Tramps Like Us

Anxious purveyor of snark and silliness. Grammar enthusiast. Writer. Music nerd (tho nerdiness not limited to music). Web editor. Chronic victim of slapstick clumsiness in daily life.

This blog is a shamelessly random collection of pretty things and silliness.

—In the nineteenth century, teenagers merely aspired to have a marriage that would be better than that of their parents; personally, I would never be satisfied unless my marriage was as good as Cliff and Clair Huxtable’s (or at least as enigmatic as Jack and Meg White’s). Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no ‘normal,’ because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously. You can’t compare your relationship with the playful couple who lives next door, because they’re probably modeling themselves after Chandler Bing and Monica Geller. Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.

Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, & Cocoa Puffs (via bellephant-always-forgets)

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