Saturday, January 13, 2007

Top four requirements for a 21st-century ironic "fill-in-the-blanks"-style parody of any genre or area of culture riddled with cliches


1. Be sure to point out the idiosyncratic characters/themes, and get to the bottom of what purpose these things serve. For example, you might ask why emo bands (always fun to hate) never carry out their seeming suicide plans. Trust me, no one has ever asked this before.

2. Devise a formula for the creation of silly-sounding names in the genre, using that "porn star name" thing as a model.

2. The Capitalization Of Every Word In A Description Indicates That The Phenomenon Described Is "Standard", Perhaps To The Point Of Being Somehow "Trademarked" ™

3. The facetious use of the word "obligatory" is obviously obligatory.