It’s disappointing to me that, somehow, we went the entirety of Cowboy Week without a single reference to the original country-rap banger, Kid Rock’s “Cowboy.” So, naturally, it falls upon me as MEL’s resident trash person to remind you all that while Kid Rock (Kid? Mr. Rock?) may be in the running for worst guy ever (especially after talking all that shit about Oprah recently), “Cowboy” remains a cultural touchstone. It would be foolish, then, not to acknowledge it as a contribution to our contemporary cowboy discourse.
And with that, please rise for the strip-club national anthem:
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Quote of the Week
Mr. Peanut isn’t just an anthropomorphized legume with a top hat and monocle. He’s also a totally gay, slave-trading cannibal aristocrat, selling his fellow legumes to a gruesome death by mastication. Please don’t @ us — we have the receipts.
But Don’t Just Take Our Word For It…
I guess if anyone was going to find the line where the Internet stops (and then cross it in a blatant defiance of god's will) it would be @WeAreMel https://t.co/RUPHimTg5o
— Dashiell Bennett (@dashbot) December 6, 2019
Okay, I love SO MUCH about this piece, including https://t.co/an8B2OKBQT
1) Miles who is always the greatest chronicler of internet things
2) That ~brave~ header photo
3) the SONDHEIM TWEET with only one like that's embedded anyway bc lol no fucks given
4) this Douglas Adams lede— Aja Romano (@ajaromano) December 6, 2019
It's not even 10 AM and this is already the best thing that will happen on Twitter today. https://t.co/Jbz6HHZKMX
— HUGH! McIntyre (@PopBangHugh) December 3, 2019
r/BrandNewSentencehttps://t.co/3JkJ8S0Yqv pic.twitter.com/UF9NShMC83
— Nathan Allebach (@nathanallebach) December 3, 2019
Y’all are committed to making me think about shit I don’t want to think about but now I am and now I give a shit which I didn’t in the first place but now I do.
— yaara o yaara (@haiderzs) December 6, 2019
Magdalene Taylor
Magdalene Taylor is a staff writer at MEL. She covers internet culture, sex and the online adult industry. She lives in Brooklyn but is from God's Country, Western Massachusetts.
