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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
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2:04p - It's the Live Music Capitol of the World, not the Live Wank Capitol
Austin, TX plays host to the SXSW Interactive/Film/Music festival every year. Of late, the Music festival has become particularly high-profile, and very popular among the general public as well as music industry wonks. SXSW Music has, for some time, made a practice of selling admissions wristbands to Austin locals, which grant the bearer admission to the evening concerts (provided they aren't already packed to the ceiling with badgeholding festival attendees).
Understandably, the wristbands have become hot commodities for scalpers, and this year the festival organizers decided to do something about it to reduce the problem. They didn't announce the date the wristbands would go on sale, and the only way you could find out about the sale was by signing up for the SXSW text messaging service, which would send out a message to all subscribers' cellphones the minute the sale started.
The magic text message went out on Monday morning, and within moments Waterloo Records was beseiged by hundreds of hipsters. (Full disclosure: I was one of them and waited in the sun for two hours; I picked a hell of a day to wear a black t-shirt and my heaviest pair of jeans.) The weblog Austinist posted a photograph from the event, showing Austin Chronicle editor and SXSW organizer Louis Black watching people file in to get their wristbands.
( The wank began in the comments thread instantly )
And then, since apparently firing back in the comments wasn't enough, Black went after Austinist again in his column in the Chronicle this week. ( Read more... ) Yesterday, Austinist followed up, linking to Black's column.
( And away they go in the comments again. )
And it's likely to keep cranking away. Which lends a certain weight to this comment, a riff on the city's unofficial slogan "Keep Austin Weird": "Keep Austin a Town Full of Whiny Pussies".
(I love this town, I really do. I've lived here for years and I like my little island of blue in a big red state. But oh my god the locals here can fap fap fap.)
current mood: *sporfle!*
current music: "Here I Am", Lyle Lovett (25 comments |comment on this)
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4:22p - As featured on clairvoyantwank!
Found on the Something*Positive feed, but as it quickly boiled down to the evils of adoption, posting it here instead of in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) fandom_wank.
Adoption only counts if you're adopting a black child with developmental problems!
Wahwahwah, adoption, whatever, WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE DISADVANTAGED STRAIGHT WHITE MALES? Seriously, guys! There's no scholarships for US! D:
Yeah, well, I don't care, I'm throwing shit just to throw shit. THE INTERNET DOESN'T MATTER TO ME!
Stats are cited, people shake their heads at the batshit, but alas—![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) tomecatti and henwy insist on making asses of themselves. Kids these days.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go adopt a cute Asian baby disadvantaged black teenager so I can make myself look really good on my applications for financial aid the world a happier place.
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8:27p - If You Laugh at the Cat, the Terrorists Have Won.
ICanHasCheezburger? is a blog of funny animal macros, mostly of cats, but sometimes gerbils, bunnies, dogs and monkeys, too. By "macro," I mean "a picture with a hilariously anthropomorphic saying on it," usually in child-like 'netspeak to add to the cuteness.
A couple of days ago, cheezburger posted this macro of a Siamese cat, ostensibly after having eaten something very sour, with the caption "ME NO RIKE REMONADE." Cue fan, which the shit hit immediately. 632 comments later...
Accusations range from "racist!" to many, many tl;dr essays, yes, essays in the comments, most of them preceded with the disclaimer/qualifier, "Well, I am [insert ethnicity here], so..." Dreama explains for us plebes that the macro is inexcusably racist which causes other members to suggest that she change her user handle to "Drama" (hee!). Jimmy compares the macro to the Japanese internment camps of WW2, which causes a LOT of people to go all "Bitch, are you for real?" The comments are the straw on the proverbial camel for Ben, who declares, "I am just waiting for the asteroid to come and kill the rest of you." rubbr tries and fails to be the voice of reason: "...it's only a picture of a cat..." Squalo says that if you're complaining about this and not doing something about the terrorists, you should be ashamed of yourself!11!1!!1
All I could think was: "Aww. Siamese kitties have the CUTEST meows."
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