May 2010
20 posts
i just realised something. the other day, i saw someone wearing an “ok soda” tshirt and i thought “haha” or something similarly onomotopeized. its only now that i realise that the wearer of the shirt was ironically wearing a shirt which had a logo which was an ironic take on advertising. the advertising and the soda failed, but the wearer of the shirt derived joy from irony...
I honestly thought this would be in the headlines. I thought that his name would be the top trending item on Yahoo!, and that everyone would be talking about how Jack Conway had essentially just won the 2010 Senate race in Kentucky.
Instead, there are a few articles, but this doesn’t seem to be making the kind of splash that it should.
Why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_FDPZJlaOc
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“Tales from the Darkside” is fucking crazy. It’s so much better than almost anything else my father watches, but it’s fucking insane. Two episodes ago they were playing strip poker with a mummy (“Two bandages!”) and now I turn around and I don’t know what’s going on but that’s definitely Debbie Harry.
“…Still, it’s often filled with giddy, brilliantly produced goofy...”
– Review of Doll Domination, The Boston Globe, September 30, 2008 