Open letter to the Internet: The incredible success of the potato salad Kickstarter is simply a modern example of performance art. Like the million dollar home page or the eBay-nanza of religious-icon toast before it, it won’t kill its medium Continue reading
Another Twitter pun meme went on in October, and seems to have enjoyed a recent resurgence. The idea is to take a well-known film title and add a word to it, yielding a (presumably) unwatchable movie. #AddaWordRuinaMovie has even spawned Continue reading
Thanks to hanging out with some puzzling people on Facebook, and growing up playing word games in general, I noticed oddities of letter arrangements while I’m writing. Like say I was figuring out how to make the past tense of Continue reading
These are from my contributions to a two-year-old Twitter meme #minoranagrambooks: The Lord of the Grins The Little Pincer Anne of Green Bagels The Scrotal Web Harry Potter and the Holy Lad’s Wealth The Very Hungry Cellar Tapir James Clavell’s Continue reading
In one of those serendipitous moments of webcomic synchronicity, today’s Pain Train: was followed shortly by today’s XKCD: So look to the skies! If you see evidence of an impending extinction-level event, post it to Instagram! (And check Snopes before Continue reading
You can find any number of lists of “facts” in the Internet. Weird facts, fun facts, pointless facts, interesting facts. And just like you’ve heard before, just because your read it on the Internet doesn’t mean it’s true. Here are Continue reading
Sunday Meme Day again: Have you ever: Q: Kissed someone on your friends list? Five or six of them… Q: Been arrested? No Q: Do you like someone? You kids get offa my lawn! Q: Held a snake? Yes Q: Continue reading
That is, you can hear me shout “Puking� and say other words and phrases coined by the Bard if you go the the multimedia exhibition “Meme: Culture in Transmission�, guest curated by Susan Byrnes. The exhibition is in the Herndon Continue reading
Played some Jawa riddle games with the boys last month. I’ve already shared the results on Facebook, but another fried made a different “Utinni” joke this week, and that reminded me to share it here. If you don’t remember “utinni” Continue reading
I had two complementary meme images cross my Facebook wall this weekend: Reflecting the tone of this campaign (and the several leading up to it), they spend their energy talking about what they are not, attempting to counter the stereotypes Continue reading