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The banner photograph shows the town of Britannia Beach, BC, Canada, where I grew up. It's home. But I don't live there anymore.
Don’t worry, Ian. You can turn your attention to blogs ranked numbers three and four, which feature act pictures and dog pictures, respectively, with cute sayings attributed to the animals. Puke.
Yeah, aren’t they awful? They’re so repetitive and predictable, too: seen one post, seen them all. I prefer opening up a blog not knowing what to expect.
But what do you think of that SWPL blog? I have a feeling that the reason I don’t find it funny is that I’m getting old. I don’t know, I just don’t see what’s funny about making generalisations that as far as I’m concerned, simply aren’t true. Look at the lastest post. Modern furniture? Don’t have a stick of it.
I took a quick look at SWPL – I guess I’m old too? I can’t take to the generalizing tone of it either. The success is most likely due to the principal that people want clear and simple (unambiguous) statements – it reads a bit like a primer.
The one successful blog that amazed me the most is Post Secret. Credit to the creator of it for a great idea, but I’m a little jealous – the blog basically runs itself. People send in stuff, and the blogger just picks out what to post. The rest of us have to sweat out our posts with hard work. You can’t argue with the content – it’s great. How many books of that blog have already been published?
One of the commenters said that the site was really about white liberal democrats rather than white people per se. So, being one of them myself, and finding everything SWPL says to be accurate for at least three of my friends, I say fair is fair in the name of satire.
In fact, this white, balding, fiftyish liberal democrat fag might hack the header off that site and claim it as his biography.
I’m looking at #58, Japan. Now, having lived in Japan, boy, do I make “leverage over other white people at Sushi restaurants where they can say “this place is pretty good, but living in Japan really spoiled me. I’ve had such a hard time finding a really authentic place.”
My kitchen is full of gadgets (#54), I always apologise (#55), I have an arts degree (#47), have lived in New York (#46), whence I transported my wine cellar full of Australian reds (#24).
I am so addicted to public radio (#44) that I have purchased not one, but two ofthose internet radio devices for home, both tuned to KQED, which covers (probably numbers #99 and #100) San Francisco and Marin County. Check my LibraryThing (probably number #102) to see that I own eveything David Sedaris (#25) has ever written, including the play he wrote with his sister.
And it should be clear to you by now that I hate my parents (#17).
Many of my blogposts specifically call out that I’m into irony (#50); in fact, one of my most frequent Google hits is the phrase “teaching irony”, which lands on the post of November 7 about being stopped by the police. Probably googled by other white people.
Around the office, my other expat colleague and I avoid making German jokes in a crummy Hogan’s Heroes Faux-deutsch accent, even though the opportunity presents itself pretty much hourly. That’s because we’re so fucking sensitive (#103). My German colleagues know the cruellest German jokes, anyway.
I think it’s a bit disingenuous for multiculturalists to claim all kinds of ethnic cultural differences, and then be offended when a character description solidifies into a stereotype.
Yours pallidly,
Headbang8
P.S. I don’t want to move to Canada, though. (#75)
headbang – but you see, only two of the examples you give apply to me: I have an Arts degree and read David Sedaris – though I find he’s more fun if you listen to him on CD. How many Asians, Africans, Hispanics, Jews, etc. also have Arts degrees? How many whites do not?
I agree the schtick they have is clever, and you really can’t argue against success, but on some level it’s cynical manipulation at its finest: Start with a premise about race, apply it to the majority demographic, stir in half-truths and over-generalisations nobody can ever confirm or deny, and voilà! All that and you don’t even need a kitchen gadget.
indie – I like PostSecret too, how the combination of words and pictures fit together to make poetry. I never thought of that part – how it basically runs itself. Isn’t working up a little sweat part of the fun?
I’m the only one in this world. Can please someone join me in this life? Or maybe death…
Geez, if you’re gonna write comment spam, you’d think slapping in a link back would be the way to go.