Oh, yeah, that's what it is...

So we were talking the other day, or, err, a couple weeks ago, about the definition of "campy," 'member?
Well, here's what Merriam Webster had to say:

camp
One entry found.

camp[3,noun]



Main Entry: 3camp
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: circa 1909
1: exaggerated effeminate mannerisms exhibited especially by homosexuals
2 a: something so outrageously artificial, affected, inappropriate, or out-of-date as to be considered amusing b: a style or mode of personal or creative expression that is absurdly exaggerated and often fuses elements of high and popular culture [a movie that celebrates camp]

I dunno about you guys, but I wasn't diggin' it - ol' M&W just didn't capture what I thought campiness was. Maybe it's 'cause the definition was too formal - I dunno. So then, enter Urban Dictionary:

1. campy 119 up, 4 down

“Camp” n. or “Campy” adj. refers to intentionally exaggerated thematic or genre elements, especially in television and motion picture mediums. “Camp” style willfully over-emphasizes certain elements of the genre or theme, creating an almost self-satirical milieu. Some of the most popular examples include the James Bond films (exaggeration of espionage activities) and the original Batman series starring Adam West.

Because it strives for satire, intentional camp is likely to have a sophisticated cult following, consisting of the people who "get it." See, for example, the remarks of Mystery Science Theater's Joel Hodgson: "The right people will get it!"

I hated the TV show Alias until I realized how campy it was! Now I think it's great!

There are a couple other definitions in the link for this post, but in my opinion they just restate the first. I'm going with a well done, Urban Dictionary. Any additions/corrections?

R.L. Burnside

It's best and quicker to call 357.

New Dave Chapelle Standup

Kojo's Comedy Club, London.

least used chat e-bbreviations

i laughed

Democrats quash effort to impeach Cheney

Dennis Kucinich brought a bill to the floor of the House, today, calling for the impeachment of Dick Cheney. The Majority Leader arranged for the bill to return to the House Judiciary Committee, in an effort to avoid debate on the subject.

Georgian Police Storm IMEDI TV Station

Footage of the farewell address by anchorman Giorgi Targamadze as Georgian Police shut down the opposition station.

Ron Paul raises $4.2 Million in 1 day

All of these donations were made online and all came from individual donors giving, on average, slightly more than $100 each. Glenn Greenwald discusses the Paul phenomenon.

Assassin's Creed: Next Mutherfuckin Week!

Jam!

The Five Biggest Badass Popes

From Cracked.

NHL Goalie Masks

Sports Illustrated gives us a photo-gallery of personalized goalie masks.

From Metafilter.

kid punches mom over halo 3

wow

The end of an era:

Today:
Friday, November 2^nd 2007
At approximately 7:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4:00)
Trevor Eugene Michael
GETS MARRIED.


We'll miss ya, man.

Maddox on Fashion

I'll see you cats on the morrow.

While we're talking about Radiohead...

Saw this a couple days ago on Digg.com, and again on ateaseweb.com when chris posted the link.



An In Rainbows/OK Computer relation? Some sort on tenspiracy going on? Binary Code?! What do you guys think?



(p.s. another earlier entry by the same author http://puddlegum.net/radiohead-1010101010/)

Album covers for, you guessed it, "In Rainbows"

I don't know if anyone will find these at all useful, but just in case... Anyway, I got this link from greenplastic.com; it was the coolest thing that site has had on it in a while. Point is, if you're looking for a good Radiohead fix, don't go to greenplastic. I've found that ateaseweb is most frequently updated, has a good deal of quality content, and has a great message board that shows you where to get lots more live and rare Radiohead tunes. Cheers.

Strangest Band Site Yet

I saw these guys last month and checked them out, this seems to be the official website. Preebs.

The Hedonistic Imperative

THE HEDONISTIC IMPERATIVE

A B S T R A C T

This manifesto outlines a strategy to eradicate suffering in all sentient life. The abolitionist project is ambitious, implausible, but technically feasible. It is defended here on ethical utilitarian grounds. Genetic engineering and nanotechnology allow Homo sapiens to discard the legacy-wetware of our evolutionary past. Our post-human successors will rewrite the vertebrate genome, redesign the global ecosystem, and abolish suffering throughout the living world.

Why does suffering exist? The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved only because they served the inclusive fitness of our genes in the ancestral environment. Their ugliness can be replaced by a new motivational system based on gradients of well-being. Life-long happiness of an intensity now physiologically unimaginable can become the heritable norm of mental health. A sketch is offered of when, and why, this major evolutionary transition in the history of life is likely to occur. Possible objections, both practical and moral, are raised and then rebutted.

Contemporary images of opiate-addled junkies, and the lever-pressing frenzies of intra-cranially self-stimulating rats, are deceptive. Such stereotypes stigmatise, and falsely discredit, the only remedy for the world's horrors and everyday discontents that is biologically realistic. For it is misleading to contrast social and intellectual development with perpetual happiness. There need be no such trade-off. Thus states of "dopamine-overdrive" can actually enhance exploratory and goal-directed activity. Hyper-dopaminergic states can also increase the range and diversity of actions an organism finds rewarding. Our descendants may live in a civilisation of serenely well-motivated "high-achievers", animated by gradients of bliss. Their productivity may far eclipse our own.

Two hundred years ago, before the development of potent synthetic pain-killers or surgical anaesthetics, the notion that "physical" pain could be banished from most people's lives would have seemed no less bizarre. Most of us in the developed world now take its daily absence for granted. The prospect that what we describe as "mental" pain, too, could one day be superseded is equally counter-intuitive. The technical option of its abolition turns its deliberate retention into an issue of political policy and ethical choice.


From the link, I've read the intro and the first chapter.
I don't even know what to say at this point.
Jon, if you get a chance, tear this apart.

Radiohead start world tour in May ‘08

Good news found on ateaseweb.com

Stephen Colbert on Meet the Press

Presidential candidate and South Carolina's favorite son goes at it with Tim Russert.

James Lipton

is a pimp.