So, I inadvertently started a pretty ridiculous Twitter meme yesterday. I wrote:
Painfully tempted to do a parody rewrite w/John Galt as hipster & Gulch in Williamsburg RT @thecalebbacon: Atlas shrugged and said “meh.”
The 60-page speech to be replaced by a Tom Verlaine solo…
Which inspired:
ziege19
@normative Who is John Galt? Oh, you probably haven’t heard of him, he’s really obscure. #HipsterShrugged
Which was all it took to set folks off. Some of my favorites:
normative I guess it’s fair if Hank always pays the rent / And he doesn’t get all bent / About sleepin’ on the couch #HipsterShrugged
normative So, I stopped the motor of the world, which was fine because I got a great deal on this fixie. #HipsterShrugged
radleybalko I stopped contributing to society way before “going Galt” was cool. #HipsterShrugged
SandyS1 Dagny Taggart: Relationship status: It’s complicated. #HipsterShrugged
normative Yeah, it’s my revolutionary new material. As flexible as tights, but you can totally wear them like jeans. #HipsterShrugged
ziege19 I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own face on the T-shirt I am wearing. #HipsterShrugged
jacobgrier I have John Galt’s entire speech… on vinyl #hipstershrugged
sethdmichaels @normative Side A is Side A. #hipstershrugged
normative I swear by my life and my love of it, if I have to hear “Oxford Comma” one more f*ing time… #HipsterShrugged
normative No, it’s *Rearden* Metal. I mean, it looks just like 80s metal, but it’s ironic #HipsterShrugged
laughinghyena13 That hamburger sandwich is fine, but I’ve had much better at a diner in Wyoming. #hipstershrugged
normative Yeah, it’s kinda grungy, but this train tunnel is still a lot cleaner than the bathroom at Northsix that time… #HipsterShrugged
grandmofhelsing Galt’s Speech really isn’t as good as his earlier work. #hipstershrugged
grandmofhelsing But 19th Century Mortors was better. RT @willwilkinson 20th Century Motor Company used to make a sweet hybrid. #HipsterShrugged
normative “We are going back to the 80s.” He raised his hand & over the desolate earth checked his neon Swatch. #HipsterShrugged
normative Yeah, Ragnar was in Sigur Ros for a while, but he bailed when the label got so hardass about piracy. #HipsterShruggednormative Actually, Francisco’s got this trust fund, but he doesn’t like to talk about it. #HipsterShrugged
willwilkinson Yeah, Francisco’s super-rich, but he’s totally cool politically. #HipsterShrugged
ziege19 I just unlocked the “Helping Is Futile” badge on @foursquare! #HipsterShrugged
petersuderman I used to like the government, but that was before it got big and popular. #HipsterShrugged
conor64 People vilify Dagny Taggart, but I wish more corporate execs always traveled by rail #HipsterShrugged
jacobgrier Camping out for the new iPhone. Rearden Metal finish, Galt motor. Pretty sweet. #hipstershrugged #stilldropscalls
silentbeep3000 Rosa DeLauro is a f**ing moocher #HipsterShrugged
peejaybee Galt’s Gulch used to be pretty cool. Now it’s like, strollers everywhere. #hipstershrugged
18 responses so far ↓
1 Brian Moore // Aug 27, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Haha, oh dear.
2 NG // Aug 27, 2010 at 3:47 pm
This is absolutely hilarious.
3 gidget commando // Aug 27, 2010 at 4:12 pm
I love you forever for this.
4 ERM // Aug 27, 2010 at 6:29 pm
I don’t get the Oxford Comma comment. Hipsters don’t like extra commas?
5 Franklin Harris // Aug 27, 2010 at 7:59 pm
“Oxford Comma” is a song by Vampire Weekend.
Don’t feel bad. I had to look it up. What little Vampire Weekend I’ve heard, I hated.
6 Julian Sanchez // Aug 27, 2010 at 8:13 pm
The joke being that their debut “indie” album became so successful that it was soon hugely overplayed (in certain circles at least) & that song in particular.
7 MochaMike // Aug 28, 2010 at 8:30 am
Damn, after trying and trying to forget having read Atlas Shrugged, this, something to remind me I had–worse, remind how much I liked it at the time.
Not being a follower of Twitter or Facebook, I do occassionally check Lamebook (the Reader’s Digest version of Facebook). Posts like the above make me think I’ve missed some great humor. Thanks for the post.
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9 Leo // Aug 29, 2010 at 8:06 am
Dude, you need to get one of those automatic facebook post things. In any event, I’m posting it old school style. Um, ironically or something.
10 doctorpsycho1960 // Aug 29, 2010 at 11:55 am
“I used to like the government, but that was before it got big and popular.”
It is objectively the case that I LOLed.
11 DivisionByZero // Aug 29, 2010 at 8:21 pm
I’m with doctorpsycho1960. I LOL’d too. I guess that actually makes that comment uncool now that more than one person likes it. 🙁
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14 Balph Hunsacker // Sep 2, 2010 at 11:08 am
If you’ve ever read AS, which I’m doing now for the first time well past my college years, then you know one thing: the writing is atrocious.
15 Nik_the_Heratik // Sep 2, 2010 at 4:58 pm
This is awesome.
16 Devon Jones // Sep 8, 2010 at 7:05 pm
Oh god. Amazing.
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