Do Parker and Stone Read This Blog?

If Parker and Stone are fans of this blog (please may that be so), they took my post back in May regarding the Indy IV pic, and made its primary metaphor much more literal than I ever intended.

Good going fellas, that was sickeningly funny.

The Dangers of Parody in a Post Modern World (Baudrillard Edition)

Althouse trys out the new Cuil search engine by doing some ego-searching.

I tried, too, but being anonymous, and not particularly well linked, means my results were meager.

Tried the same trick on google, and at least this page was the first hit (just googling "XWL" doesn't work, since there are many "xwl"s and most of them aren't me, so I googled "xwl immodest" instead to narrow the field).

In the results I was confronted with something very disturbing.

I got published!

In the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, no less (vol 4, number 3, OCT 07, contents and other links, here)

Seriously, dudes, I was funning there. I was pissing on his grave.

Looking in the context with which my excerpt was presented, clearly, they aren't "in" on the joke of what I was trying to do there.

Damn you, postmodernism, damn you to hell!!!

Satire and parody aren't possible anymore.

Here's what they quoted:

• The original Baudrillard has ceased.
• The counterfeit Baudrillards continue to represent 'Baudrillard-ness' for most 'consumers' of his philosophical production.
• From a few counterfeits they have reproduced themselves exponentially at campuses across the globe.
• The simulated Baudrillards "or third order simulcra" are now the only Baudrillards that anyone knows, the copies of Baudrillard are now and forever more, more real than the 'real' Baudrillard ever was or ever could have been.

Here's what they left out:

The post's title, "He Was Brain Dead Long Ago, His Body Finally Caught Up . . ."

Cleverly, they linked the archive for the month, rather than the actual post, I guess expecting nobody would bother scrolling all the way near the bottom to see the actual context of the original post.

I guess in a Journal celebrating a "Dead Wanker", you'd expect the editors to behave like Wankers themselves.

And This is the Part They're Outraged About?

In a South Park episode with Satan acting like a girl planning her Super Sweet 16 party, you have Biggie Smalls in hell (but no Tupac), Gandhi in hell, Princess Diana in hell, George Burns in hell, Dahmer, Gacy, and Bundy as a slightly (and I emphasize slightly) more murderous and violent Three Stooges (with Columbia title cards and theme tune even) and to top it all off, what appears to be the entire Roman Catholic hiearchy of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles (including a recognizable Cardinal Mahoney) acting like a jealous group of school girls, and oh, by the way many of the priests have naked prepubescent boys on leashes.

None of the above is considered beyond the pale. All of that is fair game, but they made fun of Steve Irwin!!!

Now that's a cause for outrage!!!!!!!

First they take away Vegemite from Australian ex-pats in the United States(turns out nothing to see here folks, the original poorly sourced and mostly anecdotal story that ignited a thousand anti-American message boards, was basically totally made up) and now this.

This could shake the very foundation of our grand global Anglophonic Alliance.

Noticeably lacking from all the proceedings in this episode that piled outrage upon outrage, a single person recognizable as a Muslim.

In some ways the fact that they can continue to attack the Roman Catholic church and seem resigned to ignoring Islam speaks volumes about many, many different things.

The episode is hilarious by the way. Best. Episode. Ever. Almost.

Bull Scrotum Bikini

Listen to this podcast, or else.

Seriously.

It's funny.

MOXIE ROCKS!

(the podcast is from her couch-crashing liberal "friend" Butterfly)

Pissing Off One Quarter of Americans

Tonight's South Park is going to seriously piss off all the Loose Change nuts.

Watch it for yourself, to explain it would be to spoil it.

It's a good one, though.

It's a shame that there is a need for the book below to even exist.

But as is said in tonight's South Park, one out of four people are like totally retarded.