School shooting hoodies

Butbutbut it’s cool.

Their customers are the same folks spending decent $$$ on ripped or bedazzled jeans. Protip: Buy a pair of jeans at Goodwill or Savers and do a little grunt work yourself; it’s far more authentic.

When I was growing up, “streetwear” was what you wore because you couldn’t afford nicer clothes.

 

When I got my VA Tech sweatshirt, the first thing I did was pin it to a tree and strafe it with my AK. It is authentic as fuck now...

 

You could probably make some good money selling it on Grailed.

 

I, for one, welcome climate change taking this species out. It’s become way too stupid for its own good.

 

The brand, known for their $1,000 jeans and for dipping Nike sneakers in concrete, is designed by Atlanta-based duo Brick Owens and Dieter "Du" Grams. They were recently profiled in a New York Times article, which heralded them as the next generation of haute streetwear. Their past collections have included graphic T-shirts with images of guns. "We are making violent statements," Du told the outlet. "That's for you to know who we are, so we can have a voice in the market. But eventually that voice will say things that everyone can wear."

 

Further proof there's no such thing as bad publicity.

There's a whole retail/fashion/performance art crossover sensibility in haute "streetwear."

Soho storefronts are filled with it. Designed for the idiot rich, I guess.

Remember this?

 

Come on, people, where do you think the Fyre Festival crowd buys its clothes?

 

Don't we have these stories about once a year? Some outrageous/sexist/racist piece of clothing that we'd otherwise never hear about?

 

George Carlin used to say it: The planet is fine. The people are fucked.

Edit: This inspired me to look up the rest of the routine. I found a transcript of most of it.

"The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!

We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

Plastic… asshole.”

 

Gonna be a big hit at the 2020 GOP Convention/Klan Meeting.

 

Baylee and Billie Bob, go get that school hoodie you took from lost and found and let’s to make us a freedom hoodie out back at the shed.

Get me my Obama stopper AK.

 

I try hard to not feel this way. The other day one of my friends' kids told me she wanted to majot in anthropology because she wants "to foment hope through understanding each other better." Oh, honey...

Carlin was the pessimist we accuse Lewis Black of being. He was also brilliant and spot on. For anyone interested in seeing what this might look like, I recommend BBC's"The Future Is Wild." (The U.S. versions took out all the references to the fact that we're going to be gone. Our exceptionalism at work.) Oh, and apologies for the thread hijack.