Holy Hyperlinks, Batman

Heidi tipped me to this blog a week or so ago and I immediately set about to read the entire thing and some small percentage of the comments. I also peeped the flickr stream "Jess's Photos" on the right because once I get interested in something, it's very intense. For a day or two, anyway.

I think my favorite thing about this blog is that it is written as a guide on “how to converse and become friends with white people” as if it is a rarity to encounter them in everyday America. For example, “If you plan to engage in lengthy conversations or get high with white people it is recommended that you read No Logo or one issue of AdBusters” and “The most time and cost efficient way of gaining a white person’s trust and friendship is to talk to them about their time in high school.” My second-favorite thing is how the authors break down a lot of the SWPL into hierarchies within a category. See T-Shirts or Multi-Lingual Children for examples of the same.

 

I promised Brian and Rob I was going to post here on my blog a list of which item on the list were most applicable to each of my friends, but since I made that promise to them, the SWPL blog has added new entries that are equally, if not more, applicable to them, so I included the new posts, too. And B&R have been trying to guess what I will post so each of them should comment as to whether we were in agreement.

  

Brian and Rob: Renovations and Tea and Microbreweries. Brian, before Saturday: Architecture but Brian, after Saturday: Shorts (!) Rob, before Saturday: Marathons but Rob, after Saturday: Outdoor Performance Clothes.

Also, these reminded me of Brian and me when we went to Europe. Study Abroad in Germany/Austria and our time in Amsterdam  (only because of this: "Every white person has had their most profound...experience in Amsterdam, so it’s a good idea to fabricate a story about your own experience there so you can quickly forge a bond. Traditional tales uses the following words: hostel, brownie, girl/guy from Hungary, crazy, locked out, chill dudes from Ireland." and not because of anything we actually smoked and/or ate.) 

I also talked with Kelly about this blog and I picked these for her: The SIGG  and also: Modern Furniture (Eames!) and (but also me, circa 1998): Japan and again, Netflix (which again, I was also into before  Renovations started sucking up all my free time). 

My Aunt Mary Anne was the first (but certainly not the last!) person I ever knew to have Multilingual Children, when she had my cousin Michelle taking 2 languages in Kindergarten.

Also, T-shirts reminded me of Justin W (and before you scoff, Justin, check this out and then tell me you don't want one) Sidebar: Jenn. I saw your note on Heidi's blog about her SWPL and I think that the author is really just poking fun at stuff white people do across the board. From what I can gather, he is a white guy with a white wife and this is their place: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pancakejess/sets/72157603704200734/ - and their flickr photostream is full of pictures of them doing and having the same kind of stuff he's poking fun at. Heidi's post referenced the SWPL to buy but that prolly says more about her consumerism than anything. Heh.

And really, everyone I know has Bad Memories of High School (even when it’s obvious that they had to have been in the Popular Kids) and I don’t think I know anyone who isn’t into Awareness of some cause.

And because I can poke fun at myself:  Musical Comedy (esp. FoTC!), T-Shirts and definitely Vintage are all Stuff I Like. Also, Difficult breakups, of course; Recycling, which Darrell pointed out about me one time when I was trying to make a list of “Stuff I’m Good At”; and lastly, Brian and Rob will remember me, circa 2000 (pre-downtown riots and ensuing curfew) Not Having a TV and wow, was I self-righteous about it. I’ve also been making up for lost time ever since then.

Also for Jenn and Heidi, someone commented suggesting a post about "knitting" and I immediately thought of you both.

: )

Oh, and I'm sure he doesn't read this blog, but I used to work with a guy who was always doing this: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/75-threatening-to-move-to-canada/ which really cracks me up now to know that’s a “thing” and wasn’t just him being a weird-o.