fads and phrases and annoying things we are sick of 2009

61) the beatles

not gonna stop me from pontificating. Really don't regret it either re: 55

harbl's bf:

http://www.comedycentric.com/files/2009/03/parks-and-recreation-schneider.jpg

as a sorta small business owner in an "up-and-coming neighborhood", i end up confronting urban planning to a significant degree.

not bf, bff

Also I love Garfield references and I never hear them!

oh didn't see that 2nd f

I think it has a lot to do with being overly self-conscious about space. I don't need cheese for my existential mousetraps.

62) faux-familiar ads and packaging for consumer products

63) unmade beds

64) saying really socially inappropriate things during dinner parties or staff meetings (e.g.) in a confrontational way and then just staring at everyone else in the room until they change the subject to amateur urban planning (e.g.)

64) excessive parental comments on facebook profiles

65) buy nothing day/church of stop shopping - self-righteous anti-consumerism

well, just my profile actually. don't mind it elsewhere

66) the letter e

walls, books etc.

67) verbification of nouns

20) leaving the toilet seat up

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21) not taking off your hat when a lady enters the room

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xpost Dude, functional shifts are normal and not more 2009 than previous years.

I know I shouldn't call you dude.

68) sadness

xp - you're right. i have this argument with myself all the time. but some of them just really rankle, like when there's a perfectly appropriate "real" verb that could be used instead.

69) FUCKING ELECTRONIC BILLBOARDS

^^ the insanely bright ones?

nah the electronic ones with like 100 programmed ads on them

I hate the bright ones. There's one on Colonial that probably causes wrecks.

Its flashing always makes me think there's an ambulance behind me after I pass it. Then I remember, Oh, just the electric sign.

^^ there's one as you go over the Bay Bridge from SF to Oakland that is bright enough that you don't need to have your headlights on to see. It exudes this blue glow for miles, it seems.

uh oh I'm having a fantasy is all like, I'm writing an oulipo book, my pals.

you guys sure do like to complain

There's another bright horrible sign on 880 North, around Hayward I think. It's pretty ridiculous.

I read half of a void and I didn't even realize it was "the book"

xxpost We're bonding.

i think a lot of what bugs me about the verbification of nouns is the corporate context of "productivity" - everything has to be turned into an "action" word. And it ties in with a sort of action-for-action's-sake type of mentality, where sometimes deliberation is the best course of, er, action.

oh, that bright sign is on 880 right as you hit San Leandro.

the only positive thing i have to say about that excrutiatingly bright sign, is once i was driving home from my parents' house and it was pouring rain and i could barely see with the wipers and defroster at full blast, and that sign enabled me to see the cars around me.

The anti-plaid thing is so tired. People have been wearing plaid for ages.

Then again I guess when the 90s revival fully hits there can be an anti-plaid revival also.

plaid is the new trucker hat*

*not really new

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Mmbdevilsnightout.jpg
can't wait til this is cool again

My mom bought me a plaid shirt a couple of weekends ago and I like it. It suits me.

I thought plaid was the old trucker hat.

Or has 1991 been collectively wiped from everyones memory?

plaid was more 1992/1993 where i was actually -

i still love it!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Uja7HbHJnMk/Sb8VwslJW7I/AAAAAAAAAGo/QCLQtU5RXjw/s320/neil+young.jpg

NEVER FORGET

never had a problem with it, really.

In most of the places I grew up, plaid if a timeless look so its really hard to see the "fad" aspect of it.

fuck
if = is

There's just a specific look that I'm ready for people to move on from, and it looks kinda like this:

http://images3.chictopia.com/photos/BrandyAlexander/4304980821/4304980821_400.jpg

but replace flip flops with black converse or topsiders or something

It's just time for change!

you guys all missed the *NOT ACTUALLY NEW* part of my post jesus

post-jesus