And here’s even more needless, over-rated memery, because canines spouting ridiculous proverbs is at the heart of bad comedy. I saw Misogyny Dog on /b/weeks ago, and I guess it was just some spur-of-the-moment outburst someone was having to flush out all the women-hating sentiment that’s been building up in the world. Let’s be honest: plenty of people think of it but not just anyone has the sense to put a mean face and brightly-coloured background to it. I’m going to go out on a limb and say the person who created these was a desperate and troubled individual but that doesn’t mean we can’t all laugh at the effort. Enjoy the sexist, psychotic ravings of Misogyny Dog.
Yup, even more 4chan bandwagoning. I’ve passed by the Courage Wolf meme, yet another Advice Dog spin-off, many times and paid it no mind, but I recently came upon a cache of these images and they not only cracked me up until caffeinated energy drink shot from my nose, they actually made me feel better. Of course, some are just silly; that’s the point of any decent meme, really. But there were a couple that actually stood out to me as being cheesily brilliant and effective, rivaling the teaching’s of some of history’s greatest Stoics. And like any Internet douchebag needlessly inspired by Anonymous’s unintentionally constructive humour, I had to whip up just a few of my own, using recycled metal lyrics, and unoriginal tidbits of personal wisdom. And my balls. Oh yeah. Thanks, Courage Wolf!
So here’s a small sampling of both the inspiring and the cheesey — the first 9 were brought to you by Anonymous, the last 9 are my own attempts at capturing Courage Wolf’s amazing and perfect blend of rage and encouragement.
Well, I finally got off my broke ass and scooted over to the nearest IMAX theatre to catch the much-anticipated Star Trek reboot, and boy has my tolerance for film that doesn’t even try worn thin. I’m not going to snow anyone; I’m a Trekkie. Been since I was a kid. I was raised on the franchise by my nerd father, and properly instructed in the grand and secretive ways of Star Trek Nerd-dom. I’ve seen all the movies in the theatre save for the first ‘Motion Picture’ — I think; I was 4 at the time, maybe I just don’t remember — watched all the spin-off series and their accompanying films. Never attended any conventions, and I don’t currently own or collect any Trek paraphenalia, so maybe I’m a half-assed Trekkie but I keep up on the history and the mythology — unlike the new Star Trek film, which like every other TV-franchise-to-film reboot to come out in recent years seems to begin with the idea that, Hey, it sucked the first time around, we can do it better now. No, no you can’t. Turning something into an action-soaked milquetoast blockbuster with $50M worth of special effects and CGI and $20M worth of headline talent does not make it better. George Lucas proved this when his most hardcore fans put a fatwa out on him for turning an adult space opera into a Disney-esque fantasy romp.
The Onion indirectly did the Trek franchise justice with this mock entertainment review of the new film:
Sorry, but I’m totally in on this craze, and I could not resist. Everytime I see that damn dog battling the sprinkler, I cackle madly and come close to soiling myself. I was also surprised in a moment of crazed inspiration that no one had done this yet — at least not that I had seen. So here is my custom WHARRGARBL!
So, I’ve been inhabiting /b/ on 4chan a bit lately because it’s undeniably a source of some of the ‘Net’s greatest memes (Caturday, anyone?), and occasionally if you linger long enough you’ll be exposed, amongst many of the horrors of the /b/tards, to some real nuggets of comedy. Well, something to crop up that I only noticed recently, started there or on SomethingAwful, another meme-whoring message board, was this Zalgo — also Z҉A҉L҉G҉O̚̕̚, The Nezperdian Hive-Mind of Chaos, He Who Waits Behind The Wall, The Singer Of The Song That Will End The World, etc. — an edit being applied to various comic strips and images in the vein of Lovecraftian horror, only funny. And interesting. So I tried to save as many of the images as possible for posterity because they cracked me up like a drunken schoolgirl. Enjoy Zalgo, for He Comes…
