I miss the Chapelle show. I think I'll go watch the Nigar family on YouTube.
Comedian: Yo, check this out: black guys drive a car like this.
[Leans back, as though his elbow were on the windowsill]
Do, do, ch. Do-be-do, do-be-do-be-do.
Yeah, but white guys, see, they drive a car like this.
[Hunches forward, talks nasally]
Dee-da-dee, a-dee-da-dee-da-dee-da-dee.
[Audience howls with laughter]
Homer: Ah ha ha, it's true, it's true! We're so lame!
-The Simpsons, "Homer and Apu"
About six months ago I came across an amazing blog and decided that I needed to tell everyone I could about it. I then forgot about it/got too busy to do it and eventually stopped checking it. Today, I rediscovered Stuff White People Do and I think we will all be the better for it.
Stuff White People Do is the blog I dreamed of at the end of this post about my objections to Stuff White People Like. "Like," for those of you who don't feel like clicking either of the last two links, is basically an internet version of the above comedy bit which the Simpsons parodied 14 years ago only it leaves out the Black people. It is funny in the same meta way, that is you laugh at the person telling the joke who thinks it is still funny and you laugh at the people laughing at the joke. You do this if just to keep from thinking about the living fossils rolling around all of our skulls and crying.
"Do" is what "Like" should be. It is insightful. It is interactive. And hey! It's actually funny. "The smug jackass observer who knows he's better than those he is critiquing" bit is a hard one to pull off (just ask Stephen Colbert) and way above the skills of the "Like" writer, Christian Lander. If Lander had taken the "guy who knows he is a part of the problem, but wants to take a few steps back and better himself" route of the "Do" guy, maybe the "Like" writer's blog would be better. Everybody likes an underdog, especially one who betters himself. Unfortunately, "Like" hit the scene first and tapped into a pulse (to mix metaphors). I can give Lander credit for that, but, the fact of the matter is "Stuff Like People Do" is just a better blog for examining the social ills and hidden rules of this society and having a good laugh as well.
[Leans back, as though his elbow were on the windowsill]
Do, do, ch. Do-be-do, do-be-do-be-do.
Yeah, but white guys, see, they drive a car like this.
[Hunches forward, talks nasally]
Dee-da-dee, a-dee-da-dee-da-dee-da-dee.
[Audience howls with laughter]
Homer: Ah ha ha, it's true, it's true! We're so lame!
-The Simpsons, "Homer and Apu"
About six months ago I came across an amazing blog and decided that I needed to tell everyone I could about it. I then forgot about it/got too busy to do it and eventually stopped checking it. Today, I rediscovered Stuff White People Do and I think we will all be the better for it.
Stuff White People Do is the blog I dreamed of at the end of this post about my objections to Stuff White People Like. "Like," for those of you who don't feel like clicking either of the last two links, is basically an internet version of the above comedy bit which the Simpsons parodied 14 years ago only it leaves out the Black people. It is funny in the same meta way, that is you laugh at the person telling the joke who thinks it is still funny and you laugh at the people laughing at the joke. You do this if just to keep from thinking about the living fossils rolling around all of our skulls and crying.
"Do" is what "Like" should be. It is insightful. It is interactive. And hey! It's actually funny. "The smug jackass observer who knows he's better than those he is critiquing" bit is a hard one to pull off (just ask Stephen Colbert) and way above the skills of the "Like" writer, Christian Lander. If Lander had taken the "guy who knows he is a part of the problem, but wants to take a few steps back and better himself" route of the "Do" guy, maybe the "Like" writer's blog would be better. Everybody likes an underdog, especially one who betters himself. Unfortunately, "Like" hit the scene first and tapped into a pulse (to mix metaphors). I can give Lander credit for that, but, the fact of the matter is "Stuff Like People Do" is just a better blog for examining the social ills and hidden rules of this society and having a good laugh as well.