July 30, 2008


the new oddness

clusterflock is always looking for ways to make clusterflock new, better, more confusing. We’ve already created a place for readers to make posts, and have been working on creating an archive of interviews with people who have made a niche for themselves on the internet. What should we do next? Do you want to be involved? clusterflock needs you to bring the new oddness.

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26 Responses to “the new oddness”

  1. Someone on July 30th, 2008 at 10:50 am

    Hmmm…

    I’m thinking a Not Sports page would do it.

  2. Deron Bauman on July 30th, 2008 at 11:24 am

    intrigued. Can you elaborate?

  3. jandek on July 30th, 2008 at 11:40 am

    jandek would like to be involved.

  4. Sheila Ryan on July 30th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    “We” would welcome Jandek’s involvement.

  5. Andrew Simone on July 30th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    I believe “We” would.

  6. jandek on July 30th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    Well, hells bells, let’s make it happen.

  7. Sheila Ryan on July 30th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    Yeehaw! Does this mean that Jandek will play the clusterflockstock mainstage — with or without Bill Callahan?

  8. jandek on July 30th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    …Sadly, no.

  9. Aaron Winslow on July 30th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    Product reviews.
    Headstone of the week.
    Chess with the incarcerated.
    Sponsor a youth sports team.

  10. Someone on July 30th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    The Not Sports page could track, accumulate and render nearly incomprehensible the inadvertent statistical anomalies of public figures, beloved or no;

    e.g.

    George Bush went 2 for 3 today, stumbling once down the steps of Air Force One, later followed by that now-famous pig throwing incident with Germany’s Chancellor Merkel. However he then missed an opportunity to complete the ‘hat trick’ when he removed a hat from his seat at the gasthaus where he and Chancellor Merkel noshed on bier und brochen.

    and

    The paparazzi are now 3 for a gazillion, having once again missed multiple photo ops of Paris Hilton’s gnarly legs, opting instead to lens Ms Hilton’s thoroughly average face and form. This is the third consecutive season paparazzi have failed to connect to reality, ostensibly on orders from Management.

    “Mate, Gawker or The WaPo doesn’t cut cheques for sorry pins, right? They want a bit of the ol’ nasty, the ol’ in and out. But, tasteful, you know? Paris is our girl.”

    Today’s’ lack of scoring puts paparazzi dead last in the Journalism\Photog League, with almost no hope of making the Playoffs later this month in Los Angeles.

    Leagues, yeah?
    Box scores, right?
    Daily Lines, yes?
    Tournaments.
    Holes in one…

  11. Deron Bauman on July 30th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Someone, would you like to be in charge of that?

    Aaron, I fished your comments out of spam. When I first saw it I thought it was for the fake curses post.

  12. Aaron Winslow on July 30th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    Wrong or Right? with Bauman and Mabli
    Teabag or teabag?
    Apocalypse backpack.
    Virtual decoupage.
    Gone fishin’.
    Cluster-pee-cam.

  13. Deron Bauman on July 30th, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    jesus tits, Winslow. effing genius.

  14. Sheila Ryan on July 30th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    I like a good fishing report.

  15. Kris on July 30th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    How about pictures of cats featuring witticisms written in (get this) poorly constructed sentences, with problematic syntax and poor spelling being a key characteristic?

    That’s what this here Internet needs.

  16. Deron Bauman on July 30th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    Kris, you may have stumbled on something.

  17. Someone on July 30th, 2008 at 4:37 pm

    sure.

    i’ll take a stabbing at it.

    have your people touch my people…

  18. Michael Grant Smith on July 30th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    I will embrace the new oddness as long as I don’t have to surrender the old oddness.

  19. Deron Bauman on July 30th, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    the old oddness is the new new oddness.

  20. Michael Grant Smith on July 30th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

    I feel like I think I feel better now.

  21. Deron Bauman on July 30th, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    that’s by accident, which is by design.

  22. Rick Neece on July 30th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    WWJD?

  23. Sheila Ryan on July 30th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

    WWJDD? (What would Johnny Depp do?)

    Or how about: WWRND? (What would Rafael Nadal do?)

  24. Rick Neece on July 30th, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    Sheila! Indeed!

    Back in my latter Saks days, when I seemed to be perpetually merchandising rack after rack of the newest receipts of Juicy Couture on the sales floor, I imagined a bangle bracelet encrusted with rhinestones and ebony, inlayed with WWJD in Old English font. “What Would Juicy Do?” If only I’d shared that vision with those juicy people. It could’ve been a contender.

  25. Sheila Ryan on July 30th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

    It could have been a contender, indeed.

    If we’re so smart, why ain’t we rich?

  26. jandek on July 30th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    More importantly: What Would Zsa Zsa Gabor do?

    (flirt, and call everybody dahhling, I suspect.)

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