zing

only if i could give him cancer

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140125-dogs-canine-cancer-tasmanian-devils-oldest-known-living-cancer/

omg look at those foxes in the sidebar

omg morbs

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/734/cache/foxes-anders_73438_600x450.jpg

how cute are these foxes morbs

Heavy artillery

me and morbs

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/1d/1d7fe591f8fc71169959bd20fd200b19cc4277bc7bb9414839f7044b24586f80.jpg

http://www.frontiersla.com/Pics/Blog%20Images%203/Cruising-Al-Pacino.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RbMTDLFOjA

I want to eat a sandwich. I want to eat a pizza. This common desire has literally made the two objects visually indistinguishable to me.

"bobbins" makes me never want to click on a techno thread so, good work, whoever

― eat the 'kkake, anime (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, January 27, 2014 8:03 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good work indeed

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, January 27, 2014 8:09 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the monocled zing

quite

rather

if this policy gets out posters might start attaching the bobbins amulet to all their thread titles.

― estela, Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:13 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

very much so

not exactly cricket, estela

This looks like slow jams. Is it slow jams?

― doglato dozzy (dog latin), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:46 PM (2 minutes ago)

have you ever had sex?

― k3vin k., Thursday, January 30, 2014 1:49 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

boom

we always return to the classics

do you like bass

Woah I didn't know we'd started.

I do not get Kurt Vile at all.
― Matt DC, Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me neither.

― doglato dozzy (dog latin), Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:24 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry dog latin i meant to leave you a voicemail

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:26 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

beautiful thing

i have gone from being disappointed by this to full-on hating it. they sound like incredibly annoying people, too, middle-class nice'n'twees get out of my life

― lex pretend, Monday, February 17, 2014 6:57 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

It's always good when you can take a break from the coal mines to join these discussions.

― imago bands and their discontents (_Rudipherous_), Monday, February 17, 2014 10:23 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

lol

hahaha nice

haha

amazing

the hammer and sickled zing

applauso

A friend of mine wrote on FB the other day that DiCaprio "looks like the fat kid in grade school whose dad had a lot of money."
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius)

this is deep
― waterbabies (waterface)

i mean derp
― waterbabies (waterface)

morbs friend def otm tho

I have a million and one things to say to Maura and Katherine about this, which would probably be better said in (semi-)private on Tumblr or wherever, because this is starting to feel uncomfortable. And yet. Damn the cross-posts.

1) The whole "ooh you're just jealous" thing. You know what, in a world where there is only allowed to be One Woman Anything (remember, you're talking to the girl whose band was not signed by a label who loved us "because we already have a girl band!") it is an awful warping lens. Where the one woman who succeeds gets held up as some kind of benchmark. And instead of hating on the system whereby only one woman is allowed through (and then has to speak for ~all women~) it is *really* easy to get caught up in "it's not fair that this woman got the book dead/record deal/whatever and why not these other great women who totally deserved it (including me)". It would be dishonest of me not to include myself in this group. Of course I am jealous that this woman gets hundreds of thousands of readers, and my little blog gets 250 and I will never get a book deal ever. You know what? There are dude writers who I cannot stand and everyone tosses their 8000 word thinkpieces around on twitter and I just think "why the fuck do you even like this boring masturbatory toss" but the thing is, no one holds up these boring ~dudely writers~ as a benchmark whose mastubatory thinkpieces hurt or harm other male writers. So why do we do it to this woman? I think that Maura is right to go after the *system* rather than the woman, but then turns around and starts criticising the woman's tone or style or voice. Which leads us to:

2) This is something that comes off the Gurl Thread. It's something that ENBB said to me, which has resonated in my head for a long time afterwards. I am a gender non-conforming/genderqueer/whatever woman. I get extra added shit, in addition to the normal every day shit of being read as female, for being this way. I have, in the past, got very angry at women who *do* perform "stereotypically female" roles and enjoy stereotypically female activities and conform to ~feminine stereotypes~. Because my sense was, "lady you are making things so much harder for people like me." Because my sense was, they were just going along with What Society Told Them To Be, and they got an easy ride because they were able to conform to "pretty" and to "gender stereotypes" and therefore got all the Nice Stuff that was denied me, because I couldn't and wouldn't. And we butted heads on this a lot, but what she said was very true: it's not that simple. Many women do and enjoy ~stereotypically feminine things~ not because they are brainwashed by society but because that is who *they* are. It is not my place to judge whether a woman who performs femininity a certain way is doing it because it's her genuine gender expression or because she's brainwashed by patriarchy and the cis-tem, maaaan. I can certainly criticise the *system* that rewards feminine women and punishes genderqueer persons with nice things like societal approval and publishing contracts. But criticising a woman for being stereotypically feminine and performing in a way that TIES INTO EXISTING FEMININE STEREOTYPES? NOPE. I learned the hard way that's not on. And that's what I see every time I see women criticising *this woman* for "making it harder for the rest of us!"

