“male loneliness epidemic” and “friendzoning” are similar concepts to me in that the conditions they describe are literally experienced by everyone at some point in their lives but when its men its some sort of profound injustice that needs to be rectified by checks notes giving them unfettered access to the public good that is Women
also the former "epidemic" being taken up in pop discourse explicitly or implicitly as a pathological consequence of feminism having "gone too far" instead of actually doing the work to connect social isolation to existing material conditions....no no don't worry about it just default to blaming women for men's sadness and dissatisfaction bc otherwise you'd have to confront capitalism and misogyny and white supremacy etc. etc. and nobody wants to do that so. its somehow very aggravating and boring at the same time. whenever i see think-pieces that follow this script i instantly fall into a furious slumber
and you just know that half the incel ass boys & men complaining about friendzoning and loneliness have either written off/mistreated "undesirable" girls & women who have shown interest in them in the past, or they have just grown so incapable of seeing girls & women as real human people that they go around treating them like brainless gumball machines whose sole purpose is to dispense sex but only if you press the right conversational buttons. or both. anyway i know where the buttons are and i can reveal them to you for the low price of $90/month. please subscribe bro i promise im not a grifter
the fact that none of the night at the museum movies were rated over 50% by critics is a reminder that some ppl don’t know how to have fun. the first two movies were flawless. a night watch guard has to babysit museum displays that come to life, complete w old school villains and endless historical crossovers? incredible concept, incredible execution
Do you ever see an insect and think . . . What the hell? What the helly? What the helleonte? What the helleon? What the helleberry?
Because that is how I felt, seeing various tree hoppers. They look AWESOME ! ! I am 100% going to make multiple parts of this post showing of the variety, because WOW ! !
Yeah, so one millisecond later, I already have another post. The hyperfocus is going hard and I have to share these little creatures ! ! They are so freaking COOL ! !
“Tim and Eric Do High-Fashion Drag” from Paper magazine, Winter 2014
text by Jessica Jean Jardine / photos by JUCO / fashion by Shirley Kurata
On a bright fall afternoon, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, creators and stars of the Adult Swim series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! and Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories, are seated inside an airy photo studio on Sunset Boulevard. Photo assistants and stylists buzz around while Wareheim gets the finishing touches put on his purple eyeshadow. Nearby, a straight black wig with a row of choppy bangs is positioned over Heidecker's blonde hair. Enormous racks full of kaleidoscopic dresses and accessories fill a second room.
Shuttled from hair to makeup to wardrobe, the men behind countless nightmarish and insanely shareable videos peep intermittently at their phones. Asked what their careers might look like without the Internet, they both pause for a moment.
"What would anything look like?" Tim says. "We'd all be looking at Thomas Guides together. It'd be a nightmare."
Awesome Show, which debuted in 2007 on the heels of their first basic cable venture, Tom Goes to the Mayor, was a textbook example of shows migrating, often in bite-sized chunks, from the rigid confines of television to the free-and-easy Web. "Our success has been through our videos being distributed online," Heidecker says, "whether it's YouTube or Adult Swim's website. It's how most people experience our work. Very few people turn on the TV at the time [the show is] on and watch it that way."
As you'd expect from any thriving online franchise, Tim and Eric lend their unique voice to Facebook and Twitter to connect with the people who share, quote and generally worship their work. "I respond to fans," Tim says. "I respond to fans if they say negative things, and then they tend to like that."
Wareheim, whose Twitter following is a little over half the size of his partner's, has a plan to close the gap. "We have a contest that, once I reach a million followers, Tim and I will make love on webcam. I'm almost there." Pause. "I hadn't told Tim yet, so this story can break it." FYI, he's roughly 740,000 followers away from hitting that target.
They've burned themselves onto our brains through a decade's worth of culty TV brilliance (not to mention Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, from 2012), but that doesn't mean Tim and Eric are impervious to the inaccuracies of the Internet. When Howard Stern Show regular Eric the Actor died, numerous press outlets used Wareheim's picture in their obituary pieces.
"They just looked up the words 'actor' and 'Eric'?" asks Heidecker.
"Yeah. So I died," Wareheim says.
As for today's shoot, fans will know it's hardly the first time Tim and Eric have done drag. Eric fondly remembers his first time dressing up as a lady when he was a kid. "I would dress up in my mom's stuff," he says. "I'd wear her hemorrhoid pillow as a hat."
So maybe it's not too surprising that Tim and Eric count Cindy Sherman as one of their heroes. "She does these self-portraits as these grotesque characters," Wareheim says, "from Jersey housewives to old plastic-surgery millionaires. Tim and I, all of our characters are pretty big and grotesque -- horrible little moments of people that you see in real life. So to see a woman [like Sherman] take herself that far is hugely inspiring."
As the duo is whisked to set with sky-high wigs and teetering heels fastened on, there's time for one more question: do these comedy titans still Google themselves?
"Sewing is a gateway drug to thinking through complex problems. It seems really simple; culturally, we make it women's work. Let me tell you: real sewing at any kind of level of proficiency is a bloody magic trick. Sewing, like mold making, involves mental frames that require one to think inside out and backwards. It requires one to work on an order of operations that is often taking into account the reverse. It's a really, really important skill, and if you learn how to sew, you're mostly on your way to carpentry and welding and sheet metal work. I'm not kidding: these are planar forms meeting under rules and conditions. And if you can make a sleeve work, I swear to God, you could build a house."
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