November 26, 2009
Brown Cardigan Selecta
Jonny Valentino is getting hitched in a couple of days and has (apparently with not a hell of a lot of forethought) kindly handed over the keys to Brown Cardigan for as long as it takes him to regain control and/or get arrested. I’ve been meaning to write about Brown Cardigan for a while, not from a “what the hell/I can’t believe they went there” point of view, more from a “human filter” angle. Brown Cardigan is what it is. Four or five chaps, with a seemingly similar sense of humour who, 99 percent of the time don’t take it there, going out of their way to find and post the funny stuff that comes their way. And there is something in that. Search engines aren’t human, and it’s kind of tricky at the moment to teach a computer program how to laugh. There’s so many paths you can take to grab a giggle these days, more than likely having to wade through a lot of crap to get there, and that’s were we come in. (And kids like Julian Cole when it comes to panning nuggets of video gold). It’s really a win-win situation. So for the moment, and for the benefit of not only the keepers but also the finders, we, Team Brown Cardigan, get the honour of scraping the bottom of the barrel, shucking the funnies, and losing it in the process. As long as you kids keep laughing along with us.