The Mezunian

Die Positivität ist das Opium des Volkes, aber der Spott ist das Opium der Verrückten

How to Stop Being an Optimistic Asshole

I. A Boring Public Service Announcement My favorite part ’bout a lot o’ “positive” people—not all o’ them, you whiny bastards I imagine might complain if anyone read this dreck—is how they oft use it as a way to mask the fact that they’re oft terrible people. This makes sense: positivity is aesthetically pleasing—to most […]

Posted in Politics, Yuppy Tripe

The Anti-Anti-Anti-Mankiw

This is probably frivolous—but then, isn’t everything I write?—but I wanted to make ’nother quick post on Mankiw & my grotesque fascination with his rhetorical philosophy, which I think shows the general counterintuitive philosophy o’ centrists: that one becomes smarter when one thinks as li’l as possible. In an admittedly-rather-ol’ post, Mankiw uses the same […]

Posted in No News Is Good News, Politics

Idealist Careers Understands the Important Occupational Issues

Holding a name brimming with realism & depth, I’m shocked to see that Idealists Careers’ advice for what to research before a job interview is not such silly things as pay, duties, benefits, & such, but what this company does in the community & what their “values” are. (Hint: If this value is anything but […]

Posted in Yuppy Tripe

Admitted Lover o’ Mediocrity Changes Mind, Now Thinks Mediocrity Is for Lazy Dumbasses who Love Sports

It’s sad that after Goins’ bold salute to mediocre writing, he’s now1 changed his mind, calling “jack-o-all-trades” morons who like sports. Ironically, he’s talking ’bout writing; but writing is 1 o’ the few industries where having well-rounded skills is a boon—a’least for fiction writers. Fiction-writing involves creating believable worlds, which are usually inspired by, even […]

Posted in Politics, Yuppy Tripe

Mr. America’s Delightful Stew

Tricky, tricky, Mr. America: I’ve ‘scaped your traps so far; but 1 day you’ll get me. I show no fear, I feign ignorance; but I know what you’re boiling up… Tricky li’l devil, you… I know what you’re planning: you won’t just smash me with your invisible palm; you’ll do it nice & slow… Nice […]

Posted in Crazy, Poetry

Goins Decrees, “Give Me Mediocrity!”

I must confess, it’s refreshing to see a post-regurgitator outright acknowledge his preference for easy mediocrity over “art for art’s sake.” I still think my own mo’-honest philosophy o’ “High-quality is probably better, but I’m both too shoddy & too attention-hungry, so I’ll just throw my shit in your face like a baboon & let […]

Posted in Yuppy Tripe

Mother 4’s Great Web Design

The Earthbound/Mother series is 1 o’ those cult classics that nobody cared ’bout when it came out ’cept a few, those few became fanatics with a fervor rivaling political groups, till it spread so far that now the internet’s full o’ people praising it, including the creators o’ South Park. I would say that I […]

Posted in Video Games, Web Design

Don’t Fuck It Up

Don’t fuck it up. It’s okay… Everything’ll be fine… But don’t fuck it up. Think how exciting it must be! The risks! Throw down the dice & how you don’t get snake eyes… You’ll shrivel and die… You’ll do fine… If you truly want to live, You’ll do everything right. The hand knows everything… It […]

Posted in Poetry