www.dictionary.com
irony:

1. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
3. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect.

I dunno Alison, i wouldn't be so dismissive. personally i find that so-called Political Correctness is fairly evacuous of any linguistic sophistication (read semiotics). i for one have never heard a person of P.C standing ever remark of the inherent wrongness of a black man calling another black man a "nigga", in otherwords the process of demarcating the political correctness in certain words is (of course) political, which then draws to question the particular barriers PCness itself creates when it is exercised. So really then what is it challenging? does it confront racist hegemony, or does it veil the issue with blurry moralism? when does PC ideology then question Who can use what words, and when can they use them? (even peep Spivek's "Can the SubAltern speak?) it is my opinion that Political Correctness entirely fails to address these questions.

it is once again simply my own opinion that real Hate is hardly ever fashioned in such clumsiness, as in the caption (read history, phenomenology). though it is questionably in bad taste the caption is: obvious, vulgar, stupid (in that they know the symbol is used to represent Buddhism) and is even contradictory - this all equates to Absurdity. that's why i thought it was funny.

FUCK! I can't even listen to the Boredoms tonight. It's closing in on midnight and it still doesn't look like I'll be able to leave this computer lab for a good number of hours yet. I mean, I COULD stream the radio off the net... but NO, this computer doesn't have headphone outputs. Stupid useless comp-sci computers... ARGH.

Thanks for letting me waste your lives.

um yeah... but it's VICE. That's what VICE does. Thatt's pretty much the POINT.

for those interested TONIGHT ON BRAVE NEW WAVES:

Thursday April 1st
OOIOO/Boredoms profile
Japan's most infamous rock'n noise outfit, The Boredoms, spawned many side-projects. Among them OOIOO, featuring Boredoms percussionist Yoshime P-We

oh, right, that's irony

so... "You are a bunch of gay fucking jerks,"
I find it oddly funny that the critics of that image
(really a picture of Ronald at the right angle over a swastika on a separate sign)
used another derogatory discriminative term to insult them
when they're trying to make a point against discrimination
or did I miss something?
One of my brother's friends uses "Jew" and "Jewish" the same way this person uses "gay"
I wish people would learn respect.

some shit's too funny not to post/this from this month's Vice:



TAIPEI: Hey Taiwan, 50 million fucking people died in that war, you assholes! You think that's a nice logo for a restaurant? What do you serve there, the dog from the previous page? You are a bunch of gay fucking jerks, and I hate your stupid guts.

A Game - My best score is 91

Sir Richard Attenborough's 1999 Grey Owl movie, starring Pierce Brosnan, was so touching. Damn commodification.

so... the only April Fools joke I saw was actually kinda lame
The bathrooms (both male(my friend told me) and female) on the 8th floor of GSB
had stalls locked with shoes/boots and underwear lying on the floor to look occupied
and then on the door on your way out, at about knee height,
there was a sign saying "hee hee! April Fool's"

It was actually kinda creepy because the first things that popped into my mind
were not just "okay someone's in here",
but "what on earth is someone doing wearing sorrels in this temperature?"
and "I wonder if they're videotaping the place"
and "I wonder if someone got killed and/or is slowly dying in there"
mostly because I couldn't hear any rustling/breathing etc.
that most people do when they use a bathroom
and second because it just didn't feel like there was someone in there
so it was sorta creepy for me, but most other people just laughed.

I know, over analysis... too late, you've already read it,
what are you gonna do about it anyway?

enjoy your evening!