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- 543 Views
- 8 Comments
Urban Wildlife in Portland
MAY 16, 2013 12:55AM
Topics: ecotopia, oregon, pacific northwest, clowns, voodoo donuts, animal statues, sasquatch, oregon state + bennie beaver, oregon + puddles, hippies + eugene, bathtub pond, lake bathtub, rubber ducky, donald duck, busytown, richard scarry, daniel rigney, danagram, urban sociology, wildlife sociology, urban studies, urban ecology, urban ecosystem, totems, furlandia, menagerie, national train day, amtrak, portland zoo, eugene, portlandia, urban wildlife, urban wildlife in portland, feesh, mystery otter, environment, humor
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- 241 Views
- 6 Comments
The Corporate League: Top 30 Teams
MAY 9, 2013 10:59AM
Topics: news, fortune 500, fortunate 500, humor, sports, satire, daniel rigney, danagram, taxpayer’s field, taxpayer field, corporate sports, face book, bookface, top 30, listicle, sports is no game, team names, pro team names, team nicknames, business game, corporate game, corporate gamesman, corporatization, top corporate headquarters, comedy, top 30 teams, top thirty, corporate league, nascarization, nascar, csl, business, economy, earthball
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- 326 Views
- 14 Comments
Kevin Bacon Linked to Hannibal Lecter Crimes
MAY 7, 2013 12:12AM
Topics: satire, six degrees of kevin bacon, six degrees of separation, kevin bacon, anthony hopkins, hannibal lecter, cannibal, cannibalism, tabloid, sensationalism, silence of the lambs, disinformation, danagram, daniel rigney, comedy, movies, movie trivia, tabloid culture, tabloidization of everything, rupert murdoch + tabloid, news, phrasal template, virtual informant, digital informant, x is linked to y, is linked to, fake news, humor
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- 463 Views
- 20 Comments
Dispatch from Houston: The NRA Convention
MAY 4, 2013 2:24PM
Topics: eyewitness news, satire, wwjc, gun manufacturers, news, politics, danagram, daniel rigney, national rifle association, nra, sarah pailn + nra, ted cruz + nra, lyndon larouche, gun violence, danagram, daniel rigney, digital materialization, 3dp, second amendment, gun advocates, gun resisters, no more names + gun, sandy hook, houston + nra, pov journalism, houston chronicle + nra, death technology, gun lust, gun porn, bill d. badger, christina taylor green, decorum spectrum, nra convention, weapons of mass marketed destruction, nra meetings
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- 438 Views
- 23 Comments
Why I Am Religious But Not Spiritual
MAY 2, 2013 5:18PM
Topics: religious humor, religious but not spiritual, rbns, spiritual but not religions, sbnr, unitarian, unitarian universalism, uu, daniel rigney, danagram, oed, spirituality score, spiritual journey, s-word, s-word journey, not a member of any organized religion, spirituality scale, belief/religion, comedy
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- 349 Views
- 5 Comments
Street Humor in Brooklyn
APRIL 30, 2013 5:16PM
Topics: brooklyn, comedy, brooklyn + comedy clubs, woody allen + brooklyn, mel brooks + brooklyn, jerry seinfeld + brooklyn, larry david + brooklyn, eddie murphy + brooklyn, rosie perez + brooklyn, dumbo + brooklyn, boris yeltsin + comedy, street humor, street comedy, street comics, comedy cab, williamsburg + hipster, hipsterdom, hipsterstan, hipsterism, hipster + irony, fedora, folk humor, humor + brooklyn, meh, brooklyn museum, khakistan, brooklyn museum, brooklyn tourism, brooklyn tourist, brooklyn + tourist destination, magritte + pipe, daniel rigney, danagram, i am not a hipster, ironic hipster shirt, vampire fever, retrosexual, brooklyn + brown borough, hipster fatigue, hipsterhitler, diehipster, adbusters + hipster, buskers, busk, busking, busk, busker index, white collar fatigue, appropriate lifers, what is the frequency kenneth, satire, humor, media, brooklyn jokes, recreational sociology, recreational sociologist, cultural scouting trip, brownstone + comedy, brooklyn + jokes, brooklyn + delivery room + comedy, sitdown comic, occidental tourist, sequestration week, sequestration, national sequester week, rimshot the sitdown comic, rimshot, pomo + hipster
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- 370 Views
- 10 Comments
An Occidental Tourist in Brooklyn
APRIL 27, 2013 11:06PM
Topics: danagram, daniel rigney, metanostalgic, simpletown, brooklyn lodger, queens + the new brooklyn, cultural ferment, new york fetish, travel, comedy, humor, culture of irony, nostalgia for nostalgia, metanostalgia, haute dogue, haute dog, gowanus, pedestrianize, we’re going on a bear hunt, judy chicago + dinner party, museum + muses, drummer’s grove, prospect park, pre-ironic, post-ironic, irony, comedy, high line + new york, new museum + new york, new museum + bowery, the contemp, cherry blossoms + brooklyn, brooklyn brewery, a voice of a generation, liberal self parody, self parody, urban villagers, urban village, stereohype, food coop, food co-op, flexitarian, organivore, locavore, death of the hipster, dolphins rape humans, death of hipsterism, hipsterism + irony, hipsterism + sarcasm, new york fetish, williamsburg brooklyn, postpostmodern, last hipster, urban slacker, self-referential, brooklyn