July 30, 2005

Culture Jammer

  1. An activist who uses “existing mass media to comment on those very media themselves, using the original medium’s communication method.” — Wikipedia
  2. A minor defacer and disparager of commercial symbols who thinks a little anarchism might help him get laid.

cul·ture jam·mer
Etymology: “The Situationist International first made the comparison to radio jamming in 1968, when it proposed the use of guerrilla communication within mass media to sow confusion within the dominant culture. (Kalle Lasn, the founder of AdBusters magazine, wrote a book entitled Culture Jam, but the term predates his title.) It is also thought that the phrase might, in part, come from a 1969 episode of The Prisoner which involved subversives calling themselves ‘Jammers’, and attempting to disrupt the Orwellian Utopia the series took place in.” — Wikipedia

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March 17, 2004

Camping

  1. A prolonged exposure to nature where urban norms would dictate one should partake of a shower, yet—and this is key—one still manages to abstain from washing under the pretense of “roughing it.”
  2. An opportunity to justify horribly greasy meat dishes as the total sum of one’s diet, breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Note: if you bathe regularly and eat vegetables while on a camping-style excursion, then you are considerd to be SUVing it. This is the case regardless of whether or not you do happen to own a yuppie vehicle.

camp·ing
Etymology: From the latin campus, meaning “a level field” that, presumably, will soon be occupied by a gathering of unctuous, unhygienic men.

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