Keep (X) Weird

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pzKVH4KGXTc/RtMJUJI2d4I/AAAAAAAAAA0/NYJrUJD9_tY/s400/DSC_0039,+Keep+Austin+Weird.jpg

http://churchrestored.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Keep-Portland-Weird-banner.jpg

http://www.bouldersbestorganics.com/images/only_in_boulder/keep_boulder_weird.jpg

http://www.millionface.com/l/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/keep_louisville_weird.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/16/20912387_37255ca22c_o.jpg

http://media3.teenormous.com/items/www.gumptees.com/images-products-movies-00013CU-20popup.jpg

http://gearx.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/300x300/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/k/v/kvtw_bumpers_green.png

http://squirrelthoughts.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/keep-missoula-weird1.jpg

http://images6.cpcache.com/product/18668196v2_480x480_Front_Color-White.jpg

http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/files/santacruz/files/bumper.JPG?0

This is not Austin's finest achievement

^^^

h8 this

man supporting local businesses is so weird

I don't understand what's weird about running local businesses.

keep (college town) weird

pro tip: if you need to be reminded to keep (X) weird then (X) is already no longer weird #keepjaneaustenweird

keep rhode island normal

keep Innsmouth squamous

let x = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_number

I saw one this week that said Keep Houston Ugly. That shouldn't be hard.

http://www.slackerwood.com/files/images/user-2/dobie_marquee_lastday1.jpg

And Houston's slogan is "It's Worth It."

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQiWRhYQ8mEa307-zM3gTClaP62TAOo7wW3LD3eheCTXqrceebo8Q

keep away from me weirdos

I think the "Don't Move Here" thing also started in Austin?

But yeah I lived in Austin in the late 90s and the evidence would seem to support the theory that once you start seeing this type of thing, it is too late.

too late for what, things to be like they were

I'm surprised there isn't a bigger "keep ________ normal" backlash campaign bent upon keeping gays/artists/funky minorities out of our communities. I 'm not encouraging this, but y'know, I'm surprised it's not really a thing.

Austin's message of support for local businesses has inspired similar movements in other cities, including Denton, Texas; Santa Cruz, California; Portland, Oregon;[8] Tampa, Florida; Raleigh, North Carolina; Decatur, Georgia; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Louisville, Kentucky; Fayetteville, Arkansas; Indianapolis, Indiana; Mobile, Alabama; Missoula, Montana; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Arlington County, Virginia;[9] and Boulder, Colorado.

keep austin stupid

were i a small business in one of these mid sized communities where paranoid cloistered npr listeners gather i wouldnt indulge in this tedious support local pandering - id be all here i have the best bread eat this bread forget that other bread

wait, i thought that you WERE a small business in one of those mid-sized communities...

man, ILX has really changed. fucking nrmls clogging up the boards

keep ilx zingy

i seriously thought "ice cr?m" was a boomerang/kite boutique in decatur. now i feel like a dope

i have the best boomerangs/kites eat this boomerangs/kites forget that other boomerangs/kites

i heard the new owners are removing the pickle bar from the noize board and replacing it with a jellybean station, whatever the hell that is

more corporate bullshit *sigh*

http://www.worldphoto360.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/malcolm-x.jpg

we did it first fuck all of you

ps i have the exact op stick on my laptop

except i cut off the waterloo records part cause fuck waterloo records

not weird enough

god npr listeners are so fucking tedious with their classist avoidance of stores owned by poor franchisees how dare they not choke down starbucks jizz like all of america's finest small towns do

yeah totally i only fuck with weird coffee shops that are so weird you know

think yr being a bit harsh on weird

rolling my fucking eyes @ end of an ear, go be a fucking fye already christ

no wai i love weird book stores movie theaters and dry cleaners

WHY WON'T VULCAN VIDEO TAKE MY BLOCKBUSTER CARD YOU FUCKING HEATHENS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkLrmEHIkOA

like anything else would have sounded lecturing/negative/scary/tiresome, 'keep austin from being another identikit corporate metropolis!!!'

i especially love the weird fonts on all these funky bumper stickers!

when you roll your eyes at the eye rollers do you get like this nexus of eye-pulling force that sucks everyones eyes out of their skulls can we make that happen

its sad this place has changed so much, man when i first moved here it was much weirder *shakes head knowingly*

i'm trying to kinda pick out the layers here its like a dip up in this bitch we've got

