Keep (X) Weird

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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

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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*

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