stuff white people like

stuff white people like by bkusler.

i got too way caught up in www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.org tonight...
it was funny and painful mostly because it was true :) click the links and read that shit, it's some funny ass writing

at some point it occurred to me, 'hm, i prolly ALREADY have a pic in my own photo stream for most of these..."

(looks like their site got redditted --- doh! i retargeted some of the links below, but not all of em... you can figure it out)

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bkusler says:

#1 coffee

"If you want to go for extra points - white people really love FAIR TRADE coffee, because paying the extra $2 means they are making a difference."

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bkusler says:

#2 Religions that their parents don’t belong to

"Mostly they are into religion that fits really well into their homes or wardrobe and doesn’t require them to do very much."

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bkusler says:

#3 film festivals

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bkusler says:

#4 Assists
Sorry, totally missed me on this one
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bkusler says:

#5 farmers markets

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bkusler says:

#6 organic food

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bkusler says:

#7 diversity

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bkusler says:

#8 barack obama

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bkusler says:

#9 Making you feel bad about not going outside

at first i was going to put a picture of my mom here because she always nagged us to go outside instead of playing video games. and now i realize that i'm the one nagging my WoW-playing friends that "today is a perfect day for a motorcycle ride!"

i am my mother :)

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bkusler says:

#10 Wes Anderson movies
the exception that proves the rule. sorry, i didn't get my film snob merit badge in the whitey scouts :)
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bkusler says:

#11 asian girls

even tho i'm gay...

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bkusler says:

#12 non profit organizations

this one hit especially close to home :)

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bkusler says:

#13 tea

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bkusler says:

#14 Having Black Friends

actually... none the i hang out with regularly. and making out with boys on the back porch of the eagle prolly doesn't count :)

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bkusler says:

#15 yoga
i was really into www.fuckyoga.com if that counts

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bkusler says:

#16 gifted children
don't have a kid but i was one of the gifted. i was in the GTY ("Gifted and Talented Youth") program at Fircrest in Vancouver. my mom found out that john nold (a neighbor and my best friend) was in the gifted program and insisted that they put me into it because i "was way smarter than john!" personally i think john's mom got him into it because it meant he spent an extra two hours at school twice a week :)

the OMSI award i mention in the solar picture was part of that program

Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

bkusler says:

#17 hating their parents

jesus which ones, i have 4 parents. plus my adopted chinese mother from china court, my german mom, my drag mom, my jewish mom... but i digress... yeah, sure i hated them at some points in my teens... reading the story i was definitely in the "hate them cuz they were too strict with me" camp... but thank god all that shit's behind us and we're friends now ;)

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bkusler says:

#18 awareness

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bkusler says:

#19 travelling

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bkusler says:

#20 Being an expert on YOUR culture

this one actually cut like a knife.

"One way they can make up for it is becoming marginally acquainted with foreign cultures. It is generally acceptable for a white person to learn a few terms in a language spoken primary by non-whites (such as Chinese, Tagalog or Portuguese). They can then use these phrases to order certain ‘more authentic’ dishes in restaurants."

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bkusler says:

#21 writers workshops

ok i managed to skip this one mostly, but i have saved copies of old blog entries that definitely fall into the "No matter what they tell you, all of them have at least one chapter of a novel stashed away somewhere." category :)

do photography workshops count? if so, then i'm totally in....

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bkusler says:

#22 having two last names

when we were talking about breeding, the kid was totally going to have two last names...

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bkusler says:

#23 microbreweries
i'm from the northwest. though we invented neither, we're still the ones who gave the rest of the american heathens espresso and decent beer.

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bkusler says:

#24 wine

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bkusler says:

#25 david sedaris
another missing merit badge :)
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bkusler says:

#26 manhattan

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bkusler says:

#27 marathons
see yoga above :)
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bkusler says:

#28 not having a tv
not even close!

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bkusler says:

#29 80s night

i don't want this to be true, but the obscene amount of 80s vinyl i still own completely betrays me...

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bkusler says:

#30 wrigley field

well, dave likes it so much he moved next to it...

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bkusler says:

#31 snowboarding

totally screwed my knee trying. :(
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bkusler says:

vegan/vegetarianism

tho i'm now a baco-tarian, i was vegan for 6 months back in my 20s. if for no other reason than to harass sanctimonious vegetarian friends, "oh my GOD! you eat eggs? how savage..."

