to its old tricks again. To break this down and provide some context as quickly as possible, 4chan, as defined by Urban Dictionary:
you have just entered the very heart, soul, and life force of the internet. this is a place beyond sanity, wild and untamed. there is nothing new here. “new” content on 4chan is not found; it is created from old material. every interesting, offensive, shocking, or debate inspiring topic youve seen elsewhere has been posted here ad infinitum. we are the reason for “not safe for work”. we are the anonymous army. cross us and you will fail. anonymous is everywhere. you depend on us every day. we bag your groceries, we fix your computers. anonymous sees you before you see him. sitting at desks around the world right now is a nameless, faceless, unforgiving mafia composed of the best of the best.
For anyone who doubts the ability of the users of this site to get things done, allow me to direct you to the winner of TIME Magazine‘s 2009 Most Influential Person of the Year, Christopher Poole, a.k.a. moot, a.k.a. the founder of 4chan. As a little icing on the cake, you can check out what happened to nominees 2 to 21. Continue reading
Posted in bizarreness, internet, music, sex, Shame Day, Youth
Tagged #justice4charles, 4chan, biggest fan, Charles Z., contest, hivemind, Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Imgur, internet, Justin Bieber, Kiss 108, moot, North Korea, prank, reddit, Selena Gomez, sexual harassment, shame day, Taylor Swift, Time, vote4charles
I’m going to start out with a few fun facts for readers both old and new alike.
At the time of this writing our blog has approximately 85,750 views. We have been averaging roughly 175 hits per day ever since the very talented Kat came aboard, and she’s largely the reason we’re almost at 200 on a Friday evening in spite of my not having posted yet. As is the norm, far too many of the search terms used to find this site have been people looking for porn; we began catering to fans of a particular sub-genre once Gordon wrote that one post about the hijab.
The most hits we have ever gotten was a result of massive Facebook sharing of a post I wrote about the bombing that happened in Boston. That all-time high was 562 views.
Last week Kanye West tweeted about Pacific Rim, praising it for being “easily one of [his] favorite movies of all time.” That first tweet was retweeted 8,853 times, and memorialized 5,177 times by all his twitter followers who chose to favourite it. To put that into context, Kanye West has about 9.7 million people following him on Twitter.
Kan-Jaeger West
Posted in bizarreness, celebrity, environmentalism, film, media, music, news, politics, television
Tagged actor, awareness, celebrity, Culture War Reporters, environmentalism, force feeding, guantanamo bay, internet, Kan-Jaeger West, Kanjaeger West, Kayne West, Mark Ruffalo, Mos Def, Pacific Rim, rapper, social justice, social media, Twitter, US terror advisory list, YouTube
EVAN: Ladies and gentlemen, it brings me the greatest sort of joy to announce that we will be announcing a third Culture War Reporter to our blog. Ever since Elisa’s departure I have long wished to have a female perspective, and after a little bit of searching I was connected to Kat via one of my many, many cousins-
This edition of E> will consist of both Gordon and me asking Kat ten questions apiece, to present to all of you nice people a greater picture of who she is. At the end she’ll have the opportunity to ask each of us five questions, just to be fair.
You can of course find out more about her by reading her bio. Now, without further ado, I’m going to let Gordon start us off-
GORDON: You’re in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and you see a tortoise, Kat. You reach down and flip the tortoise over on it’s back, Kat. The tortoise lays on its back, it’s belly baking in the hot sun, beating it’s legs, trying to turn itself over but it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that, Kat?
KAT: Because I’m hungry and I plan to eat it?
GORDON: Well, we’ve determined she’s not a replicant. That’s progress, at least.
EVAN: Gordon, you are a huge nerd. Continue reading
Posted in blog news, comics, Evan and Gordon Talk, feminism, interview, literature, money, music, sex
Tagged answers, BMW, communist party, Culture War Reporter, CWR, Evan and Gordon Talk, favorite, favourite, Feminist, interview, israel, Kat, Kat Goertz, nazi, new writer, Occupied Palestine, questions, welcome
EVAN: So today, due to lack of reader feedback, G-Town and I will be discussing a topic of his own choosing. That is, in his own words, “whether or not an artist can retract his [or her] own work.”
GORDON: It doesn’t happen often, though it’s not altogether uncommon, that we see some artist disparage his or her earlier work.
More often than not, it’s because that earlier work was pretty rough or sloppy- heck, maybe even commercialistic. But we’re not talking about that. We’re talking about what we see once in a blue moon- when an artist actually attacks or her own work as being wrong.
I HATE YOUR PAINTINGS!
Posted in art, bizarreness, comics, Evan and Gordon Talk, feminism, film, internet, literature, media, morality, music, sex, television
Tagged 3OH3!, Angus Jones, art, artist, Bonfire of the Vanities, Botticelli, Brian Welch, Damon Lindelof, deviantART, Evil Dead, Hannah Trigwell, Head, Korn, Mein Kampf, renaissance florence, Sam Raimi, Sheharzad Arshad, Sinfest, Star Trek into Darkness, Starstrukk, Tatsuya Ishida, Teresa Scott, Triumph of the Will, Two and a Half Men, webcomics, YouTube
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