Rachel Kaufman, freelance writer

Interrogator of gargoyle lovers, frog fondlers, and the eternal optimists saving the news industry

Posts Tagged ‘cats’

LOLcat goes mainstream

By Rachel • Jun 20th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

A coworker pointed me in the direction of this Houston Chronicle piece about LOLcats. Yes, for real. It’s hard to be a twenty-something, cutting-edge Internet hipster and read about cutting-edge hip things written by People Who Just Don’t Get It, but Dwight Silverman is not one of those people. I remember when my sister and [...]



The rise of lolcat

By Rachel • May 14th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

I can has grammars??? I admit it. I’m addicted to lolcats. I love the damn things, stupid as they are. What I didn’t realize is how much information is already out on the tubenet on the grammar of lolcats. A little background: Lolcats are a fairly recent internet meme involving the captioning of cute or [...]