By Craig Kennedy - July 8th, 2010; 12:48 pm
2.3 million people watched Lindsay Lohan’s sentencing hearing.
Meanwhile, a guy’s admittedly excessive but kind of awesome childlike exuberance over a double rainbow is widely mocked for days by flippantly ironic assholes from one corner of the internet to the other.
What is wrong with people?
Filed under: Opinion
I’m proud to say that I’m one of the few people that did NOT watch Lindsay Lohan’s sentencing (other than a short clip on the news).
I’m proud to have you hanging out at LiC.
And I’m proud to say that Double Rainbow Guy is my personal hero.
Yeah, Double Rainbow Guy is cute.
Sometimes Culture Vulture is funny, sometimes they’re really nasty.
So you won’t be buying a Free Lindsay Lohan t-shirt?
That media “event” is small change in comparison to the one pending:
http://www.dailygoat.com/2010/07/lebron-james-gives-thanks-god-signing-10-year-100m-endorsement-deal-heaven/
Bread and circuses, people.
i did not watch LiLo ;P
but the Double Rainbow Guy is kinda funny. xD
Double Rainbow sounds like an obscure sex act involving Rainbow Brite and two donkeys, the “full on double rainbow.”
Thank you for bringing the double rainbow into my life — seriously — because that video is awesome.
New York magazine is like the evil twin-brother of the New Yorker, a rag that’s already elitist enough on its own (but at least it has cartoons). I stopped giving it the time of day when I realized that people actually take that awful “pop cultural matrix” somewhat seriously.
Inching my way back around, good to see there is still some real-world sense in the friendly internet confines of LiC.
Can’t really believe the Lohan attention, but wow, that rainbow video left me gasping for breath. I think it just caught me completely off guard. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Alison, I generally dig Vulture for a quick read and to be fair they’re only 1 of a number of outlets to pile on this guy. They just happen to be where I saw it first.
I admit, the clip is funny, but at a certain point in watching it I was actually moved. I’m so sick of out-of-control irony and sarcasm and here’s a guy having a genuine moment (albeit probably hallucinogenically enhanced). Yosemite is an amazing place and there’s something about being in nature like that where awe is easily inspired. I think it’s great but our first instinct is to mock this guy. That makes me sad. The fact that it’s ok to be fascinated by the goings on of Lilo but it’s uncool to shit your pants over a rainbow is more than a little depressing.
I know, I’m weird.
Haha WJ, that sounds worse than a dirty sanchez.
Good to see you again Daniel!
Oh, and don’t even get me started on the LeBron James Show.
I’ve watched neither but would definitely not mock the doublerainbow guy nor Lohan’s sentencing. A weird fucked up culture we do have.
I’ll say this– it’s all very easy to make fun of this sort of thing, but actually, when you see even just one of them in real life, rainbows are pretty fucking cool. Maybe not northern-lights cool (that might warrant this kind of enthusiasm a little more) but hey, I’d watch it.
Make no mistake, the Double Rainbow video is beautiful. I’ve been to Yosemite (unfortunately no double rainbows) and it’s an awe-inspiring place. His reaction is perfectly understandable; it’s as sublime as the scene he’s taking in. Even so, I can’t imagine Victor Hugo, John Keats or William Wordsworth having a similar reaction.
Even without the rainbow, just being at Yosemite is amazing. I’ve dorked out over nature many times in that environment, though admittedly not quite to the degree of Double Rainbow guy.