why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

yah was gonna say

a friend of mine in nyc is friends with a guy who sells his novels on the street. he used to be in advertising. or still is.

stop messing around and put it on the blanket already

the thing i might dislike most about this poster is the bolding

cool whiney jpg man... put yr wares on the blanket

oh he has a table

But aren't self-published ebooks the new novels on a blanket in the street?

https://www.facebook.com/RebekahTheArtist

it doesnt have to be a literal blanket or an actual novel but anyones whos posting these silly jpgs should stop fucking around and put their novel on the blanket

im starting an etsy competitor called the blanket, the hook is theres an actual blanket near a farmers market w/all the stuff on it

near a farmers market

A+

When you buy from MegaCorp, you're purchasing more than just life insurance. You're buying hundreds of hours of endless board meetings and administrative errors. You are buying days of multiple signature sign-offs, mind numbingly tedious health and safety audits. You are buying days, weeks, months of redundancy fears, family problems and very little joy. You aren't just buying a thing, you are buying a piece of people's livelihoods. More importantly, you are buying our workers more time to do something that they may not be passionate about, but are thankful for; something that makes all the fear and the doubt just about worth getting out of bed for every single mindnumbing day.

legit lol at Rebekah selling prints of that jpg

basically if you post any kind of jpeg with words on it on facebook i hate u

#1 on my FB feed this week:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m695jg98c01r1z1beo1_500.jpg

can we just turn this into a thread of those dumb things

If I didn't have other stuff to do and ILX to distract me, I would make a Tumblr page with a million fake Kurt Vonnegut quotes, like "Know what? Bitches get stuff done. - Kurt Vonnegut."

http://theinterrobang.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/tumblr_lw7hsmVh9U1r2qaswo1_500.jpg

Even the "good" ones, the ones on the side of the angels, are still kind of STOP WITH THE JPGS ALREADY, EVERYONE'S WACKY AUNT. Like the one about how the poor in America view themselves as temporarily inconvenienced millionaires.

my personal least favorite is the Ira Glass "you're creative and have good taste sorry you can't do exactly what you want with your life" quote

The ones that are thinly-disguised guerilla marketing campaigns for far-right parties are the ones that go from objectionable to downright FUCK YOU. Especially when you get 28 people liking and going "LOL, so true" etc...

was the first one "ask not what your country " etc?

my first thought was, whoever wrote that must be making some terrible art

then I googled rebekah joy plett and found out she should've wrote "you are buying hundreds of hours spent copying the work of mark ryden"

"real men head boop with kittens" number one on my facebook today.

LOL some people are so fucking deluded about the amount of narcissism and inflated sense of self worth that drives people to be "artists"

I don't have that many Facebook friends to begin with and 2/3 of them are hidden but occasionally one of those wacky e-postcards with the "vintage" clip art slip through the cracks and I get a little IA.

Hate when I add someone and I find out almost immediately that they are WACKY AUNT and I lose a little respect for them. :)

LOL some people are so fucking deluded about the amount of narcissism and inflated sense of self worth that drives people to be "artists"

― calum-y maybe (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:58 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's a strange business. They're all like that, it's just that a tiny minority of them are actually good enough to justify it. The whole system depends on this kind of narcissism. You can't really devote your life to making art if you don't have it.

I know! You need to study and earn that narcissm, they don't understAND!!

this is the one that drives me bananas
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-scBgMUAS7fw/TzIsXjx6KQI/AAAAAAAAAbQ/FwPLL8i2-Y0/s1600/ira-glass-quote.jpg

ambitions! work! creativity! YOUR TASTE IS KILLER!

iow:

"Settle"

i actually like that ira glass bit. maybe bc i'm one of those ppl who is always disappointed in their own creative work.

http://i.imgur.com/2HWxB.jpg

via my aforementioned aunt, didnt realize until just now how ubiquitous this shit had become

^^except that ira glass one is true xpost

Yes, but they had to 'design' the bookshelf instalation as well, didn't they?

btw ira glass yr show is good and all but not really on the level where you need to be handing out advice on creativity and taste

not to mention that it's clearly not enough bookshelves!

xp

http://i.imgur.com/qchoz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zI2Mv.jpg

aunt again

Wait, your aunt posts Tesla quotes? Does she have a twitter where I can follow her? That sounds like a straight-up awesome aunt.

