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December 21, 2007
You Slay Me With Your Reference
Zing Zam Zoom: A Drew Carey reference. While I suppose a Carey reference ranks higher on the Scott Stantis Has No Fucking Clue About Relevant Cultural Reference Points Scale than, say, Rob Schneider, it's still lame, as in "Turn off the Simpsons? Laaaaaaame" lame.
This criticism could strike some of you as funny or possibly even ironic coming from someone who has dropped an Early 80's Music reference as many times in the last week as there are luft balloons in the sky. (99 by my rough count.)
But there's a crucial difference between this author's out-of-date references and Mr. S.'s out-of-date references. Mr. S. -- his mid-section paunched, his mind riddled-with middle age (and probably Syphilis) -- doesn't realize how fast the culture moves. He thinks he can dip back four or five years and still come up with something relevant. "This Baha Men reference is gonna kill! Woof Woof Woof Woof!" It's embarrassing.
Whereas yours truly dips back over twenty years to reference timeless artifacts of our pop cultural landscape. It's not an attempt to prove I'm relevant to today's youth. It's just a testament to the fact I haven't aged (culturally or, hell, emotionally) since 1984. Those were heady days. It was when I got my first real six-string. I bought it off the showroom floor. Played it 'till my fingers bled. It was the Summer of '84.
Comments
Sillies - Drew Carey is all the rage these days as the new host of the Price is Right! I'm guessing that's all they talk about in Alabama, too.
Posted by: Annie at December 21, 2007 10:35 AM
I have to agree - since the average age of the typical newspaper reader is around 134, and the only thing they do all day other than read the paper is watch game shows and their "stories," Stantis might have actually made some of his key demographic (the highly coveted "near death" group) laugh outloud.
However I don't understand what tone Stantis is going for here. Carmen points out that the government who gave us WMDs is the same one giving us illegal spying - and that's okay by her. I'm guessing he means that to be a sarcastic statement on her part, but does that mean she now admits the Bush administration lied to us and is using fear simply as a political tool and could care less about actually protecting us?
Posted by: Anonymous at December 21, 2007 02:17 PM
Anon, sounds like he is admitting it at last.
Now if only Bush would admit it.
Posted by: Snowman at December 21, 2007 05:58 PM