3) Tone/style/voice whatever you want to call it. Living in Britain, my only exposure to this "NPR twee" thing you keep talking about is vague awareness of threads I avoid because they are overly American and also clusterfucks. She writes like a LadyBlog, yes. Surprise! SHE IS WRITING A LADYBLOG! It's like there are two conflicting narratives in this thread: A) she is some mastermind of marketing who is deeply embedded in "NPR culture" and also is a librarian who has read a thousand books and therefore knows exactly what it takes to Write A Best-Selling Blog Crossover and so she has deliberately constructed this "Faux Naif" tone to exactly nail the right tone to push record-snob-man-buttons into making her blog a smash viral hit with instant publisher appeal!!! result!!! B) She is an amateur writer who knows very little about music, and writes about music as a Non-Music-Fan who writes like a LadyBlogger in LadyBlogTone because... (get this!) she reads a lot of LadyBlogs! Which of these narratives is true? A little of both? Somewhere inbetween? I don't feel qualified to call it. Maybe Maura has way more experience in public and can tell more easily what the aim of someone's prose is than I can? This is possible. It is also possible that I am completely missing the cultural context of WHY THESE PEOPLE ARE SO TERRIBLE because "NPR twee" is not a part of my experience and if it were, I'd hate it like I hate... oh I dunno Charlie Brooker or some British equivalent?

4) On letting down the team. I come from the other side of this. I know that I write with a tone which attracts *disapproval* from Serious Music Fan Men (and also many, many women). Because, basically, I aspire to write with the breathless enthusiasm of the 15 year old fangirl I used to be. I try to write about the emotions that music inspires in me. Some of these emotions are, um, salacious. OH MY GOD SHE'S TALKING ABOUT SEX AGAIN. I know it makes some men very uncomfortable when I talk about sex and music in this way. I also know, that in "serious fandoms" I often get taken aside by *other women* and told that I mustn't talk about music in such a ~fangirl~ way because it makes it harder for Serious Female Music Fans to be Taken Seriously, and not treated like raging fangirls who just want to fuck the boys onstage. And then we get to a point where I'm trying to review a band where the singer-dude is talking about fingerbanging and singing about threesomes and yet I must not mention sex or sexuality when describing my experience of this music because I might come off like a fangirl and let the team down. Right. So when I see other Female Music Fans talking about how Other Women must not reinforce bad female stereotypes, I really really get *my* hackles up.

I have spent way too long writing this to hit the back button now, even though sense tells me I really should and I'm going to get ripped apart, but there it is. Anyway, I have to go and look for a job now.

― "Endemic. What does that mean, man?" (Branwell Bell), Wednesday, March 19, 2014 3:43 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good luck

― two bunny rabbits on mushrooms singing Proclaimers songs (onimo), Wednesday, March 19, 2014 3:47 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao at lex pretend coal mine zing

to be fair public school educated the-lex is just as likely to have been punching downwards with that comment

the past couple of days itt may just constitute the least funny sequence of posts on ilx ever, which is saying a lot

― lex pretend, Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:06 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not coming from you it ain't...

― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:06 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Now that was quite funny

― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:17 AM (1 hour ago)

my idea of hell is having to listen to lex rant about what he finds unfunny for eternity. thank god either ilx or i will die one day + this suffering will come to an end.

― Mordy , Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:17 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not sure you fully get the concept of "hell"

― robocop ELF (seandalai), Thursday, March 20, 2014 1:32 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol Fred Phelps died

the reaper zung you, Fred. lol

so yeah i really don't have the stomach for louise gluck

― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, March 21, 2014 8:17 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she's a bit of a psychosexual hack tbh

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, March 21, 2014 10:48 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah that was your mother

― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, March 21, 2014 4:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

irl lols at BB/Onimo

that was a good yr mother joke imo

maracas.jpg crossed with "taken"

Wanted to ask some M some questions. didn't come to fuck with anyone, gladiate, whatever it is you henny youngmans do…

― veronica moser, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do you not got email on that thing

― j., Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But wow, talk about a bad run. Michael Hutchence, Paula Yates, Peaches ... a lot of empty chairs at the extended family reunion.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 April 2014 19:50 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And the chance of bono to boot

― recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Monday, 7 April 2014 19:52 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Man, just occurred to me that it's Monday ...

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 April 2014 19:59 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

josh you're being a bit of a dick

― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 7 April 2014 20:01 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was hoping Josh was parodying the very worst pricks on Twitter and Facebook with that last crack.

― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Monday, 7 April 2014 20:04 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he has a strong authorial voice in his posts iirc

― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Monday, 7 April 2014 20:06 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

itching for another 'celeb families might be reading ilx' or w/e thread but i'm studying tbrr

you people still find righty wingnut pundits and their act endlessly fascinating huh

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, April 11, 2014 9:24 AM (16 minutes ago)

u of all ppl should understand the pleasure of performing an act long after everyone else stops finding it amusing

― Mordy , Friday, April 11, 2014 9:33 AM (7 minutes ago)

et tu Wm

PEW PEW PEW

I would still enjoy a ballgame and a beer with you, Morbs, that was just a good zing.

i would possibly also enjoy a ballgame and a beer w/ morbz. i hear he's actually sufferable irl ;)