--your latte sipping yuppie austinites who are rtde @ chain businesses
--your ice cr?m rhde @ the latte sipping yuppie austinites clinging to this notion of 'weird'
--your hoos rhde @ your ice cr?m & cohorts and presumably
--your ilx ride @ hoos

we need one more and we'll have five layers lets make this shit happen guys

--dads searching for Keep X Weird gear rtde because they can't find the Checkout button

in new york people openly pine for high crime eras, its pretty fucked up, but at least they dont mess w/bumper stickers

Have seen Keep Hackney Crap badges here

Suddenly rethinking my new "Keep New York City Weird" bumber sticker store business idea

I thought this was about weirdness, not local businesses.

still have a KEEP SAN ANTONIO LAME hat somewhere

the day (the live) music (capital of the world) died

rode my fixie to the roxy but it's the alamo now, etc.

still have a KEEP SAN ANTONIO LAME hat somewhere

― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, December 19, 2010 5:56 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

by thread logic, this means its too late san antonio is already not lame (not true)

keep (x) weird is annoying, but i'm completely ok with "buy local/independent," i do that as much as possible.

I see shirts around here that say "Keep Ventura Weird." It's about as weird as Hawaiian Shirt Friday.

HOOS breaking it down

Like yeah, the sentiment is corny as all fuck, but anything that gets people to support independent business should be "ok" even if not up to the aesthetic/non-corny standards of a board that thinks My Bloody Valentine is an amazing band

eh im skeptical of buy local being an effective message, it doesnt articulate what people can expect to get out the of the supporting yr lil business deal, keep weird is an attempt at that but its just v lame

ice cr?m is good at threads like this

ventura *is* weird, just not in this particular bumbersticker sense

I think "buy local" is getting some traction on the back of the "eat local" thing. "Local" is becoming one of those words that make people feel good. (Sure to lead to Walmart or somebody launching a campaign to explain how "local" they are.)

*bumper*sticker haha xp

"keep ventura a coastal religious los angeles exurb"

what is weird

http://thinkcooper.com/html/galleries/dewn_gallery/img_2666.jpg

http://www.slashgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/weird_eyes.jpg

we have this here:
http://www.defendoahucoalition.org/images/ktccbslg.jpg

http://britandgrit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/weird07.jpg

http://www.weirdthings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/weird-looking-girl-surely-this-is-not-real.jpg

then someone made theese:
http://www.standuppaddlesurf.net/gallery/keep_town_town/keep_town_town.jpg

http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/2/sandwich-phone.jpg

i have no particular love for giant heartless conglomerates but 'buy local' just sounds like 'eat yr vegetables' to me - its also seems like small business ceding ground to the big guys as far as the quality of product/experience - so you should just buy local cause its morally correct

keep I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX more or less the same as it is now, maybe with more posts but im not picky or anything

^^ print that shit on a bumped sticker

I googled my neighbor once (as you do) and she was part on a list of self-declared "locavores", she didn't eat anything that wasn't produced within 100 miles of Berkeley.

This was when I lived in Berkeley. Which is "weird".

keep http://i54.tinypic.com/11l4yvn.gif http://i54.tinypic.com/11l4yvn.gif

hahaha

its also seems like small business ceding ground to the big guys as far as the quality of product/experience - so you should just buy local cause its morally correct

Don't underestimate the marketing value of moral appeals. See the history of "organic," or "sustainable," or "fair trade," etc. It's an appeal small/local guys can make that the chain/corporate/online retailers can't. I mean, yr not gonna get people to "buy local" for toilet paper or dish soap, probably, because there's mostly no such thing as local toilet paper. But for things where people actually have a choice, I think it can be effective -- especially since there's the pre-existing narrative of "Walmart (or Big Chain X) is evil," which lots of people intuitively believe even if they shop there.

Funny how "Buy Local" and "DIY" appeals often go hand in hand, when the alternative to most DIY jobs is hiring a tradesman who is pretty much guaranteed to be local. Buy Local "even if it's more expensive" and DIY "because it's cheaper." That's keeping it weird.

organic is the only one of those that has had much success and its imo more abt personal health - sustainable and fair trade have gotten a lot of press but still seem v niche - i agree that theres an activist shopper segment to appeal to i just dont think its v big - not nearly as large as the cohort that appreciates something really good - of course then you have to make something really good - which is like not easy

Funny how "Buy Local" and "DIY" appeals often go hand in hand, when the alternative to most DIY jobs is hiring a tradesman who is pretty much guaranteed to be local. Buy Local "even if it's more expensive" and DIY "because it's cheaper." That's keeping it weird.

