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The curious case of the Tupac poster

Very rarely do I ever come across posters I would put up in my room. When I walked into Poster World the other day and saw this one, the first thing that came to my mind was, “I want this.”

I’m not a fan of tupac. I’ve never listed to his music. I know who he is and that he was gunned down the las vegas strip after fight night, but that’s about it.

Here’s why I love this poster.

1. He’s giving the middle finger.
The middle finger thing is a little inside joke between me and my family. It doesn’t hold the same venom it might for other people; I frequently flip my family off and they always laugh because my middle finger is crooked. So, this little gesture is close to my heart in a strange, twisted, oddly amusing way.

2. He’s shirtless.
Anyone who knows me knows there are two things that will always freak me out: photos of nearly naked guys and fish. Yet, somehow, his shirtlessness does not disturb me. This is probably because he is not giving me the ever-seductive (feel my sarcasm) abercrombie “come hither” look with his eyes. Regardless, in the same way I continue to post photos of fish on this tumblr and somehow still open links Kaiti sends me that contain various degrees of unmentionable disburbidness, I want to hang a gigantic poster of this nearly naked guy on my wall.

4. You can see his underwear.
I hate when guys do this.

5. He has a gun tucked in his pants.
SO BADASS.

3. He has “THUG LIFE” written on his stomach.
There is something so deliciously ironic about an antitype of “thug life” wanting a poster of a guy with a tatto that says “THUG LIFE” across his midsection.

4. He’s smoking.
Non-smoking girl wanting a poster of a guy smoking! Irony!

5. He’s shirtless, has a tattoo that says “THUG LIFE”, is smoking, has a gun tucked into his underpants and is giving the middle finger, all in the same photo.
So many degrees of awesome, ridiculous, gangster badass going on, I can’t even take it.

Only question left is… who’s going to get this for me for my birthday?

11 September 2009 at 10:31 pm  
tagged with: tupac  list  gangsta  badass  reasons  nearly naked men  scary 
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Reason #394724834 why Chanel stays the fuck away from anywhere the fish are.

Reason #394724834 why Chanel stays the fuck away from anywhere the fish are.

15 August 2009 at 7:23 pm  
tagged with: fish  water  wtf  ugly  scary  reasons 

Reason #9324627834672 why Chanel stays the fuck away from anywhere the fish are.

Reason #9324627834672 why Chanel stays the fuck away from anywhere the fish are.

12 August 2009 at 5:18 pm  
tagged with: photo  scary  fish  water  feet  reasons