keep calm and chive on?

this is happening in Seattle this weekend (they got Girl Talk and Washed Out!) but I've seen almost no acknowledgement in any local media. If I hadn't seen maura's tweet I'd never have known about it. (To be fair everyone's busy covering the newly opened weed stores.)

i'd have to say, i'd probably draw the fucking line at playing at Chive Fest. These bands can't possibly be that hard-up, can they?

Not like I'm surprised to see Girl Talk on there tho

brohemia

Not like I'm surprised to see Girl Talk on there tho

Nobody who's ever been to a Girl Talk show could possibly be surprised by this.

are you fucking kidding me

did the writer go to an ivy or smth

actually u chicago per the author bio

yeah, saw that later. maybe there is secret ivy envy

it is basically an honorary ivy iirc

it is certainly more "ivy" than all but approx. 2 of the actual ivies

but less "chivy" than any of them in my assessment

after careful consideration I would say penn noses out dartmouth as the most chivy ivy

kudos for "chivy ivy"

chive has 1,031,480 likes on facebook and none of them are my friends.

Two of mine like it :(((((((((((((

same here :/

1 of 1,031,585 - a cokehead bartender I haven't seen in 10 years

only one of mine! not totally surprised at who it is.

only one of my friends too. disappointed by who it is, actually.

my godchild, my cousin, a publisher i don't know so well and a deceased music critic who was a really nice guy and a really good writer.
i don't like this game.

i feel like if ilx had a facebook page nobody would "like" it even though people who get into this online community get in deep and rarely escape

should i tell him?

intervene with your godchild. He has lost the faith.

??

i checked and just one, phew. a friend's husband who has always been nice to me and probably has somewhat bad taste in entertainment. good guy.

He has lost the faith.

it's a she. :/

lil' chivette

man that article is depressing. and the author twitter linked at the end of the article seems to have been deleted in the 3 days since it was published?

oh no i guess the @ was just changed

This site seems dumb but I don't get what's so bad about it that people are surprised that bands are taking their money. It's not like they're worse than Budweiser or Toyota or whoever. #trenchantsocialcommentary

None of my friends like Chive! I win the thread.

I'm not on facebook #yougotfaced

yeah if the site is as big as that article says, those bands are probably getting offers that're too good to turn down

possibly enough to buy a boat (I can think of 6 reasons to have one)

Cognitive dissonance: I simultaneously really like Surfer Blood and concede they're kind of a perfect band for this gig

What fresh fucking hell is this

otm

I think I've only ever really looked at the food pages and not seen what the wider context on that site was. Do keep coming across pics of scantily clad babes on there, but not thought about what such a thing as a Chive lifestyle might be. To me up until reading that the founding brothers were talking about a recognised lifestyle it might have just meant people being creative with food.
So hate to think what it does actually mean. Swaggering with realistic cake effigies of bling lifestyle?

Just realized their "Funny" category has a subcategory just called "Foreigners". Yup.

about the time of chive fest chicago I saw a group of brosephy dudes in a suspension and body-lifted diesel dodge ram pickup with a keep calm and chive flag on a pole mounted in the bed make an illegal turn-around in a bus terminal and fuck up traffic at an intersection near my house, then roar off up the street at high speed

that pretty much told me everything I needed to know

Do keep coming across pics of scantily clad babes on there, but not thought about what such a thing as a Chive lifestyle might be.

i think it's mostly that?

I don't think the Ivy disdain is made-up—especially if you bring in, say, the top 25-40 schools in that US News list underneath the "Ivy" umbrella. There's a strain of anti-elitism throughout the Chive piece that seems very in tune with the way people who were involved in frats and sororities in school bristle at the way "Greek life" is spoken of in popular culture—why are these nerds trying to impinge on our fun, we work hard and deserve to play hard even though we might not have fancy credentials, etc. (It's not entirely unwarranted, either—just look at how many new hires at the Times are from Harvard or Yale or etc.)

The Chive is the Junior League of the Buffett/Chesney "It's All Good" ideal in a lot of ways; thanks to its younger skew and insular online-community nature there's even more open ogling of things like thigh gaps (lol).

Damn, used to enjoy looking at the food stuff. Almost wish I hadn't heard about the rest of the package.

The majority of people in middle America, even those with college degrees, don't really consider Ivy League schools as much more than a kind of elitist curiosity in my experience.
I have no idea what fraternities are like at ivies, or how they differ from those at state universities, but the implication is that fratty dudes don't exist at ivies and that "college dudes" are some lesser class.

Tbh well into my 20s I wasn't even sure if Harvard and Yale were in the American or the UK.

LOL @ white denim

I've witnessed about 30-50 people at a Princeton reunion crowded in a circle around a shirtless man who was chugging dangerous amounts of beer for their entertainment. Got a very "Decline of Rome" vibe from this spectacle.

Makes sense that Bill Murray is their icon. Boobs from the heyday, absurd without being activist, life loving, etc.

I was stumbling in my comparison there, but I think the point is that there's definitely an undercurrent of anti-elitism and a shared mentality among chive fans, but "non-ivy colleges" as a line seems to say more about the writer than the chivers.

it kinda makes me feel bad for Murray. he made frigging Meatballs so it's not like none of his work projects this vibe, but still anyone becoming the unwitting mascot of someone else's media empire is some bullshit xp

I think it's a caricature fueled by him being a goofball in real life -- crashing parties, photobombing, being in serious work yet being a comedian. There's also an elder statesman type of thing going on where a younger role model wouldn't fit the bill. Uh, pun unintended.

It's kind of funny that there are scenes of Joel Murray blasting away near-chive types in that God Bless America movie from a couple years back.

unimpeachable source Yahoo Answers says that Chive have his blessing:

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140329075507AAyZNiV

lol, the television version of muzak

Can’t remember the last time I saw a Jeep Wrangler with a Chive Bill Murray sticker, surprised they still have a TV presence.

CHIVE TV is the first ever TV channel built specifically for businesses. It is now FREE and can only be found on Atmosphere.

hmmm

Hence why so many cheap bars like in the back of bowling alleys that have no need to have television programming run it the most

The Chive feels like it was 100 years ago

In an alternate universe, Gavin McInnes would have become a harmless Chive.

I forgot this existed

I guess this is Barstool now? Or is that different?

barstool is much more explicitly right-wing I believe

That Cocaine Bear movie feels very chive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0smlX2l9Fk