― Kerm, Monday, December 20, 2010 12:12 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

idg whats "funny" about this

oops, racist?

I think quality is sort of inherently implied in the "local" idea -- that local independent stores are more likely to sell you good or interesting stuff than Chain Store XYZ. Which may or may not be true, but I think it's part of the package. I mean, why else would you shop at a local store? If they were just carrying the same stuff as Target but charging 10 or 20 percent more, what would be the point? (The "interesting" part is what ties into the "weird" idea, obv -- that local retailing makes room for oddballs with eclectic tastes in a way that chain retailing doesn't. Which I think is pretty incontrovertibly true. That doesn't always make for good stores, and even when you do get good stores sometimes the people running them are terrible businesspeople and can't keep it going, but it definitely gives you more variety on the landscape.)

the point would be the money stays in the local economy fwiw

well tons of local store are going out of business which is what led to this 'keep weird' campaign - so i dont think there is a widespread belief that lil businesses are better - which goes back to my belief that this not a v effective campaign

asking people in engage in macro economic manipulation via shopping i think too is prob not going to go v far

Yeah the point would be that the profit margin stays with the local business owners and gets circulated back into the community instead of being siphoned off to Target and it's corporate operations/shareholders upstream.

If you can use products manufactured locally, that's great, but if some mom and pop shop just sells quirky/quality goods manufactured on the other side of the country, it's still just their margin that stays local.

decatur, georgia is pretty insufferable

really? it sounds ever so nice

american car companies have tried it, walmart has tried it. it may be stupid, but how many ad campaigns aren't?

though I didn't even know 'keep (x) weird' was a local business campaign tbh, which probably suggests that it's not very good at getting the message across

xxxp

well I just know it from this Outkast song, really

xp

american car companies have tried it, walmart has tried it. it may be stupid, but how many ad campaigns aren't?

― iatee, Monday, December 20, 2010 12:41 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

some are stupid, some are smart, some are weird

keep science weird

If you can use products manufactured locally, that's great, but if some mom and pop shop just sells quirky/quality goods manufactured on the other side of the country, it's still just their margin that stays local.

― Kerm, Monday, December 20, 2010 5:39 AM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark

this is maybe where we start dealing with the particulars of austin: i used to go to dominican joe's because they only brewed their own coffee, i ate at magnolia cafe because they grew most of their produce in a greenhouse down the street, i shopped at end of an ear because they stocked records by local bands who'd recorded the records at local studios & had them pressed at the local plant. it obviously isn't going to be true in every case in austin, let alone everywhere else that people are arguing for the superiority of local buying, but for the most part in atx 'buying local' actually puts you into a process that's deeply enmeshed with the local economy. there's no inherent good in buying local except that it's more ecologically sustainable, more likely to create or save local jobs that are more likely to be higher paying, & more likely to create a sense of community among people who share a metropolitan living space. but, you know, that's all.

like i can't seriously believe i'm having to defend this concept who are you people

I just thought it was a proud bumpersticker motto like 'don't mess with texas' xp

all that said btw i will totally not ride for KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD as a local business marketing strategy because not even a lot of natives know what it means

even though everything in the last 5-6 years that says KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD on it also says SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESS

more evidence that people in texas can't read

I'm down with ecological sustainability & supporting local businesses, but I prefer to create a sense of alienation and dread within my metropolitan living space

the idea that local businesses are 'weird' is kinda sad

I would be down with a more explicit motto

"you know the things you like about austin? they will probably go away if you buy all your shit at walmart"

i thought "keep X weird" was about like not letting yuppies move to your neighborhood or something

i feel pretty much the same way abt the concept of shopping local as i do abt green-ness like using cloth shopping bags riding hybrid - its not actually successful in accomplishing the desired outcome and certainly doesnt justify the level of passionate self regard often displayed - but it may have use as means of building consensus toward actually effective action like legislation new technology whatever

supporting local businesses has a much more visible effect than using cloth shopping bags - a steady stream of customers can keep a '''''weird''''' place in business whereas your hybrid is clearly not going to save the world from global warming or even make a tiny dent in the big picture.

