This is my new go-to pick me up on off days. This queen is rumored to be on Season 8, and based on this performance, I bet she makes it to at least the top 6. And hey, she's from Atlanta!
Here's the article.
Here's the tl;dr version: These people decided to pull a prank/"satirical project" in which they promoted a fake farm-to-table restaurant over social media using all of the hardestcore of foodie buzzwords. Then when people went to check it out on the fake opening day, they found an empty space with a sign reading #stopfoodies2015. On first glance, I thought this was a clever idea. And if the motivations had been silliness and good-spirited mockery of the current zeitgeist -- a la "HAHA. Sans serif fonts plus 'vaguely Nordic air of refinement' equals EPIC HYPE. Suck a dick, jags! " -- then I still would still be into it. I should have been tipped off early on when the journalist refers to the whole scheme as satire. Things described as satire are almost never funny and almost always tedious. And sure enough, it turns out that these people are trying to make a Statement. The article quotes the perpetrators: "’Lura’ is a statement project targeting the rising phenomenon of the elitist subculture of foodies.” They even use the actual word "statement". Later in the article come further turds of insight: “People didn’t come for the food,” the artists observed. They came to “discover” the next big restaurant, to stake their claim to future Instagram glory. “Foodie culture,” for Lura’s creators, is the transformation of dining into social climbing. “It’s food no longer just being something to sustain a life,” Lura’s creators said. “It's looking for the most exclusive, unique dishes, and then telling everybody that you had this thing online.” First: how old are these kids that they think "foodie culture"transformed food into social climbing? Hot restaurants and people bragging about going to hot restaurants aren't exactly nascent trends. Second: could everybody do me a big favor and not use "culture" to describe things that are not cultures? People being pretentious about food is not "foodie culture", much like people taking pictures of themselves with their cellular phones isn't "selfie culture". Kids like looking at themselves; people are weird about what they eat. These aren't distinct subcultures, and they aren't "rising phenomen[a]". They're just well-established personality traits. Everybody calm the fuck down. OK, so at this point, you're thinking the phantom restaurateurs are going to be the most annoying characters in this story. BUT THEN THERE'S THIS BITCH: "....some took offense at the parody. One Instagram user commented, 'Not amusing, making satire of those who care about what goes in [their] bodies.'" Take a good couple-three seconds to just really hate this person before we move on. Concentrate yourself on it. There is no more narcissistic phrase in the entirety of English than "I care about what goes in my body." Not even "A lot of people don't get my sense of humor." Not even "My political views are too nuanced and complex for the two-party system." Reasonable people just say "I try to eat healthy" or something similar. People who start talking about what "goes in my body" think corn syrup is a political conspiracy directly targeted at the sacred ground of themselves. People like this think they deserve to outlive your grandchildren. People like this think everyone wants to hear about what they're not eating. Mark my words: this bitch is insufferable. But then the article sort of redeems itself by showing you a picture of the little building where the fake restaurant wasn't located. It's cute, right? I hope somebody opens another real restaurant there someday. And it could have an upstairs! I love a restaurant with an upstairs. Anybody got a good tomato-based recipe to share with me? I've got 16 jars of homemade tomato sauce, and I want to use them for something special -- not just dry boxed pasta.
Follow-up to my last post: I just want to express my love for Previously.TV and encourage everyone to visit it. It's run by the gang who founded Television Without Pity -- including Sarah D. Bunting, whose Tomato Nation blog is more responsible for the way I write than any other single influence. (Ever notice how parallel structure is my go-to device? There's a reason for that.)
They have two podcasts I'm especially enamored of: Extra Hot Great, about all the glorious and despicable things on TV this week, and Again with This, a bi-weekly recap of old Beverly Hills 90210 episodes. I was too young to watch that show when it aired, and it's not really the type of thing I would watch anyway, but listening to them scream at Brandon Walsh to shut the fuck up in ever-more creative ways is the most entertaining thing on the internet. After drag queens. Everything is after drag queens. Oooh, do you think they could get a drag queen to guest on the podcast and scream at Brandon Walsh to shut the fuck up*? Because that might solve my ennui for good. I will also recommend Heather (of Go Fug Yourself fame)'s submission of an episode of Melrose Place into the Canon. (Start at 47:30). BONUS: The 5 Drag Queens Who I Think Would be Most Effective at Screaming at Brandon Walsh to Shut the Fuck Up: 5. Morgan McMichaels 4. Detox 3. Drunk Morgan McMichaels 2. Willam 1. Bianca del Rio Get on this, Previously.TV. 1. So how about this super stylized theme I picked for this new blog? I usually don't like to go classy. But Weebly hasn't embraced the Vermillion Christmas aesthetic yet, so here we are.
1a. Moment of silence to reflect on how spectacular Vermillion Chrstimas was. Remember 2008, everybody? Yes, we could! More or less! Depends on who's answering the question. 2. PAWS stands for post-acute withdrawal symptoms. I think (hope) they're why I've been the C-minus version of myself lately (my baseline is the B-plus version of myself). If they're not the cause, then it's actually me getting less and less happy with my life and not having the willpower to make changes. And that's, you know, a much bigger problem. And I tend to try to solve bigger problems with drugs. And drugs cause PAWS. And the antelope eat the grass! Circle of life. Until I know for sure, I'm adjusting my Wellbutrin dose and watching a shit-ton of Rupaul's Drag Race stuff on YouTube. 2a. HOLY SHIT, RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE. I didn't get into it until 2014, and I'm mourning all of those lost years when I could've been enjoying it. I'm making up for them by completely immersing myself in it now. I watch at least 5 minutes worth of drag-queen YouTube content each morning when I get to work in order to get myself in a good mood It's hard for me to explain what's so compelling about drag queens and Drag Race, so I'm referring you to Mark Blankenship's excellent discussion of the allure of such an intimate look at an incredibly well-developed subculture on Previously.TV (http://previously.tv/extra-hot-great/ehg-071//). And I’ll add that it’s just really refreshing and validating to see gay men who are actively cultivating their faggotry instead of tempering it out of shame. If we were all just masc for masc, then...well, then that’d be fucking hot. Dammit. I was trying to make a point here. Here, just watch this phenomenal music video from the incomparable Willam Belli. It probably won’t help me articulate anything, but it will make you love drag queens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOF5fM6puKw |
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