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bkusler says:

#33 marijuana

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bkusler says:

#34 architecture

the writer outdid themselves on this one -- i about DIED reading it :)

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bkusler says:

#35 The Daily Show/Colbert Report

no pix of my tivo main screen, but yeah, totally
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bkusler says:

#36 breakfast places

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bkusler says:

#37 renovations

well, we do live in a 1905 victorian :)

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bkusler says:

#38 arrested development

yep :) i was so fucking in love with jason bateman when he was on silver spoons!
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bkusler says:

#39 netflix
netflix always seemed like an idea that was behind its time the day it launched...

and bitching about your slow netflix queue is second only to complaining about how your crafts aren't selling on etsy as the number one "overheard in san francisco" conversation

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bkusler says:

#40 apple products
um... even before kel went to work there we were apple poster children :)

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bkusler says:

#41 indie music
tho i'm not ashamed about loving my aging candy raver break beats at love parade :)

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bkusler says:

#42 sushi

they have a roll named after me at warakubune. 'nuf said.

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bkusler says:

#43 plays
long as it involves drag queens or shakespeare, i'm in

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bkusler says:

#44 public radio
when i used to work at city carshare, the old fleet manager would reset each car's radio presets to NPR when they visited the cars for inspection and cleaning. i'd always make sure to change them back to heavy metal or rrrrrradio rrrrrrromantica whenever i drove :P ... i'm not a big fan of NPR, but i'm a huge fan of SNL's delicious dish

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bkusler says:

#45 asian fusion
hell i even took a class...

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bkusler says:

#46 sunday new york times

the scene he describes is exactly my sunday morning for most of the 8 years erik p and i were together. we were always listening to stan getz with the paper strewn all over the floor and a french press sitting on the coffee table.

i sorta abandoned that tradition when he and i broke up. now we're most likely mopping up booze with sparky's chili cheese fries :)

Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

bkusler says:

#47 arts degrees

"It is important to note that a high percentage of white people also get degrees in Political Science, which is pretty much like arts, and only seems to have the word “science” in it to make white people feel better about themselves."

yeah, PoliSci major here :) double-major in German :P
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

bkusler says:

#48 Whole Foods and Grocery Co-ops
you get the co-op card for free when you go vegan :)
but man it's easy to blow fat wads of cash on meat at WF...

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bkusler says:

#49 vintage
bikes, shoes, my old trs-80 color computer, you name it...

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bkusler says:

#50 irony

i hear randella in my head.... sometime back in like 2001 he asked me, "when is irony finally going out of fashion?"

not until the last trucker hat is retired, 70s sun visor burned, and BustedTees closes its doors.

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bkusler says:

#51 living by the water

sitting in that rooftop hottub looking at the ocean, the thought seriously crossed our minds about buying a place in that building :)

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bkusler says:

#52 sarah silverman
tried watching it. just mostly wanna slap the bitch. sorry.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

bkusler says:

#53 dogs

i like pets that pay rent, walk themselves, and don't need me to pick up their poop

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bkusler says:

Top Ten Hip Hop Songs White People Love

half of these are in my itunes library

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bkusler says:

#54 kitchen gadgets
sweet jesus am i guilty on this one!

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bkusler says:

#55 apologies
well considering i'm huge on #20, this person has never been to japan (#58). when i was taking japanese classes, chapter fucking TWO was apologizing!

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bkusler says:

#56 lawyers
not a big fan, tho my legal bill last year was $14,000. oh, and armchair lawyers make me stabby.
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bkusler says:

#57 juno
looks funny. prolly won't see it. my own goddammed life is an epic adoption drama, i don't need to pay to watch hollywood's idea of what my life is like.
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bkusler says:

#58 japan

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bkusler says:

#59 alternative medicine

please especially note the final paragraph, "Note: it’s weird that there are some white people who won’t take aspirin, but will take Ecstasy, Cocaine, Xanax and Vicodin."

yeah. i've had my pancha karma adjusted in an ayurvedic sweat lodge while drinking stinky tea. i've drunk charred earthworm tea, magic japanese mineral concentrate, umeshobancha, echinacea, you name it.

but despite that i think that pharmaceuticals and western medicine are awesome. if it won't work in a controlled double-blind test then i just consider it "entertainment" like i would a call to the miss cleo psychic hotline.

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bkusler says:

#60 toyota prius
this is the california pace car, isn't it? and with my company, we up the smugness and piety factor yet again because the prius is shared :)

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bkusler says:

#61 bicycles
card-carrying member of the sfbc. i fell in love with my husband at a velodrome. i've tandemed with him across paris. ridden behind the tour de france. rode the millennium critical mass thru san francisco. bikes rule.

