I love Miley Cyrus

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Have you ever known the way little kids like to hear the same stories over and over? They love it, and they'll eagerly listen to the same stupid thing hundreds of times.

But have you also seen what happens when you tell the story wrong? You'd think the fucking barbarians were at the gates.

Ever done it on purpose just to get a rise out of 'em?



Miley is telling the story wrong. She's messed up the good part, too!

It's kind of like the spectacle as the artwork. It goes beyond the performance.

Like an artist painting a black canvas hiding inside with a camera to film audience reaction. The interaction is the artwork.

I may be going too deep with this.

I was just going to say something like this. The reaction is part of the art, and this is a masterpiece. It's one thing when avant-garde arthouse nerds try to outrage people with their weird art, but Miley is painting with the biggest damn canvas she can find.

But it's just some dumb female popstar. So it's obviously not art. I mean she's trying to make money.

A PROPER artist starves in a garret.
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[Cainad (dec.)]

But it's just some dumb female popstar. So it's obviously not art. I mean she's trying to make money.

...said the paint thinner.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Well, I made an effort, I wont bother any more if I'm just a cultural snob when I try.

Well, it's like this:  Nigel brought up several points.  Those points were ignored.  This is not entirely unexpected, on account of 2 things:

1.  Nigel brought them up, and

2.  She unreasonably expected people to stop sneering for 10 seconds and examine what she had to say, and maybe even for 3 minutes 14 seconds to examine the video in question.  What Nigel, of course, doesn't even CONSIDER is that if we stop sneering at "pop culture" even for that long, EVEN in the interests of examining what MIGHT MAYBE POSSIBLY be the biggest MIND FUCK since p-funk shuffled off stage left, why, we'll lose our seniority down at the local Coffee & Wine Bar, and they'll take our Brad Pitt hats away.  We might even lose our tallbike licenses.  She's totally fucking unreasonable.  She FAILS to REALIZE that this sort of shit is REFLEXIVE, and we have about as much control over it as we do over our MIGHTY PENISES.  Mine, for example, is 3 feet long and beats up the neighbor once a week.  Anyway.

...All hyperbole aside, there is something hilarious going on here, and I'd expect just a LITTLE BIT MORE than CASUAL, SNEERING DISMISSAL from a board full of Discordians.  That's MY Discordia, though, and results may - as always - vary. 

The really interesting thing here is that everyone IMMEDIATELY has to scream THIS HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE, for the same reason many people - myself included - AUTOMATICALLY dismiss any good news as "bait for suckers".  It's a SUBSTITUTE FOR THINKING.  It's the uniform jacket so tight around our necks that we all involuntarily SHIT OURSELVES, and then congratulate ourselves on our scatalogical OUTLANDISHNESS.

Wait.  Scratch all that.  Nigel is the cancer that is killing PD, and Miley Cyrus is the same old shit microwaved to room temperature and dished out in pre-sized portions, and anyone who says anything different is just being contrary.

BURP.

Hot damn, you done got a case of the Holies™ again.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Well, I made an effort, I wont bother any more if I'm just a cultural snob when I try.

Well, it's like this:  Nigel brought up several points.  Those points were ignored.  This is not entirely unexpected, on account of 2 things:

1.  Nigel brought them up, and

2.  She unreasonably expected people to stop sneering for 10 seconds and examine what she had to say, and maybe even for 3 minutes 14 seconds to examine the video in question.  What Nigel, of course, doesn't even CONSIDER is that if we stop sneering at "pop culture" even for that long, EVEN in the interests of examining what MIGHT MAYBE POSSIBLY be the biggest MIND FUCK since p-funk shuffled off stage left, why, we'll lose our seniority down at the local Coffee & Wine Bar, and they'll take our Brad Pitt hats away.  We might even lose our tallbike licenses.  She's totally fucking unreasonable.  She FAILS to REALIZE that this sort of shit is REFLEXIVE, and we have about as much control over it as we do over our MIGHTY PENISES.  Mine, for example, is 3 feet long and beats up the neighbor once a week.  Anyway.

...All hyperbole aside, there is something hilarious going on here, and I'd expect just a LITTLE BIT MORE than CASUAL, SNEERING DISMISSAL from a board full of Discordians.  That's MY Discordia, though, and results may - as always - vary. 

The really interesting thing here is that everyone IMMEDIATELY has to scream THIS HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE, for the same reason many people - myself included - AUTOMATICALLY dismiss any good news as "bait for suckers".  It's a SUBSTITUTE FOR THINKING.  It's the uniform jacket so tight around our necks that we all involuntarily SHIT OURSELVES, and then congratulate ourselves on our scatalogical OUTLANDISHNESS.