feel like the overall trendline for local business is rather more dire than that of the environment - entire sectors are already extinct, more on the way

basically if you are a small business that sells commodity goods you are prob already dead - no amount of local fervor seems to change that equation

see less and less of this all the time since i moved to austin

around these parts, it's just the stickers that say KEEP YOUR BERKELEY OUT OF MY OAKLAND. of which i approve, as berkeley can suck it.

whatever, the only parts of oakland white people live in are berkeley-lite

people need to vibe with the reality that change is constant, berkeley is just a concept, and oakland has no there there

come to 19th and linden and say that to me and joe, who sits on my steps drinking Christian Brothers most nights.

haha

xxp

come to 19th and linden and say that to me and joe, who sits on my steps drinking Christian Brothers most nights.

― the mighty blowjob: "it's just lunch" basically (the table is the table), Monday, December 20, 2010 12:17 AM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark

^^tough thuggish non-gentrifying dud3

So yeah, I miss Berkeley. I liked living there.

I'm racist, btw

except for Moe's Books and Urban Ore, i can't really abide Berkeley.

Living in Oakland and complaining about Berkeley seems a little bit to me like living on farmland and hating on the barn. But whatever, dude.

Also lol Urban Ore

Did I mention how much I hate Atwater Village

im sure christian joe and his brothers will forgive my gertrude stein paraphrasing once they get to know me

table, do you ever shop at trader joe's or whole foods?

wait what's lol about Urban Ore? i'm curious, as a regular customer and friend of many who work there. most people i take there are like "what the fuck i feel like i'm in my new favorite place"

i buy wine at tj's. i never, ever go into whole foods, except to steal. <----for real. stole a soup and a vitamin water today, in fact.

people who even consider oakland and berkeley rival places are sorta weird, the east bay essentially operates as a continuous urban area. some people live in oakland and work in berkeley! and shop in emeryville! it's almost like the city lines are completely arbitrary and due to things that happened 100 years ago.

people need to vibe with the reality that change is constant, berkeley is just a concept, and oakland has no there there

― ice cr?m, Monday, December 20, 2010 1:17 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ this cat is like 6 levels above you guys and you dont even realize it *smh*

*vibes w/ reality of constant flux*

come to 19th and linden and say that to me and joe, who sits on my steps drinking Christian Brothers most nights.

― the mighty blowjob: "it's just lunch" basically (the table is the table), Monday, December 20, 2010 1:17 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dying @ this btw... tabes i know u and i have had beef but i think that know i am vibing w/ reality i am seeing ur true nature w/ my 3rd eye & i dig it... keep on keepin on

~(*_*)~

keep I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX vibing

attention all communities: I'm gonna bring my cultural personality wherever I fucking please, so please stop trying to make me fit into your tiny little box, maaaaan

^^^ f yeah

no boxes in the new world order just constant n/l reality vibrations & christian brothers

bless

welcome to the fuckin pleasuredome population the universal soul

dammit guys I wanted to argue about city borders

sorry dogg will take my vibes elsewhere... as u were

duh change is constant, but whether it's good or bad is a different story. 4th Street in Berkeley 28 years ago was an amazing place, by most accounts.

maybe it's an amazing place now and you're just too cold-hearted to accept it

no real proof time exists iirc

i lived in berkley 30 years ago and it was TITE, dad bought me a new superball like everyday but i always lose that shit, dont matter local toy store right down the block

RESTORATION HARDWARE. CRATE & BARREL OUTLET. STORES THAT SELL 20$ PIECES OF JAPANESE HANDMADE PAPER. A CB2. AVEDA SALONS.

trust me, i worked at Bette's for a brief period, the people who work on that street are fine, the people who shop on that street can fucking kiss my punk ass.

it used to be its own city

oh shi

dogg be real some ppl have not been turned on 2 th anti-restoration hardware vibe... not their fault that running dogs have pulled "the veil of deception" over their eyes... no man is willfully blind........

lol Urban Ore because it's a giant tin shed full of the components for next year's Burning Man "Burning Man"

xp no Urban Ore is you know FINE but it just seems like a pretty random thing to choose...I guess you do hate Berkeley, then. Me I like food and books and walking and going to the movies and living in a lil' bungalow listening to The Free Design. Nothing on my stoop but a nice little cactus, maybe a little owl figurine.

