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The State Home for Manic Pixie Dream Girls

Jack — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:38:56 +0000

My own theory is severe retardation… of the brain.

Occupy All the Streets!

Jared — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:56:57 +0000

I support the Occupation, but I can still make fun of it because I’m postmodern like that. Occupy Sesame Street (there are lots more pics) started a meme of occupying other fictional places.

One problem with this meme is that a lot of people seem to be confused about the 1%/99% thing. In real world America, the top 1% wealthiest people own 40% of the wealth, leaving 60% for the 99%. Many memes (such as the Cookie Monster one linked to above) say “1% of X own %99 of Y”, which irks me so I haven’t included them. A great example of one that doesn’t:

Some memes from fiction, which you’ll only get if you’re familiar with the source material (for some reason I only ever see them with small resolution):

I’m still looking for a good one for Occupy Coruscant.

This post was titled after this sign:

Best Of Not a Costume

Jared — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:19:19 +0000

Now I’m just as against cultural appropriation as the next guy, but when Students Teaching About Racism At Ohio State University (STARAOSU) made some posters about culturally insensitive Halloween costumes, a great meme was born:

#OccupySesameStreet: Day Two

Jack — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:27:56 +0000

#OccupySesameStreet

Jack — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:28:57 +0000

Via White Wine: Whole Foods Rap

Jack — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:53:04 +0000

You can get these by digging through WW, but I’m posting this in the hopes you’ll watch until you get to the “quinoa” rhyme.

White Whine is teh Lulz

Jack — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:37:47 +0000

LOVING White Whine via Jill’s FB. Finally someone did Stuff White People Like right…

Osama bin Laden was a Jedi

Jared — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:54:11 +0000

Via BoingBoing, an excellent Star Wars satire of the US War on Terror in the form of a news story: “Obi-Wan Kenobi is Dead, Vader Says“. Many of the comments cleverly continue the joke.

I would like to see more Internet artefacts from other worlds. If I had the creative skill, I would be writing fake Wikipedia articles and calling it art.

Royal Wedding Memes

Jared — Sun, 01 May 2011 20:07:31 +0000

Juniper told me about the flower girl who has become a meme:

She doesn’t like noise:

And I don’t understand this, but it’s cool:

Kyla told me how Kate Middleton is shedding her commoner roots:

Best Of Unhappy Hipsters

Jared — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:00:53 +0000

As I mentioned in my post on the rise of Tumblr humour, Alison and Stewart introduced me to this blog that doesn’t really have that much to do with hipsters as I’d describe them. It’s photos taken from interior design magazines like Wallpaper* and Dwell with bitingly-satirical captions. They’ve gotten particularly funny lately, so I thought I’d turn some of my favourites into image macros and share them:

* The asterisk stands for pretentious!