Wait.  Scratch all that.  Nigel is the cancer that is killing PD, and Miley Cyrus is the same old shit microwaved to room temperature and dished out in pre-sized portions, and anyone who says anything different is just being contrary.

BURP.

Hot damn, you done got a case of the Holies™ again.

Yeah, well, I think I done pissed people off. 

I'm just trying to MAKE MY POINT.  Or maybe GET SOME SLEEP.  I'm not trying to get all over anyone's ass. 

[Cainad (dec.)]

Yeah, well, I think I done pissed people off. 

I'm just trying to MAKE MY POINT.  Or maybe GET SOME SLEEP.  I'm not trying to get all over anyone's ass.

But their ass is IN THE WAY. Blocking my view of the funny shit.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think what makes this particular incarnation of the innocent little girl to pop nympho cycle unique is that Miley seems to be driving it herself.

This.

And she's doing a brilliant parody of it as well, with a couple of really funny "meme short circuits" embedded in it, and...

And this.

Miley's VMA performance was gross. Not "a bit too over-the-top," because pop music sexualization loves over-the-top. She ditched the part where she was supposed to make her sexual objectification look hot.

AND THIS.

And a whole bunch of what all of y'all said after.

[Salty]

You can't trust them Nigels.

Not even Niley Cygel.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Yeah, well, I think I done pissed people off. 

I'm just trying to MAKE MY POINT.  Or maybe GET SOME SLEEP.  I'm not trying to get all over anyone's ass.

But their ass is IN THE WAY. Blocking my view of the funny shit.

And this is why Baby Jesus gave you ENGINEER BOOTS.  To help shift that ass out of your face.  To help clear the air, the old-fashioned way.  Because we're an old-fashioned organization.  Who are we?

(FIRST ASSHOLE TO SAY "JAMES HETFIELD" GETS IT.  GOOD & HARD.)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Anyway, basically the fact that some folks don't understand that the parking meter article is satire doesn't make the article unfunny. It just isn't funny TO THEM, which is probably related to why they didn't get it in the first place.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

You can't trust them Nigels.

Not even Niley Cygel.

The funny thing is, it really is the little things. Everyone's talking about this and it isn't like she turned convention on its ear. She did all the same things, she just did them unsexy. It's sort of like the upscale store down the street from me hiring young black men to fill customer service positions (and if you don't know how unusual that is here, you've never been to Portland); it's just a little thing. But it irrevocably shifts the paradigm because all of a sudden OH SHIT EVERYBODY'S LOOKING. It subtly changes the narrative from "there are no black people in Portland" to "Why aren't other stores in Portland hiring black people?"

[The Good Reverend Roger]

You can't trust them Nigels.

Not even Niley Cygel.

The funny thing is, it really is the little things. Everyone's talking about this and it isn't like she turned convention on its ear. She did all the same things, she just did them unsexy. It's sort of like the upscale store down the street from me hiring young black men to fill customer service positions (and if you don't know how unusual that is here, you've never been to Portland); it's just a little thing. But it irrevocably shifts the paradigm because all of a sudden OH SHIT EVERYBODY'S LOOKING. It changes the narrative from "there are no black people in Portland" to "Why aren't other stores in Portland hiring black people?"

Yep.  Like I said, it's the one missing ingredient that makes it all horrible and wrong.

And hilarious.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Yeah, well, I think I done pissed people off. 

I'm just trying to MAKE MY POINT.  Or maybe GET SOME SLEEP.  I'm not trying to get all over anyone's ass.

But their ass is IN THE WAY. Blocking my view of the funny shit.

And this is why Baby Jesus gave you ENGINEER BOOTS.  To help shift that ass out of your face.  To help clear the air, the old-fashioned way.  Because we're an old-fashioned organization.  Who are we?

(FIRST ASSHOLE TO SAY "JAMES HETFIELD" GETS IT.  GOOD & HARD.)

We're the people who are laughing at the jokes you don't get. We're the people who are here to rub their noses in the same shit they've been stepping in all along and screaming, "GOOD DOG! HAVE SOME MORE!"

Who are we?

[Cainad (dec.)]

You know, I watched the music video once to be able to participate in the conversation.

I just watched it again, and I felt something that was sort of like laughter, but much deeper in my guts than usual.

Feels like Eris.

[Bu🤠ns]

Feels like Eris.

Feels like Eris.

Feels like Eris.

Feels like Eris.

Feels like Eris.

Feels like Eris.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

"This is what we do. Every time. Some of us try to DO IT BETTER and some of us try to DO IT WEIRDER. I try to show how FUCKING DUMB IT IS that this is WHAT WE DO."