amanda palmer's open poem to jonathan chait (and other crimes)

everything else is just technique

nb i did too

not looking at her feed now or ever.

surely her narcissistic charlatanry renders both herself unable to prevent herself from pushing every hot button the culture offers and the culture unable to punish her for it.

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no less than 15 people on twitter have sent me a link to the notorious potato salad kickstarter, which has now reached over $60k from 4,000 backers - just so a kid can make a potato salad. it has made national news.
it's like the first meme kickstarter with no actual point expect the point it has become by the energy it has gathered.

some of my artist friends are very angry about it.
some people think it is just very funny.

i think i have been spending the last five months writing about this topic and if my book has taught me what i believe, it is this:

ANYONE IS ALLOWED TO ASK FOR ANYTHING.

THAT'S THE DEAL.

nobody has to fund this fucking potato salad. if anybody is funding it, it's because they are finding joy and connection in the act of funding a potato salad.

andy warhol would be so fucking proud.
so would the dadaists.

bring it on.

i'm not going to back it, though.

i'd only back it if there was a level that offered a potato-salad locket, to be worn around one's neck, forever, as a sign of love and commitment to the potato-salad maker....with a piece of the potato-salad in it.

i'd buy that.

Am I the only person who gets giddy when this thread get bumped?

if my book has taught me what i believe, it is this:

GOLD!

i've really inspired myself

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amanda palmer otm

so looking forward to that potato salad kid posting potato salad internationally for $3

looking forward to Amanda Palmer's follow up Potato Salad album, rumored to be the sounds of potato salad

bring it on.

i'm not going to back it, though.

She has standards guys

palmer's "i'm not saying it's good but it's what the market allows and that's good" argument often runs into itself passing the other way round

ANYONE IS ALLOWED TO ASK FOR ANYTHING.

THAT'S THE DEAL.

What a convenient morally consistent position for her to take.

FIFTEEN WHOLE PEOPLE

As opposed to fifteen broken people?

15.0

they'll be broke when she's thru with them

What if someone was raising that money to make a really good potato salad to feed Palmer on tour?

She would just spit the potato salad into a glass vase to re-sell to her fans via Kickstarter OMG THE SNAKE IS EATING ITS TAIL

I think you mean THE SNAKE IS EATING ITS POTATO SALAD

honestly though the only thing that makes me angry about the potato salad Kickstarter is that potato salad is fukkin gross

have you tried all kinds?

bc last i checked it is fucking delicious

German potato salad is edible, at least.

potato salad is awful tbrr

i really love when people cite the dadaists in support of their ideas. by "love" I mean "start banging my head against a concrete floor"

Potato salad is gross
Potato salad Kickstarter is gross
Amanda Palmer is gross

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dadadaists fucking love potato salad

they call it kartoffel salad though. the more you know

dadaists were mostly really angry motherfuckers so yeah not big on whimsical internet broshit i'd guess

Once I made potato salad and sold it at a stand in Boston. I had a sign that simply said "pay what you want." And you know what? I made $5 that day, and that was from more than one person (not including my folks; thanks for the recipe, mom!). At one point a homeless man ambled up, took a cup of potato salad, and with an apologetic look on his face, dropped a solitary nickel into my bucket. I looked him straight in the eyes and mouthed the words: thank you.

calling something dada is the new calling something punk

considering dadaism wasn't solely a product of german speaking ppl, i think you are wrong

i have had good potato salad, but it was good because there was no mayo in it

dadadaism was solely the produce of exactly 3 german speaking ppl

and they sold out to volkswagen

i have had good potato salad, but it was good because there was no mayo in it

la med?

it was in the prepared foods section at Berkeley Bowl

I love mayo-free potato salad so much

amanda palmer has more redeeming qualities than mayo

i am starting a religion in which mayo is the only path to redemption

the mayo is made with easter eggs and oil of catechumens

mayo: god's jizz

that is our only creed

Thanks to Weird Al, Amanda Palmer has now appeared on a song that I have zero qualms about liking

which song?

"First World Problems", the Pixies pastiche

lol, this is great. He's about to get in trouble with the British contingent for maligning spastics in his Blurred Lines parody though.

the British contingent of what?

the Weird Al Army, I assume