Green Room - Week 8 - Day 7

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

People find figures from the past of other cultures to be fascinating. It’s not just an “American thing”, or even a “Western thing”. The cultural appropriation of grabbing something you think is interesting, and using it as your own, without any true understanding has been going on, well, as long as things have been going on… one village would find a symbol (or often deity) from another village and go “Yeah, us too!”

So really, is it any surprise the in a global marketplace that you will find that people who see something that “everyone knows” will grab that image and use it to make a buck?

Even if they really don’t “get it”?

Yes. I’m talking about HITLER FRIED CHICKEN http://www.ibtimes.com/hitler-fried-chicken-kfc-may-sue-restaurant-thailand-replacing-colonel-sanders-adolf-hitler-1336611 and the general trend in Southeast Asia.

I suppose we should just be grateful that they don’t advertise how they only use gas ovens… *sigh*

You would think they would at least do a *little* research before embracing the image… this *is* the age of the internet after all… you would think that… oh, sorry, look at the time. I have more to say on this, but right now I’m late to meet someone for brunch at Vlad-the-Breakfast-Impaler. They serve everything kabob style!

You have a poll to keep you busy until I get back. http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/673598.html

Comments

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

I must be their target audience because I wanna go there and see if the chicken's any good. =p

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

Gotta admit it's attention-catching, which I think is the whole point.

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you had assets in South-East Asia, Gary :3


That said, it's actually scary that people don't know what Hitler stood for anymore. Even among people who should have no difficulty accessing all the information they could possibly want, it's deemed something from long ago therefore no longer interesting. Which is a scary trend, IMO.

[ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com]

No the scarry trend is that there are people who believe that the holocaust never really happened and its all a conspiracy designed to discredit Hitler and the Nazi party.

[ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com]

Insert random response here.
That aside.
I got more paperwork done and turned into my ssi lawyer.
Now I must get of my bed and fill out paperwork for the next school year for my children.

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Gary, I'm pretty sure you killed the green room by talking about Hitler...

I got to spend an hour yesterday dropping things from the sixth floor balcony at work. For science! I love my job. I'm still kind of amazed they gave us permission to do it, though. We did all the necessary safety things, though! Man, it was fun.

[x-disturbed-x.livejournal.com]

So that's why it's so quiet here! I knew there was a reason.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Maybe people are boycotting it because it comes from Florida.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Not determining the height of the balcony using a barometer, I trust? :)

[x-disturbed-x.livejournal.com]

I only have a little time to write today and instead I'm on tumblr! That site is really sucking up my free time.

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I can relate. Tumblr means I get less sleep because I just can't put it down!

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

Man, now I want fried chicken.

I am being kept very busy with reading and voting and such. I hope to finish at least three of the polls today. We'll see!

In other news, art fair was fun, but ridiculously hot and crowded. I got some nice prints (a tentacle monster, a troll, and a weird surreal night scene involving a frog carousel and a giant koi fish... my tastes are pretty predictable) and some gifts for other people, so mission accomplished this weekend.

I got two rejection letters yesterday. Maybe today after reading All The Things (tm) I'll send more things out. Sometimes it's a slog. Ok, maybe always it's a slog.

And I still want fried chicken, though perhaps without Hitler attached. That seems a little heavy.

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Those prints definitely sound like you. :)

Sorry about the rejections. I got one too a while ago. I don't know - maybe self-publishing is the way to go for me.

I hope you're doing okay.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I don't even want the Colonel attached. But man, I've got to say, I *am* curious about what the Thai spin on fried chicken would taste like. (I've had Thai chicken wings before)

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Your tastes don't sound predictable, unless by "predictable" you mean "loving all the odd stuff," LOL.

Mmm, fried chicken...

[porn-this-way.livejournal.com]

Booooo rejection letters. I'm sorry!! ;_;

However, I must applaud you on the tentacle monster and the troll. This sounds like a metaphorical representation of various fandoms I've been in.

[anyonesghost.livejournal.com]

I'm just amazed that the level of Godwin's Law that the article invokes didn't end the internet entirely.

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

I'm reading when I can, since I'm in training through Friday and it takes all day. AND it's programming, so all my attention is focused on my flaky borrowed PC and working code. Not only can't get a thing done, I fall behind just rebooting the thing when it decides to go belly-up. Boo.

Is anyone but me not getting comment notifications? I'm getting nothing, not even, "Hi, there's another Green Room post!"

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

I didn't get the notification for the reply to my comment until hours after the actual reply.

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

My notifications are very spotty. I've gotten a few from today, none from yesterday. LJ is frustrating sometimes. Frank must be chewing on the wires again.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

The troll in me wants to say, "Gee, I hope they weren't planning to pitch a show to the Food Network."

Also, am I the only one who thinks it's funny that KFC picked the word "distasteful" to describe it? :P

Did anyone click through to the JCP teapot? I think some people are over using their imaginations on that one.

I I have voted in one poll. Have been offline all morning and am really freaking wiped. will recommence reading and voting in a few hours.

[porn-this-way.livejournal.com]

The troll in me wants to say, "Gee, I hope they weren't planning to pitch a show to the Food Network."

Oh yeah, I can see that now. Instead of Hell's Kitchen, it's Der Führer's Fryer. The chicken's always really dry though, because there's NO JUICE ALLOWED.

[favoritebean.livejournal.com]

I learned something new today. According to that article you linked, Thailand has an obsession with Hitler. My Thai friends have never mentioned this though, so maybe the article exaggerates?

This also reminds me of Hitler's Deli that opened in Mumbai a few years back. People protested that though, so they apparently changed their name.

I swear, people!

I did laugh at your choice of brunch places.

Wish me luck, GR. I head to the doctor's office today. Not sure what I'll expect, to be honest.

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

*wishes you luck*

Also, nice icon. :)

[porn-this-way.livejournal.com]

I suppose we should just be grateful that they don’t advertise how they only use gas ovens… *sigh*

On a scale of 1 to 10, how surely am I going to hell if I admit to audibly laughing at that? >_> (ETA: It was a cringe sort of laugh, but still.)

And I gotta admit, I'm a bit curious about this place. As has been mentioned upthread, I've had Thai chicken wings before, and they were amazing and delicious and everything else, though genocidal dictators hellbent on world domination are just a BIT unappetizing! And I'm not even sure what to make of the "Nazi Chic" thing mentioned in the article. It sounds like something that belongs on either 1) The Onion, or 2) a fairly peculiar fetish website. I....yeah. I'm just gonna back away slowly from the internet now >_>

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

The occasional laugh at gallows humor shouldn't rate any guilt at all.

That said, I'm wondering whether this is the same class of pun as the one about the legal fetishist who got off on a technicality?

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Here's big news.

JK Rowling has written a detective novel under a pseudonym. Cuckoo Calling by Robert Galbraith.

She wanted to try a new genre without the hype and pressure from her Harry Potter success. That secret didn't last long.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/13/jk-rowling-pseudonym-robert-galbraith_n_3592769.html

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Big news from a couple days ago. ;p