December 11th, 2008 / 4:50 pm
Author Spotlight & Random
Some of our favorite Weaklings: Recent highlights from Dennis Cooper’s blog
Today is “DC’s obscure porn search and rescue mission #8: Suck Cock America! (1972)
Every picture in this post except for this one came from this funny-creepy instructional website about activities for kids that I found while looking for "newspaper hat" pictures for the Pound post earlier. Instead of using MS Paint, why didn't they just give the kids emo haircuts?
Tags: Dennis Cooper, emo, oulipo
Dennis Cooper makes me so happy there is a Dennis Cooper in this world. You know what I mean?
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What were emos called in the 70s and 80s or are they just new kids who cannot handle life?
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goth
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Todd- i know exactly what you mean.
island & jereme- there’s some discussion of the difference in the post, i think. i also found a picture on google image, one of those mock-motivational posters, that described emo as “goth, but for pussies,” which seems to me interesting less in what tries to say about emo than what it tells us about what the writer thinks about goth.
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