Happy Easter, ‘jaded hipster owls’ – and cute-backlash blog Fuck You Penguin

Pub date April 11, 2009
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Crankies, start revving up your book deals. I have a new love (oh, I know, it’s been around since 2008 but I was busy working back then): the cute animal-loathing, curmudgeonly Fuck You, Penguin blog.

I’m especially happy about the fact that the FUP has moved on from simply adorable critters and misbehaving pets to mythical creatures and figments of our imagination like unicorns and Bigfoot. Hey, it’s an excellent excuse to give a nice, hard poke to those omnipresent cutsey-pie pics all over the Internets (always the most-popular pics on online news sites) and snappy-good bad-attitude writing.

Here’s a primo example of the hee-hee-larious stuff coursing off the site, under the headline “Jaded hipster owls think they’ve seen it all.”