Jul. 31st, 2006

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I thank [livejournal.com profile] burntcurtis for the phrase "White Identity" to describe Orange County's many fucked-up subcultures: goth, skinhead, mod, swing kid, straightedge, rockabilly greaser, emo, "punk," neo-hippie, club kid, etc. Until he pointed it out I hadn't seen our collection of permanent teenage culture victims as a consequence of overwhelming whiteness, but it sure makes sense.

I was reminded of that this morning when it was brought to my attention that a skinhead had figured out how to work a computer.
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A restaurant, the name of which is formed by making a possessive out of a noun not traditionally used as a given name, but which is descriptive or evocative of the restaurant's food or entertainment or the ethnic group which produces said food, will be a bad restaurant. Examples: Chili's, TGI Friday's, Taquito's. Corollary: A restaurant named similarly but with a plural instead of a possessive will be more expensive and marginally better, but rarely worth it. Examples: Plums, Scallions, Tapas. Second corollary: Any business named in the former naming category is sure to be an unpleasant franchise and should be avoided. Example: Tire's Warehouse.

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