Have I got a pop culture reference for you!

Have I got a pop culture reference for you!

Oh my, I am really enjoying reading this. This blog post is SO FUNNY. Yet, it's not just grade A humor I'm reading here, this dude really knows what he's talking about, and he's presenting it to me in a way that someone in my generation can TOTALLY relate to. it's the whole package - la package totale.

Oh shit, you see what I did right there, without even thinking about it? I dropped a nice little pop culture reference - a reference to that one fast food commercial. Subway, I think. Meatball sub. Guy in the commercial calls it the total package then the girl in the commercial says that he's got total package on his shirt. Fuck. Maybe it was Taco Bell or maybe it wasn't called la package totale or the total package. Perhaps the word "ultimate" or "bliss" was involved. Man. I better google the shit out of that so I can load that ammo into my AK-47 clip of comments.

Hell with it, the important thing is that I am, totally without any effort whatsoever, overflowing with pop culture references. I'm like Old Faithful, but instead of a geyser, a dude. A dude who's totally in tune with the blogs that are written by and for dudes like me. The thing is, I've got all these pop culture references inside me that HAVE to come out - one way or another - otherwise this here reader is going to be less Old Faithful and more Mt St Helens. Like, this whole internet sharing exchange, man...it's like this: when I read a blog post written by one of my favorite bloggers, I can tell that if that dude who wrote it lived like down the hall in my apartment building, we would be total bros. Dawgz. That's why it's so fucking important for me to leave comments in blogs. I'll do it all day long sometimes. I have to keep reminding the author that there's a dude out there who totally diggs what he's writing. There's a dude out there who totally gets what he's saying, totally gets all the pop culture references.

When I find a blog I like, I just want to establish myself strong from comment #1, then work day and night to reinforce the fact that I'm A LOT like the blogger. So many common interests, it's fucking scary. But at the same time, I don't want to get in there and kiss the dude's ass. That's why pop culture references are so key. When I read a blogger's killer pop culture reference, and I'm like totally knowing exactly where it's from, it makes me feel welcome, at home. I just want to put my feet up on the coffee table, stick my hand down my pants, fart to warm my hand up, then crack open a beer. I'm so grateful to have something so personal, I just NEED to return the favor in the comments section. I know that if I was so moved by a particular pop culture reference by the blogger, the blogger is sure to be just as moved by a specially selected pop culture reference from me - the reader - to him. Like Newton's third law, but for blog culture.

And you know what? I've got SO MANY MORE. The vault's overflowing, man. You know that pop culture reference above? When someone reads that, they're going to be like, "Oh shit, I watch tv too. Right on..." If I leave that as a comment, it will totally connect with some other dude who watches tv and he'll have no choice but to leave a comment, directed at me using an @ followed by my moniker followed by a colon. And that comment will say, "Hey, bro, I watch tv too, so I am going to prove it by offering up this carefully selected tv-related pop culture reference.", but without really saying it.

That's why I get out of bed in the morning and hunch over my laptop all day. Because you never want to miss an opportunity to get a "+1" from a well placed Simpsons quote. What's my idea of heaven? It's the comment section of a killer blog, and nobody gets in without a score of +10.