This post is for all the freaks, geeks, dorks, and weirdos. Not the ones who check Tik Tok to find the latest way to
dress "edgy." This is for the truly weird. Many weirdos look pretty normal from the outside, but have a lot of weird, often oddly wonderful, shit going on in their heads. If this meme made you smile, you're probably one of them. The memes are better, funnier, more sarcastic, and more fucked up on Pinterest. They just are. Welcome to another blog post about why I love Pinterest and hate that other app... what's it called? Oh yeah, Instagram. This meme above is one of the 711 memes on my
NSFW Pinterest board.
Steve Emig The White Bear's Substack Board- Lots of my thoughts about creativity, the future, and the purpose of Life.
My Sharpie Scribble Style artwork- 231 photos of it
Cool Vintage Stuff- 591 photos of Generation X era stuff
Simply put, Pinterest is a platform where people collect photos and videos, then organize and curate those photos into different themes on "boards." Pinterest is the "bucket" for your Bucket List. It's the digital "board" for your dream board. It's where you can collect 748 sexy and sultry photos of famous women, put it on a board called Hot, and not look like a complete perv. A partial perv, maybe, but not a complete perv. Pinterest is where you can go for Art Inspiration, or to browse through 2,066 Street Art photos, looking for ideas. Or just because.
Pinterest is a search engine all its own, designed to find and share great images of all kinds, pulled from all over the web, even things like Hovercraft and Flying Cars. Don't worry, you don't get dragged digitally into Emo fashion and vegan cupcake recipes when you sign into Pinterest. Sure, you can pop open a White Claw (Careful! Don't chip a nail), and look up those things if you want to. But if you're reading this post, I'm pretty sure you don't want to. You can look up whatever you want on Pinterest. OK, not hardcore porn, but just about anything else you can take a photo of. Like I said, Pinterest is its own visual search engine.
This classic photo of Dino Deluca blasting a gigantic one hander one footer is just one of the 1,298 pins I have on my
Freestyle BMX Tales board That's just the Old School BMX photos. I have another board for
Mid School and New School BMX photos. Action Sports? I have some other boards, too.
JFA/Social Distortion flyer from my Punk Rock Flyers board.
What about the punk rock? That's what I said this post was about. Here ya go. Here's my board with
930 Punk Rock Flyers, including that one above. Here's my
Punk Rock that I Like board. Just for some music roots, I have a
Johnny Cash board, as well. Keeping with the sarcastic, punk rock vibe, here are some more boards.
Josh White with a stretched one footed turndown at Edison Trails, 1990. From the In Front of My Lens board.
You get the idea. Each of these links goes to a Pinterest board with dozens, or hundreds, of photos, and a few videos, to check out. Pinterest is great to find inspiration, to find new ideas, and mostly to waste a shitload of time if you have a real job. It's also a good way to collect something (digital photos and videos) that doesn't clutter up the house.
I'm an middle aged Generation X loser at this point. We grew up watching 1960's and 1970's re-runs on TV, and hearing our parents complain about the conformity in factory and office jobs. We had no cell phones, no video games, and no internet porn. We had to dig through boxes in our friend's basement to find porn, actual Playboy and Penthouse magazines his dad had stashed away. We played OUTSIDE as kids, and drank from somebody's garden hose when thirsty.
In the 1970's, "live streaming" meant actually wandering along a creek, looking for frogs and crawdads. Into our parents' world of white collar and blue collar jobs came two men.
Evel Kneivel (157 pins), and
Bruce Lee (715 pins). If we were lucky, our parents took us to see
20th Century Stunt Shows when we were kids. The prospect of either a boring working future, or a post-apocalyptic future, inspired many of us to want to be stuntmen or stuntwomen. That's where BMX and skateboarding came in, and other action sports later on. We could learn tricks on bikes and boards, and become neighborhood stunt kids.
Bruce Lee teaching and sparring. From my Bruce Lee board.
While most people have been scrolling through posers on Instagram, I've been collecting photos from all over the interwebs on subjects that interest me. I have over 100 Pinterest boards. I have a
Because Pizza board, a board of some of my
Grey Trash Alien drawings, a
Legos are still cool board, a
Scooby-Doo board, a board of
Dave Vanderspek and The Curb Dogs, a
43 board, and a
Josh Bender board. Of course, I have a
White Bears (that aren't me) board. So when you need to waste some time at work, or are looking for things to make out of your
old skateboard parts or
old bike parts, my Pinterest page is the place to go. Now you know. Waste time. Find inspiration. Laugh at memes. Get cool ideas for shit to my your life more interesting. Enjoy.
This blog is rolling up on the 1,000 blog post milestone- this is post #995
I've been doing a lot of longer form writing on Substack lately, a platform actually designed for writers. Check it out:
