That Damn Hipster Meme

Mar 23 2011

Oi, how memes can wear out there welcome. Wait, should I describe a meme first? Nope, that’s what Wikipedia is for. Just think “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up,” but with the ability to tear up the whole internet in a matter of hours as opposed to the old days where you waited an agonizing week for an SNL parody.

So there are memes like pedobear that can just last forever and ever and that is cool. Then there are memes like troll quotes that are fun, but short lived. There are memes like Antoine Dodson that bleed into real life. Then there are some stupid memes that die such a quick, painful death of over-absorption that I can’t even give examples. My internet-trained brain purges them quicker than a… oh, look, adorable ninja kitty.

Anyway, memes can be great. And memes can be terrible (case in point, Rebecca Black). In current memes, hipster mockery is a big thing. As much as I hate hipsters, I am a little tired of it. Kind of like when the internet, against insurmountable odds, made me sick of zombies for a while.

But then I thought of my own hipster mash-up, so I loved it again. May I present, Hipster Batman:

You can tell he is hipster because of the glasses.

I really have nothing more to say about memes at the moment. There is no definitive point to make because you will love some, you will hate some, but as long as the internet is around, so too will there be memes. So I will merely summarize by showing some of the above memes, assuming you never clicked on the links.

Pedobear, the lovable, child molesting, rascal.

Hands down, the greatest troll quote ever.

And one of the first to apply hipster glasses and make a meme.See more of that last one here.

Now, if you will excuse me, I have more internet to go geek out over.

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Still Being a Bad Blogger

Mar 22 2011

Still here with no profound new blog. As I have already severely failed myself at my promise of maintaining the blogging, I kinda feel less bad. So I will just show you more of what I have been working on and never make a public declaration to do anything ever again so I can no longer publicly fail.

I started an Etsy store. My first run of shirts are half gone (which isn’t saying much). They all looked something like this.

Right now I am only left with Women’s small sizes, but I am going to do another run. So if you want some, let me know.

I have also been working on new stuff. Like this rough design called 3D Gaming.

That one is going to be kind of an ass pain to screen print, though, so it might be a little back burner as I work on others.

I have more, but I will wait and publish through a smattering of posts so I can feel like I am being productive.

The one last item that I will add, that I am super excited about, is that my girlfriend and I are figuring out the process of making urban vinyl figures. I am not talking about just taking a Munny and painting it. I am talking about producing our own from beginning to end. It probably won’t be until about early summer until we get some finished up, but you should be excited for that.

Because I will totally SELL you one.

Cause I am a whore.

Toodles.

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Masochist

Mar 06 2011

Locked out of my own website for a while. Moved 3000 miles.

Now life is good and the website is fixed. Time to resume that promise I made in February.

God I suck at #Winning.

 

Lazy work for artandtacos.com

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One Troll To Rule Them All

Feb 12 2011

Continuing on the tail of the previous post, Bill O’Reilly has become a meme yet again. After he accepted that tides could be caused by the moon, he couldn’t believe that the moon was not placed there by the tender hands of a bearded man in the sky. It has become too much for my brain and I can only come to one solid conclusion.

Bill O’Reilly is the greatest troll to ever exist.

And he doesn’t do it solely for the lulz.

I made this to illustrate my point.

This is the only logical explanation that I can come to.

I don’t doubt that Bill O’Reilly is a conservative and true Republican. But, checking Wikipedia, O’Reilly was born in 1949. His schooling may have been pre-”small forming world crashed into forming Earth to create the moon” theory, but not prior to lunar pull! This is elementary school knowledge.

So my only thought can be that he knows what he is saying is idiotic, but he also knows that he is making a boat load of cash because of it.

Admit it, you have said some hyperbolic things to win an argument. I know I have. If millions of dollars are at stake? Even those of us who consider ourselves the most moral and most likely to rise above the petty pieces of paper that drive the American people have a price.

I could sleep soundly accepting this fact. But then comes Beck and Palin and all the others. They have to be trolls in the vein of O’Reilly. Right?!?! They have to be earning their bucks swindling people with simple catchphrases and American flags. They have to know that they are espousing base level stupidity. Right?!?!?!?!

I wouldn’t like it, but I could believe that they are living the American dream by drooling out doldrums to fatten their wallets. Much like Larry the Cable Guy. You have to admit that while his act works low brow puns and silly slogans, he has to be a smart guy to pull the act off. That must be what these politicians and talking heads are doing as well!

Because, if it isn’t, I weep for us and our future and, Flying Spaghetti Monster help me, the children. And I can only hope that we deteriorate from super power as quickly as possible for the good of a humanity that should count itself lucky to accidentally exist.

Sorry. That was kind of a downer. Happy unicorns!

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Fine, I Accept Your “Tide Theory,” But How The Fuck Is The Moon There?

Feb 03 2011

If you read the internets, you might have caught that Bill O’Reilly’s complete bafflization with how tides can happen is his proof of the existence of God. To be fair, I think the atheist in the video is a complete moron and if he couldn’t immediately verbally bitch slap Papa Bear with lunar pull, that was a sad moment for elementary school science. Still, other, smarter, people brought up this theory to Mr. O’Reilly.

And, of course, he had a rebuttal.

I have heard a number of people postulate that Bill O’Reilly is really a smart man who is dumbing down for the money, much like Larry The Cable Guy. But, really. Where did the moon come from?!?!

He does have one point almost correct. “It takes more faith to not believe and to think that this was all luck [...] then it does to believe in a deity.” Replace “effort” with “faith” and I would whole-heartedly agree. Because us atheists depend on people sitting around and watching and studying and calculating. You know, trying to find understanding and patterns and truth.

I will say that while I believe in science, I know science doesn’t have it 100% correct. I have spent years trying to succinctly compare humanity to flies existing around a redwood tree. Our lives and the life of our species is so short in comparison to the astronomical bodies around which we exist, we will never understand it all. Half of the scientific “truths” that are accepted today will be wiped away by the science of 50 years from now. But it is a damn sight better than just saying, “meh, God did it. Let’s go watch Dr. Phil.”

Still, fellow atheists, don’t go around being so thuggish about your beliefs. If someone believes in God, let them. As long as they are not causing harm to your life, why the hell should you fuck with theirs?

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