Slate.com and I have this love/hate relationship. I hate everything about Slate. Except I love how douchey they are. Their headlines are catchy, misleading. Their articles are just downright pretentious. And not in the way that we are pretentious, as Jewish hipsters. Stuffy, old-money yachting/my family knows X president pretentious.
But they do have a position opening up to be a cultural blogger.
Applicants should be voracious consumers of culture high and low, as comfortable offering smart, surprising commentary on the latest from Terrence Malick as they are on the latest from George R.R. Martin.
Should I feel bad that I barely know who George R.R. Martin is? And that I have no fucking clue who Terrence Malick is? Sure, I could Google them. But then Slate would win. And shouldn’t stuffy white culture be entirely irrelevant outside of The NYTimes?
Or am I some uncultured goofball who should stick to entertaining you, my lovable yet dim-witted readers?
Dani socher
08/04/2011
Honestly, I think you’re the pretentious douchebag. You clearly consider yourself better than just about everyone, and you seem to go out of your way to condemn anyone with money or a conservative (in the political sense) opinion. Just because Slate has has a far higher circulation than you does not mean you have to insult them. And by the way, you aren’t very funny. I actually keep you on my newsfeed only so I can see the amazingly single-mindedly idiotic posts you come up with. The worst was when you took a short video of two Israeli boys who barely spoke English calling Obama a “Negro” and then apologizing for it….and interpreted it as showing the racism of all of religious Israel.
IronyOnRye
08/04/2011
someone took this site seriously? haha oh wow.
Dani socher
08/04/2011
If it was clearly a joke it would piss me off less.
The Duckman
08/04/2011
if your mangina is bleeding it could be setting off your mood swings
Chicky
08/04/2011
1) I clearly state that I am pretentious. Thank you for telling me what I already know, and thank you for atleast skimming this post. I wont tell this to your reading comprehension teacher.
2) The post is rife with sarcasm and irony. If you missed the jokes, there is nothing I can do. When you write for a blog called ‘hipsterjew’ your writing mindset is of course singular. I’m not writing for The New Yorker. If I was I’d curse less and use words like ‘perfunctory’ and ‘dolt’.
3) I don’t know why you’d read this site. I thought the internet was made so that liberals can stick to liberal sites and conservatives could stick to hating on the gays.
4) I already dealt with that video about Israelis and Obama here. http://hipsterjew.com/2011/07/29/racist-jews-are-out-there-too/
The Duckman
08/04/2011
Did you just say the internet was made so trolls wouldnt exist?
Sam Wystan
08/04/2011
^Sounds like high praise. Looks like you’d fit right into Slate.com, Chicky.
Also, they have Christopher Hitchens… And isn’t Roots.com affiliated with them?
The Duckman
08/04/2011
You can tell when 16 year olds comment on the blog
The Duckman
08/04/2011
Oh, and its “theroot.com”. Roots.com is preppy outdoorsman clothing.