After all, bad summer films, full of furious hype and signifying nothing, are hardly exceptional these days, nor is the sound they typically make: the dull scrape of a culture hitting rock bottom. Yet this one seems uniquely bad; this one is a threshold-breaker with a different sound, the crack of rock-bottom giving way to a whole deeper layer of magma.
Friday, May 30, 2008
QOTD
The Globe and Mail's Rick Groen on the new Sex And the City movie:
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
More from the fucked world
Dunkin' Donuts+Whining Wingnuts=Keffiyeh Kontroversy
I'm really of two minds here. Obviously Malkin's view is as rational and defensible as one could expect from a paranoid sociopath who should not be allowed any form of public expression not mediated by large doses of psychotropic drugs and/or electroshock therapy. I mean, the fucking thing is clearly not what Malkin says it is (unless she really does associate paisley with Hamas, a not altogether unlikely scenario given her politics and mental state).
On the other hand, I've been on a jihad against this type of neckwear for a while now. In fact, I rather fancy myself the Osama bin Laden of the anti-keffiyeh movement. As stupid trends go, its near total and unrelenting ubiquity among unwashed, skinny-trousered hipsters would be enough to make anyone vomit up their Ice Cappucino. Factor in the whole cultural appropriation thing and the fact that it's not a scarf but something you wear on your fucking head and, well, I'm having a hard time seeing the downside of demonizing this particular sartorial shenanigan.
I only hope one of these guys would turn up wearing goddamn ugly '80s eyewear. That's another ridiculous fashion trend I wouldn't mind shipping straight to some black site somewhere, never to be heard from again.
I'm really of two minds here. Obviously Malkin's view is as rational and defensible as one could expect from a paranoid sociopath who should not be allowed any form of public expression not mediated by large doses of psychotropic drugs and/or electroshock therapy. I mean, the fucking thing is clearly not what Malkin says it is (unless she really does associate paisley with Hamas, a not altogether unlikely scenario given her politics and mental state).
On the other hand, I've been on a jihad against this type of neckwear for a while now. In fact, I rather fancy myself the Osama bin Laden of the anti-keffiyeh movement. As stupid trends go, its near total and unrelenting ubiquity among unwashed, skinny-trousered hipsters would be enough to make anyone vomit up their Ice Cappucino. Factor in the whole cultural appropriation thing and the fact that it's not a scarf but something you wear on your fucking head and, well, I'm having a hard time seeing the downside of demonizing this particular sartorial shenanigan.
I only hope one of these guys would turn up wearing goddamn ugly '80s eyewear. That's another ridiculous fashion trend I wouldn't mind shipping straight to some black site somewhere, never to be heard from again.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
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