| Tuesday, July 29, 2008 |
12:00 - Domesticity Isn't Pretty
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One of the most bizarrely fun things about having been a live witness to the toddler phase, adolescence, and maturity (maturity?) of the Internet is seeing what happens to its youthful icons as they age.
We've seen what happens to the perpetually apartment-bound gamer geeks of Penny Arcade when they reproduce. We've seen Tucker Max pitch his own Comedy Central show and Seanbaby graduate to print media (edited print media, at that).
And now we get to see SomethingAwful.com's most prolific and ambitious writer, Zack "Geist Editor" Parsons, fresh from the high of print publication as he puts down roots in suburbia, next door to a panther who joins him in pitched battle against an entrenched hive of wasps.
I don't know. Something about the Zen of finding new humor in a traditional vein, inspired by "new" circumstances that look a hell of a lot like the beige old surroundings of the world the Internet generation thought it was too good for—it's just fascinating. One of those circle-of-life sorts of things, I guess.
I mean, hell—Zack just told the story straight up. Nary a WASP joke to be seen. Sometimes suburbia doesn't even need irony.
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Brian Tiemann
