What is C-wod.com?
To the untrained eye, C-wod.com is an average blog with the attention span of a five-year-old. When posts do make sense, they primarily consist of sentence fragments and links to other websites. However, C-wod.com is, quite simply, unlike anything you’ve probably ever experienced. Our dedicated, extremely professional team of writers covers all the bases: terrible NY sports teams (now including the Yankees), far-right politics, rock music, almost-but-not-quite snobby movies, and critically-acclaimed television. On occasion, we even throw in some thinly-veiled attempts at self-pity. If you visit enough times, these seemingly unrelated topics will all make perfect sense and teach you something about the sublime beauty of the universe. Can you pass up that opportunity? I didn’t think so.
Sometimes you mention a lunch table. What is the lunch table and what does it have to do with anything?
During Chris and Greg’s senior year of high school, they shared a lunch table with Beau Robicheaux. At the time, Chris and Greg were staunch conservatives, while Beau was a liberal Democrat. Naturally, this led to some intense debates. However, Chris, not being very confrontational, rarely backed up Greg. As the 2004 election neared, Chris began using C-wod.com as a vehicle for right-wing propaganda. Thus, for Chris, it represented a shift from silence to out-spoken political thought. Then he became an English major and renounced his former political affiliations in favor of general apathy and disillusionment.
You guys sound really elitist. What’s up with that?
It might be difficult to believe, but, for the most part, we don’t actually go out of our way to sound like pompous jerks. It’s just that, more often than not, we’ve convinced ourselves that we’re right, and you’re wrong. And yes, James Carville wrote a book with that title. In reality, we’re just kidding around. At least, Chris is kidding around. He’s not so sure about anyone else.
What is emo?
Occasionally, we’ll reference a thing called “emo.” Among Long Islanders, this term is part of the everyday language. However, if you’re not particularly “scene” and don’t know what emo is, this should help you out:
From Urban Dictionary:
1. Genre of softcore punk music that integrates unenthusiastic melodramatic 17 year olds who don’t smile, high-pitched overwrought lyrics and inaudible guitar rifts with tight wool sweaters, tighter jeans, itchy scarfs (even in the summer), ripped chucks with favorite bands signature, black square-rimmed glasses, and ebony greasy unwashed hair that is required to cover at least three fifths of the face at an angle.2. Punk music on estrogen. Often acoustic guitar with soft, high male vocals that dwell exessively on the singer’s feelings, especially melancholy remembrances of past relationships/mistakes in life. A form of music that diverged from punk in the ‘80s, the name “emo” is derived from the emotive style of the lyrics and music. This genre has lately been marketed heavily by the music industry to teenagers with bands such as Dashboard Confessional and Taking Back Sunday and has seen much commercial and mainstream success. The music has also spawned a subculture which conforms to certain conventions in dress, such as tight sweatshirts, tight band T-shirts, and horn-rim glasses. Adherents profess to exessively melancholy temperments. Males that adhere to the emo subculture are sometimes confused with metrosexuals; indeed the line between the two is somewhat blurred, though both groups claim to be in touch with their emotional side. The ephemeral and hackneyed nature of emo songwriting suggests that its audience will be restricted largely to teenagers. The genre suffers from a lack of credibility outside the aforementioned demographic group, much like current Nu Metal bands.
Didn’t this site have some pretty sweet forums going for it?
Yeah, we used to have forums. That was way back in 2004. Get with the program. Besides, they hadn’t been getting much attention. If you were to start a petition or something, Chris would probably bring them back. Like that would ever happen.