who are you a stan of?

Otherwise it's just a list of "things I like," amirite?

i write letters to cats all the time

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Well, there's my new display name.

xD

lolz.

Tacos are not here, and I have not seen them in a while. I worry that tacos are lonely. They're so old-school, though -- no IM, no email. I should write. It's the same way with my grandmother.

I totally want to post a letter with just "Tacos" as a destination address now.

there are things i am hyper defensive of that i don't necessarily lurv

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/donald_fagen_defends_steely_dan_to

lol!

correspondence

that is to say i am a stan of handwritten communication

Dear letter,

AAAAAAAAA!

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like i said, i like this thread, and i think i understand why "stan" is being used to describe the answers - it's a kind of sheepish acknowledgement of one's own total SUNKNESS re: the ish at hand; HOWEVER i'm not keen on the concomitant acceptance this word makes inevitable that any kind of overweening admiration is somehow lame, pathetic, almost pathological (it's a little like saying "what shit do you really LOVE - no homo"). maybe you can't have one without the other

No I'm sure that you can have slavish, slathering dedication to an artist with no self-awareness at all.

Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.

But I do know what you mean. That's why I revised my answer... Orson Welles is too good for disclaimers, but David Byrne? Yeah, ok, my level of enthusiasm might be out of sync with reality sometimes.

nonsentient stans:
- gatorade
- ipods
- thai food
- newspaper strip comics prior to 1960
- pearl button snap cowboy shirts

Smartfood cheddar popcorn
Buster Keaton

i watched a show last nite on slapstick movies and someone called buster keaton mystical

Ok so it's just a list of things we like.

Sweaters, then. I like sweaters.

And fucking.

Dear fucking,

...

totally loling at this shit. you guys are great

I thought it wasn't things we like, it's things we like irrationally and defend beyond a reasonable point?

i think its more things you love and know abt too much - the defending flows naturally out of that

being a stan is a hard thing to describe, i suppose its possible to be a french fries stan or whatever but its unfair to be like "omg i love french fries" and call yourself a stan--a true french fry stan goes to belgium every couple years and keeps up w/ advancing french fry technology and knows what flavors are in the oil at mcdonalds and stuff

also a big thing about being a stan imo is maintaining a high and unusual level of interest in periods when the rest of the public has lost interest. hamburgers have always been a staple of american cuisine and have never really fallen out of favor, therefore im not sure that you can really "stan" for hamburgers

i was kind of ignoring the "knows a lot about x" part of the definition. by that definition, i am less of a stan of anything, really.

i think for me, being a stan of something is like, when someone says or implies something negative about that thing, it just makes you unreasonably irritated and you cant really talk in complete sentences.

throw derek jeter in there

are we all stans of jaymc's xls?

how would that work, exactly?

haha i am kind of a jeter/mattingly stan

i totally f'd that up :/

David Foster Wallace
academia / higher education
Grace Paley
Max Tundra
horseshoe
Bill Cosby
personally preferring PC use to Mac use
the idea that Anna Faris is brilliant

throw derek jeter in there

more accurate than a Jeter throw

nabisco i cant believe you left off 'Girlfriends'

i am tracee ellis ross's number 1 stan.

i sort of think this thread would be more interesting if we had to identify what other people are stans of, since a lot of the time if you spend a lot of time, say, posting on the same message board as someone you end up pushing their buttons enough to figure out what they are obsessed with and willing to defend to the death

derek jeter is the most disgusting savage in all the world imo and he gave jessica alba herpes

http://jezebel.com/assets/resources/2007/08/herpestree.jpg

I left off a lot of things, but my love of Girlfriends probably doesn't extend to full-on standom, I don't think?

This is hard for me to answer, because I think of a stan as being the type of person who'd overhear a conversation about a favorite topic and be gritting his/her teeth and wanting to jump in and go "you don't UNDERSTAND" and unleash a detailed hour-long lecture on the fine points of the topic and how wonderful it is . . .

. . . and as you may have guessed one of the less appealing things about my personality is that I feel that way about LOTS of stuff, including things I don't even really care about

i was gonna say

yeah, i mean that's a much more honest description of me than stan for 2 million things.

^^^natalie merchant stan (xps)

I think you're just much more contrary than you give yourself credit for, nabisco.

^

ok fuck you guys jeter is a saint! and he's not knoblauch ffs

http://uk.geocities.com/laurel_hardy_tribute/Stan_Laurel.jpg

whoa double jeter herpes thats rough jt sry bro

alice munro
stacey dash
john goodman
pulp
team america
fellini
newfoundland
the song runaround sue
a burrito shop
geography
america's funniest home videos
derrida
fancy lobbies
cod tongues
nabokov

^^will stan for to varying degrees

i'm probably gonna wind up being a nabokov stan but i've only read two books so i don't feel qualified yet