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bkusler says:

#62 knowing what's best for poor people
i've been poor. don't care to repeat it. about the only lecturing i do is when friends ask me for money for like the 8th time i usually buy them a copy of "your money or your life" and tell them to find their money somewhere else :)
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bkusler says:

#63 expensive sandwiches

and how!

Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Eric in SF says:

I hate you.

For ensuring that most of my Friday will be spent reading that damn blog.

=)
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

bkusler says:

yeah, i spend most of wednesday night lost in it :)
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parlance says:

LOL @ the Roger Taylor shirt.
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bkusler says:

#91 san francisco
um, my entire photostrem :)

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bkusler says:

#90 dinner parties

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bkusler says:

#89 st pattys day
we went to it in ireland :P
and yes, i really honestly have said "you know, guiness doesn't travel"
ouch.

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bkusler says:

# 88 gay friends
ok we're already gay, but we sometime "brag" about "oh, yeah, i don't really have that many gay friends..."

and you know, a gay friend once said to me "san francisco has the best straight people in the world. the gay people.... meh" and it's kinda true :)

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bkusler says:

#87 outdoor performance clothes...
kelly has a separate line-item on our homeowners insurance for all of the clothing he's purchased from Colorado Cyclist

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bkusler says:

#86 shorts
some days we can almost pretend we've got LA's weather...

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bkusler says:

#85 the wire
right about now if it's not battlestar galactica i don't care about it!
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bkusler says:

#84 tshirts
for a while we were actually all making our own in illustrator and inkjet iron-transferring them to American Apparel shirts. why? because we wanted to have one-of-a-kind shirts. yeah.

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bkusler says:

#83 bad memories of high school
well, growing up gay in vantucky (and OUT my senior year) i'm "claiming" the right to hate HS :)

but with my 20 year reunion approaching, i'm actually considering going just for fun and maybe just a little bit to prove to myself that i'm over it all :)

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bkusler says:

#82 hating corporations

don't know who busted out their windows, but considering that zipcar was trying to crush several of my favorite non-profits, i have to say i didn't shed to big a' tear when i saw this.

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bkusler says:

#81 graduate school
every time i leave a job i always contemplate going back to school -- masters in chemistry? masters in spanish? nah... so far i've just pussed out and taken some extension classes.
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bkusler says:

#80 the idea of soccer
sorry, the gay thing seems to override all of that. soccer is as douchey as every other sport. except cycling :P
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bkusler says:

#79 modern furntiture

i even have the eames design coffee table book in my coffee table :) and the vitra chair poster on my wall :P

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bkusler says:

#78 multilingual children

for a while there kel and i were talking about breeding and there was NO QUESTION in our minds that the child was going to be raised bilingual -- either spanish or japanese or ?? depending on the ethnicity of the donor. doesn't matter than the only languages kelly and i speak are english, german, objective-C, PHP, java, and C :)

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bkusler says:

#77 musical comedy

trannyshack, how we love thee!

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bkusler says:

#76 bottles of water

while i tend to prefer liquor to H2O, i did attend the UN world water day conference where alice waters gave a talk about the evils of bottled water and how her restaurant was getting rid of it...

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bkusler says:

#75 threatening to move to canada

i hate bush as much as the next californian, but i'm more of a fighter than a runner. i have, however, threatened to move to canada to secure a reliable supply of these:

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bkusler says:

#74 oscar parties
i live in the castro. the entire neighborhood is practically deserted during the oscars, aka "The Gay Superbowl"

i'm *still* pissed about The Color Purple getting the shaft.

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bkusler says:

#73 gentrification

we gays practically invented it.

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bkusler says:

#72 foreign study

yep. did my junior year of college in germany :) and yes, i still bitch about how i can't get good laugenbrot in the states!

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bkusler says:

#71 being the only white person in the room
goes double for being the only american (of any race) in the room when i'm traveling abroad.

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bkusler says:

#70 difficult breakups

eight years. from age 18-26. and yeah, it took me forfuckingever to get over it all the way...

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bkusler says:

#69 mos def

i'm more into the dirty old moose hoof than the mos def.

(you HAVE to watch the first 30 seconds of that parody video if you haven't seen it)
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bkusler says:

#64 recycling

even tho this year's trend is compostable take out containers

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bkusler says:

#96 new balance shoes...
hey -- i get to use this picture twice

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bkusler says:

#97 scarves

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bkusler says:

gonna post some more of my corresponding photos as i read the book (it's next to the toilet right now, so expect no more than a couple a day... more if i forget to eat my roughage)...

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