It’s Hip, It’s Trendy, It’s Happening Now
DrHGuy recognizes that he has certain obligations to keep his readers up to date with the latest and greatest Internet fads and fashions. Be aware, however, that in this case, “up to date” is not the equivalent of bleeding edge; that kind of overly ambitious striving would be unseemly and undignified.
Instead DrHGuy, has synthesized philosophical extractions from D.W. Winnicott’s psychoanalytic hypothesis of “good-enough mothering” and the conceptual core implicit in the lyrics of alt country rocker, Tim Carroll’s wondrous classic, Girl That’s Hip:
But not THAT hip
to develop this criterion for “hip enough” internet awareness:
When it comes to awareness of what’s currently cool on the internet, Heck of a Guy viewers are at least one step ahead of the obnoxious brother-in-law (or his equivalent)
I.e., readers who receive yet another email from such an individual with yet another url for yet another “the damndest thing you’ve ever seen on the web,” are able to truthfully reply to that message with “Yes, I saw that some time ago; it is quite droll if a bit derivative.”
Certified Cool For At Least Another Five Seconds, Which Is All It Takes
Those wacky guys at CollegeHumor have come up with something they call “Dramatic Chipmunk,” and it’s certainly drama incarnate. It is also certainly a prairie dog, not a chipmunk.
DrHGuy submits that the coolest attribute is that the complete video runs in less than five seconds.
CollegeHumor Managing Editor Jeff Rubin insists that the clip has not been manipulated but is a cut from much longer footage1 shown on a Japanese TV show displaying the rodent. The 5 second span of “Dramatic Chipmunk” was just luck. As proof, CollegeHumor has uploaded the full, original footage, making it available at the all too accurately named Undramatic Chipmunk.
You may reboot your attitudinal facade now
Footnotes
- Make that much, much, much longer footage ↩
