A voice crying out in the wilderness

Alongside the footsteps of Bobos in Paradise and Stuff White People Like, here is Charlotte Allen's Not Really Simple:

The problem with the simplicity movement is that its proponents mistake simplicity, which is an aesthetic lifestyle choice, for humility, which is a genuine virtue. Humility is an honest acknowledgment of one's limitations and lowliness in the great scheme of things and a realization that power over other human beings is a dangerous thing, always to be exercised with utmost caution. The Amish, as well as monks, Eastern and Western, cultivate humility because they know they have a duty toward what is larger than themselves. Leo Babauta of the foregone grooming products cultivates simplicity because it makes him feel "happier," as he writes on his website. For humble people, their own happiness or other personal feelings are secondary.

Aka, how not to win friends and influence people among the SMRT-set.

Meet the new boss

Pardon the gen-x post-millennial tension, but if Stuff White People Like is the 95 Theses, then here's the Confession of Sins:

Church?

I read blogs to align my tastes and opinions with the creative elite

I frown upon anything my newly blog-aligned perspective (bap) deems typical

I publicly acknowledge my superficiality, believing (via bap) that this equals self-awareness

I try to fit in by forging a personal brand that exhibits a unique blend of accepted alternative characteristics

...

He's a little off though, since self-awareness isn't absolution.

Christian Lander slays me

#122 Moleskine Notebooks

Since all white people consider themselves to be “creative,” they are constantly in need of products and accessories that will allow them to capture their thoughts. One of the more popular products in recent years has been the Moleskine notebook.

This particular type of notebook is very expensive and was quite popular with writers and artists in the olden days. Needless to say, these are two properties that are highly coveted in the white community. In fact, it’s a good rule of thumb to know that white people like anything that old writers and artists liked: typewriters, journals, suicide, heroin, and trains are just a few examples.

Much like virtually everything else that white people like, these notebooks are considerably more expensive yet provide no additional functionality over regular notebooks that cost a dollar. Thankfully, since white people only keep their most original and creative ideas in the Moleskine, many of them will only be required to purchase one per lifetime.

2009 Eustace Tilley Contest

Not quite as storied as the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (Literally, Literally), here is the 2009 Eustace Tilly Contest. The above entry should win.

Oh snap

Sea Salt. Guilty, again.