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My name is Matt and I grew up in the Hawkeye State. I'm finishing up a PhD in Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media at NC State, where I'm working on a dissertation about rhetoric and meme culture.

I'm a technophile, a coulrophobe, and a burrito enthusiast. These items are mostly unrelated.

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slacktory:

“Lazy Harp Seal Has No Job” by Parry Gripp

Good luck not humming this to yourself all day.

Productive Parry Gripp > Lazy Harp Seal

For the 7th time, every @robdelaney mention of @BarackObama. Like to think these had something to do with gay marriage policy.

(see previously: rounds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.)

collegehumor:

How to OWN Any Situation

Owning It: A Safety Guide for Navigating Everyday Embarrassments.

Fairly certain this is an old Ellen DeGeneres bit.

knowyourmeme:

Monday.

KYMdb - Gaston

I’m especially good at expectorating.

storyboard:

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?

Genre!

For the 6th time, every @robdelaney mention of @BarackObama. Oh to have him at the #WHCD someday.

(see previously: rounds 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)

intheconservatory:

Correction: THIS is the best “I have an idea and Lauren is going to photoshop it because reasons” collaboration yet.

The little guy makes all the difference.

Reblogging myself for a signal boost today because I refuse to believe that more people don’t find this as delightful as I do.

Correction: THIS is the best “I have an idea and Lauren is going to photoshop it because reasons” collaboration yet.

The little guy makes all the difference.

I think I found the companion album to Kirk Van Houten’s “Can I Borrow a Feeling?”

collegehumor:

The Ten Internet Plagues [click for more]

Accurate.

academictitles:

Happy Easter and Passover, fellow scholars.

Extra points for the pre-colon triple pun.

Matt Morain | Interneter

Fuck Yeah Fuckyeah Blogs

The Ten Internet Plagues [click for more]