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Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Lemon on May 06, 2015, 09:28:39 pm: with Frank West Boots Raingear Kumquatxop Lou Fernandez and Lemon
content for this episode was compiled by Comixologist
edited by Boots Raingear.

Does any modern society appreciate poetry more than the creative types over at Tumblr? Yes, of course. But would any other modern society be so quick to ape the creative output of Sylvia Plath in order to eke out some undeserved attention? Maybe, but for the purposes of this episode summary let's just pretend the answer is no.

In this episode, we have a very, very specific rule; We are only reading pieces on Tumblr that have been tagged #SylviaPlath. The results will surprise you, but only a little bit. This week, the F Plus reinvents apple sauce?

MUSIC USED:
Tears For Fears - Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
The Bangles - Bell Jar
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: chai tea latte on May 06, 2015, 09:35:38 pm: Oh no. Oh no aha this is going to rule, I can't wait.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Glitterbomber on May 06, 2015, 09:40:42 pm: There are a good few internet safaris in the game, places we can gawk at weirdos and giggle.

But only the F Plus guys are weird and crazy enough to do something like this and find the gold, and for that they will always be the best.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: crow on May 06, 2015, 10:30:07 pm: This is weirdly conceptual
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Ike on May 07, 2015, 01:45:10 am: I like this rule
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Mister Smalls on May 07, 2015, 02:45:13 am: In a couple months when I can get together with some friends, we're going to listen to this episode for the first time and everyone is going to drink whenever I make an involuntary noise of disgust, hatred, or disbelief.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Glitterbomber on May 07, 2015, 08:18:05 am: In a couple months when I can get together with some friends, we're going to listen to this episode for the first time and everyone is going to drink whenever I make an involuntary noise of disgust, hatred, or disbelief.
Mister Smalls, May 07, 2015, 02:45:13 am

Is this a Jonestown thing because y'all are gonna die in mass.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: advancedclass on May 07, 2015, 10:26:54 am: This was delightfully insane in a way the "normal" "poetry" episodes aren't. It feels a bit more in line with the F Plus Sings somehow.

Always good to hear Lou guesting, but the runaway star of this episode has to be Kumquatxop. You did some glorious pronunciation/recitation gymnastics here, sir.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: jimpjorps on May 07, 2015, 11:01:22 am: I, too, hate people with tons of names
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Cat Planet on May 07, 2015, 02:06:17 pm: When I've read the episode synopsis I instantly thought "Oh, I bet someone on Tumblr identifies as Plath-kin" and lo and behold.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Tiny Prancer on May 07, 2015, 03:24:27 pm: It’s really kind of the fplus to dedicate an entire episode to literally every torrid poem I have ever written and handed in for an easy grade.Quote from
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: QueenSyreen on May 07, 2015, 04:14:54 pm: When I've read the episode synopsis I instantly thought "Oh, I bet someone on Tumblr identifies as Plath-kin" and lo and behold.
Cat Planet, May 07, 2015, 02:06:17 pm

yetanotheramber and I sometimes play a game where we go on kin sites and try to find characters/people that no one is kin to. it's a fierce game honestly
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: crow on May 07, 2015, 05:10:04 pm: That last part with the chick talking to Sylvia plath had me dying
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Waifu Haver on May 07, 2015, 05:57:40 pm: see you put your hands in your pockets so the hands are the arm-blades and the pockers are the arm-scabbard so logically the arm-hilt would be your wrist
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Positronic on May 07, 2015, 10:06:59 pm: I'll confess--if tumblr was around when I was in 11th grade, I would definitely be posting in that tag. Reading The Bell Jar back then had me worrying about ending up like Sylvia, and I remember posting my fears to some post secrets type blog. The best advice I got was "Don't marry Ted Hughes".

But wow, what a great way to showcase how crazy tumblr tags can be. The Pillsbury Doughboy post stands out as the weirdest one to me... the person who wrote it just seems so passionate about a pastry mascot.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: A Meat on May 08, 2015, 02:54:13 am: Should I be glad that I don't understand most of this episode?

I had no idea who Sylvia Plath was until the episode came out. I guess I had actual things to worry about in high school and didn't have time for angsty poems.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: EYE OF ZA on May 08, 2015, 04:01:47 am: The context of "a poet" is all you really need because, surprise surprise, this episode isn't really about Sylvia Plath so much as it is adjacent to Sylvia Plath.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Knitting Machine on May 08, 2015, 10:29:18 am: Am I a horrible person for giggling at the Slyvia Plath halloween costume idea? I just love the mental image of people walking around with cardboard ovens on their heads.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Nikaer Drekin on May 08, 2015, 10:38:00 am: Am I a horrible person for giggling at the Slyvia Plath halloween costume idea? I just love the mental image of people walking around with cardboard ovens on their heads.
KnitOneKillTwo, May 08, 2015, 10:29:18 am

You're a monster. Fuck uuu
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Knitting Machine on May 08, 2015, 11:09:40 am: It's my own fault for not finding the beauty in the bathtub-warm-milk-in-a-field-costume.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on May 09, 2015, 07:15:34 am: If rancid queef really wants to work poets into his pickup lines, why doesn't he make the obvious Ezra Pound connection
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Nikaer Drekin on May 09, 2015, 10:06:44 am: e. e. cummings would work, too.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Boots Raingear on May 09, 2015, 10:09:48 am
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: memorylikeasieve on May 09, 2015, 03:51:20 pm: Hey... I got all the CrissCross references.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Cat Planet on May 09, 2015, 04:00:46 pm: "Self destruction graveyard"
"It went from Nine Inch Nails to Papa Roach"

Almost fucking fell off my chair.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Geremy Tibbles on May 09, 2015, 04:23:14 pm: (http://i.imgur.com/mjmbEjG.png)

Yo what the fuck
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Caroline on May 09, 2015, 06:01:23 pm: Synergy. (http://www.buzzfeed.com/laurasilver/dark-dark-feels#.geReRW31j)
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Ras Shame-ra on May 10, 2015, 08:03:02 am: That last part with the chick talking to Sylvia plath had me dying
Smoking Crow, May 07, 2015, 05:10:04 pm

cool.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Sherlockian on May 11, 2015, 01:01:44 pm: Should I be glad that I don't understand most of this episode?

