3 posts tagged “hip e.”

There goes the [Vox] Neighborhood.

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Have you been wondering why all the strange pictures of half-naked 20-something boys and leggy supervillians have been showing up in my Recent Photos list?  Have you been wondering why my archives suddenly jumped from a few weeks to a year's worth of posts?  No?  Are you sure you haven't?  Really... no?

Well -- in case I missed a 'yes' out there... the exceedingly clever Harold, who generously hosted my old blog, helped me move all my old posts from his server to Vox.  Yay!  I wrote there for just over a year beginning in February 05, but took an extended hiatus from blogging that I've only recently taken up again.

Now that I'm fully Voxed, I'm in the process of cleaning up those old posts. Moving pictures over, cleaning up dead links, making myself sound way wittier -- that kind of thing.

So feel free to check out my work in progress.  I'm especially hoping the Jo-Tel boys (pictured here) will be doing the same thing with their own blog, as it'd be a shame to miss the story that goes along with the pictures that first inspired the Found Porn series.  A damn shame indeed.

It's not to late. To...

First let me say that I am a fan of the Jo-Tel blog, as well as their kissin' cousins (bastard children just doesn't seem like the right term), Professor Truth and Johnny D. These guys are funny. And regardless of the fact that I have yet to show at one of their parties, they continue to invite me. That is cool.

Further, let me point out yet again that they inspired my ever-popular, often imitated, never duplicated, soon to be syndicated feature, Found Porn. Hip E. has now taken to sending me links to photos, and actually reading MY far less interesting blog. Again with coolness.

So it stands to reason that, because these guys are so cool, inevitably I read something they've written and think "WTF" and feel super super old. Case in point: Hip E's 7/14/05 post "Real World Has Awesome Graphics."

I was reading this thing when I came to the following passage:

So then we tried to swim all the way up the Pacific Coast. Did I mention we had been smoking and doing whip-its all day? Oh yeah, we had.

The first time I breezed past it, thinking I would figure out WTF "whip-its" were in good time. But I didn't. I had occasion to breeze over that way again today and it struck me that I still didn't know WTF he was talking about. Picture me in your mind feeling super super old, and you'll get a good idea of my demeanor right at that moment.

Then I remembered it's 2005. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Urban Dictionary. See: Whip-Its, (noun).

The Internet: Where everyone old is fly again.

Rivet Envy

The boys who first inspired the now infamous Found Porn series on these pages have co-opted the title for their own nefarious purposes. Did I say nefaroius? I meant hilarious.

To see Hip-E's post using this picture, search for the 7/13/05 post with the by now familiar name.

If rivets from the Golden Gate Bridge (since that's what that is up there) can get a straight boy "all horny," then maybe this country isn't so bad after all.

The Jo-Tel: Better than Sufjan Stevens and they know it.