awesome new blog to get addicted to

Just found out about this one on Vox: Stuff White People Like. After reading just two posts and scanning the homepage, I can already tell it's one of the best out there. This is going to provide lots of laughs in the future.

Take the post Vox refers to, for example: the graduate school rundown. How true is most of that stuff? He does an outstanding job of touching on the elitism and pursuit of faux prestige--not the pursuit of knowledge--that drives today's graduate school market. An excellent job of cutting to the chase on the paper mill industry. Not quite Fred-level, but excellent nonetheless.

Take this blurb, for example:

In coffee shops, bars, and classes white people will engage in conversations about authors and theorists that go nowhere as both parties start rattling off progressively more obscure people until eventually one side recognizes one and claims a victory.

Rock on! And so true it is...we can all recall at least 397024 conversations in which the other person or group is simply employing the "shock and awe" method of dropping big names, terms, concepts, etc. to feign intelligence. And I like the dude's suggested response, too: just play along and pretend to be duly impressed, so that all is better in the world when their smoke-and-mirrors game is exposed.

That site is absolutely a gold mine of blogging goodness, one that I hope to frequent often in the coming weeks/months/whatever. You should too! Sometime soon I'll get it added to the blogroll.