http://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_postSixty-nine stony grey steps towards the grave.60I guess it depends on your definition of cultural icon. I would tend to say she is representative of a more general vapid commercial pop chick cultural trend, more than a stand-out icon. But as you say, if what you are.. um.. iconographic of is flash-in-the-pan superficiality, then by definition she can't be around long enough to become entrenched as a figure everyone agrees is a dead-set seminal (ahem) cultural influence/example as i would quantify an icon as. But now i think this highly academic subject is about as milked as Britney's 15 minutes, so hurry Nick! For the love of DAWKINS give my brain something else to chew on while i procrastinate over electron configurations for chem!http://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_posthttp://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_post/#c20070912201055Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:10:55 GMTWait, according to Pravda, he's already there.http://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_posthttp://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_post/#c20070912195655Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:56:55 GMT(and who gets the mining rights to the moon...) Vlad Putin is working on it.http://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_posthttp://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_post/#c20070912195305Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:53:05 GMTPics of you rooting his gf plzhttp://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_posthttp://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_post/#c20070912080335Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:03:35 GMTNah i reckon she is a cultural icon. Cultural icon doesn't mean shes particularly admirable or tasteful or pleasant; it means she is - iconic. And i reckon Britney is symbolises the culture her age. Empty, meaningless, directionless, so yeah - shes a cultural icon. Still, i'm no goddamned expert, but this would make a great bar room convo *cheers*http://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_posthttp://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_post/#c20070911192650Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:26:50 GMTYeah there's a post coming soon. It's been taking days to write.http://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_posthttp://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_post/#c20070911091815Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:18:15 GMTHey, didn't say she didn't have a hot ass. But if that's all you mean then that's all that needs saying (not that i think it warrants the effort). I'd ball-gag that bitch and go to town on her ass with sizable implements, satisfying both carnal and revenge-for-crimes-against-music desires as much as the next guy would, but cultural icon she ain't. I'd reserve that definition for those with a tad more substance/credibility/effect. Anyway, i second Mat's motion. Perhaps something on skipping the whole fission reactor debate and going straight for lunar He3-powered fusion (and who gets the mining rights to the moon...)http://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_posthttp://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_post/#c20070911042016Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:20:16 GMTNew post please.http://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_posthttp://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_post/#c20070910163743Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:37:43 GMTimpressive. verrrry impressive. kudos for a nicely delivered cut. however, you didn't see Britney's ass in that red suit. Wooo weehttp://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_posthttp://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_post/#c20070904082057Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:20:57 GMTOk, don't worry about replying Invig, i just checked out your journal and the most recent post is a staunch defense of Britney Spears as a "Cultural Icon". Now that's GAY GAY GAY GAY :D (not to mention a ridiculously untenable assertion, unless you measure your cultural icon's chronology of affect in picoseconds, and only upon clueless 13 year olds... and yourself)http://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_posthttp://www.boredomistan.com/2007/august/sixty-ninth_post/#c20070903025307Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:53:07 GMT