| Soviet Lolcats |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|08:26 pm] |
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| | Fiona Aple - Not About Love | ] |
Dear Internet,
It is a rare moment when one reaches the end of the internet. After traversing a lengthy path littered with memes, blogs, adverts, and an endless sea of forums, I finally reached the end of the internet. As I stared off the face of the internet, I felt its cthonic undulations slowly peel away my sanity.
It was then that I truly understood the impact of connecting thousands of separate cultures through virtual space. Russian Lolcat macros.
This image translates approximately as:
"-His lethargic display of apathy and lack of industry is shameful!
-It is a legitimate response to the harsh and inconsequential nature of being. I celebrate his tenacity!"
As you can see, the Russian take on photo macros comes in a different flavor than our American counterpart. My personal belief is that the internet finally ran out of American lolcats and decided to expand its terrible reach. Take this fine example of American Lolcat literature:
Professor Zubrick, head of Caturday studies at Rofl University, believes that the vernacular differences stem from the influence of different sorts of WWII propaganda used in the separate countries. I sought him out for a personal interview. After praising a series of glorious cat humor, fresh from the gulag press, he spouted, "In mother Russia, cat picture tag YOU!" and then disappeared into his mad scientist lab to resume staring at a strange series of tubes intended to quantify and measure the internet.
More Russian Cat Macros can be found at http://www.rolcats.com/.
Profession Zubrick of Rofl University can be contacted at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bmwman91
More on this as it develops. Kigs out.
Truly,
Kigs |
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| Bowler Caps and Fashionites |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|11:40 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | bouncy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Ladyhawke - Paris is Burning | ] |
Dear Internet,
My closet is filled with costume pieces. Bowler caps. Cloaks. Masks. Fingerless gloves. A slew of cravats, double breasted vests, and a thousand odds and ends from bygone generations threaten to overtake my closet.
Which is why I was surprised when the New York Times released This Article. The Article, entitled "This Just in From the 1890s", describes the recent rise of Victorian fashion in the clothing world. From Cardinal Red Tailcoats from Ralph Lauren, to Suspenders, Bowler Caps, and Capes, the era of Charles Dicken's, The Titanic, and Pride and Prejudice is steadily making its entrance.
Good news for all the Theatre Dorks, you can now wear your throw back outfits at Starbucks. Bad news for Fashionites, I give it six months before we see Cravats at Hot Topic.
( A bit of eye candy. )
Truly,
Kigs
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| Needed: 1 Wordpress Website Designer! |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|02:12 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  chipper | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Kate Nash - Foundations | ] |
Dear Internet,
Are there any sassy web designers out there looking for a contract gig?
Please respond to ravenink(at)gmail(dot)com with your prices, examples of your work, and where you know me from. A coworker wants someone to build his website and I want to give one of you the referral. If it goes well, repeat business is a strong possibility. Must be able to work in Wordpress.
Thanks in advance for contacting me. I hope one of you guys gets it. :)
Truly,
~Kigs |
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| From my chest pubes, down to my ball fro... |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|03:40 pm] |
There's a lot of cover before I dive back into full time work after a long, lazy, luscious weekend!
The second part of Red Riding Hood was released, and I already know how the third and final installment will go. It was very interesting and somewhat bemusing to receive a new wave of criticism revolving around what everyone wanted or expected to happen to Pablo. It's funny to note I haven't received a single disappointed email or comment, from any woman or any man, about the fate of Red Riding Hood! But there's something about Pablo that had a lot of people worked up to a high froth. Perhaps some people identified with him a little bit and took what happened to him a bit personally? I can't tell. But the criticisms revolved around the fact that I was depicting a submissive male and it was being taken as an insult to all submissive males, coupled with the criticism that I never depict submissive males (though when I do, it's taken as an insult). There were those who were expecting him to have intercourse with female wolves and even impregnate a few of them. And there were those who wanted him to be the subject of gay rape, and took great insult at the fact that this probably won't happen until he's been turned into a feminized shemale, something that's well on its way by the end of the second comic. A lot of this comes with the expressed disappointment, sometimes visceral anger, that I don't draw comics with gay unions as the central focus in general.
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| Ghetto Dryer |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|07:17 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  cheerful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Department of Eagles - Sailing by Night | ] |
Dear Internet,
My washer and dryer are horrible. They are the twelve colored Pinto of the clothes cleaning world, complete with patches of lint and peeling paint.
But, they do clean clothes. The washer washes.
Unfortunately, the dryer isn't so clever. It doesn't dry, so much as moisten the clothing. Pants, shirts, and strange underwear come out lukewarm and mildew wet. The dryer knows how horrible it is. In fact, while most dryers have settings such as "Hot", or "Extra Hot", our deluxe ragtag dryer comes with such creative settings as "Dry", "Less Dry", or "More Dry".
Who in their right mind would want their clothing, "Less Dry"? For that matter, how can clothes be More Dry? How do they achieve this Zen state of ultimate dryness beyond the normal realm of standard dry? Do they reach Nirvana and cease to reincarnate as more lint?
Truly,
Kigs |
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