The various taglines used on Just a Gwai Lo (the current one won't be added until it is changed):
- official like the seal [from Pete Rock's "Soul Survivor"]
- prediction fatigue
- optimized for page views [a phrase I heard bandied about, with regards to how websites are setup so that it makes the reader want to click more on the internal links, therefore serving more advertisements]
- modesty leads to glory [as said by Stephen Colbert to Dan Rather when the latter praised the former for his modesty]
- short-sighted, paranoid luddite [quoth Andy Baio about publishers]
- not in Paraguay [Simpsons reference, also an inside joke between Karen and myself]
- closed for navigation [BC Ferries covers the front windows with this when sailing at night; see a photo of it at vanmega.com (4th one down)]
- sometimes .dat files just happen [overheard from someone debugging a Windows install]
- open only for emergency ventilation [seen on the windows of SkyTrain, Vancouver's automated elevated light rail system. Almost always open during the summer.]
- fire alarms kill dreams [a fire alarm went off at 4 AM one morning, and I recalled the Work Less Party's slogan Alarm Clocks Kill Dreams.
- hard on technology, soft on people [a nice ideal that I don't always achieve]
- like anyone can even know that [from Napoleon Dynamite, obviously]
- paying attention to the current reality from a conversation with Alistair Cockburn [transcript]
- nontrepreneur
- all subsides [a line from Waiting for Godot]
- like a rough diamond that just needs a little polishing, that's all [from Get a Life, the short-lived sitcom starring Chris Elliott (sampled in Handsome Boy Modelling School's So...How's Your Girl)]
- a buzz bigger than insects in texas [from Kanye West's "Last Call"]
- you're losing your mind [from The Cardigans' "My Favourite Game", which I first heard as a house remix]
- former mild-mannered bookworm [more admission that I don't read many books anymore than anything]
- nobody knows you and nobody gives a damn [relatively out-of-context lyric from Wolf Parade's "I'll Believe in Anything"; a fuller version is "I'd take you where nobody knows you and / nobody gives a damn"]
- trust is social [said by a major player in the digital identity sector of the tech industry]
- dancing leads to touching [from a cell phone commercial: see a screenshot of the horrified PTA member from that commercial]
- second floor living without a yard [from Feist's "Mushaboom"]
- party time without the excellent [play on "Party time! Excellent!" from Wayne's World, obviously]
- mixed feelings like a mulatto [tribute to the mulatto girl that found me on Skype, it's a line from Jay Z's "Bring It On", mostly one-liners about movie gangsters, but real favourite line from that song is "You cling we do our thing and bring / sling your ding-a-ling / from Bed-Stuy Brooklyn to Beijing"]
- workaholics get all the girls [an expression of annoyance]
- everything you do I wanna feel again [from Amerie's "Why Don't We Fall in Love?"]
- you can be a follower, but who's your leader? [line from "Pop", the 'hidden' track on M.I.A.'s Arular; see a detailed discussion of the song
- Sunshine plays a major part in the daytime [non-sequitur from Wu-Tang Clan's "Cream", which was basically an excuse to rhyme with "nine"]
- you're not as good as you think, but we got a good thing goin' [line from Kano's "What Have You Done"]
- gonna make the homegirl want me, gonna make the homegirl take me [play on a line from M.I.A.'s "Hombre"]
- non-cowboys in cowboy shirts are the new non-Hawaiians in Hawaiian shirts
- now featuring impossibly beautiful extrovert women having sex with powerful strangers [a reference to sex-blogs that are too sexy to be true]
- just because she looks good it don't mean I'd hit it [a line from Gang Starr's "Discipline"
- fundamental errors and intentional misrepresentations [it's a long story]
- maybe we could run away and start a little repertory moviehouse or something
- you were the girl who seemed to own the world [from Daniel Johnson's "Dream Scream", though I first heard it covered by Death Cab for Cutie]
- This weblog contains material of a factual nature. Because material of a factual nature is now considered controversial, it should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered. [in reference to the textbook disclaimers about evolution and their parodies.]
- relieve your stress to this [opening line of Oh No's "Getaway", from his album The Disrupt]
- justifiably proud of being read by intellectual giants and waitresses in trailer parks [reference]
- now we all know the words were true in the sappiest songs [from a DCFC song]
- there is love to be made [from Interpol's "Public Pervert"]
- gun control means using both hands in my land [Line from De La Soul's "Stakes Is High". It was my email quote for a while in college, and it amused a few people on the conservative mailing list I subscribed to at the time.]
- so you quote love unquote me / well, stranger things have come to be
- you're bad news / I don't care, I like you
- gotta gotta be down because I want it all [from The Killers' "Mr. Brightside"]
- emo is not a part-time job [it's the elongated version of Jay McCarthy's AIM nick]
- This weblog is in full compliance with the anti-terrorism laws legislated by the USA PATRIOT Act. I am authorized to attest to the above statement and have sufficient knowledge to do so. [reference]
- I'm never gonna know you now / but I'm gonna love you anyhow
- I screwed her and she screwed me / but we never once has sex
- yeah you are beautiful, but you don't mean a thing to me
- bigger than the B-Sharps
- it's about time that we fell in love
- the real revolution ain't about booty size
- have one, have twenty more "one mores" and oh it does not relent
- if you wait too long you gonna end up confessin' / all I think about is you undressin'
- a lot of bitches think he's overly-chauvinistic
- "givin' y'all nothin' but the lick like two broads"
- "I can stop anytime I want to" / famous last words that came back to haunt you
- your unofficial skeleton doesn't frighten me [a lyric from Halloween, Alaska's "You're It"]
- independently run by some guy sitting in a room [source]
- wait, they don't love you like I love you
- Now I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem / Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams [From Kanye West's "Last Call"]
- Armchair analyst in my bathrobe with no serious interest in leaving my living room to actually help the campaign [explanation]
- Choke on your lies!
- Fuck you and your mass media toys. [From Mellowdrone's "Fashionably Uninvited". Could potentially be a permanent tagline.]
- I blog for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies, and prisoners.
- Faites attention à vos paroles, mon frère.
- [your weblog tool of choice] is mightier than the sword. [play on "The pen is mightier than the sword". Square brackets in original.]
- The fiend of blogging has got me stuck like a crack pipe. [play on Nas' line "The fiend of hip-hop has got me stuck like a crack pipe." From ""The World Is Yours"]
- Corporate weblogs suck. [Well, don't they?]
- The allure of the game, keeps callin' your name. [line from Jay-Z's "Allure"]
- Somehow the blog game reminds me of the crack game. [play on "Somehow the rap game reminds me of the crack game", one of Nas' most famous lines. From "Represent".]
- You make me talk baby talk. [line from OutKast's "Pink & Blue", which I suspect talks about ASOW]
- Iustum enim est bellum quibus necessarium, et pia arma ubi nulla nisi in armis spes est. ["Because a necessary war is a just war and where there is hope only in arms, those arms are holy." —Livy as quoted by Niccolò Machiavelli in The Prince.]
- Blogging about sex wastes precious fucking time.
- Sex-free zone.
- Le weblog c'est moi [play on Louis XIV's quote "L'état c'est moi"]
- Ceci n'est pas un weblog [play on Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"]
- I like your girl so you better look after your girl or I might just take your girl and make your girl my girl [from Dizzy Rascal's "I Luv U"]
- like a rough diamond that just needs a little polishing, that's all [from Get a Life, the short-lived sitcom starring Chris Elliott (sampled in Handsome Boy Modelling School's So...How's Your Girl)]