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  • david matthew
    August 17, 2010

    I liked this mountain before it was popular.

  • matt thorson
    August 17, 2010

    Mountains are so mainstream. I’m into valleys.

  • ...
    August 17, 2010

    Several critics have problematized the aesthetics of the Mountain: historically, the Claimed Mountain is a token of colonial possession; the distinctly masculine personality type known as the ‘Mountain Man’, the Mountain’s quasi-phallic shape, and the preponderance of masculine montane namesakes reifies the Mountain’s role as a symbol in normative gender dialectics in which the masculine dominates that which lends it support. When we look at the Mountain, do we really see a mountain, or ourselves? We may have to become postmountain before we can disentangle the Mountain itself from the cultural associations that form our present perceptions of it.

  • scare
    August 17, 2010

    made me remember this :D
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2ftCitvyQ
    lol

  • Michael
    August 17, 2010

    Oh dear Lord, Ellipsis. That was astounding.

  • Leonardo Boiko
    August 17, 2010

    Yeah, great discussion Ellipsis.

  • Rachel H.
    August 17, 2010

    Grrrl should have retorted, “But do you have a flag?”

  • sarina
    August 17, 2010

    pt!

    best. sound effect. ever.

  • Copacetic
    August 17, 2010

    8.7/10, Best New Mountain

  • Ben F
    August 17, 2010

    Is this a justification for hipsters desperate to like something obscure listening to shitty bands?

  • Oliver
    August 17, 2010

    Obscurity is the new black.

  • dartigen
    August 17, 2010

    @Ben F more like a commentary on the hipster attitude towards music – if someone knows of it, then it is automatically shit.

    Which is why I sit at the fringe of hipster circles with a notebook and pen while they name-drop bands. It’s a good way to find new music, if nothing else.

  • Ben
    August 17, 2010

    I was into being Ben way before Ben F there. But now it seems like everyone’s a Ben. I think I even saw a Ben on MTV. I swear, everyone’s a follower.

  • John M
    August 17, 2010

    hmm.. so the moral of the comic is that there is no room for obscurity in the world?

  • Nathan
    August 17, 2010

    Have you ever really tried to obscure a mountain?

    So. Much. Fabric.

  • Severn
    August 17, 2010

    Mountains are way too big-picture. It’s cairns that really let you in on what’s what.

  • Rodrigo
    August 17, 2010

    I’ve been reading Lovecraft, and this seems to be the same metaphor he used in “The Other Gods”, albeit steeped heavily in optimistic mysticism.

  • Alch
    August 18, 2010

    whats all this crazy mountain talk is about? from here looks like all plains to me

  • tvh
    August 18, 2010

    And he named the rock-pile “Wavves.”

  • P
    August 18, 2010

    You’re missing the point we like the mountain Ironically. Actually the hill is my favourite thing right now- so much more twee!

  • 易书中国
    August 18, 2010

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  • Liz Jean
    August 18, 2010

    No- wait-! what-? There is no next button! I have reached the present!

    Perhaps I should climb the current mainstream mountain in celebration.

    Or in sorrow.

  • Copacetic
    August 18, 2010

    Hills are just the mainstream antecedents of mountains. I’m much more into post-mountains at the moment.

  • sparkdale
    August 19, 2010

    Are crumbs all that’s left?

  • Ben F
    August 19, 2010

    I understand it’s about music, I just feel like it’s making a statement about the decision to listen to bad music just because it’s obscure for the fact that in the last panel Grrl gives up and plants the flag in a shabby pile of rocks. Meh, interpretation.

  • Yamara
    August 19, 2010

    I favor peppering the Earth with asteroids, thus creating all new rifts, valleys, and of course, mountains.

    I know, asteroids have been done. But it’s been awhile, and it’s time they came around again.

  • Weston
    August 20, 2010

    Caves are where it’s at.

  • Marianne
    August 26, 2010

    @Nathan It works if you hide them in a bunch of other mountains.

  • Aaron A.
    August 30, 2010

    @Ben F – I have to wonder if Animal Collective is an “Emperor’s New Clothes”-type joke that NPR is playing on us all. I’ve listened to their latest album and a few songs from their prior albums, and I just don’t see the appeal, yet the critics gush about everything the band does.

    It works the opposite way as well, declaring anything mainstream to automatically be mind-dissolving pabulum. Lady Gaga became enormously popular overnight, therefore she must be another brainless industry product, never mind that she’s an experienced songwriter who has plenty of back material to show her artistic pedigree.

  • Kenton
    September 6, 2010

    I was uncool before uncool was cool.

  • ShadowKeiichi
    November 24, 2010

    I claim this small pile of rocks in the name of obscurity!

  • Gareth
    February 23, 2011

    I prefer horizons.

  • sivern
    June 14, 2012

    Welcome to Shitty Mountains.

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