http://rlv.zcache.com/keep_dallas_douchey_tshirt-p235479163568954331t5tr_400.jpg

keep rhode island normal

― larry longballs money (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, December 19, 2010 3:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

http://grab.by/7Z5B

no one can compete w/ny as far as being horrible

Haha, I saw a kid on Sunset (right outside the W!) wearing one of those and I was wondering how Brooklyn was getting on w/out him standing guard

admrl, i like really old things that aren't necessarily 'antique shop' worthy (especially old photographs and piece of metal). i also am one of those assholes that still collects cassettes, and let me tell you, UO has increased my collection to an insane amount, especially since i get them all for free. (in fact, i get pretty much most stuff for free, or at least a 75% markdown. wouldn't you like a place that did that for ya?)

sounds like you should move to berkeley tbh

i feel like berkeley has too many e's in it, creepes me out

i'm staying in west oakland until the apocalypse. everywhere else i've lived in the bay area has paled in comparison.

ya but how will you know when the apocalypse comes if you're already living in west oakland

EXACTLY

i feel like berkeley has too many e's in it, creepes me out

― ice cr?m, Monday, December 20, 2010 1:47 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so true

berkly

better

betr

can be done w/o e's - burkly

oaeklaende

iat

If you really want to be an asshole, you should pronounce it "Barkley," like the dude the city is named after.

please nobody go for the easy joke

That's how my mum pronounces it

i saw a "keep portland passive-aggressive" sticker. i liked that sticker.

really?...well, ok, everybody likes different kinds of stickers, i guess! i mean, i can't tell you what stickers you SHOULD like, it's a free country after all...

decatur, georgia is pretty insufferable

― o tannenbaum, o judge (crüt), Monday, December 20, 2010 12:40 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

you're insufferable!!!!

i'll keep your face weird

after letting this percolate i feel like what most bothers me abt this keep weird shit is its attempt to manipulate customers into becoming friends - the most karmically clean approach is to admit to the mercantile nature of the relationship - from that honest ground theres a possibility for true friendliness to grow - keep weird is just an attempt to guilt people into being benefactors w/o earning it

^^^

no it's just that chains have such a huge advantage with marketing & planning perks & purchasing power etc. that u have to actively get ppl to ~think abt it~ to counter that. it's not like u can just have a better product and u will win out.

attention all communities: I'm gonna bring my cultural personality wherever I fucking please, so please stop trying to make me fit into your tiny little box, maaaaan

<3

Also, I'll see your Decatur and raise you Ft. Myers.

This thread is missing pictures of local weird.

rather than be lecturing or negative they came up with this cutesy kinda non-scary faux-alt thing bc it works better. idk ice cr?m itt is kinda like i hope local business dies bc the message is corny.

i think it is more like, i hope local business dies for thinking a slogan is sufficient to cover up their shortcomings as an enterprise

Local businesses can be as evil and greedy as any big soulless corporation, and I think we can all think of examples.

uh, nope

no it's just that chains have such a huge advantage with marketing & planning perks & purchasing power etc. that u have to actively get ppl to ~think abt it~ to counter that. it's not like u can just have a better product and u will win out.

― zvookster, Monday, December 20, 2010 5:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

for commodity goods theres minimal prospects of compete w/chains - pretty much only v strong established businesses can - for industries w/large variation in quality its completely doable to have a better product/experience and flourish - comparing ones self to chains in that case just signals impoverished confidence

its not hard to make better pizza than dominos - if you cant no point in trying to befriend me

i think that's dumb tbh. ppl already think "let's get dominos" rather than "let's get pizza" or "what's the best pizza" or "do we want a cookie cutter community"

no one i know thinks that, of course i live in ny where theres lots of good pizza

...well i think dominos is doing ok

...

dominos is not the only existing pizza place u know

there is also pizza hut

little caesars if your neighborhood is rill cool

pizza patron if u got a latin flavor in your hood

all exist and flourish despite the existence of superior pizza in ice cr?m's NY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdCfYHNctsc

not sure if yr trolling or who u r but theres no lil caesars or pizza patron whatever tf that is in nyc - not sure how 1% of the places being dominos is supposed to attest to chain hegemony

not sure if yr trolling or who u r

oh come on man can't a dude disagree with u???