bridge, trapped in the body of a, strait of irony, mariel hemingway, gershwin + woody allen, bagel store + bedford, bagel store + brooklyn, underwater train, transit museum, connecting things, connecting places, connecting people, connecting cultures, trendiest + brooklyn, trendy + brooklyn, trending + brooklyn, houston + ellis island, urbane nature, urban nature, brooklyn museum, densification, walkability, cosmopolitanism, cultural scouting trip, i-word + intellectual, appletop, wordsmith, tree grows in brooklyn, cherry trees + brooklyn, brooklyn promenade, lena dunham + greenpoint, lena dunham + brooklyn, anti-intellectual, non-anti-intellectual, food trucks, street food, park slope brownstones, civilized nature, brooklyn heights brownstones, woody allen + brooklyn, nyrb, nyer, geocultural + identity, fips, park slope, pfsc, park slope food coop, houston + brooklyn, brooklyn + tourist destination, brooklyn tourism, travel + brooklyn, occidental tourist, westernman
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- 357 Views
- 7 Comments
Growing Green Memes
APRIL 18, 2013 2:07AM
Topics: energy + environment, king coal, carbon-centric, carboncentric, ou tuber, big oil, big gas, big wind, big sun, big solar, big steam, big renewables, big carbon, seventh generation in mind, nature bats last, 350 ppm, north pool, green party, green movement, environmental movement, ecology movement, ecomemes, co2 number, race to renewable, sustainability, sustainism, the carbon right, creatives + florida, buskers, meme garden, green meme garden, energy, alternative energy, alternative fuels, hydrocarbons + global warming, global warming + global warning, nature shrugs, green memes, memestream, memestream democrat, viralocity, rebranding + carbon, counterbranding + carbon, carbon number, rerd number, rerd, gore + inconvenient truth, global warming, climate change, coevolve + energy, coevolve + culture, climate turbulence, open call, research matters, rachel carson + silent spring, buckminster fuller + spaceship earth, global roasting, global steaming, global frying, we’re fried + letterman, green classics, environmental classics, kenneth boulding + cowboy economy, kenneth boulding + spaceman economy, progressive engineer, spacecraft economy, snowclones, angelic investors, heroic investor, ted talk, dinosaur in the living room, nucular, dumb growth, save the planet, carbon culture, meme canon, environmental hall of fame, citizen of earth, freeway enterprise, renewable energy + research and development, renewable energy + r&d, daniel rigney, danagram, humor, politics, culture, mayor + i may be a republican, i’m not an idiot, sarah palin + drill baby, sarah palin + grill baby grill, james hansen + 350, mckibben + 350, clean coal, beyond petroleum, pogo + we have met the enemy, teal democrat, blue-green democrat, clean carbon, elevated carbon, carbon car, bridge to renewable, race to renewable, koch brothers + carbon brothers, thermal pollution, hero + gasman, elon musk + visionary, carbonspeak, satire, dark humor, liberal arts + careers, tipping point + climate
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- 267 Views
- 10 Comments
Clichés at the Crossroads
APRIL 6, 2013 2:03PM
Topics: clichés, platitudes, catch phrases, comedy, satire, humor, daniel rigney, danagram, at a crossroads, sustainable memes, religion/belief, sustainable clichés, wheels falling off, winding road, broken + cliché, in a ditch, off a cliff, energy, environment, ecology, green movement, history has no reverse gear, mental ruts, cultural ruts, belief/religion
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- 241 Views
- 6 Comments
“The Tabbies”: Tabloid Headlines of the Month
APRIL 2, 2013 2:41PM
Topics: news, television, tabloid civilization, tabbies, thetabbies, allied veterans of the world, nancy grace + sensationalism, nancy grace + tabloid, violent movies, business scandal, political scandal, health scare, oklahoma + dentists, humor, comedy, business, politics, britney spears + target, jodi arias + psycho, glenn beck, jodi arias, nra + hunters, john goodman + manslaughter, john goodman + adopt, john goodman + polo, own the sun, exxon mobil + solar energy, olympus has fallen, csa, conservative states of america, stay shallow, danagram, daniel rigney, tabloid + tabbies, tabloid awards, yellow journalism, tabloid journalism, tabloids, satire
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- 278 Views
- 3 Comments
Everything's Fine (Ditty)
MARCH 29, 2013 12:02PM
Topics: comedy, poem, ditty, poetry, economics, politics, danagram, daniel rigney, positive thinking, technological solutionism, climate change, global warming, frog in a pot, infosector, government sector, gallows humor, everything is fine, everything's fine, think positive, dark comedy, banking sector, carbon sector, politics, dark humor, satire, ditty
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- 520 Views
- 8 Comments
The Republican Civil War: 15 Early Skirmishes
MARCH 24, 2013 11:23PM
