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Faesthetic 3 arrived last night and is fucking outstanding.

Whoa.

Sub Pop’s home page. Take that, Pitchfork.

Neil found an interesting article in the Tribune today: The Great Divide. (If you want, use artishard for login and pass). It discusses the apparent gap between mainstream culture and critical opinions, a source of frequent discussion around my house. It’s a good starting point for conversation, so that’s why I’m linking it.
In other news, apparently my finally getting The Office on DVD has led to a huge amount of press about the show and two Golden Globe wins. Now normally I couldn’t give a shit about the Golden Globes, don’t get me wrong, but what the hell was The Office even in the running for? Golden Globes are primarily an American award, true? Early promotion for a future bomb show? (The American version of the show) I was surprised to overhear Ricky Gervais’ name when my roommate was in the other room watching E! Anyway, I obviously agree with the Golden Globes and feel strange about that. The next time an awards show is mentioned on this website feel free to punch me.
Pop culture times 1000!

Does anyone know where I can get one of those Virtual Reality machines? I’m sure nobody wants them anymore.
I need to start filming more stuff.

Memo
Attn: Hoes
Re: Ug Boots
Ug is short for Ugly. And you don’t need help.
The only thing that can save you now is a TLC-sized, neon pink, fuzzy Von Dutch trucker cap with a 4 foot backlit logo smeared across it to perhaps distract the public from both looking down at your shoes and at the same time perplex the world with questions about what values one has to have developed in order to feel ok about themselves while so obviously whoring themselves out to extreme branding, although when you’re a whore you don’t actually pay somebody $100 to fuck you, at least there is some compensation. People think that companies are elite when they charge fantastic amounts of money for ugly, factory made garbage. I propose a new brand that you have to apply to wear, where brandishing the logo doesn’t mean that you’re dumb enough to pay too much, it means you know about something worth a damn and/or actually are elite, although nobody would probably want it because it would almost never show up on Mtv or US magazine and value in our culture is based on expense and the actual logo wouldn’t exist because people who think don’t adopt brands as their personality.

Chris Ware has edited the new McSweeney’s. This is fantastic. It’s all comics.

Demo is leaving Chicago. Boo.

Is it the Unicorns, like the Eunich-orns?
Whoa, I may be on to something.
Here’s some “evidence”.
And what the hell is this? The Brenners?

The Red Balloon. Apparently most people who took French have seen this.