Meme of the Week - Marianne Williamson

This meme wins the Internet this week. If you did not watch the second night of the first Democratic Party primary debate two nights ago then this will make no sense so just move along. If you did watch it or have seen a highlight reel of candidate Marianne Williamson's performance in that debate AND you are familiar with Twin Peaks then this meme will make perfect sense and hit you in the funny bone unless you are humorless.

Ultimate Dank Meme Mashup

How in the hell did I miss this back in 2017? Oh that's right, teaching credential program and you-know-who and probable PTSD from both hellish experiences. Well, here it is better late than never.

Meme of the Week - California State Bird

Meme of the Week - RIP Pepe?

Image by Matt Furie (all rights reserved)
The creator of Pepe the Frog (born 2005) which became a popular internet meme in the years following has officially declared Pepe dead as of earlier this month. This is in response to Trumpistic Alt-Right netizens of the chan-worlds appropriating the formerly laid-back "Feels good man"-exclaiming party frog (2008). 

"Feels good man" metamorphosed into a more existentialist Pepe with the subsequent incarnation exclaiming "Feels bad man" (2009).

 More recently, Pepe metamorphosed into a smugly-smiling frog known as Smug Pepe (below).

 Many more incarnations (some referred to as "Rare Pepes") followed in subsequent years such as the one below referring to the Dirty War in Argentina but also being a variant of Smug Pepe.

 Pepe's most recent evolutionary form has been that of an yellow or orange-haired amphibian champion of Trump (or amphibian representation of same) starting in late 2015 (below is a Trump Tweet) and enduring throughout all of last year during the U.S. Presidential election campaign season as well as since then in 2017.

However, I would argue Pepe is already evolving beyond and past Trump. I would even argue Pepe was many other things during the campaign season but only the Trumpistic versions of him got noticed by the hysterical Liberal mainstream media and political hacks. However, some hyper-sensitive SJW hypochondriacs of politically-correct virtue insist Pepe is now permanently corrupted and to some is even an anti-Semitic symbol of hate.... as if one use of such a widely popular symbol represents all such uses or at least "trumps" all other uses of the meme. That is the sort of broad-stroke-painting that Liberals/Progressives are so eager to condemn when others do it.

Of course, things never die on the Internet. Pepe is still alive and well and continues to rapidly evolve as often as somebody needs him to communicate their ideas, whoever they are, whatever those ideas be. The latest Pepe incarnation I have noticed is "Comfy NEET Pepe"(below) which seems to have appeared in just recent months.

A more recent (as in just weeks old) variation of Comfy NEET Pepe above is his smug-in-the-apocalypse NEET Pepe (below). BTW, NEET stands for Not in Education, Employment, or Training and comes from Great Britain and refers to "losers" to use a Trumpian turn of phrase.

Perhaps the most significant development of all regarding to Pepe the Frog is the ironic/satirical tongue-in-cheek religious cult called the Cult of Kek that has formed around the character based on an oddly cool sequence of coincidences starting in late 2015.

Meme of the Week - The Height of Masculinity

This week's Meme of the Week is actually a two-fer as two of them cover the same subject and this weeks' column is about the subject more than a particular meme. On a side-note, I fall within the ideal range. The frog, of course, is the inimitable Pepe the Frog. 

Meme of the Week - Alex Jones Is A ?#@$&%! Christian

This is classic Alex Jones at his crass, vulgar, over-the-top, bombastically bloviating best/worst, juxtaposed with the contrastingly tranquil voice and sound of Enya. Enjoy!
*WARNING: Not safe for work!

Meme of the Week - Me as Pepe

This is me on a Saturday night nowadays in "Rare Pepe" Swag Style.

Meme of the Week - Never Forget Nakatomi Plaza

Surely I shall never forget. If I have to explain any of this then you have been exposed as a pop cultural dweeb. For those of you who "get it" I applaud your pop cultural hipness.
*Note: if you don't know and feel you must know to what this refers just go HERE.

Meme of the Week - Negan 2016

For those of you who have been following The Walking Dead on TV or reading the serial graphic novel this needs no explanation. Otherwise, if I have to explain you would not understand. Needless to say, Negan is the newest badassest bad guy on the planet; a villain with charisma and gravitas on the level of Darth Vader and Heath Ledger's version of The Joker. Needless to say, some part of me would rather have Negan as President than either of the main candidates. He would indeed "shut that shit down" in Washington D.C. and beyond. The meme/image macro above features an odd artifact covering the character's mouth but just ignore it. Below is a small player for a clip from the scene from which the meme image was derived. It starts right after a beloved main character has just been beaten to death in front of the show's protagonists. 

Meme of the Week - Won't Denigrate

Alt-Right Chain-of-Command Chart

If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand. For those who do, ENJOY!

Meme of the Week - Kim Jong-un-Connected

Earlier this evening I noticed a tweet on Twitter which reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had just announced that his crazy little kingdom had succeeded in miniaturizing nuclear weapons (makes them small enough to place in missile warheads). That immediately brought to mind this meme which I tweeted in response. To my surprise, there has been a flurry of Twitter-verse positive responses to it this evening which continues into this hour.

Genesis Days as Thorns in the Flesh

Being an Old World Creationist I find this meme hilarious... and can't agree more with the argument it makes.

Meme of the Week - Putin vs. Stormtrooper

This week's viral images of the weasel riding the back of a woodpecker HERE have led to the most clever and quirky memes I have seen in quite some time. In case you don't recognize the human figure that is Russian Kleptocrat-in-Chief Vladimir Putin Photoshopped from his ridiculous bare-chested horseback riding image onto the back of the aforementioned weasel riding on the back of the aforementioned woodpecker. Photoshopped into the image to appear to be in hot pursuit is an Imperial Scout Trooper riding a speeder bike. There are more memes of this out there as you can see HERE. This is the first in a new series on this blog entitled "Meme of the Week." Check out the upgraded redux of this HERE.