Post #37973 by kahukini on Sun, Jun 8, 2003 4:37 PM

Baxdog: And yes the coolest things in my bar were free or trash find or garage sale.

Um, I said I'll bet the favorite things in your bar didn't come from the MALL. Some of the best stuff in my bar I also painstakingly found at garage sales, thrift stores, flea markets, antique shops, and yes I've also found a couple of things that were thrown out.

tikifish: What's wrong with being mass market? Why aren't 'frat boys' allowed to look at Shag art? Why does Shag suck for making lots of stuff for people to enjoy, not just some small self proclaimed hipster subculture?
Maybe this feeling you have that 'Shag Sucks' has more to do with you, and not with Shag. Now you can't pretend to be cooler than everyone else for liking Shag stuff, cause everyone else likes Shag too!
PS. Don't be dissing my homegirl Hello Kitty.

First off, the only thing wrong with being mass market it that it's not cool. This is not a difficult concept tikifish. "Cool" and "i like it" are 2 DIFFERENT THINGS. Frat boys are allowed to like Shag as much as they like each other's dicks, I don't care, but as far as that bodes for something being sophisticated and "cool," well that pretty much kills it for the cocktail culture. I never said Shag sucks, I said he's lost his cool, which is irrefutable, and that's too bad. I wish he could have found a way to reach mass recognition and stay cool, but apparently he was not able to.
I never said "Shag Sucks," in fact I was making a joke about making such a website, because so many people who "disagree" with me seem to be thinking I'm saying "Shag sucks." You have hit the essence of cool - it has to do with "in" and "out" ideas, concepts, scences, people - from now on we can like Shag art, but we can no longer appreciate it something special whose appreciation takes a certain understanding and affinity for the cocktail culture past and pressent. That great era of Shag cool is over, now the style is as done, and to be known among your metropolitin friends as a continuing avid collector of Shag art would be just as cool as a 13 year old's collection of everything Hello Kitty. It's too bad, cause I dig Shag.