bullshit

1 02 2008

Gawker.com recently posted a rather brilliant “Field Guide to Tumblr” — which is essentially a less text-heavy blogging utility site that allows users to post the weird, funny shit they find on the Internet. With a greater emphasis on design, too, Tumblr is necessarily what Gawker admits is “like LiveJournal for privileged white 20-somethings.” In my mind, Tumblr is really the future of blogging, making it something that everyone can do without having any real creative drive or ambition. I mean, it’s easy to browse the Internet and link up to the shit you like.

Regardless of my speculation on about the ins and outs and future lives of blogs and bloggers, Gawker links to a great Tumblr site called “The Triumph of Bullshit” which is basically just eye candy for the digitally-obsessed and cynically comical. I found these gems on the site, and I’m going to Blogroll that shit like whoa.


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election

1 02 2008

I’m burned out. Are a lot of people burned out? Does this happen every election year, or are we all just uniquely DONE with G.W. to the extent that don’t know what to do rather than turn the ’08 election into a veritable Us Weekly special edition? As the kind of person who eats up domestic politics like Perez Hilton eats up… well anything and everything in his sight, I’ve been profoundly disappointed with the extent to which election coverage has swallowed the news over the last five months. I guess that’s the primaries for you, but aren’t they a little early this year? They are? Huh. I thought so. I’m bored of it.

Particularly annoying:

- Slate’s entire subhead on Election ’08, moved up to the top of the menu, as if it is the most important thing in the world.

- Wonkette’s shift from being smart and politically witty on dozens of unique front to being just another ’08 election blog.

- The New York Times dropping all under-the-rug stories about instiutionalized problems in America in favor of “Hillary cried” fluff.

So I’m just going to say this the once: Upsidedownagain.com officially endorses Barack Obama as the 2008 presidential nominee, based mostly on his good track record and Kennedy-like appeal. Take it and run.


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