Satire & Spoof on Exit133 (13. October 2006, 08:57 by Derek Young) ~ Somebody Has To Laugh
Last week we launched a new article category called Satire & Spoof. Why? Because there’s no reason we have to be serious all of the time. The goal is to be relevant, but slightly irreverent. Nobody should be completely off limits in the community… My informal market research indicated that folks really liked the article last week and that we should continue it. I also heard that a lot of folks didn’t understand the satire part of last week’s story and thought it was all true. I apologize for the confusion and I hope future disclaimers can be shorter than this one.
At some point soon, but not today, I will tweak the design of Exit133 so the Satire & Spoof articles appear in a slightly different format or location so that they are obviously different from the day to day news and events. Our day to day postings are still fact checked and/or confirmed in some way and this new section should not reflect on the quality of our other postings. If it doesn’t say Satire & Spoof above the title, it’s real – or at least we believe it’s real – like the Easter Bunny.
Disclaimer: All quotes in the Satire & Spoof articles should be considered absolutely fantasy and completely fictitious.
With that said, let’s talk about Carl’s Jr…
Update: The Satire pieces will appear by title on the left sidebar and in RSS feeds.
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First of all I have to admit that I was one of those dull blades that ate up the story until I got to the last line… but then again I still believe in the Easter Bunny too, so there ya go.
In any case, I think you might be over-reacting by relegating the satire pieces to the dunce chair area in the sidebar. I think you outta keep the funny stuff in with the main line stories.
In fact, just to show you how dense some readers can be (using myself as an example) I totally missed your Carls Jr. reference… my feeble brain didn’t connect the dots that there was actually a story hiding over there somewhere. A hyperlink in your reference might have gotten (is that a real word?) me there though.
A couple of people at the Block Tie Affair thingy last night mentioned that they loved exit133 but thought it might be getting a little too serious lately so your gut sense to lighten up the fare was dead on.
Perhaps there’s a journalistic middle ground where you can still stab at issues that need stabbing without inadvertantly wacking out the players involved. I have some ideas but that would spoil the fun of you discovering your own “satirical voice”.
So in short, keep up the funnies, cuz we luv ‘em!
And oh yes, lest I forget, hire MR. ANDERSON for your cartoonist, lol. :)
1 | Posted by Steve Hurley | Oct 13, 12:14 PM
The satire article was pretty cool, the idea is fresh but this disclaimer kills the whole point now.
2 | Posted by Anti-disclaimer | Oct 13, 12:43 PM
i’m with the no disclaimer crowd. it is good to test our critical thinking skills.
3 | Posted by geronimo | Oct 13, 12:58 PM
Aw, you’re no fun anymore!
Yeah, what Steve said. (Steve let me in on the Carl’s thing, O.K.?) It would be a shame to have to bring exit133 down to the lowest common denominator (borrowing MBA lingo). I understand you might have to watch who you “quote” from now on, but come on! No matter what my stand is on “The Wall,” I would still LOVE Anderson’s cartoon! I like the satirical Fridays. I realize however that one can’t stop how 133 and its readership is transforming. As I heard Juliay mention yesterday, your words can have a “War of the World’s kind of effect:
...It is reported that at 8:50 P. M. a huge, flaming object, believed to be a meteorite, fell in the neighborhood of Albers Mill…The flash in the sky was visible within a radius of several hundred miles and the noise of the impact was heard as far north as Fife…In the meantime, we take you to the Winthrop Hotel where Bobby Floyd and his orchestra are offering a program of dance music…further details of the catastrophe at Albers Mill are coming in. Martian machines visible above treetops, looking for the bridge of Glass with population fleeing ahead of them….We are informed the central portion of Tacoma is blacked out from radio communication due to the effect of the heat ray upon power lines and electrical equipment….Army fieldpieces are proceeding from Fort Lewis to blow up second invading unit….Another bulletin from McChord: Scouting planes report enemy machines, now three in number, increasing speed northward kicking over bungalows…I-705 still kept open for motor traffic. Avoid the Murray Morgan Bridge… hopelessly jammed. All communication with Ruston closed ten minutes ago….This may be the last exit133. We’ll stay here to the end….Now I look down the harbor. All manner of boats, overloaded with fleeing population, pulling out from docks.…five great machines. First one is crossing the Thea Foss. I can see it from here, wading… wading the Thea Foss like a man wading through a brook….It’s reached Tollefson Square. People are trying to run away from it, but it’s no use. They’re falling like flies…Now the smoke’s crossing Sixth Avenue…
This is Derek, ladies and gentlemen, out of character to assure you that some portions of exit133.com have no further significance than as the Friday offering it was intended to be. Exit133’s own blog version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying Boo! Starting now, I couldn’t soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow night… so I did the best next thing. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that I didn’t mean it, and Tacoma is still open for business.
4 | Posted by Dave L. | Oct 13, 01:02 PM
I vote that we be serious all the time. That Onion article about gentrification must have gone to your head.
7 | Posted by drizell | Oct 13, 03:45 PM
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