Oh how I do enjoy watching the Antic Muse rip those wankers at Vice a (long overdue) second bung-hole (along with Gawker, and too many others to mention).
However I am afraid the shit that will undoubtedly spew out of McInnes' (and crew) new orafice will be particularly foul-smelling. In any event, the backlash that will follow is so worth whatever they get up to in the short run. The sooner they spread their brand of racist, misogynist veiled-as-irony hipster manifesto out into middle America (via CD's, cable tv shows and feature films according to the NYT article) the sooner we will be done with them (and their Svengali-ites) for good. Like my friend Maud's comment over the weekend about the tell-tale sign of the end of a trend, "Once you can buy the same shoes [that one is wearing] in a strip mall in Tallahassee, you can be damn sure no one's wearing them in New York".
I am quite delighted to witness this particular snake devour his own tail, one strip mall Wallgreens and AMC theater at a time; watch the counter culture become the culture that needs to be countered and finally disappear from my neighborhood for good. But I have to warn you; outside of New York City, in those far away lands where people wear bowling league t-shirts because they are in a bowling league, who wear trucker hats because they drive the trucks that deliver your Pabst Blue Ribbon to Williamsburg's see-and-be-seens, tend NOT to be the kind of folks who give a shit about whether or not something is meant to be 'ironic' . They do, however, have an abundance of NRA cards and a distaste for being made fun of.
Good luck with your endeavors Vice!
Posted by Antigeist at September 30, 2003 01:25 PMI'm trying to track down and shake the hand of the person responsible for the stickers I've been seeing around my neighborhood. they've got a picture of one one of those trucker hats- underneath which, the message:
NICE HAT,
ASSWIPE.
"asswipe". what a wonderful word...
Indeed it is.