Fuck Yeah Fuckyeah Blogs
No one really knows why the “Fuck Yeah X” blog phenomenon became so popular — nor why it’s still going very strong in terms of raw numbers. As for ultimate beginnings, conventional wisdom points to the pop-culture longevity of “America, Fuck Yeah” from the soundtrack to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s 2004 flick Team America: World Police, but there’s no real evidence beyond the circumstantial to support this conclusion. Only a few mainstream media outlets dared cover the trend due to the profanity in the name (may we suggest “fudge yeah” as a workaround?).
Coincidentally, the bloggers behind Fuck Yeah Menswear were yesterday (allegedly) prematurely revealed as Kevin Burrows and Lawrence Schlossman (the latter running the non-fuckyeah Tumblr How to Talk to Girls at Parties); they have a book releasing this fall. So on Tumblr, where did the fuckyeah blogs really come from, and what are people fuckyeahing about these days?
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Super Mario Brothers is the World’s Greatest Piece of Surrealist Art
We all know who the Mario Brothers are but have you ever stepped back and tried looking at those games from a fresh perspective? Like you’ve never seen or heard of them before? They’re bananas! There are armored turtles who stand on their hind legs and steal princesses! There are bullets with FACES! We make a case for Mario’s inclusion into a canon of art wider than “Video Game”: we think Mario is a piece of surrealist artwork.
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Thanks to the artists of the work we featured in the Fan Art section! (in order)
Mike Puncekar http://mpuncekar.blogspot.com/
Mario and Luigi by Anthony Jones http://www.robotpencil.org/
Sebastien Harding http://www.7splat.com/
Ted McClung http://living-oxymoron.deviantart.com/
Ryan Wood http://cghub.com/images/view/5209
MikePMitchell http://mikepmitchell.deviantart.com/
Fellipe Martins http://nationpoo.blogspot.com/
Winona Nelson http://www.winonanelson.com/
Bob Dob http://www.bobdob.com/
high-res photo“We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.”
― Paul Auster
“There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There’s something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It’s like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.”
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale