Stuff White People Like
Tonight I made the dough for cinnamon rolls in my Kitchenaid stand mixer so we can have our gay friends who are parents over for brunch, coffee, and some discussion of the Sunday New York Times while listening to indie music via our iTunes. Some other friends are coming whom we met through the Chinese-immersion school our gifted children Zoë and Violet go to. We will, in all likelihood, discuss the Victorian they renovated in SF before moving to India. And one of my very bestest friends from graduate school is here visiting, yay Antonia! Maybe I should wear the dead-stock, paper-thin 70s T-shirt I got at San Leandro Thrift Town that says "love me" on the front with a heart and "always/all-ways" on the back. I am not even kidding about any of this.
jholbo-at-mac-dot-com
Other stuff white people like:
Ironic self-deprecation that diffuses the critical power of anything.
I'm not kidding--I love that that blog. But it makes me sad while I laugh.
Posted by: Yan | March 15, 2008 at 11:33 PM
I call foul; the T-shirt post gives the game away by referring to T-shirts that must be avoided because they are liked by "the wrong kind of white people."
So it isn't “stuff white people like”! It's stuff “some white people like”! The burning question: which some? Well? Well?
Posted by: Kip Manley | March 16, 2008 at 12:29 AM
I motored over there and now I think I need to get into my organic cotton sheeted, recycled lumber bed, and pull the wool comforter over my head. Just as soon as I finish this cup of sustainable harvested coffee with cream from a cow I know on a first name basis.
Posted by: ivy | March 16, 2008 at 01:35 AM
Cinnamon rolls! Why hasn't Christian done a piece on cinnamon rolls?
Posted by: jim | March 16, 2008 at 01:42 AM
It pretty clearly is the "stuff slightly aging ex-hipster white people who now make a pretty good living, but still want to think of themselves as hip like" blog. It does a good job on that, it seems, but not so much on anyone else.
Posted by: Matt | March 16, 2008 at 11:14 PM
It's about class, rather than race. It describes stuff upper middle class people like.
Posted by: Cardinal Fang | March 16, 2008 at 11:42 PM
Awesome post, Belle.
Posted by: bitchphd | March 17, 2008 at 03:13 AM
Someone needs to get really mad about the site, so that we can have another productive conversation like at Unfogged.
Posted by: Adam Kotsko | March 17, 2008 at 03:16 AM
If you're reading this blog, you don't have to ask who the wrong kind of white people are.
Posted by: t-train | March 17, 2008 at 03:49 AM
And if you understand the article in the link below, then you are clearly People Like Us.
www.financialexpress.com/news/What-makes-people-like-us-People-Like-Us/176713/
Posted by: t-train | March 17, 2008 at 04:18 AM
Re. the PLU article: I know better than to read the Da Vinci Code; I thought that made me a snob, not declasse. And the first two lines of Hotel California?! Sadly, I've always ignored that overworked song as much as possible. No PLU for me!
Posted by: Helen | March 18, 2008 at 11:07 AM
First time I've visited in a while only to find you already one-upped me. Well done!
SWPL is a parody of Boulder, right?
Posted by: The Constructivist | March 18, 2008 at 09:32 PM
Yeah, well, I parked my Harley out front and pulled a smoke out of my pocket t-shirt. I had to finish it up before I came into this bar to have a Coors and some lunch. While I was outside I saw my old girlfriend who was walking her baby. I told her I liked her new tattoo. After I finish I have to get back to the jobsite and frame up the garage. I have this new nail-gun I'm looking forward to using.
What color do you think I am?
Posted by: Bloix | March 18, 2008 at 11:17 PM
What color do you think I am?
White
Posted by: Lemmy Caution | March 20, 2008 at 05:33 AM
Well, Helen, you're not an Indian PLU. Perhaps the US equivalent is to have read "A Suitable Boy"? And to know the first two lines of some rubbish by REM or the Smiths? That'd get it.
I like the bit about you must give to charity and you must stay in India and try to make it work. That's admirable and one up on people like me.
Posted by: dave heasman | March 20, 2008 at 05:56 AM
Dave H,
Guilty and guilty.
Posted by: Helen | March 20, 2008 at 09:18 AM
White people like it when John and Belle revert to their old habit of periodically changing the "John" and "Belle" icons.
Posted by: ben wolfson | March 21, 2008 at 04:23 AM
"intermittently" seems to work better than "periodically" -- and I don't think you can really say they ever discontinued this habit.
Posted by: The Modesto Kid | March 21, 2008 at 04:25 AM
It's been years and years since the last change, so I think I'm on pretty solid ground.
Posted by: ben wolfson | March 21, 2008 at 05:08 AM
This post is brilliant.
Posted by: Doctor Slack | March 21, 2008 at 02:21 PM
I love this post.
www.stuffwhitepeopleliketshirts.com
Posted by: haiqkah | April 07, 2008 at 11:30 PM
Look at these!
http://stuffwhiteparentslike.com
http://bestparentever.com
Posted by: kimbo | April 10, 2008 at 12:02 PM