"just make a better product" as a bulwark against chains is naive.

no 'keep weird' is naive

how so when it's successful

when is it successful

http://grab.by/7Z5B
no one can compete w/ny as far as being horrible

― ice cr?m, Sunday, December 19, 2010 8:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

get so fukkin mad every time i see one of these on a bro:
http://atypicalliving.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/dh_09nov_009.jpg

Proud of Madison, WI that we don't have these (but despite presence of lots of local biz I don't think anyone would call Madison "weird" with a straight face, so maybe that's why)

http://imgur.com/iHX6A.jpg

now that's more like it

imo homage in columbus does hometown pride really well without being completely groanworthy

local businesses are not all dying or doomed, fwiw. I have several friends who own or work at local businesses that, if not necessarily booming, are certainly surviving. I know a guy who sells sorta pricey furniture, and he's really careful not to go head to head with the chains on things he can't compete on. He and his wife stock stuff they think is cool, that nobody else in town carries, and they have three stores now (including one in a big suburban plaza, out in chain-land).

was in asheville for xmas and saw a lot of these downtown:

http://www.ashevillemusicandart.com/images/love-asheville-poster.jpg

looks like they pretty much decided to explicitly go with the 'spend your local money at local businesses' theme

thats a v good design

people who even consider oakland and berkeley rival places are sorta weird, the east bay essentially operates as a continuous urban area. some people live in oakland and work in berkeley! and shop in emeryville! it's almost like the city lines are completely arbitrary and due to things that happened 100 years ago.

― iatee, Sunday, December 19, 2010 10:28 PM (1 week ago)

yeah, the city lines are totally arbitrary - like you can walk a handful of blocks and go from Oakland to Emeryville to Oakland to Berkeley. Berkeley does, however, have significantly more cops per capita than Oakland (you want a bullshit ticket, spend time in Berkeley), and better public schools, so there is a bit of a difference between the two.

the lines are arbitrary, but they matter

they definitely matter in terms of city services. Like there's a certain charm to living in an "underdog" city like Oakland, but the civic dysfunction is kinda frustrating. And maybe my neighborhood is "Berkeley-lite" now, but I'd rather have the shittiest car on the block in "Berkeley-lite" than have my battery stolen or windows broken in West Oakland.

keep trees wood

keep four local

yeah, the city lines are totally arbitrary - like you can walk a handful of blocks and go from Oakland to Emeryville to Oakland to Berkeley. Berkeley does, however, have significantly more cops per capita than Oakland (you want a bullshit ticket, spend time in Berkeley), and better public schools, so there is a bit of a difference between the two.

oh yeah no doubt there are legal differences, I was mostly just talking on a cultural/functional level...the rich parts of the east bay all seem like the same city to me, the poor parts of the east bay all seem like the same city to me.

the Oakland part of Rockridge might as well be Berkeley

i thought "keep X weird" was about like not letting yuppies move to your neighborhood or something

― max, Monday, December 20, 2010 12:01 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

also most of this thread is insufferable (lookin at u tabes) but this is otm (even though i could give two shits about fucking bumper stickers)

after letting this percolate i feel like what most bothers me abt this keep weird shit is its attempt to manipulate customers into becoming friends - the most karmically clean approach is to admit to the mercantile nature of the relationship - from that honest ground theres a possibility for true friendliness to grow - keep weird is just an attempt to guilt people into being benefactors w/o earning it

― ice cr?m, Monday, December 20, 2010 4:28 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

"keep Houston weird"

About 384 results (0.17 seconds)

Did you mean: "keep Austin weird"

"keep Austin weird"

About 356,000 results (0.06 seconds)

keep hyundai weird

keep four local

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, January 1, 2011 5:58 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

lol

stay karmically clean-- support actually friendly, reduced-guilt, local transactions

Reviving only to point out the "Keep Austin Weird" sticker in this music video for Lockheed Martin's F-35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF7x0ZIFeVc

You did know that trillion dollar weapon systems have their own music videos now?

there is not WTF enough in the world to do that justice

Back story on the video

keep colorado springs weird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZcyEyTybkM

(i have no idea what this is)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40x53vod_Tc

http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-30568-post_no_bills_sign_attracts_more_than_60_bills.html