Alex Pareene wins the Internet today. →

The Alternate Title: "Man, those wacky NYU Kids.  Did you know I went to NYU? I did. Shit sucked—did so much blow and shit. Man, shit was off the hook. So they suck. And John Sexton is a prick. Because he, like, is the man, man. Thank god I became a blogger. Because that totally is counter-culture. And, man, did you know I went to NYU and became a blogger? And I reverse opinions when I can buck the system. Man.”

The Alternate, Alternate Title: Sad, Local Man reblogs Unemployed Man’s Link on Tumblr while not doing his part-time job and getting you to click this link so he can afford food, rent and paying off his impulsive iPhone purchase. Also, did you know that Gawker dude dropped out of NYU? Because he totally did and now he knows best.

(via alexbalk)

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The lack of retention lends itself to having fresh content. The joke is that 4chan post is a repost of a repost of a repost. There was a guy who was downloading every image from /b/. He calculated that 80 percent of what’s posted has been posted before. So it’s survival of the fittest. Ideas that are carried over to the next day are worth repeating. The things that are genuinely funny get carried over.



The reason we’re seen as a meme generation factory is because of the unique qualities of the image board and the lack of retention. On other bulletin boards, threads are archived indefinitely. All the big threads have been around for months or years. But with 4chan, something has to be really good to keep getting posted.

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Fimoculous’s Interview with Moot of 4Chan (via interweber)

there’s an irony about rex sorgatz interviewing moot. I’ll let you know what it is after I learn about the state of the New York blogosphere next week.

The Best Critical Smackdown of 2009

Yes, you’re right. All arts criticism should just be a mindless expression of the pure joy of being art-ed. Whee! Look at the colors!

People: stop posting this useless and literally stupid sentiment here or anywhere else where art is being discussed. WE DON’T CARE. If we only wanted to gawk, slack-jawed, at art we wouldn’t be writing about it. Because there would be nothing to write about. Also, stop misusing words like “pretentious” that you spotted on day-of-the-week toilet paper.

I mean, feel free to turn your brain off when you go to the movies, but at least turn it on when leaving comments.

P.S. I also didn’t like the Friday the 13th revamp. So “pretentious!” It was “brilliantly manipulative!”

-Matt Prigge

The Best Idea Ever Before Valentine's Day

Law School Friend:what you need to do is find a fat ugly chick at nyu law, okay?
then what you need to do is marry her BEFORE she graduates law school. that is the key
before she graduates.
then DIVORCE soon after she graduates and in the divorce claim her law degree as marital property and BOOM you will get a percentage of her lifetime earnings.
i think that's how it works.

New York Comic Con: Not only will you see shit, but you'll feel like it too!

I swear, everyone I know who went to the NYCC comics show has come down with (as it’s colloquially known) the Con Crud. This manifests as anything from Undefined Shitty Feeling With Extra Snot/Phlegm to Delibitating Chest/Head Infection With Rivers Of Green Horror to flat out 19th Century Consumption Teetering On The Edge Of Cellular Collapse. Hand sanitisers aren’t cutting it anymore.  The next American convention I do, I’m turning up in a fucking spacesuit. A SEXY spacesuit.
Warren Ellis on the Post-New York Comic Con epidemic. [via BadSignal]