Arquivo de dezembro de 2005
90 Razões para Odiar os Anos 90
16 de dezembro de 2005Nem todas são lá tão engraçadas, mas eu chorei rindo com algumas, como as abaixo:
37. lower case spelling
The Sham:When the internet bubbled up, e.e. cummings made a comeback with a lower-case “c.” While he’d been stuck in a rut for decades as a poetry idol for teens experimenting with free verse, suddenly writing without caps became all the rage, appearing to be as “spontaneous” as ever. Everyone from new economy companies trying to prove that they were completely different than old economy companies to stodgy intellectuals who wanted to prove a point about the casual, breathless nature of email correspondence agreed that there was no room for Capitalization in the 90s.
51: Nerd Chic
The Sham:For decades, nerds paid dearly for being nerds. And then one day, in the 1990s, nerds became cool. Not real nerds, of course - they’re always fucked. But the most cutting-edge, advanced, socially-successful, guaranteed-to-succeed, trendsetting-without-effort types made a point to develop a nerdish or loser narrative about themselves, since being cool was no longer cool. Even successful jocks and writers we know faked that they were losers - in order to become more successful. And it worked. Our only question: why didn’t the real nerds just kill the fuckers.
59. Goys quoting Seinfeld
The Sham: New Yorkers loved Seinfeld because they liked to think it was about themselves. But what was Middle America’s excuse? The 90s had the entire country spouting “Yadda-yadda-yadda” and other Jewisms that Jews didn’t even really use. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Sim. Esse site está hospedado na Rússia. Sim. Have fun. E a parte 2 está aqui.
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Cosmos
14 de dezembro de 2005Está um primor a coluna do dia 10 do Pedro Dória na No Mínimo sobre a série Cosmos. Se algum dos jovens leitores deste diário nunca viu, ela está de volta, agora nas bancas, em DVD, por 29 pilas. E é verdade:
“… Porque ‘Cosmos’ é talvez a melhor coisa jamais produzida para a televisão…”
“…Nenhuma criança ou adulto sai de ‘Cosmos’ sem entender os mecanismos da Evolução Natural, a Relatividade Geral de Einstein ou o milagre do surgimento da vida. Um espectador que enfrente a série desarmado entende por que astrologia não faz qualquer sentido, por que é quase certo que existe vida fora da Terra e por que ninguém, de verdade, teve qualquer contato com os ETs…”
Pronto, mais uma série interminável pra ver com o Magro em janeiro. Ó dia, ó vida.
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