It's where we learn how the young folk converse.
A nice man wrote a story about me for a magazine and yesterday he sent it to me to have a look at. I promised him I wouldn't ask to change a thing, though I did have to remind him that Bob Ellis was a dog and not a cat.
This paragraph is my favourite:
'Her blog about her mother’s choralling was headed
“My mother, the OG”. Turns out that this denotes Original
Gangster, a hip-hop expression she picked up in her new role as part of the breakfast team on the ABC radio’s national youth network Triple J. That is the job that took this thoroughly Melbourne girl to Sydney late last year. And that is where her van disappeared.'
That's what I do on triple J, you see. I pick up hip-hop expressions. Hip-hop expressions and g-unit bling.
It's like working in Compton, but without the drive by shootings and stuff. I'm audi, yo.
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Some festive youngsters stole it.
Stalking.
As the late Steve Irwin might have said, rest his soul, "Crikey!"
Bugger the hip-hop expressions; what about picking up handsome young rock gods with devastating smiles and bedroom eyes; snake-hipped indie lotharios and devilishly sexy touring musos? If you're not going to pick them up, could you at least please pass them on to someone who'll put them to, ahem, good use?
Oh alright, Richard. If you insist.
What kind of school magazine would possibly feel the need to explain “hip-hop expression[s]” to the yoof? Old skool?
I thought kids picked up this sort of thing organically through cultural imperialism. Like one day they’re Aussie as Paul Hogan’s bald spot and the next they’re all, “Yo dawg, I’m wizzle to the dizzledizzle.”*
* As taught to me by Grand Theft Auto
...I am lead to believe. Kids today.
But I'm probably wrong. And woefully guilty of drawing long but simplistic bows.
You so be dissin' the great Australian hip hop nation and all who rhyme within it.
Are Australian bands influenced by the likes of The Ramones, Stooges, Mudhoney, Pixies etc. the victims of "cultural imperialism" too?
Dude, you sound like my mother. You don't know what time it is. But hey, word to yo mother besides. Go listen to Hilltops post-haste.
It's SO on now.
Fo shiz.
Well, she certainly is that. I don't think its much of a compliment. Melbourne girls of MH's ilk are not very nice people. They are snooty and snobbish, full of themselves and seem chronically immature.
They float through life on a wave of superficiality and self importance that only comes crashing to earth when their physical charm fades and they find themselves consigned to the remainder bin.
Then the whining, bleating articles and opinion pieces about the general shittiness of it all start to flow.
Its pathetic really. If you're ever in Melbourne, pop into the bars and cafe's of the inner suburbs and have a look at them. Yuk.
ps you are da bomb and phat and all that
Is it just me or does the phrase "turns out" in the article seem to suggest the writer is under the impression there were great battalions of readers frantically wondering what OG meant?
/just saying...
"I thought kids picked up this sort of thing organically through cultural imperialism."
Yes, this is because young people are the pliant dupes of bourgeois cultural hegemony and utterly without authentic opinions or independent intellects.
Youth sub-cultures have no meaning beyond being the mere blathering of trained parrots mouthing things at the expressed will of The Man.
Only a mindless idiot would claim that Sydney's bars and cafes are better so you must be from Adelaide. It's alright, we understand. Keep taking the pills.
Bysee
It's nicer for them to get a bit of a surprise
Well duh! writer? blog? only child? SO?
*rolls eyes*
*exits humming skyhooks*
Is 'inni' the opposite of 'audi'?
No, inni is the opposite of inni, as with all palindromes.
Some chav threatened to murk me for my duckets on a dark street a few moons past. I thought he may have been a street walker so I refused his offer. Lucky.
Is one likely to be shivved by a chav?" This is priceless! The National Library needs to be informed of this blog ASAP so it can be archived for future generations to goggle at what a cutting edge bunch we all were...
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMM!
while simultaneously holding the thought B) this blog exists for my personal entertainment and it is my prerogative to demand higher standards of it.
I'll take that as "Not in those shoes, Buddy".
Q: Why does Snoop Dogg carry an umbrella?
A: Fo' Drizzle
/get's his coat
Hmm, this smacks of someone who has developed a crush on a certain blogette, been swiftly rebuffed and is now lashing out under the cunning pseudonym "anonymous"... But I sense he still holds a candle for his one truly, thoroughly Melbourne girl and thinks by including the covert nod to one's "physical charm" that he may still have just the faintest chance of becoming her thoroughly Melbourne boy.
Or is that just me? (Wow... I just had a Jimeoin flashback to the days when he was funny).
make us laugh. You can do it. Until then there's some goats crossing your bridge.
Apologies to more veteran blog posters who may have had to discuss/answer this question before.
Have you noticed May's calendar ... um ... bitch? Yo
It is an incredibly personally vicious, critical and petty organisational culture. The main reason put forward for it being this way is that a highly critical environment will produce the best, most rigorous work...not a particularly impressive rationale to my mind. The problems this culture produces is compounded by the fact that academics can't help but be emotionally connected to their work on quite a personal level, cos, like, it really is their work, coming out of their own brain.
