Technosexual Turn-Ons

what are u in 2?

CKin2U is a fragrance by Calvin Klein. To their credit, CK has made some extremely attractive commodities in the past. Their new campaign, however, is just....just...

The CK in2u bottle, designed by Stephen Burks, is made from the same materials — white plastic and glass — recognizable in an iPod. (Fabien Baron designed the original bottle.) The name is written in the shorthand of an instant message, a casual invitation to sex so immediate as to imply there was no time to spell it out: "in to you."

"We have envisioned this as the first fragrance for the technosexual generation," said Murry, using a term the company made up to describe its intended audience of thumb-texting young people whose romantic lives are defined in part by the casual hookup.

PrettiestBoy Blogger on this new craze: And what about the morning after? Maybe someone should get on that potential gravy train. Why don't we have a fragrance that embodies the giddy uncertainty of what comes after the arranged-by-cell-phone-(most likely) drunken tryst? Can you bottle smudged eye-liner, bed-head, morning breath, discarded condom wrappers, stilted conversation and that glorious moment before the curtain of what-the-fuck-did-I-just-do falls? Because if you can, they probably will.

A logic based system

It’s funny how eastern countries care about the meaning of their words, but western countries only care if you get it right.

In Defense of Hipsters

The half-built condos tower above us like foreboding monoliths of our yuppie futures. I take a look at one of the girls wearing a bright pink keffiyah and carrying a Polaroid camera and think, “If only we carried rocks instead of cameras, we’d look like revolutionaries.” But instead we ignore the weapons that lie at our feet – oblivious to our own impending demise.

From The Hipster Must Die and more simply Hipster.

Remember: hipsters don't hurl stones because they are lazy, vain and pretentious. The faint scent of nonviolent ideology, personal responsibility or balanced pragmatism is probably just 'Ginger Lily' by Urban Outfitters.

Reading:
In Defense of Hipsters by Dave Monaghan and Dan Hancox,

Vain Divinity

If scientists construct cells so they'd be self-conscious creatures, we would simultaneously prove the existence of a God (Supreme Being/Creator) and that humans are God.

Me:"How do you think we’d act towards creatures that we created? Do you think we would be fond of them? Or scared, and cruel?"
Jeremy: "We’d probably abandon them…just like our god."

The Von Skankwhores

Guther VonSkankwhore lived in the tallest mansion up on West 87th street, in the Red `zone (one family per city block).

And his three daughters, Slutessa, Whoretta, and Falopia Von Skankwhore.

They with their cats, Floozy and Trollop.

One day, Guther was having gin and tonics with his business partner, Diego. , the black sheep of the family.

Imps

“Can they breathe in there?” I asked, as Caleb and I stared at the jars on the table. Caleb shrugged.
“Unfortunately,” he sighed, picking up a stray which had just hit the floor.

“Who’s that?”
“Beezlebum” said Caleb.
“Hmm?” I asked. I racked my head for some connection, anything familiar with “be” “ezle” or “bum” but all that came up was “beetlejuice” “basil” and “that bum on the sidewalk”.
One of the most surprising things about the imp is that they are rather thin, despite their gluttony. She’s got this impish quality about her. Fangs- of course,
She’s skinny, but not in the nice, graceful way. Lump for a stomach.

Anton Owns a Pet Parrot

“Yo, Hitler, want a cracker?” I asked Anton, who threw me a dirty look.
Tenderly, he turned to the bird on his shoulder, “Would he?” he asked.
Hitler nodded.