kontextmaschine

manfrommars2049:

Meditation, 0010, digital, 2022 via Art

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

I wonder exactly which day it was that the amount of time Comedy Central had spent broadcasting The Daily Show finally caught up to the amount of time they had spent broadcasting PCU

This was supposed to be a culture war joke, in fairness on further reflection I was like “yeah but maybe put all the hours of South Park, Tosh.0, and The Man Show on the PCU side too.” Maybe the Kilborn years, even.

Okay, for the benefit of all the followers I’m getting with absurd ages in their profiles, let me explain this one.

When Comedy Central started in the ‘90s, they didn’t have much original programming, and what they did was mostly one-off (but frequently rerun) specials - filmed standup sets, basically.

So what they ran was mostly secondhand content they’d picked up rights to, and what was most common were these two movies, I swear to god I’d seen them run back to back and then over again, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen the same one run twice in a row. One was Throw Momma From The Train, a Danny DeVito comedic riff on Strangers On A Train.

The other was PCU, a campus comedy in the Animal House vein starring a visibly balding Jeremy Piven. It was a lovable frat fighting the dean and his Young Republican lackeys, but (because “boat shoe and dinner jacket-wearing WASPs” were overdone and increasingly anachronistic as villains by then) there was a third faction that took the brunt of the mockery: earnest, censorious social issue activists. Thus the title. The climax involved the activists protesting the big frat party (tagline: “Everyone Gets Laid”), but then realizing “holy shit, we’re against drinking, sex, parties, freedom, and fun, we’re the bad guys” and giving up and chilling out and hooking up with the frat members.

Because obviously you were supposed to see that as the only acceptable position for anyone with any pretensions to being cool and with it. Like I said, ‘60s-derived social liberalism used to offer something for everyone.

And it’s not like oooo, this was acceptable once upon a time, it’s that when I was growing up, this was the official line of media social liberalism. Who was that anon asking about the '90s? In the '90s, liberal Hollywood was putting out “message movies” the messages of which were America Is Finally Free, Thanks To Brave Heroes Like Larry Flynt Depicting Women As Violently Degraded Sex Objects, And Thank God For His Heirs Like Howard Stern, Still Fighting The Good Fight.

If you don’t know who Howard Stern is, he was the foremost crude “Morning Zoo” radio DJ in the country.

Like, in the '90s, white, blue collar (or “dudebro”) tits-n-beer vulgarity was plausibly coded left/liberal/Democratic. And that’s a little disorienting to remember.

I mean hell, Benny Hill was aired in part by an official arm of the most socialist Anglosphere government ever. Benny Hill.

If you’ve never seen Benny Hill, it’s from the British “light entertainment” tradition, a little variety but kind of sketch comedy, only a lot of the “comedy” was basically dirty old man leering. Sketch leering. Episodes famously ended with sped up comedic chase scenes where Benny would try to catch and grope some pretty young girls, then turn and run away as they tried to catch and punish him.

Now by the '90s that was already a bit off, but still, it ran in reruns on Comedy Central. It ran on fucking PBS.

If you ever wonder why intelligent educated sensitive me is wary of if not actively hostile to so much of what passes for modern cultural liberalism, it’s because it pattern-matches so closely not only to the apocalypse visions conservatives were warning of when I was growing up, but to the liberals’ versions as well.

kontextmaschine:

Huh, I wonder if the raised testosterone levels I’ve been noticing in a muscle-building context also explain why my erections have been bigger, thicker, and harder since the personality change

I had mostly been attributing it to the bisexuality, that now that I’m into male sexuality, “having an erection” was itself a turn-on.

Huh, I wonder if the raised testosterone levels I’ve been noticing in a muscle-building context also explain why my erections have been bigger, thicker, and harder since the personality change

kontextmaschine:

I still remember Gamergate as when online media first started wandering away from serving its audience to indulging its sense of snobby, moralized superiority and when called on it tried to rally everyone against the audience

Consider that your (and others who came of age in this last cultural phase) sense of “reactionary” might be keying off any resistance to a marked leftward lurch in culture

Been taking Darwin to the landscaping yard – which is really a Lumber And River Navigation Industries (they dredge gravel from where it builds up into bars) Monetize Their Waste yard – to get cedar chips to renew the side yard path, which makes me part of that small slice of pickup owners who actually use the bed to haul stuff

I still remember Gamergate as when online media first started wandering away from serving its audience to indulging its sense of snobby, moralized superiority and when called on it tried to rally everyone against the audience

Foster Road

Portland, OR

Was in the Apple Store waiting for a repair to see the Apple+ ad incl. Selena Gomez concert and no wow counter to those buccal fatphobes she is making the cheeks happen, looking like your junior year high school girlfriend still

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

At the bar where the younger generation is playing at being mine (they get it like 80% wrong, interestingly their take on “hipster” fashion is really at least 25% Seattle grunge, and that’s cause I’m crediting trucker hat stuff as hipster) and wow, there was a period, post the stuff I called “some college rock” where the edges of nü metal and emo bent towards each other, huh?

Which means yes, I am the old guy in the corner

Seeing how Brand New moves them is really something

kontextmaschine:

(the pillow is from when my dad’s firm took pictures for the website and he realized he could get a sample of it printed on a pillow just by asking for it)

kontextmaschine:

At the bar where the younger generation is playing at being mine (they get it like 80% wrong, interestingly their take on “hipster” fashion is really at least 25% Seattle grunge, and that’s cause I’m crediting trucker hat stuff as hipster) and wow, there was a period, post the stuff I called “some college rock” where the edges of nü metal and emo bent towards each other, huh?

Which means yes, I am the old guy in the corner

At the bar where the younger generation is playing at being mine (they get it like 80% wrong, interestingly their take on “hipster” fashion is really at least 25% Seattle grunge, and that’s cause I’m crediting trucker hat stuff as hipster) and wow, there was a period, post the stuff I called “some college rock” where the edges of nü metal and emo bent towards each other, huh?

The girl on this home-for-sale staging show on an off-brand might-just-be-on-whatever-package-bars-get channel is the most obviously autistic-so-no-actual-social-skills-but-has-decent-tits-so-fell-into-that-role-and-developed-some-experience I’ve ever seen

the-real-numbers-deactivated202:

the-real-numbers-deactivated202:

the-real-numbers-deactivated202:

the-real-numbers-deactivated202:

the-real-numbers-deactivated202:

WAIT

allsonargent:

“If God listened to a word ma said, I’d be living in a mansion with a handsome millionaire and gorgeous kids. She forgot to say married?”

Fran Drescher as Fran Fine in THE NANNY (1993-1999)

evilwizard:

the274:

thyrell:

big-blog-of-cheese-day:

sirkayleeofcamelot:

*becomes a knight strictly because the local bard is cute, and I want him to write songs about me*

*becomes a bard strictly because the local knight is cute and I want to write songs about him*

*becomes the village idiot because of a chemical deposit in the well behind my house*

*becomes the evil wizard because the local strong knight is cute and I want to get beaten by them.*

*dumps my evil chemicals in the well behind some random dude’s house*

So my belly is now completely uncreased, the next thing to go is any lower overhang, and my chest is definitively more pecs than man-tits

blackpyrefly:

browsing anime pornography silently and without emotion and shaking my head solemnly when i see bad anatomy