{"id":517,"date":"2002-04-09T17:38:30","date_gmt":"2002-04-10T01:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/04\/09\/goth-humor\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T07:59:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:59:21","slug":"goth-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/04\/09\/goth-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Goth humor"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was hanging out in the Yahoo! Chat<\/a> Alaska room this morning, and ended up meeting Wytchmagick<\/a> on there. After discovering we shared some interests, we started tossing some links at each other, which was quite entertaining.<\/p>\n

She told me about the band Velvet Acid Christ<\/a>, and I ended up picking their album Fun With Knives<\/a> while I was wandering around today. She asked if I’d ever gone goth hunting<\/a>, and while I haven’t, it certainly looks like fun. I mentioned how I really wished that they really made a Tamagothi<\/a>, and then she pointed out the piece de resitance — “Lego People That Aren’t, Will Never, But Should Be…”<\/a>! I laughed so<\/em> hard at that last one — combine a love of Legos<\/a> with a dark sense of humor, and how can you go wrong<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Since the conversation, I’ve been bouncing around and found some other fun stuff. Ever wanted to be Goth? Pick up the Insta-Goth Kit<\/a> and never worry again (incidentally, I’ve seen every movie on the I-GK’s movie list<\/a> — and own at least half of them…should I be worried?)! Not interested in being Goth? Well, then, the same site offers assistance with becoming a Rivethead, Raver, Prep or Punk — find them all on Sykospark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That led me to a site which has nearly had me in tears for the past few minutes — Gloom County<\/a>. In the words of the creator, “It’s all Grace’s fault. She and I were chatting, and she said something about Opus and the gang in Bloom County. She chose that moment to have a glorious and inspired typo, however, and it lodged in my head for a while. It got me to thinking…What if the residents of Berke Breathed’s Bloom County had been goths, punks, rivetheads, and the like?<\/strong>” The results are flat-out brilliant — for a quick example, check out Lord of the Dance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, and by the way — Jesus was gother than you<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While bouncing around the GothMafia<\/a> site that the Lego people came from, I found a link to a zoo’s information page about their liger<\/a> — an 800-pound crossbreed of a lion and a tiger. Wow. I also spent some time exploring Wytchmagick’s personal site<\/a>, and thought it was nice that as a practicing Wiccan<\/a>, she took the time to put up this page<\/a> in response to the many over-zealous people out there who immediately assume that her beliefs condemn her to eternal torment after she dies. It’s a much more thoughtful and measured response than I’ve seen from others in her position — and probably better stated than many of the things people have said to her.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s it for now….

I was hanging out in the Yahoo! Chat Alaska room this morning, and ended up meeting Wytchmagick on there. After discovering we shared some interests, we started tossing some links at each other, which was quite entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6,2150],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor","tag-velvet-acid-christ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}