I had no idea who Sylvia Plath was until the episode came out. I guess I had actual things to worry about in high school and didn't have time for angsty poems.
A Meat, May 08, 2015, 02:54:13 am

American high schools regularly have The Bell Jar as required reading, which probably explains why a lot of young American girls become obsessed with romanticizing Plath.

Entirely apropos of NOTHING, I am so glad that my poetry notebooks from high school were thrown out when my parents moved.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: crow on May 11, 2015, 04:39:05 pm: Should I be glad that I don't understand most of this episode?

I had no idea who Sylvia Plath was until the episode came out. I guess I had actual things to worry about in high school and didn't have time for angsty poems.
A Meat, May 08, 2015, 02:54:13 am

American high schools regularly have The Bell Jar as required reading, which probably explains why a lot of young American girls become obsessed with romanticizing Plath.

Entirely apropos of NOTHING, I am so glad that my poetry notebooks from high school were thrown out when my parents moved.
Sherlockian, May 11, 2015, 01:01:44 pm

My high school English teachers wouldn't teach us American literature so we got all British all the time
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Isfahan on May 11, 2015, 06:45:17 pm: Any creative type who dies young will be idolized to some degree, and bonus points if some sort of counterculture message can be assigned to that death. James Dean and Kurt Cobain are two other good examples of this. Teenyboppers latch onto the romanticized ideal of your image staying as it is now, forever, untarnished by the fall from grace that comes with aging and compromise.

Elvis died in his forties, an overweight drug addict trying to push out a huge log of chalky stool. If he'd died in 1958 in a switchblade fight, however, he'd be enjoying a similar legacy today.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on May 11, 2015, 08:29:55 pm: This is what many scientists refer to as the "Seth Putnam" effect
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Cat Planet on May 12, 2015, 05:52:44 am: Seth Putnam was a modern day Peter Pan, a person for whom calling someone "gay" as an insult never lost its charm
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Tiny Prancer on May 12, 2015, 05:53:21 pm: as someone with an account on tumblr that I use too much and that I will never ever EVER be linking here, I can explain something about tumblr's tagging system that might explain something about this episode: the tag system is set up in such a way that even if you don't write in something specifically as a tag, if you mention the thing in question, it'll show up under that tag. So, if I have an untagged post that I mention bullying in, it'll show up in the bullying tag, because the tag system is terrible. this also causes a great deal of strife on tumblr because people will make a post saying something like "I hate dragon age" and leave it untagged to try to not bother people who like it, and it'll then show up in the dragon age tag anyway and people will yell at them for putting their hate in the tag, when they actually tried not to. Fun fact, it was also not clear this was happening at first! This is something people had to discover over time.

Anyway, this is a likely part of why there's so many things showing up in the sylvia plath tag that mostly only give a brief mention of her in the post in question: it has her name in it, therefore it's in the tag.

Also, the discussion of what the pilsbury doughboy would taste like caused me to remember being really into crescent rolls with pepperoni baked into them as a kid and I ended up buying some crescent roll tubes and pepperoni at the store to try it again. They weren't as good as I hoped, but now I have a decently unhealthy thing to snack on while I stay up to finish an essay. Thanks, FPlus!
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Puppy Time on May 12, 2015, 07:46:07 pm: Technically, there's two "tag" setups on tumblr:

There's the easily-accessed "search" function, which will pull up any post that has whatever you search in there.

There's also the "tag" list function, which is nigh-impossible to find, and which will pull up a list of posts tagged with whatever.

Tags are mainly used for three purposes:
1) Organizing things within a blog (hence tags like "mine," to distinguish personal writing from something another person wrote)
2) Tagging things for someone else to block with third-party software (hence the various warning tags or cases like "bald," since there's a general assumption that SOMEONE out there is upset by pretty much anything, so it's considered polite to just vomit every single thing mentioned so you don't inadvertently Trigger anyone)
3) Adding personal notes. I don't know WHY this started; possibly an effort to keep posts from becoming massive with responses, or to avoid an original poster seeing one's personal reaction.

In summary, tumblr is terrible as a social media platform but nobody wants to go anywhere more suitable because it's where all the cool kids hang out.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Macho Masc Sangy Savage on May 25, 2015, 03:50:40 pm: Is there going to be a follow-up episode where FPlus reads all of the entries tagged Sylvia Plath on Livejournal? At least the Kriss Kross joke would be temporally appropriate.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Sherman Tank on December 14, 2016, 10:00:01 pm: Cindy Williams was the other one from Laverne and Shirley. Which surprised me, because I thought it was Tyne Daly, but she was on Cagney and Lacy, not Laverne and Shirley. The other one from Cagney and Lacey was Sharon Gless, just for the record.

Please don't ask me who the other one from Kate and Allie is because I don't know who either of them were.
Title: 175: I Am I Am I Am (Annoying)
Post by: Boots Raingear on December 15, 2016, 09:02:22 am: Please don't ask me who the other one from Kate and Allie is because I don't know who either of them were.
How To Summon A Sherman Tank For Money, December 14, 2016, 10:00:01 pm

The other one is Susan Saint James. Jane Curtin was the one you were supposed to remember.