Did not mean to make it sound like i was exclusively pointing the finger at young people with my question, just throwing it out there as one explanation amongst many.
But yeah, they are funny. They amuse me, anyway.
Meanwhile the more discerning reader who rarely posts is driven closer and closer to distraction and "audi time" for any given blog. Occasionally these readers will lash out violently, anonymously and often justifiably at the oh so friendly cretin. I don't begrudge these people their rants, particularly if they are creative about it.
Seems to me that irl people who are overly social and gushy are often cretins. And also that the bulk of people, perhaps including me, should appreciate blogs by reading them because they can't write fo shizz! (Lame nod to topic..)
As others have mentioned, just ride with it...
Fair nuff
Nuff said...perhaps?
I want to know (a) what the wallpapering lass just saw, or heard, or felt, that resulted in the particular expression she has painted on her face; and (b) her phone number."
That is Ms Fit's old housemate from her Fitzroy, Melbourne days and with her is Ms Fit's dog, Bob Ellis.
She is repapering the hallway in their terrace house and is doing so naked on account of the extreme summer heat.
The photo on which the picture is based was taken approximately thirty seconds after Ms Fits entered the lavatory on that hot, foetid Sunday morning.
I don't know her phone number or from where you would get it.
"I ... have a number of friends who are academics."
That would make a funny t-shirt message or bumper sticker
"88% Nice but boring, 12% Mambo"
You fight hard when times are tough.
Yeah, and did he give you some lollies and offer to show you his pet snake? Bet he wanted to weld you up inside an old Kombi that he's got stashed in an abandoned farm building and feed you cold porridge through a slot cut in the roof . You should've taken him up on it.
"I have been told that academics are vicious as a matter of course due to the stakes in the Ivory Tower residential market being so small."
Henry Kissinger said...
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
/end rant
To those that say a balance is necessary for all the “nice”, the truly creative can criticise without bile and still exercise wit. It’s just too bloody easy to be mean.
The internet ultimately provides an outlet of expression and validation not otherwise available to them, as do strong reactions elicited by their comments offset the painful interpersonal indifference that defines their lives outside of cyberspace.
Keep in mind I am currently studying arts at one of the lesser institutions and am finding it mind-numbing.
What do you call a group of bitter and talentless cynics?
A university!
What do you get when you put a bunch of academics in a room?
Nothing.
Nothing at all!
What's the difference between a failed artist and an academic?
There is none!
Teh lolzer-pantz!
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
That aside, I really like the way this was all heading towards the fateful disappearance of the van.
Though I have always liked the 80's definition and use of 'troll' as a mischievous being. Heh, heh value there must be.
In defence of academics, I would like to say the majority I have met actually made me think. Negatively sometimes I agree. But never complacently. And the best were those who realised their limitations and pointed me to the references and the library. Bliss.
You're making me cry with joy - thought I was the only one, and since a tender age... sigh...
yes (.)(.) being surrounded by all those ideas and their expression in a library is just the most sensous experience. And there is this whole community of library lurkers out there!
We are one.
"Dr Anonymous said...
The psychology behind internet trolling is just beginning to emerge through targeted empirical research."
Well it sure does look like all those folks who've hung shit on our academic friends today were onto the sad truth of it.
God bless the trolls for making this site such a fun place to come and hang at! Otherwise it'd just be your politically correct wowsers in their hemp undies, all severe and earnest, stinking up the joint with their in-jokes and Fits-grovelling and general nerdyness.
If we had a social or political left in this country these bed wetting toe-rags would be what's wrong with it.
Well fuck you, says I, to thee. Arrrrrh. Lets have some good old Aussie snark with swearing and incest jokes.
we stole the van
we admit it freely
now please just stop all this shit
we give up
take us away officer
you should get out and have fun
why not steal a van
really
Oh, btw,
Dats da shizzle, it no fizzle
http://photos.timchuma.com/CircusPieClassic2008/
Thank you.
That patronising enough for y'all.
/Dad?
"Wry said...
My goodness Ms Fits, I see your new found popularity has brought many new fans to your fold. In no time whatsoever your sure to have your very own stalker, you lucky thing!!!"
Not if the ratings keep tanking like they are though! (in my day we called it 'bending', for going around the S-bend. Of the toilet.)
3.3 to 2.8 for jjj breakfast, such a pity dear. Never mind, I'm sure your people have negotiated a nice golden parachute for you in the event the unthinkable occurs and you have to come back to Melbourne, where you'll be welcomed with open arms, I'm sure.
Keep on truckin', as we used to say!
How it must pain you to know that those with actual lives that lead them through each day do not worry for the likes of you. Believe it.
Geeze where's a thought policeman when you need one? Some of us are also latent hetrosexuals. *scratches nose, ear, chin, neck, elbow...*
Bleh.
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