Taglines

Tagline Date
fun within prescribed limits August 17th, 2008
awkward flow, to some it's even unorthodox January 4th, 2008
make art not status December 13th, 2007
hard to read like graffiti November 29th, 2007
connections like OPEC July 29th, 2007
blue collar turns to bourgeois July 22nd, 2007
all motion but no engagement June 21st, 2007
a bottomless stomach of want June 9th, 2007
indeed all subsides April 18th, 2007
nothing endures February 16th, 2007
a solutions playground February 6th, 2007

Older Taglines

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"]