https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/public/ recent bookmarks from matthewmcvickar 2013-04-04T09:31:35+00:00 http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/zunguzungu/clear-satire/ matthewmcvickarthe statement “it’s clearly satire” is never true, and can never be true. If satire depends on context, audience, intention, and reception—and I put it to you that it does—then it’s impossible to say, of a tweet like the infamous Onion tweet last week, that it’s “clearly satire.” If you don’t take it as satire, it isn’t. Satire is like shooting an apple off someone’s head. If you do it right, it’s pretty cool and no harm done; if you do it wrong, telling people what you meant to do is beside the point, and no one will care. It either works or it doesn’t. And if you hurt someone while doing it, claiming that it was really satire is just special pleading, demanding that your speech-act doesn’t have to abide by the normal rules.]]> satire writing humor internet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:51954b3c8f10/ 2013-03-20T19:36:05+00:00 http://www.theonion.com/articles/find-the-thing-youre-most-passionate-about-then-do,31742/?ref=auto matthewmcvickarIt could be anything—music, writing, drawing, acting, teaching—it really doesn’t matter. All that matters is that once you know what you want to do, you dive in a full 10 percent and spend the other 90 torturing yourself because you know damn well that it’s far too late to make a drastic career change, and that you’re stuck on this mind-numbing path for the rest of your life.]]> humor satire life society https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:531a28304918/ 2012-11-02T07:42:16+00:00 http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-suddenly-realizes-this-just-going-to-be-a-t,30195/ matthewmcvickarFollowing Hurricane Sandy’s destructive tear through the Northeast this week, the nation’s 300 million citizens looked upon the trail of devastation and fully realized, for the first time, that this is just going to be something that happens from now on.]]> environment humor satire america world https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:13f37fc5e31c/ 2011-11-26T14:49:17+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/magazine/the-dangerous-politics-of-internet-humor-in-china.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all matthewmcvickar china satire censorship democracy twitter Internet activism cartoons https://instapaper.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:46eced52857e/ 2011-01-03T21:45:02+00:00 http://meganamram.tumblr.com/post/2585482914/cable-tv matthewmcvickar humor satire tv america culture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:041b592f63a3/ 2009-12-12T21:51:09+00:00 http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/12/a-not-so-brief-chat-with-randall-stephenson-of-att.html matthewmcvickar america politics technology innovation humor business culture apple iphone economics satire at&t https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:3e85580ff813/ 2009-01-09T03:47:51+00:00 http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/12/30roeder.html matthewmcvickar spam humor writing technology internet language english satire editing https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:d3e3e6469503/ 2008-03-26T20:37:34+00:00 http://audio.skeyelab.com/howtospeakhip/ matthewmcvickar audio culture history humor language satire https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:0c4909c6e12c/ 2007-09-04T10:25:33+00:00 http://www.fat-pie.com/healthreminder.htm matthewmcvickar animation satire health humor https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:da2c49af2d3b/