Last night we were at The Ugly Mug in southeast DC and we had the pleasure of drinking with a group of really cool Gallaudet students. Gallaudet is a college in DC that is almost exclusively for deaf people. They invented the football huddle.
We are still feeling numb about this. It hasn’t sunk in yet, really. The OC used to be the way that we knew the weekend was finally here. It was a common ground to relate to other people. It was what we watched while we got dressed and pregamed before going out on Thursday nights. It was how we knew what indie bands had finally sold out. It’s really the end of an era. Don’t say anything about how we can watch Gray’s Anatomy now, because that show totally sucks.
We’ve long been fans of Vice’s Dos and Don’ts, but now they’ve done something new. On their VBS.tv website, they’s got famous Dos and Don’ts being discussed by famous weirdos. Our favs are David Cross and Jay McCarroll from Project Runway.
Barak Obama is one of the younger men to ever run for president and has been using this fact to try to connect to our generation. Even though at 45 he could easily be our dad, he looks younger than he is and he needs to play that up as much as possible.
In order to appeal to the internet generation, Obama is using many of the tools that the internet has to offer. He has a Facebook account, a Flickr account, YouTube, and even his own version of MySpace where you can talk about how great he is.
We’ve added him as a friend on Facebook, but it begs an interesting question. Do we really want the next president to know that we are attending “Jeff’s B-Day Shitshow?”
Apparently, there is a big controversy going on in the skateboarding world right now over blank decks. If you don’t know, blank decks are skateboards that shops or small companies make which don’t have any graphis on the bottom. Blanks cost slightly less to make, but the real savings are in the design and marketing areas. Blanks cost less to the end consumer and are bought by people who like skateboarding more than they like looking cool.
Unbelievably, the big companies who make the heavily designed and marketed boards are casting themselves as victims in this situation, saying that blank boards hurt their sales and will eventually ruin skateboarding. They are saying that if pros can’t sell boards, they will not be able to have teams and then they can’t make videos, etc. etc. They’ve even made a website about it, A World Without Pros. One of the people who is supporting this campaign is Tony Hawk, who has got to be a millionaire several times over by now. He probably wipes his ass with the money he makes off of his pro model boards. It’s like Jay-Z getting mad at cd bootlegging or something.
We think that whole thing is completely ridiculous. Back when we used to skateboard, we just bought whichever board was the widest. We always had size 13 feet, so fuck a graphic, we need that 8.5 inch. (That’s what she said)
In response to this BS, some guy has made A World Without CEOs to expose some of the myths about board making and graphics designing and all that. It’s almost an exact copy of the Pros website, which is awesome. Go look at it and school yourself on some skateboard politics.
If your MySpace page makes our computer lock up for twenty seconds while it loads all of the stupid bullshit .gifs and videos that you have on your MySpace page, we hate you. Nobody thinks that glittering “Bad Girls Rule!” picture is as cool as you do.
Why is Valentine’s Day such a polarizing issue? It seems like a lot of people save up all of their emotional baggage or romantic desires for the year and let it awkwardly explode onto that one day. Some people won’t even acknowledge that it is occuring and go around all day in denial. Some people call it singles awareness day or something stupid like that.
Epicly Later’d is the photoblog of Patrick O’Dell. Patrick was a photographer at Thrasher and is now photo editor at Vice. Epicly Later’d is almost like an unofficial companion piece to Last Nights Party or Cobrasnake, in that it covers the things that New Yorkers do when they aren’t partying. All the links to pages on the site are weird quotes from songs or something, we didn’t really recognize any of them. There’s a lot of hanging out with people from the skateboarding and streetwear industries that is photographed and that’s always interesting to us.
Dykes to watch out for is a long running alternative comic strip which recently passed the 500 strip mark. Back in the college days when we were “experimenting” with creative writing classes, there was a professor in one of the English buildings who had a bunch of pro-gay propaganda (is that the right word?) on her door. She used to always have the week’s new DTWOF strip up and we would stop from time to time to check it out.
