PIZZA!: 500 examples of the hackiest signifier of post-Y2K punk cool, childhood lolstalgia, and "so random" larfs

there's not a problem with parrotting the same signifiers over and over in lieu of having an actual personality? xp

xp did it make you nostalgic for the last time you had pizza i.e. the 1990s?

I ordered pizza last night too, actually.

did you wear a slap bracelet to make a fun themed night of it?

Whiney have you ever heard of the page, "I fucking love science", it's on this thing called Facebook which houses a lot of teenagers and lols

i think slap bracelets were either before or after my time, i don't remember anyone being into them

Last night I took a piping hot slice and pressed it to my chest, making a pink triangular impression on my neon-green hypercolor shirt.

i got a Giant Pizza Slice once in DC but i haven't found any equivalent here in boston, was that a unique thing or is it widespread?

Those are scattered around all over. I've had a giant slice in Western Mass before. Don't know why there wouldn't be one somewhere in Boston.

there's not a problem with parrotting the same signifiers over and over in lieu of having an actual personality? xp

― clouds, Friday, May 30, 2014 12:58 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have you ever met a human being, they don't actually work like that outside of sneering message board posts

not yet, only meat popsicles

I've noticed a lot of settlers of catan jokes popping up to the point where it might be a thing.

there's not a problem with parrotting the same signifiers over and over in lieu of having an actual personality? xp

― clouds, Friday, May 30, 2014 12:58 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is getting on some HIPSTERS/HIPPIES/LEFTISTS/WHOEVER ARE EVEN BIGGER CONFORMISTS THAN THE SQUARES business.

not really.

yeah, you're right, anyone who put a pizza slice on their garage rock flyer doesn't have an actual personality

you understand me so well

this thread is veering into "lol old asian ladies are really hipsters" territory --either disingenuous about signifiers working in context, or sad attempts to not want to feel excluded from something culturally specific, or maybe this is just clowning whiney ... the latter i understand.

It's kind of hard though for pizza to signify much other than "I like pizza" unless, I guess, if you actually hate pizza.

you don't get how signification works, under late capitalism.

consumer culture stuff like 'pizza' is used as a shorthand for other things, that are cultural, all the time. whether or not someone finds this annoying says more about that person than it does about the phenomenon itself.

i skipped weird al semiotics lecture series for boring tom lehrer maths

i'm not particularly annoyed by it -- it's just something that at this point is a bit "hacky" -- and now a lot of the garage bands are moving to LA anyway, and some of them pay me to help them with their taxes, so it's a lot less annoying when I'm making some money off it -- speaking of late capitalism

don't they know about turbotax?

pizza rules everything around me

P.R.E.A.M. is a real thing around these parts

this thread is veering into "lol old asian ladies are really hipsters" territory --either disingenuous about signifiers working in context, or sad attempts to not want to feel excluded from something culturally specific, or maybe this is just clowning whiney ... the latter i understand.

― sarahell, Friday, May 30, 2014 6:52 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i don't want to feel excluded from the cultural phenomena of scowling at pizza people

xp - turbotax sucks

yeah, i don't use it either

lol

real q for s1ocki:

if a good friend or family member gifted you with a hacky pizza t-shirt, what would you do, what would you think?

http://images.sodahead.com/polls/003362059/226252937_what_would_you_do_nickelodeon_dvd_f6103_xlarge.jpeg

xps i think it's fair to say there is always some degree of cynicism in which current signifiers are used by everyone, but given that this degree is contextual and subjective, i think it says less about "youngs" or whoever than about "us" as a culture. personally, i relate to being annoyed by it but feel like pointing fingers at something "hacky" is a misapplication of the critique and ends up looking like protesting too much.

if a good friend or family member gifted you with a hacky pizza t-shirt, what would you do, what would you think?

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, May 30, 2014 7:22 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think i would wear it (if i liked it!)

like a hobie shirt with a sailboat on it but the sail is pizza?

oh god yes

well that shirt doesn't exist

would you wear it sincerely or ironically?

well thanks for nothing then.

would you wear it sincerely or ironically?

― sarahell, Friday, May 30, 2014 7:41 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've never figured out the ironic way to put on a t-shirt (upside-down?) so i guess sincerely

it says wear not put on maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

again context-dependent signifiers!

s1ocki puttin' on (the money)

Understand the concept, but hate the term "late capitalism," with all its totally unsupported implications that the Marxist revolution is in fact right around the corner.

i relate to being annoyed by it but feel like pointing fingers at something "hacky" is a misapplication of the critique and ends up looking like protesting too much.

― mattresslessness, Friday, May 30, 2014 4:31 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mattresslessness otm

https://soundcloud.com/para-one/sets/slice-soda/

What are the post-Y2K punk cool pizza places for each city?

Philadelphia: Pizza Brain
DC: Comet Ping-Pong

Haven't been there but based on this thread:
Portland: Ned Ludd?
Brooklyn: Roberta's?

Is Mellow Mushroom as close as your city gets?

Johnny Rad's in Baltimore is pretty cool. Skate punk themed pizzeria, been there for a couple of years.

http://www.johnnyrads.com/JohnnyRads/main.html

Other band playing around here tomorrow night: Cowabunga Pizza Time

http://i.imgur.com/wurH8T3.jpg

R.I.P. Pizza

That's actually the last show before the place closes down, so OTM.