Gothstume

[Sean Mannion]

that sounds like pretty much the entire cast of the first mad-max flick.

On coinages, I'm sure if he was the first to give light to the term, but my 
favourite was one a friend habitually uses; 'trustafarian' - describes the 
lifestyles of 20-30 year olds, mostly upper-middle-class males, mostly 
endowed with moderate-to-high trust-funds, whose time, effort and money is 
spent maintaining the excessive use of high-quality marijuana at an intake 
that only the wealthy and the dull could afford, while attempting stay 
intelligent and 'street' at the same time.



>From: "Chris Pinner" <chris.pinner at gmail.com>
>To: "Joe Allonby" <joeallonby at gmail.com>
>CC: "Dave Monroe" <monropolitan at yahoo.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Gothstume
>Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:24:21 -0500
>
>What is kind of funny is that is, at least in my experience, a pretty
>stereotypical artist if you hang in the right circles.  I mean, it is one
>variant of the tough guy artist, so yeah.
>
>On 3/29/06, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I came up with one a while back.
> >
> > art thug: a male artist who closely resembles members of an outlaw
> > motorcycle gang.
> >
> > I came up with this to describe some of my friends who definitely do not
> > fit the stereotypical portrait of the artist.
> >
> >
> > On 3/27/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I think I've finally coined a word. Nothing comes up
> > > a-googlin', at any rate. Self-explanatory, I'm
> > > assuming, but I'll generate a dictionary (pref. OED)
> > > style entry as soon as possible. Just came to mind
> > > when I realized, more than a few of the goth kids that
> > > I see are as often as not wearing the same damn
> > > outfit. And then there's modstume. Et alii, ad
> > > infinitum, ad nauseam ...
> > >
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