OK, I *always* knew that one. (xpost)

ira glass advice is not bad imo but he's basically saying "practice makes perfect" in 200 words.

also what happened to just like, posting a quote in text

we should all start putting these quotes on FB except with lolcat images

if only he had worked on his meme a little bit more, maybe his execution could've matched his ambition

and yeah the worst thing about these are the wordiness, remember when quotes were pithy and succinct

http://i.imgur.com/fZ9Ka.jpg

2 teslas from 2 diff dudes, neither from my aunt to be clear

"never listen to your children cuz all they ever talk about is candy or magic the gathering" - scott seward

"do a lot of work" is always good advice, unless your work sucks. even then, as long as you don't show it to anyone, who cares?

http://i.imgur.com/CTAO0.jpg

my favorite dumb quote is "information wants to be free."

http://i.imgur.com/Iuope.jpg

guess who

So, you're into Primus and Tool now coz Billy has played with them and Alice In Chains because he covers their song.
That's nice.
😉
Yeah, I'm old. But I've seen all your favorite bands live and in their prime.
😃

https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/391602524_10161283552216093_97669433835605696_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s640x640&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=6BlnMOlDBFUAX-mZraI&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfCzTvOojdNjZ8WQUBS-TN3D1mQVfAUZXEwDkONMV6wjZg&oe=6534B669

Youtube is constantly trying to get me to watch Primus videos and I'm mildly offended by it, I shower at least once a day.

I'm really sick of seeing fake Spirit Halloween costumes representing various stereotypes. It stopped being amusing several years ago.

Saw a meme related to a book called Your Brain On Art, these are the top blurbs

https://i.imgur.com/R7mwGR3.png

"everything that annoys you is teaching you patience"
"everything that angers you is teaching you compassion"
...
"every artist thing you hate so much on facebook is teaching you to get off facebook"

https://i.ibb.co/SxRNtZD/FB-IMG-1700754948493.jpg

corner the market on being human

Spend all your time at movies and on planes

Wonder how ppl sharing that feel about immigration lol

take-home message, make sure you’re managed by profiteering assholes

A Pint of lager can be €2
in Bratislava. €5 in Liverpool.
€8 in London and €20 in
Norway. Same Lager. Only thing that
changed its value was the
place..So that's where we're
going for Deano's stag, Slovakia

Lol

@highlight

the price of anything is the amount of lifetime you spend wondering if the quote is fake or not

We do not talk enough about how the creator of bobs burgers has successfully switched the animated family dinamic from confrontational and toxic, to wholesome and loving. They successfully proved an animated show focused on a family doesn't have to exhibit some sort of abuse between eachother, in order to be entertaining or funny. The belchers represent the healthier and more idealistic depiction of a modern american family. They consistently touch on relatable and realistic problems from childhood life lessons to complicated adult conflicts all while not failing to maintain a consistent comedic relief. Bobs burgers is such a comforting show to watch if you grew up with any sort of childhood trauma or parental issues. It's also a great show to watch anyways because it's genuinely just such a fun, entertaining show. We need to praise bobs burgers more!

Not only is this not why I love Bob's Burgers, this feels like something one of my Deacons would have said I'm high school

Unconvinced that Bob's Burgers exists outside of 10-second clips and memes tbh.

Jesus is everything a thinkpiece now

Mommas of Daughters,

Remember… they called her a distraction.

Even when he took the field in a team sport.
Even when she sat on the sidelines.
Even when the cameras panned to her.
Even when she is successful in her own right as a solo artist.
Even when the franchise made money off of her.
Even when the male dominated industry used her presence to bring itself out of years of declining popularity.

She was the distraction. Remember?

When society decided it was totally acceptable to call women distractions, remind them that what society is really trying to say is that they are still afraid of women with power.

Mommas of Daughters, teach them to enter the room, the arena, any space with heads held high and a peace of mind that their distraction won’t warrant any type of reaction from her.

✍️: Backwards N High Heels

Like I like Taylor, think there was definitely misogyny present amongst male fans who complained about her presence or would call Kelce things like "cuck". I think their relationship is cute. I enjoyed watching her celebrate at games. People who are bothered by it can grow up.

But JFC, the NFL's income has increased every year except 2020, and this year's TV ratings during the regular season were the second highest in recorded history. So suggesting she singlehandedly saved football is hilarious.

https://i.ibb.co/MBzV8xQ/Screenshot-20240211-132236.jpg