Topics: politics, news, republican civil war, eleventh commandment, political self-abuse, murkowski + war on women, christie + boehner, steele + limbaugh, susan martinez + immigration, chris christie + nra, joe scarborough + nra, reagan + turning + grave, malkin + o’reilly, malkin + trump, ted cruz + wacko bird, rand paul + wacko bird, moderates + immoderates, jindal + stupid party, science denial, climate denial, republican environmentaliste, lifestyle libertarians, conservatarian, conservatarianism, conservationism vs. conservatism, political mudder, militarism + isolationism, dirty carbon, big tent republican, pitchfork populists, rino + dinosaur, carbon conservative, conservative + conservationist, daniel rigney, danagram, economy, business, republican, gop, teabaggers, run for the rose garden, near right, far right, immoderate republicans, ronald reagan + turning in his grave
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- 398 Views
- 9 Comments
Fixing Our Broken Cliché System
MARCH 21, 2013 2:53PM
Topics: politics, media, culture, dysfunctionalism, public discourse, industrial + metaphor, engineering + metaphor, mechanistic metaphor, machine metaphor, broken + borders, broken + political system, broken marriage, broken + financial system, daniel rigney, danagram, metaphorical society, rube goldberg machine, dustbin of history, conventional wisdom, clichés, catchies, catch phrases, clichés, cliché systems, broken record, golden age analysis, industrial metaphor, broken + system, social criticism, cultural criticism, humor, satire, fixing the system, the system works, platitudes of the future, pissing against the wind, pissing against the hurricane, swirled world, swirling world, accelerating world, imagined past, working life, society as conversation
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- 295 Views
- 2 Comments
Young Conservatives Reach Out to Fiftysomethings
MARCH 18, 2013 2:22PM
Topics: politics, news, business, belief/religion, danagram, daniel rigney, twentysomething, fiftysomething, humor, comedy, satire, yaflaw, college republican national committee, fountain of youth, political philanthropy, political fundraising, young americans for freedom, young republicans, college republicans, forever young, youth vote
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- 279 Views
- 2 Comments
Future Bestselling Titles
MARCH 15, 2013 6:01PM
Topics: bestseller, future bestseller, bestseller titles, humor, writer's block, daniel rigney, danagram, cookbooks, weepy romance, new pope, thriller, detective, novels, novel titles, hoovernomics, cooking without calories, holy smokes, jeepers creepers, comma sutra, novel writing, bestselling titles, books, comedy, fiction
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- 783 Views
- 12 Comments
Houston Existentialism (Poem)
JANUARY 4, 2013 6:35PM
Topics: politics, environment, economy, business, belief/religion, poetry, science, sandburg + chicago, houston + trafficking, climate change + houston, investment art + houston, where do we come from + gaugin, global warming + houston, renewable + houston, sustainable + houston, danagram, daniel rigney, carbon right, nieman + marxism, nieman + marxist, texastentialism, houston + boosterism, technology, carbonomics
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- 247 Views
- 0 Comments
Judging the River (Poem)
DECEMBER 21, 2012 10:39AM
Topics: river, old man river, longest river, shortest river, widest river, narrowest river, prose poetry, wikipoetry, best river, river metaphors, daniel rigney, danagram, ecopoetry, green poetry, belief/religion, finest river in the world, finest river, environment, travel
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- 738 Views
- 9 Comments
Shaming the Gun Culture
DECEMBER 19, 2012 12:56PM
Topics: newtown, gun culture, gun nut, nra, gun meme, countermeme, gun house, gun belt, red belt + red state, texas, red texas, unregulated militia, private arsenals, gun deaths, wmd + guns, gun ownership, daniel rigney, danagram, gun laws, shame, gun shame, shame campaign, shaming guns, shaming + gun culture, conservatarian, meme wars, news, politics, belief/religion, open+call
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- 905 Views
- 5 Comments
How To Petition Against Secession
NOVEMBER 15, 2012 11:12PM
Topics: we the people, secession, texas secession, peacefully grant, fark, drew curtis, hokey pokey, hokey pokey + obama, daniel rigney, danagram, petitions, petitions opposing secession, secession petitions, petition against secession, creative citizenship, political aikido, gay marriage petition, marijuana petition, westboro + hate group, creative citizenship, free access on the internet to scientific journal articles, allow the city of el paso to secede, peacefully grant the city of austin, peacefully grant the city of atlanta, john hancock + petition, first amendment + petition, insane + secession, insanity + secession, delusion + secession, constitution + petition, politics, humor
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- 562 Views
- 10 Comments
Should State Names Be English-Only?
NOVEMBER 14, 2012 12:50PM
Topics: state etymologies, state name etymologies, multiculturalism, english only movement, english only legislation, english only laws, englishist, englishism, englishy, linguistic purity, cultural purity, land of virgins, arid humor, comic imagination, satire, comedy, daniel rigney, danagram, politics, the politics of language, swirled world
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