Technohipster Jakob Lodwick quits the internet over harsh comments from his various detractors. “I may be a millionaire but…this sort of thing still hurts,” he writes. “You may conceptualize the Unites States as a great nation. But it’s also a big tribe, with its own irrational taboos. One of them is: don’t talk proudly about your achievements.”
This may be a good time to mention (proudly!) that, in the latest D&D campaign I’m playing, I’ve named my half-elf warlock “Lodwick.” Okay, there’s no really good time to mention that. But he describes Gawker’s Alex Pareene as an elf, so it’s totally pertinent!
TeacherPatti | 26-Jun-08 at 9:30 pm | Permalink
This is a great post, but I have been singing that Culture Club song since I first glanced at it in my Google Reader. I also started singing CC’s “Miss Me Blind”, just for variety’s sake.
Wax | 27-Jun-08 at 12:10 am | Permalink
I’m with TeacherPatti - I know what I’ll be hearing as I fall asleep tonight.
Also, I tried to find out who this ‘Lodwick’ fellow is. Near as I can tell, he’s a self-involved hipster who’s, um, dating a self-involved hipster. And he desperately needs to get some sun.
Meaning I have narrowed down his possible identities to - on the outside - a couple million people. I ask for your patience while I systematically exterminate them WITH MY THOUGHTS. I begin with myself, of course (that’s how self-involved I am).
Piggybacking your sweet sweet traffic,
Wa.
this blog is overrated | 27-Jun-08 at 10:37 am | Permalink
I’m so sorry; no one should have to know who Jakob Lodwick is. (I can’t apologize to TeacherPatti; I think we’re about even now that she’s reminded me about “Miss Me Blind.”)
Dale | 27-Jun-08 at 4:23 pm | Permalink
It sucks when you’re a famous individual and people recognize you. I don’t even want to think about that.
Young Urban Amateur | 29-Jun-08 at 9:38 am | Permalink
Hahaha this post is the best.
I thought Lodwick broke up w/ Allison last year? Don’t tell me they got back together.
this blog is overrated | 30-Jun-08 at 10:20 am | Permalink
Awesome! I thought I was the only one who knew about these pseudocelebrities (other than Dale, whom I’ve made to read JA’s blog and possibly even the tangentially related “Style, By Mary.”)
Young Urban Amateur | 30-Jun-08 at 11:55 pm | Permalink
Oh, TBIO, I am sadly aware of all this, yes. So sadly.
Heck, I used to be on Rebecca Eisenberg’s Rebeccalist. [embarrassed] Which makes me a wizened old man in Internet years.
I can, however, proudly say I was completely unaware of “Style, by Mary”.