Lame Meme Reemerging

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http://www.salon.com/ent/wire/2003/07/07/middle/index.html

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"We think that Middle America has fantastic stories to tell, and we're going to go out there and get them," said Doron Gorshein, chairman and chief executive officer of The America Channel.

Like a Simpsons parody of the Hollywood type, only with increased face-smashability factor.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Although admittedly this show:

"America from Afar" will examine what foreign media are reporting about American leaders, events and people.

seems worth watching - my favorite magazine, the World Press Review, does the same thing & it's a a great read.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

LAMAMEME RE-EMERGING sounds like a movie by kenneth anger!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I prefer their blithe contempt, thanks.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a mystery anagram for "how to piss John off in 250 words or less"!

(xpost with Mark)

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I think they've got it half right. I mean, I'm frequently amused by some of my friends' assumptions about the "red states" -- just as amused as I am by some red-state assumptions about the "big cities". America is a hugely interesting place, and there are all sorts of cultural currents and cross-currents going on out there in "Middle America". Otoh, this channel doesn't sound any more likely to document and showcase the interesting stuff than any of the other cable boutiques. I assume they're intending to have lots of "inspirational" stories about jes' plain folks helping each other out, coping with floods and tornados, cheering for the home team, etc. Multicultural when possible, of course, but maybe not taking too close a look at, say, the living conditions of your average migrant worker or the pathetic state of public schools, or even a profile of some small-city or suburban punk-rock scene. You're not gonna sell much Downy with that stuff.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Monday, 7 July 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

And yeah, America From Afar sounds interesting. I just hope they don't get, like, Sean Hannity or someone to host it: "And here's what the surrender monkeys are saying about us this week..."

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Monday, 7 July 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I eagerly await the stories about small-town kids shooting each other in the face because they're bored, or electrocuting each other because they're bored, or getting maimed because of stupid things, or the copious drunk-driving accidents, or the rampant sluttery, or the jealousy pregnancies, or the meth abuse, etc etc etc.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

That would be cool, but I suspect it will be "inspiring stories of faith and endurance from the Heartland", etc.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

That isn't any fucking Heartland I know. The only reason it's easier to find more fucked-up people in cities than in towns is because of population density.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

NOTE TO AMERICA: STOP FETISHIZING SMALL-TOWN AMERICA, YOU STUPID TWATS.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

(I am obviously trying to generate datapoints for the vulgarity thread.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

inspiring stories of faith and endurance from the Heartland

Well, after everything Dan described, you'd have to have both endurance and faith in yourself to continue on if you were in the middle of all that, so it can be about the survivors. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Middle America Exposed : How One Man Survived An Entire Day of Taco John's

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"It was a little dicey at first, but then I opened a window and things were cool. It's too bad about the cat, though."

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

aka, the opening line to Dan's novel.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 July 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

NaNoWriMo HERE I COME!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 July 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Beautiful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 July 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't Jerry Springer already filling this niche?

I thought Texas and Florida were middle America, only to find out they are, in fact, meta-America.

― Hunter (Hunter), Monday, 7 July 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

A new cable channel aimed at showing real American life between the East and West coasts is planned for launch next year, its top executive said.

I like how they imply that I'm not a real American.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 7 July 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay frauds! Besides which, I have a feeling that if they filmed in Delaware south of Dover or the most northerly hundred miles of the California coast that they'd get real all right...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 July 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been saying for years we need more music videos like the kind Johnny Cougar used to make. THIS is what happens when rock bands slack off on showing images of midwest life (Nelly really should do more videos in the sticks).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 July 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

David Banner's taking up the slack

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 July 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

anyone read the similarly themed anthology compiled by paul auster?

― robin (robin), Monday, 7 July 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

FSVO. so not gonna happen.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:51 (seventeen years ago)

hen fap

― ken c, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

a bit about hats

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:03 (seventeen years ago)

what are jealousy pregnancies

― Embarchie, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:08 (seventeen years ago)

halol

― am0n, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

halol shipman

― ken c, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

what are jealousy pregnancies

When a teenage girl gets preagnant and all of her friends say, "Oooh, I want a baby, too!" so they go out and get pregnant, the follow-on preganancies are jealousy pregnancies.

This happened in my high school two years after I graduated.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:35 (seventeen years ago)

No wonder you left town.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:36 (seventeen years ago)

'Hen fap' has never been funny.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

So is it the meme that's lame? e.g. "That meme is so lame." ...or is the meme about lameness? i.e. The "Lame" meme.

Anyway, fucking TV.

― dave 2¼, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.slipups.com/items/7664.html

― Jarlrmai, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:16 (seventeen years ago)

wait, i thought "lame meme reemerging" assumes that the meme was lame in the first place i.e. was never funny??? (hence hen fap)

― ken c, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:23 (seventeen years ago)

"America from Afar"

FFS. Sigh.

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

is the word meme pronounced "me-me" or "meem".

hmm.

― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 17:23 (seventeen years ago)

it's with a grave accent on the first 'e' -- more like 'mem'.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 17:24 (seventeen years ago)

I feel like I was being made fun of in advance on this thread, even though I didn't quite do what was being described here, I hope.

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 17:24 (seventeen years ago)

ah interesting

― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 17:24 (seventeen years ago)

Also, if you're going to make that joke, it's a circumflex on the first 'e'.

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 17:25 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

I was watching some MSNBC news show earlier and they cheerfully played a *satirical* "Leave Barry (Obama) Alone" clip, after which one of the anchors proceeded to do a "Leave (the other anchor) Alone" performance.

God help us.

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 2 August 2008 01:15 (seventeen years ago)

Don't go out tonight
it's bound to take your life
there's a bad meme on the rise

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 2 August 2008 03:52 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

a forgotten ilx meme: "gay gay buttfucking gay"

true story

― i am legernd (history mayne), Thursday, 2 September 2010 22:39 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

"They allegedly wanted to please an Internet meme known as the Slender Man."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/fantasy-slender-man-meme-inspires-horrific-wisconsin-stabbing-n121311

― am0n, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 18:45 (eleven years ago)

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