June 02, 2005

Nice photo. Anil Dash slips one over on The Man: Goatse.cx, on his t-shirt, appears in the New York Times. The Internet, having achieved all of its goals, can close up shop now.
posted by Mo Nickels 19 years ago
  • Don't forget the goatse on the cover of Time Magazine, probably the most prominent goatse display.
  • *applauds like ten goats*
  • Anil looks just like my friend Jas. So there you go.
  • his name is Anil. how is that pronounced, i wonder? heh.
  • I went to school with a guy named Anil - pronounced "uh-nil" [phonetically]. That didn't stop everyone from calling him Anal, which peeved him oh-so-slightly...
  • OMFG
  • Man, what a shitty article. Fuck you, NY Times, and your narcissistic and internet illiterate writers.
  • What was so shitty about it? I thought it was pretty good, for the NY Times that is.
  • I don't want to be exposed to Anil. /obvious, but would've been funnier on MetaFilter if it were working ...pretty good, for the NY Times... lolhat! And let me be the LAST to say: Welcome to the REAL filter, Monkey Nickels...
  • I hate to seem tragically unhip, but I do not understand Goatse.cx. Not sure that I care for an explanation either!
  • Narcissistic? Just because she provided the link to the ratty photo from 97? Hell, I looked better than that in 97. Not the worst article by Rosenbloom, by a long shot. And what a tease! I couldn't find ANY nekkid Cecilia Barnes pics on teh interweb. Perhaps Priscilla Barnes? (SFW, but not for weak stomachs).
  • When did the New York Times get so bad?
  • "I hate to seem tragically unhip, but I do not understand Goatse.cx" It's kind of like the Hero's Journey for netizens. Confronting a horror, going beyond the horror, returning to bestow boons on your fellows. :) You may also grok the 8 phases of goatse.
  • Yikes, deconstructo - the article, that is. The Pretty Pit Stop? Sounds like a beauty salon in a strip mall somewhere in suburbia.
  • anil dash...snicker
  • The Times is still a great paper. What else ya gonna read USA Today?
  • Who the heck is paid to write articles about themselves? What an attention whore. Maybe the second half of the article had a point, but she lost me way before that.
  • Yeah, christ forbid someone actually talk about the human experience using themselves as an example. You're only allowed to talk about other people if you want to get paid, right? And if someone -- no, no, not just someone, if a woman -- talks about herself and gets paid, she's an "attention whore." Would you have used the same slur if it had been a man discussing, say, his protective feelings toward his daughter, or the fact that he likes hunting? You might say "I don't give a shit," but you certainly wouldn't say "attention whore."
  • /eyes light up at prospect of wordy conflict
  • I use the "________ whore" for both men & women. i.e. Michael Jordon is an endorsement whore.
  • I call whoever screams "LOOK AT ME!!!" an attention whore, regardless of their sex. Matter of fact, the majority of people I've used the term on have been male. The only reason I'm aware of her sex is because she couldn't stop describing herself. You're seeing boogeymen where there aren't any. You're projecting. Quit it. It wasn't an example of the human experience. There was no point given for it to be an example of. She was the focus of her article, with a point added on at the end. She could've used herself as example later in the article, after some clue was given about the gist of the article, but she didn't because that would've distracted attention away from herself. The article should've began "Dear diary, remember how dorky I looked back in 97? Well this is how I look now: I've bleached my hair..." yada yada yada. She's a fucking journalist. She definitely knows what kind of information belongs at the front of an article. She made herself the focus of the article, so much so that I never found out what her point was supposed to be before I abandoned her story. I know what kind of shoes she wears (past and present), the clothes she wears (past and present), her hair style (past and present), but I still haven't found out what the article is about? Baloney! I do know what it's about: HERSELF. She's an attention whore, plain and simple.
  • This "attention whore", it vibrates?
  • The most effective way to define and control your digital persona is to start a blog or put up a home page. Tell me more, NY Times, about how to make a "home page" on this "internet" you've discovered! Perhaps you can tell me how to include "hyperlinks" and maybe even some flaming text?
  • one hand..goatse other hand...attention whore beautiful. just fuckion' beautiful
  • drjimmy11, shouldn't it be flaming "text"?
  • this is precisely why many newspapers ban first-person stories. in my 23 years in the biz i've written three, each part of a package of travel stories about puerto vallarta, mexico. travel stories SHOULD be first person, IMHO.
  • I don't have a problem with first-person articles, but it does make it sound more like an op-ed instead of an article. I do have a problem with first-person textbooks. Don't know why, just do.
  • this is precisely why many newspapers ban first-person stories. Exactly, as a Journalism student, I was taught never to mention myself in the things I write for print. If this writer wasn't so lazy, she could have easily hunted down several people other than herself who have suffered under the the tyranny of google. Instead, she got to talk about herself.
  • Yea, writers like Hunter Thompson never mentioned themslves in print.
  • I was about to say the same thing about Mailer. Only Mailer did it in third person. Hey, there you go, loophole! The point is a good one, though. Generally it's bad idea to write first-person stories, unless you have either an overwhelming reason to do so, or else unusual talent to make it work.
  • If you're a good writer, rules are there to be broken. There are few good writers.
  • i was just about to say that, chywalker. see also: the onion's jean teasdale.
  • You can 0wn that shirt too. The guy modeling the t-shirt seems kind of embarrassed, unlike Dash. Also, the "previous" t-shirt on that site features a giant squid and sperm whale. Unless shipping is another $10, I'm kind of impressed by the cost - internet related humor/design almost always seems to up the price beyond what I'm willing to pay. I think I know someone who might like the goatse one for his birthday.
  • I wonder why Stephanie Rosenbloom doesn't like that picture of herself. Looks fine to me...
  • Yeah, it sounded like maybe Stephanie Rosenbloom had more of an issue with how the page described her than the actual picture.
  • I agree that both travel writers and gonzo journalists need to write in the first person. It's an inherent part of the story. I also agree with mct and Chy that there are occasions when using such writing techniques can have a positive effect on your story.
  • First-person stories are the lifeblood of the op-ed pages. So I'm biased here, because guess what I work on?
  • Um.. a merry-go-round? Deep sea.. fishing.. thing?
  • A pony ranch?
  • A space shuttle?
  • Am I the only one that didn't see the article because it required registration? F that!
  • Initially, I skipped the article because of the registration requirement. But curiosity prevailed and I finally went through that obnoxious song and dance. What bullshit. At least I got to create a whole new identity. That was fun. Oh, and the article sucked, so don't bother.
  • cynnbad - Here.
  • Bless you samsonov14, bless you!
  • I was walking through the halls at work and their was a meeting going on inside one of the rooms with this sign outside. I immediately thought of goatse
  • It's a mental virus. An image that cannot be unseen. It's like learning to read: you can never be illiterate again.
  • here's a very comprehensive goatse tribute site, including a comprehensive goatse food section...
  • including a comprehensive goatse food section... *TWEEEEEeeeee~!* Personal foul!-oul, -oul Number Thirteen-oh-one!oh-one, oh-one Repeat last comment! -omment, -omment
  • Seems appropriate...
  • CNN YouTube debate "GOATSE'D!!!" Or... not. DETALES is a new blog that is part artistic experiment and part haven for the surreal side of our world. There will be articles, fake and real, but the glue that holds the blog together are the detales that make it up.
  • I want to believe!
  • This is CNN.
  • Hey, homunculus, if it makes you feel any better, you popped my long-preserved goatse cherry. Albeit, with a tiny, grainy goatse. But, you know, the first time's bound to be disappointing, so don't feel too bad.