A Website for Five People
July 11, 2018 9:58 AM Subscribe
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” By The Beach Boys, But With Single-syllable Adjectives Other Than “Nice”・
Mark Zuckerberg Testifies Before Congress: A Niche Transcript・
Sixteen Songs That Will Trigger Your Fight Or Flight Response When You Hear Them In Public, Provided You’ve Read Homestuck・
Literally Just 16 Getty Images Of Bernadette Peters With Dogs・
Every Iconic Onscreen Teen Friendship That Should Have Been A Lesbian Romance But Wasn’t, Because Some Higher Power Hates Me Personally・
We Need A Musical Episode Of Stranger Things And We Need It Now・
Pending Edits To The Brideshead Revisited Wikipedia Page Where It’s Star Wars Now・
A Conservative High School Production Of Angels In America Where They Can’t Say Aids So All The Characters Have Diabetes Instead・
In Honour Of The New Star Wars Movie, Watch This Trilogy Of Luke Skywalker Fan Videos Set To Lana Del Rey Songs
All this and quite a bit more, from The Niche: A website for five people.
All this and quite a bit more, from The Niche: A website for five people.
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Wouldn't it be Niche...
posted by shenkerism at 10:05 AM on July 11, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by shenkerism at 10:05 AM on July 11, 2018 [6 favorites]
A Conservative High School Production Of Angels In America Where They Can’t Say Aids So All The Characters Have Diabetes Instead
Apparently SNL just rips their sketches straight from twitter now.
posted by muddgirl at 10:08 AM on July 11, 2018 [5 favorites]
Apparently SNL just rips their sketches straight from twitter now.
posted by muddgirl at 10:08 AM on July 11, 2018 [5 favorites]
A website for five people? Big deal; when I had my own blog, I never got more than three readers.
posted by oneswellfoop at 10:09 AM on July 11, 2018 [11 favorites]
posted by oneswellfoop at 10:09 AM on July 11, 2018 [11 favorites]
Oh the best one on the first page isn't even in your pullquotes!
posted by octobersurprise at 10:20 AM on July 11, 2018 [9 favorites]
Every “The National” Album, Ranked by How Much Matt Berninger Sounds Like a Bottom In ItIf nothing else this website has given the world something that it has long needed: the phrase "bottom-friendly dad rock."
posted by octobersurprise at 10:20 AM on July 11, 2018 [9 favorites]
one of these links is actually a portal to Hell, but you won't know which one until you click on it.
posted by roger ackroyd at 10:20 AM on July 11, 2018 [5 favorites]
posted by roger ackroyd at 10:20 AM on July 11, 2018 [5 favorites]
There's no way this was a properly licensed production, right?
Your problem, Henry, is that you're hung up on words.
I recently got back into The World Only Spins Forward after having put it down for a bit, so I got a good chuckle out of this reimagined bit:
ROY: This is not sophistry. And this is not hypocrisy. This is reality. I have high blood sugar. But unlike nearly every other man of whom this is true, I bring my insulin to the White House and President Reagan smiles at me and shakes my hand. Because what I am is defined entirely by who I am. Roy Cohn is not a diabetic.
HENRY: Okay, Roy.
ROY: And what is my diagnosis, Henry?
HENRY: You have diabetes, Roy.
ROY: No, Henry, no. Diabetes is what diabetics have. I have gluten intolerance.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:25 AM on July 11, 2018 [19 favorites]
Your problem, Henry, is that you're hung up on words.
I recently got back into The World Only Spins Forward after having put it down for a bit, so I got a good chuckle out of this reimagined bit:
ROY: This is not sophistry. And this is not hypocrisy. This is reality. I have high blood sugar. But unlike nearly every other man of whom this is true, I bring my insulin to the White House and President Reagan smiles at me and shakes my hand. Because what I am is defined entirely by who I am. Roy Cohn is not a diabetic.
HENRY: Okay, Roy.
ROY: And what is my diagnosis, Henry?
HENRY: You have diabetes, Roy.
ROY: No, Henry, no. Diabetes is what diabetics have. I have gluten intolerance.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:25 AM on July 11, 2018 [19 favorites]
Pretty sure I have more than 5 internet friends, soooooo....
(The title is a lie.)
posted by subdee at 10:25 AM on July 11, 2018
(The title is a lie.)
posted by subdee at 10:25 AM on July 11, 2018
I have an irrational love of Wouldn't It Be Nice and that list made me laugh.
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 10:25 AM on July 11, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 10:25 AM on July 11, 2018 [1 favorite]
The 100 Most Popular Ships On Ao3, Ranked
God damn that made me feel old and out of touch. Like, forget the characters, I don't know the fictional works being referenced :-(
posted by Gorgik at 10:31 AM on July 11, 2018 [2 favorites]
God damn that made me feel old and out of touch. Like, forget the characters, I don't know the fictional works being referenced :-(
posted by Gorgik at 10:31 AM on July 11, 2018 [2 favorites]
89. Dean Winchester & Castiel, platonically – Supernatural
88. Steve Rogers & Bucky Barnes, platonically – Captain America
87. Sherlock Holmes & John Watson, platonically – Sherlock
Make it gay, you cowards!
86. Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester, platonically – Supernatural
Props for not making it gay.
I cackled. Thank you for the link!
posted by bagel at 10:45 AM on July 11, 2018
88. Steve Rogers & Bucky Barnes, platonically – Captain America
87. Sherlock Holmes & John Watson, platonically – Sherlock
Make it gay, you cowards!
86. Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester, platonically – Supernatural
Props for not making it gay.
I cackled. Thank you for the link!
posted by bagel at 10:45 AM on July 11, 2018
The Angels in America content here is cracking me up. One of the not linked posts is "Is your teen kin with Roy Cohn?" which creates a universe where teens are all pretending to be Roy Cohn from Angels in America.
Does your teen seem kind of gay? Not gay in the usual way, but gay in the terrifying evil old McCarthyite lawyer way? Has your teen started speaking in something like a 1950s Jewish New York accent but with the impeccable vocal flourish of Al Pacino or Nathan Lane? Is your child as hellbent on eradicating the Communist menace from American culture as they are on filling the void in their own rotten-black heart with meaningless earthly acquisitions of power? If you answered yes to two or more of these questions, then your son or daughter may have gotten into the burgeoning internet phenomenon of Roy Cohn Kinning.posted by JustKeepSwimming at 11:02 AM on July 11, 2018 [5 favorites]
The only one of these I'm qualified to comment on is the Homestuck one, which is spot on oh goddammit what have I been doing with my life.
posted by Rush-That-Speaks at 11:51 AM on July 11, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by Rush-That-Speaks at 11:51 AM on July 11, 2018 [2 favorites]
I really enjoyed the Zuckerberg transcript. Going to work my way through all of these now.
posted by sevenyearlurk at 12:15 PM on July 11, 2018
posted by sevenyearlurk at 12:15 PM on July 11, 2018
This entire website is relevant to my interests. Thank you for cratering my productivity for the next several months.
posted by ApathyGirl at 2:18 PM on July 11, 2018
posted by ApathyGirl at 2:18 PM on July 11, 2018
is this our new The Toast?
posted by numaner at 3:05 PM on July 11, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by numaner at 3:05 PM on July 11, 2018 [3 favorites]
I think it might be
posted by vibratory manner of working at 3:50 PM on July 11, 2018
posted by vibratory manner of working at 3:50 PM on July 11, 2018
Kind of sad that Bashir/Garak wasn't one of the ships.
Also, relevant to a recent post on the blue.
posted by Halloween Jack at 7:43 PM on July 11, 2018 [1 favorite]
Also, relevant to a recent post on the blue.
posted by Halloween Jack at 7:43 PM on July 11, 2018 [1 favorite]
The 100 Most Popular Ships
it's in Book 2 of the Iliad fanfic
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 8:23 PM on July 11, 2018 [2 favorites]
it's in Book 2 of the Iliad fanfic
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 8:23 PM on July 11, 2018 [2 favorites]
I Love Elizabeth Holmes, Scam Queen is a great read into how she proved that women can be just as crazily greedy and as good at grifting as men. And that maybe her downfall while the likes of Zuckerberg are still reigning is a sign of sexism at work.
Also there's a movie coming out about it!
posted by numaner at 9:45 PM on July 11, 2018 [1 favorite]
Also there's a movie coming out about it!
posted by numaner at 9:45 PM on July 11, 2018 [1 favorite]
Filling a gap in my content needs previously served by The Awl. Thank you.
posted by treblekicker at 5:43 AM on July 12, 2018
posted by treblekicker at 5:43 AM on July 12, 2018
Wouldn’t It Be Clutch
Maybe it would; maybe it wouldn't. But it will never be fetch.
posted by flabdablet at 6:47 AM on July 12, 2018
Maybe it would; maybe it wouldn't. But it will never be fetch.
posted by flabdablet at 6:47 AM on July 12, 2018
"A Website for Five People"? A staggering nine people are listed on the masthead!
posted by kirkaracha at 7:29 AM on July 12, 2018
posted by kirkaracha at 7:29 AM on July 12, 2018
Clearly, then, at least four of them don't control the means of production.
posted by flabdablet at 7:40 AM on July 12, 2018
posted by flabdablet at 7:40 AM on July 12, 2018
Please! Please, kids stop fighting. Maybe Lisa's right about America being the land of opportunity, and maybe Adil has a point about the machinery of capitalism being oiled with the blood of the workers.
posted by kirkaracha at 8:19 AM on July 12, 2018
posted by kirkaracha at 8:19 AM on July 12, 2018
There was a tumblr based arg and I missed it? Sad face.
posted by gryftir at 11:34 AM on July 12, 2018
posted by gryftir at 11:34 AM on July 12, 2018
is this our new The Toast?
Possibly our new Brunching Shuttlecocks.
posted by webmutant at 11:59 PM on July 12, 2018
Possibly our new Brunching Shuttlecocks.
posted by webmutant at 11:59 PM on July 12, 2018
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There's no way this was a properly licensed production, right?
posted by Atom Eyes at 10:04 AM on July 11, 2018 [2 favorites]